How do you all deal with unwanted visitors?(including paparazzi)(Sims 3 only)

Pudding doesn't work too well because it generally tends to have the consistency of... ~clamps hand over mouth~ sorry, nearly said a bad word there. :D

It depends who the unwanted visitor is. If it is a friend or family member I either let them in or I let them play in my garden. Sometimes they find a way into the house (don´t ask me how, I don´t have a clue), but I really don´t care then!
A bit different I react if I´ll throw a party and the unwanted visitor is someone who is hated by one of my actives or if I want to shoot some pictures and the visitor is wearing maladjusted clothes and would ruin the pics. Then, if I need them in the town, I´ll ask them to leave or I send them home via MC and kill them on their way home, because I made the experience that they sometimes come back!
And @Nikkei_Simmer @igazor : you could use plum pudding as a door stopper! B)

It usually depends on what's happening in my games and what theme I'm playing on how I handle the paparazzi.I have celebrities disabled in my story progression settings and Modded the paparazzi out with other annoying NPC's and use another Mod to remove the CPS social workers from my game so my saves don't keep getting corrupted by them taking children away.I've got most of the NPCs disabled in NRaas Register for my apcoalypse challenge and my 100 baby challenge because the towns in those games are very new and not very populated.

"SimplyJen;c-16943164" wrote:
Paparazzi are usually turned off via NRaas: Register in my game but any sim outside of the household who bother me/get in the way will be swiftly reset. :p

@GraceyManor You posted this in the right place... It's just often people click on Discussions at the top that takes them to 'Recent Discussions' displaying threads from all different categories... Some assume any thread they click on is about S4 so thus the confusion here and there.

I thought I did, but I've known to have a dumb moment here and there.xD its been a long week.

There’s never anybody on my doorsteps at 3.30AM. I have the celebrity system disabled so no paparazzi. Back in the day when I did they drove me mad at times, but more than using a genie to banish them (it’s no use, they’ll just return after the time it takes them to travel back :D ) I’ve never done.

Depends on what else I'm doing at the time. Since 99% of the time these nuisances pop up as I'm staging screenshots I most often do what you're not supposed to do and just delete them with the TCE cheat. If I'm feeling fancy and proper I'll at least annihilate them with master controller.


If I'm not worried about the screenshot sometimes I'll just go harass them. Turn them into a toad or make my sims fight with them hoping they'll be mad enough to leave.

Sometimes I just need to let the game do it's own thing. I've had paparazzi freeze in the cold. I had one who insisted on standing right beside my sims patio when it was just engulfed in flames. I just let it be. I was very strongly hoping he'd perish. Alas he did not. I was very displeased.

I'm pretty sure I've TRIED to start a fire around some of these unwanted guests.

"GraceyManor;c-16942037" wrote:
@Stormsview
My issue isn't with them coming inside unvited persay,
Its just them coming and ringing my doorbells at all hours of the night.3:30 in the morning and a 9 yr old kid came and rang the doorbell.Like seriously, what would a 9 yr old need from a bunch of strange sims at 3:30 am XD Scratch that, my real question: Who would let their kid wander about like that at that hour.

don't like or play the sims 4 anymore, but I recall the
welcome wagon and it was the most annoying feature in the game, and they got so moody if you didn't answer the door.
(And yuck fruitcake XD I hate when people give me fruitcake irl." lol

I do not think we have doorbells in Sims 4.

And that is strange that a child would come over at that hour. Now a Vampire would come at that hour. then beware lol. I have seen kids come knock when I first started playing again but she knocked it was daylight.
kids use to walk around at night, but I do not see that anymore When I asked EA about that they said its a Safe neighborhood.

I hope they are giving us doorbells if we have them I did not know about that I only get the option to knock. Was it, Alexa ?

One reason you may like the welcome wagon, It's a quick way to make friends. to meet someone because you are new in the neighboorhood.

Oh, this is Sims 3 you're talking about lol, I do like that walkway, I hope we get that one.

I don't have the Celeb system turned on in my game, and I get rid of all annoying NPC's with register, like paparazzi, so I don't see them. Sometimes the welcome wagon that come to visit are nice, but occasionally you get a sim that acts like an utter tosspot, so when that happens I usually make them leave, or, depending on the severity of their annoyance, I use MC to give them a death of my choice.

"Stormsview;c-16942058" wrote:


Oh, this is Sims 3 you're talking about lol, I do like that walkway, I hope we get that one.

Yes this is the sims 3.Did I accidentally put this in Sims 4? :open_mouth: I need to have this moved then.