Recent Discussions
Infants and Toddlers still so buggy!
Raising a child in the sims is one of my favourite things to do, but I'm getting so frustrated with the bugs and glitches! For example, when I want my sim to do anything with their child eg. tummy time or flashcards, they just pick them up, put them down on repeat until they give up and go to do something else. Why does it take five hours just to get the kid in a high chair?! It's also sad how buggy the back carrier is, it's such a cute concept, but my sims take the infant out of the carrier immediately after putting them in. Is there anything I can do to prevent these issues? EA pleeaaase improve this!!
Free will options for childcare.
Hey, unsure if this is the right spot for this but started playing after a long break. Don't recall handling newborns and ifants being such an annoying task, infact I really enjoyed the milestones and all. I have free will off and yet whenever the infants especially gets the least bit cranky it starts filling their caretakers task queue when I'm already trying to care for them. It's making the game near unplayable for me where I have to take stress breaks over seeing mutliple parents try to care for the same child, replacing my actions with similar actions, putting the children in the wrong beds, queues being ignored and so on. I have free will off for a reasons, please make at least an option for wether or not you wish for childcare to be affected by free will. With the additional struggles of bugs where they refuse to pick kids up (Not sure why they do?) or end up in odd loops of picking the kid up, setting them down to pick them up again, the addition to infants themselves sneaking requests to have them do an alternative version of what I ask them to do and messing things up is becoming unbearable. IE: Asking for diaper change when trying to take them for a bath and vice versa, or the aforementioned issue of them going in the wrong bed, occasionally being put in the bed when I'm desperately just trying to get someone to feed them. With addition to them putting one of the two kids down to go care for a child that is already being cared for by someone else and the "please feed the kids or social services will show up" warnings popping up as a result of this whole ordeal. I can understand that some might want or need the help with childcare, hence maybe adding options to having it affected. (If there already are they are well hidden.) I'm not trying to neglect them, I'm trying to care for them my way and the game messes with it in frustrating ways. Also, perhaps seperate wishes and fears in options, I want the wishes but not the fears as the new social one pops up needlessly often and ruins their romantic meters completely. They upped romance to full, one sim went to work and when they got home the romance was in the red. Bit harsh, it's not that much fun to rebuild it. (If you get a fear you don't want to deal with go to options, turn off wishes/fears, save options, turn it back on, save options. Your wishes will reset but the fear will be gone.) Thank you.
The Sims 4 Vampires: Glitch Skin Color
Hello, so i recently bought the Vampires pack on The Sims 4. And i was enjoying it, i loved the environment being a vampire, but recently i am suffering with a glitch that's very annoying, usually my sims have a skin tone color option on CAS. I play on PS4, and after installing this pack, when i turn my sims into vampires, the skin tone option disappear, and i literally don't know what else i can do, i tried every solution i found, EVERY. Here's a list, i tried: 1. Removing the vampire trait and trying to reset it. 2. Using the full edit cheat (CAS) to edit the sim. 3. Trying a new sim and seeing if the issue occurred with them as well. 4. Changing control to another vampire sim, such as Vladislaus. 5. Resetting the sim with the resetsim cheat. 6. Testing different households and switching households. 7. Clearing the PS4 cache and restarting the console. 8. Clearing the data and changing my saves. 9. Deleting the dark form of my sim. NONE of these options worked, and i'm honestly lost here, i don't know what else to do, i tried to find for solutions on Reddit, Forums here on EA and even groups on Facebook, but none of them were useful, and i noticed some people also went through the same thing as i did, all i ask is for some help, i just want to keep my save immersive, and it makes ZERO sense a vampire to have tan and be caucasian and not pale. I hope this was clear enough, if anybody can help me, PLEASE I NEED ANY SUGGESTION, this is affecting any saves i create, no matter where i put my households and etc. Help me!
my aliens are buffering!
when an alien sim has a baby, it can be born blue (or purple, green etc..) BUT it doesn't say it's an alien sim? just an average blue human baby? Another issue I'm having with the aliens is - when in alien form, they can't get into their disguise at all. they are alllllways in alien form. for school, work, day care!! it's my legacy save and I'm so many generations in... I've been trying to hold out playing them until the issue is resolved. but I miss them! LOL HELP EA
Stairs Mess Up Gameplay
So, I play on the 2021 IMac and recently had to change from origin to the EA App. This is my first time playing and for some reason whenever I try to change the stairs, it f up the entire game! Like, I can literally go through and change walls, add furniture, and etc, but as soon as I place the stairs into the house now I can’t do anything! I’ve tried removing my stairs mods, reinstalling the mods, but nothing is working. Is anyone else having this issue or any issue since installing the EA App? [CM Edit: Title update]
Are stand alone horse stables operable with the Businesses and Hobbies EP?
I built my Sim a horse stable and impulsively adopted 6 foals. My decision came after I trained my other sim's (who happens to be a Rancher) defiant horse in the hopes of entering a competition with him, only to find out a horse must be a member of the active household (boo!). Now, I have this gorgeous business venue I designed as a functioning stable and training center but my horses will not stay on the lot I purchased for them! Each have assigned beds that are actively marked as residential rooms on the business venue lot. My thought process is, considering the rooms are marked as such and each horse is assigned a room, they'd stay put on the business venue lot because there are rooms set as a residence. Honey lives in a high-rise in Ciudad Enamorada with her Dalmatian and I don't plan on moving her. Obviously I really have an issue (lol). I literally just want to frolic with my foals until they're old enough and trained well enough to be entered into competitions. The presets of my business are even set to help me train the 6 of them more efficiently. I've read plenty of 'play with genetics' or 'move them into other households' scenarios and they will simply not work for the experience and life I'd ideally like this particular sim to have. I've had the Businesses and Hobbies EP since it's release, and this is the first time I've made an effort to utilize the pack in an intentional way. I have 14 sims in total, each of which have in-depth narratives. I was hoping for true flexibility within the Businesses and Hobbies pack as I watched the gameplay live review, and it was enthusiastically stated a few times that we'd have so many options for businesses. With all the options, I was hoping for thoughtfulness in cross-pack gameplay. Would love to hear from other simmers and the EA Team SimGuruJoystick TheSimsDirect (I was about to be a pain and tag everyone labeled EA Staff but landed on you (two), since you have Sim(s) in your handle). Dally, Brûlèe, Black, Snoh, Crème, and Reo Opal deserve to live a good life too! I would really like to avoid selling my babies :(. Looking forward to any helpful insight. P.s. - A girl also just wants to win some titles!
Parenting Predicament Scenario
I am at the point in this scenario where my two toddler sims are close to finishing their child aspirations but as soon as they do so, they age up immediately with no time to get them to blow out candles. I have tried getting them to complete their aspirations one at a time, during their birthday party and this works for one of them but not for the second who ages up straight after, even though blowing out candles is in their queue. On a possibly related note, everyone at this point also seems to age up straight away even though their birthdays are not for several days. I don't have mods and I am playing on a laptop. Auto Age is off and Sim Lifespan is normal.
My Sims Can't Sleep At The Same Time
Hey! So, I have a married couple, and I was sending them both to bed. but it won't let me- like it will only let one of them sleep at a time. The other sim can only relax or nap. i do play with mods and cc, but it doesn't seem to be a mods glitch. Any tips or help would be really appreciated!!!
Small business lost each time I load game
Hi, I have a small business using the new business and hobbies expansion. Every time I load the game, the business is no longer there, I just have the buy new small business option. BUT, if I go into build mode, then immediately back to live mode, my business returns, with all the settings BUT with all employees missing. What's going on and how do I fix it?
House not working
I created my first house without using any premade stuff, and I just placed it in my main world (I had made it in a separate game play just in case it didn't work out) and in my main game play it is now not working. I'm at a loss for what to do. It works in the separate world I had created to make the house, and now it only recognizes the roof. I have it in Brindleton Bay in the 64x64 lot and it is just not working in my main save. Works everywhere else though and I am terribly confused what's going on with it.
GeekCon Ultimate Gaming Test and Hackathon unavailable
GeekCon Challenges are not available to my Sim. I've reloaded my save multiple times and it never shows up. My sim has level 10 programming and videogaming and yet the option is not available, even after the "GeekCon Challenges have begun!" See screenshot: The "Ultimate Gaming Test" is not in any submenu and supposed to be at the top level menu with a festival tent icon. The Hackaton option is also missing on the computers. I cannot complete my city living life aspiration without this. I've been trying to do this for "weeks"!
