Do you usually your give your sims house phones?

Yes. But it's mostly to make their home offices look more professional. Or to add some clutter around. How often they actually use the thing is a whole other story lol.

They don't have to pay extra phone bills though so that helps lol. Irl I haven't had a home phone in I don't even know how long. Waste of money since we always use our cells anyway. Sims don't know that pain though lol.

I was actually looking at my sins home phone last night thinking how weirdly I placed it and how they probably couldn't use it anyway. Thought about moving where its accessible but meh. They probably still wouldn't use it.

I don't put them in homes and usually delete them in EA premade houses. I don't see any use for them, and I myself don't have one and rely on my cell phone.

You people are insane. A landline phone is still required IRL so that local residents and businesses can call you, even during a power outage (if you have the kind of phone that doesn't require being plugged into a wall outlet for power), with interesting conversation and offers. And they are fine to use for long distance calls without operator assistance as long as you remember to not call too far away and wait until after 11pm so the rates come down.

Bah, just kidding. I have no idea why I still have a landline although occasionally my elderly relatives still call it and seem confused as to why I refuse to answer the ring when I'm not at home. And I never give my sims one unless some unusual interaction they require, usually involving a mod, will not work through their cellphones/computers.

I love the landlines cause you get prank calls where your sim gets angry and other things can happen too.You are denying yourself a interactive item not using it.People jam pots and bowls and various clutter scattered everywhere that do nothing but won't use an object you actually can use that has functionality in the game. :/

@CravenLestat I will put a phone down when next in game, only for the prank calls.

But no, they are deleted first thing and I wish I could delete the mobile phones too, all those townies calling at all hours asking my charming sim for a date annoy the life out of me.

It depends on the Sim and the story I'm playing. But yes, many times I play Sims who live back before cellphones, omg...we did get by without them, lol, if it fits the story in my head. But if it's a medieval story in my head, then no, but I might find a cc one that doesn't look like a phone, maybe a pigeon. I'm more annoyed by every Sim having a phone in their pocket and ruining my story line, even if I'm the only one who saw them pull out the cell. That literally breaks my immersion.

Always in both Sims 1 & 2

Not always in Sims 3. I thought prank calls happen with a cell too? I've seen it happen before but I thought it was on a cell. Anyways... You'll also get phone calls when someone is about to pass away with a home phone. (let me know if I'm remembering wrong) Story-wise if it's supposed to be modern times then it doesn't make sense for my sims to have one. I'll place one down if my sims have a home office though to complete the look.

"Sindocat;c-16851849" wrote:
Depends not on the Sim, but on the house. Some builds don't feel complete without a telephone table in the hall, or wherever. That said I can't think of the last time my Sim ever used one.

Pretty much this. The phones come with the house, not with the families that live there. I used to put them in every house I built, these days, not as much. It's one of the things I do when furnishing the house, put a fire detector in the kitchen, burglar alarm, telephone in the entry hall, etc.

If they don't have a landline phone, they can't get the phone calls telling them that someone they know is going to die the next day. Those calls only come on landlines. But my sims get all other kinds of calls on their cell phones. And I do get those notifications, thanks to NRaas Story Progression, so I don't use them all that much anymore, not because I don't want to, but because I hardly ever think to put them in the houses. I do like having them.

In real life, some of us still do need landline phones. If I didn't have one, I wouldn't have internet. Period. It's the only way I can get internet where I live. Well, maybe I could get satellite internet, but it would probably be more expensive than the DSL our phone company provides. I'm almost always home, so I only have a pay per minute, dirt cheap, flip phone cell phone. Everybody who actually has my cell phone number knows not to call me on it unless I don't answer the home phone, because I never answer it at home.

It adds clutter, clutter is good. ;)

Always on the bedside table (if it fits sometimes I have too much other cr’ap and they can’t be placed).