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Do your sims partners lack personality?
Okay, so I was just updating my sims legacy note book to add in my information from my gameplay but I’ve just realised most (if not all) of my sims partners are really one dimensional. I always find myself focusing on just one partners family rather than both or don’t focus on my sims partners storylines (unless it related to their relationship). don’t get me wrong, some generations I have been able to focus on both, but 90% of the time they don’t have anything going on 😂😭
Limited pack save: best packs for Enchanted By Nature
I started a limited pack save to explore the new pack. With so many DLC the game is becoming so complex. Taking out a bunch of content helped me to focus on what actually comes with the pack. Here is my current set up get together: clubs are essential to get groups of friends together cottage living: complements the build/buy items, new options for farming Life and Death: the spooky vibe goes well with the magic of the new pack Businesses and Hobbies: not really needed but I like the tattoo options an a few other things. Realm of Magic: build/buy goes well with the new items. unforturnaly spellcasters do not werewolves: great for foraging sims living in nature. I also want to explore fairy/werewolf friendship crystal creations: supports the magical vibe The main conclusionsso far is that seasons really transformed the game.WWithout seasons the world suddenly looks so bright and cheerful. No gloomy clouds. Growing plants is so easy without seasons. All plants in all worlds are ready to be harvested. No messages that they are out of season. And no messing with greenhouses. What packs do you think are good combinations with the new pack? Do you sometimes turn off certain packs to explore new content?
Is it worth hanging in high school just to see the graduation?
All of my sims' kids are so smart by the time they get to high school that the teachers usually tell them the first day that they don't need to come back. They are making the other kids look dumb I guess. They are polite enough not to say that. So anyway I have never seen a child actually graduate. Is there a ceremony or just a rabbithole kind of thing like in University?
[Giveaway] Enchanted by ... free stuff, naturally!
Courtesy of the EA Creator Network, I have one copy of the Enchanted by Nature EP to give away. To enter, reply to this thread with something in the natural world that you find enchanting. (Me, I'm enchanted by dragonfly wings and fluttering cabbage white moths!) Deadline: 7 p.m. Eastern (New York City) time, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. I'll message the winner on the EA Forums as soon as possible after that. Claiming your prize: If I draw your name, you'll have till noon Eastern time, Thursday, July 24th to get back to me, so check your EA Forums messages!
Silly Mistakes We Make . . .
A fellow Simmer let me know there was a mod to help out with the Emotional Void ailment that all but struck down my Rock Star. She noticed I had threatened to let that save sit until I could resolve this issue. I grabbed the mod all excited about it, but then, silly me, I installed it incorrectly. Full disclosure: I'M NOT NEW TO MODS. I thought the reason the mailbox cheat didn't work, and so therefore neither did the mod. However, before I did anything rash, such as uninstall it, I checked the site to find the instructions on how to enable said cheat. I forgot the vital testintcheats true before I shift-clicked the mailbox. That still didn't work, but then I took a look at the mod and realize I had unwittingly installed it two folders deep. It was clear to only place it one folder deep. I fixed that, needless to say, but since my Sim only had about 14 hours left to his ailment and another player had suggested purchasing a pill from the Apothecary table, I thought I'd do that. I sent him to Innis**** (can't recall the full name of the new world) after looking up where it was. Found one in the Gnom (shouldn't that be Gnome?) museum, but it didn't work so I sent him to the realm of the Faeries and got lucky enough to find a liaison to the Council. She was very kind, and my Sim was instantly attracted to her. I had to have him cool his jets, he's a very married man, after all. He was able to ask for a cure and voila, she cured him. YAY! I have other such tales, but none are coming to mind at the moment. Please share your silly moments so we can all have a good laugh at ourselves. Trust me, this is cathardic.
Small Business - this or that?
I'm finally upgrading my game by adding a few small businesses to most worlds, and not limited to Nordhaven. I love the fact that SB actually doubles the number of lots as long as we are willing to add several functions to each lot, and in some cases also build higher. On most community lots there can be a living household, and most residentials can provide some SB that can be visited when playing other families. My goal is to add more businesses to visit. I have plenty of households already. I want each new SB to provide reasons for active sims to visit that lot, being a shop, have fun, socialize incl. dating, and perhaps building skills or support their interests for storytelling. The lecture feature seems nice, but I suspect it might take a higher ranked business to make the teaching good, financially. I changed a few lots and I keep getting back to a few questions - this or that. I might build a small business, but after completing the build, I realize that there are too few reasons for other played sims to visit as customers. Because I play rotationally building a business takes forever, so it's more fun to focus on the visiting aspect. I'm not sure I understand the SB concept fully, so I would like to learn about other simmers' experience. #1. Charging customers When do you chose charging per hour, and when is it better with once entrance charge? I tend to prefer charging per hour, but it requires customers to stay a while. If they pay only once, it would be better for my business that customers don't stay for long, but rather allow new customers to arrive. I also use per hour for shops, because my visiting sims would not stop by to buy anything if they need to pay a bigger entrance fee just to enter the shop. But I'm obviously missing something: When would it work better to charge customers just once? #2. Build two houses or two stories? Do you normally let the owners live upstairs, or do they reside in a 2nd building on the same lot? I tend to mix the two, vertically vs horizontically, and I keep thinking it would be better to separate them better. #3. Tagging the rooms? I normally restrict access to the private rooms, only, and perhaps also to the employee rooms. But some times I just leave the general business room untagged. Is this wrong, must they be tagged for business to work propperly? The reason I leave the business rooms, is that I often include some customer activity outdoors, like a pavement serving, or a small garden/park. Should they all be built as rooms in order to be seen as part of the business? #4. Is there a way to set an object not for sale? When placing items on surfaces, they automatically get set for sale, even if the business is not a shop and buying stuiff is not a customer activity. Occasionally I want to turn off "for sale" on a specific item. Is there a way? I placed a group serving in a cake display counter, and it got set on sale, as expected. Moving this item to a dining table will not remove the "for sale". By storing the serving in a fridge instead, moving it to the table avoid the "for sale". I think dining tables are excepted, but are there other ways to avoid the "for sale"? #5. How to avoid "eat until you drop"? We know sims gauin weight quickly, so I was a bit upset noticing that serving a group meal made the one c ustomer eat again and again until the serving was empty. The fact that the cupcakes were poor quality had no effect on this. Eating food is a customer activity, but with a total of 5 different activities I was expecting less focus on just one of them. Is there a way to serve food to customers (not being charged, but helping them staying) without the same sim eating again and again? Could it be trait specific (Foodie?), that it might not happen with every customer? #6. What features gets easier when SB rank builds? I play on rotation, so it will take years to build only one customer star. What bonuses that come with higher rank do you find most useful and worth reaching for? Okay, enough for now. Pls comment on whatever quote you like, or add more even.
Legacy tips & tricks
Hi so I really wanna start a legacy save but I struggle with sticking with it so can you guys give me some tips and tricks to stick with it? I usually get bored at generation 4-5 so any tips are greatly appreciated, I am open to all sorts of ideas I own all the packs and use CC and mods. Thank you in advance.
Does anyone have an Updated List of NPC jobs?
Does anyone know where I can get an updated list of all the NPC job codes for programming my own sims? Example: careers.add_career Adult_NPC_Maid traits.equip_trait isMaid I would like to program my own buglarer and also solicitor for Life and Death etc. There is this amazing tumblr post by Beth Sims but its outdated as there have been several expansion packs released, and base game updates since then. Original Post: https://bethsims-nocc.tumblr.com/post/181151512324/assigning-sims-4-npc-jobs Thank you Stu #BeWhoYouAreStory line ideas?
The sims community is so creative so somebody’s bound to have some ideas 😂 ive been playing with a “legacy” sims family for about 3 generations now (gen 3 are having their kids now) and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for storylines to play out? ive been really enjoying playing with occult sims a lot (lot of vampires on one side of my family tree and some spellcasters). I’ve got a vampire werewolf love story I’m playing out atm (they now do romantic actions together autonomously 🥰), and they now have 3 children that I’m hoping to kinda focus the story on, but not really sure what I could do with them? ive had a few ideas to convert forgotten hollow into a “uni campus” (move all my young adult occults to forgotten hollow and play about with the university pack a bit). But not really sure about that idea anymore. So please literally if you have any ideas (even if you think they’re silly), I would really appreciate it! I don’t want to get bored again after gen 3 😂🙏
10+ updates in a row???
I was on vacation for two weeks. Two weeks. Didn't have my gaming laptop with me. I come home and then I'm SPAMMED with like 10+ updates in a row??? what is this? i'm confused. I just wanna play and i'm spammed with quick little updates like... i've already spent an hour on this! HelpLivestream: Enchanted By Nature Coming Today July 17
He was a Fairy in The Sims ft. T-Pain & itsmeTroi Come spread your wings and dive into the www.youtube.com T-Pain Joins “He Was a Fairy in The Sims” Livestream on July 17 Fairies have officially fluttered into The Sims 4, leaving us all sprung on Innisgreen. It’s even got T-Pain doing things he’s never done, like host a livestream for The Sims! That’s right, Simmers, let’s talk fairies! 🎵I talk that! 🎵 Come spread your wings and dive into the “He Was a Fairy in The Sims” livestream on Thursday, July 17 at 5:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM EST, with Grammy Award-winning artist and longtime Simmer T-Pain, along with content creator and Simmer itsmetroi. Now a sanga ternt fairy, T-Pain has some special news to share with us! During the livestream we’ll explore the brand new world of Innisgreen and all that nature has to offer in the The Sims 4 Enchanted by Nature Expansion Pack. T-Pain will also show off his Fairy Sim–which will be available to players in The Sims 4 Gallery immediately following the livestream–but that’s not the only surprise he has in store 😉! https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/livestream-of-enchanted-by-nature-expansion-packAnnoying Gnomes from Enchanted by Nature
I have the new expansion pack for fairies and I’m aware that gnomes were a big part of the marketing for some reason. I’m currently playing in San Myshuno in a family that has nothing fairy related going on, yet these stupid gnomes keep appearing in my home. Sometimes they clean, other times they break everything in my house. I’m aware that in the game options there’s a way to turn off things like dust bunnies and whatnot but why doesn’t an option exist to turn off these dumb gnomes? If I’m missing something, someone please enlighten me because I’m so sick of having to call the repair service every time these gnomes appear. I’ve been dragging and selling them when they show up but not before they break everything. It’s honestly just a really annoying feature. I can understand them showing up in Innisgreen, but in any other neighborhood is just plain ridiculous. I honestly don’t even see the appeal.
A Smaller Save
I'm currently at a point in my current save where i'm at a writers block for stories. As i wrote my sim self out as the main character in my 2013 save, i'm beginning to wonder how long i can keep this current save up. I've been playing this save since 2021 (in real life) Here's a brief roundup of my sim self's life so far: He's had 14 children over four marriages. His first wife Liberty Lee divorced him after almost ten years of marriage. He married again in my 1989 save to his second wife Elena. They divorced in my 1993 save. In my 1995 save he married for a third time. Wife number three died from laughter in my 2003 save. My sim self married his current partner in my 2008 save and are still together in my 2014 save. My sim self was the main character for many saves until my 2013 save. He has a lot of grandchildren who are in their adult life or approaching adult life. I've been thinking about doing some kind of reboot with my sim self. On the old sims 4 forums, you never saw anything from his birth up to young adult hood. If i were to do a reboot, it would be a much smaller save and will attempt to follow the direction my real life has gone in. So i guess my question is, are smaller saves better to manage rather than rotational saves like my current save?Can this be done and what things should I do to make it work well?
I have an idea for a save that I'm sure isn't a unique one and I want to know how to best accomplish it so I have a few questions for those of you who may have tried this before or simply know the game well enough to simply know how to best do it. Overall goal: I would like to create a save with sims as young as possible representing myself and friends including my exes and current significant other. My desire is to see how my sims relationships with the sims representing my friends develop. Setting this up is the part that seems pretty time consuming on the surface. This is how I'm thinking it needs to be done. Figure out how many unique family's needed to represent the my own as well as all the friends/exes I want in the game. Figure out how many residential lots I need for this then figure out if this can be done with a world in the base game or if I need a pack and, if so, which one. Figure out the best way to create these Sims. To create whole families from scratch is going to be more time consuming than I want it to be so I'm thinking the best way is to edit Sims of the existing families in whichever world I end up using then download as many additional families to get to the # I need. I've never done any editing of Sims like this but I believe it can be done, right? Including changing ages & sexes. I think these are the only things I need to do to accomplish my goal and get to where I can begin playing but am I overlooking anything?
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