Unpopular Opinions (The Sims 3)

@coco I love playing Supernatural Sims but, I have them all turned off in Options so I get to control who is a supernatural in my games.

"emorrill;c-17237463" wrote:
@cwaddell I'm giving you an Insightful on that one because I honestly didn't think anyone played like that. :lol:

1. I lay out the furnishings and appliances so that I have less crossover of paths. Especially in the kitchen where the path used to fix food does not cross over the path to clean up the dishes and does not cross the path through the room and does not cross the path to get leftovers from the frig.

^I am curious how you accomplish this though. :) I get sick of sims going in directions I don't want them to, to DO what I want them to do! :unamused: I see the direction they should go and I expect them to take it! When they go around it, it drives me bonkers! :lol:

I try to do this too. I usually get it to work reasonably well, but I do also have a mod to reduce the foot tapping and other behaviours that slow down the game if they do intersect. It'd be impossible for me to play households with 16 or more sims in them otherwise.

I have a few opinions that might be unpopular.

All of my male Sims traditionally have higher positions in their careers than their wives :no_mouth:

My second unpopular opinion is I don’t like Vampires. I let my Werewolf Sims stake Vampires any chance they get :evil grin:

"igazor;c-17237523" wrote:


Am I the only one who grew up in a house with a sitting room (living room) with perfect furniture and decor, the sofa cushions wrapped in plastic, that no one was allowed to use? "It's for company." We never or rarely had any company that scored high enough to get to use that room for its intended purpose; the family congregated to and spent time in the "family room," also called the "den" and that is where such things as the television and bookshelves were. This was my grandparents' house. When my parent and then stepparent were able to take over and I moved in with them, I found that they had much more efficient ideas about use of space especially since they had so much less of it to work with at first.

@igazor No you're certainly not the only one. ;) I grew up in a home with a formal living room too where it was never messy and we were not allowed to play in it (but it was ok to sit and read books and chat when family came to visit. :) ) It was mostly reserved for guests who happened to stop by like say...oh...the Home or Visiting Teachers. :p (Anyone who is LDS/Mormon will understand. :lol: )

We bought a 1982 split level home and it also has this formal living room (I LOVE the bay window! <3 ) and a family room when you descend one of the stairs. When I was a kid a house like this was my dream home and...we got it. :blush:

In the one time during a blue moon that I build a house for my sims :lol: I usually skip the whole living room and just do a family room. Mainly because I knew they wouldn't really use both rooms for their "intended" purposes. ;)


@Turjan

Those single narrow entrance layouts many of the EA kitchens have are a PITA.

^Yes they are! :grimance:
Thanks for the tips! :)

@Emily4331 You get an Insightful from me because I never even thought about the different themes of many of the EA created worlds and I loved how you broke them down and showed that. :) Also you make a good point about how there aren't many metro themed worlds - never really realized that until now - and yeah renovating & updating Roaring Heights would be a PITA! :confounded: And I hardly ever play in that world because of the 1920's setting and...I'll admit, I know hardly anything about that era. :confused:
First world problems. :lol: Whenever I hear that, I think of this song:


@Karritz I have a mod that completely eliminates the foot tapping and I will never ever play my game without it! :naughty:
:mrgreen:

@Nikkei_Simmer I don't care for Vampires either...rarely will I ever use them in a sims story.
::::Hey no foreshadowing emorrill!:::: :grimace:
;) :p

"king_of_simcity7;c-17237670" wrote:


All of my male Sims traditionally have higher positions in their careers than their wives :no_mouth:

^I am offended!

:lol:

Just kidding. ;)

I know I am oldish so my opinion on the lack of "respectable clothing" might not be popular ;) I see my female sims age up in short shorts or mini skirts/dresses and I cringe :confounded: and my first thought is "trash" (apologies to anyone who reads this and dresses this way) :p It's all well and good when they are teens or YA but I know I would have been appalled if my mother had dressed like that and I certainly wouldn't embarrass my son by doing it either. Sure, there are some outfits of a decent length but mostly in themed sets from a different era.

"Mikezumi;c-17238050" wrote:
I know I am oldish so my opinion on the lack of "respectable clothing" might not be popular ;) I see my female sims age up in short shorts or mini skirts/dresses and I cringe :confounded: and my first thought is "trash" (apologies to anyone who reads this and dresses this way) :p It's all well and good when they are teens or YA but I know I would have been appalled if my mother had dressed like that and I certainly wouldn't embarrass my son by doing it either. Sure, there are some outfits of a decent length but mostly in themed sets from a different era.

^You're not alone in this @Mikezumi . In fact a simmer on the Sims 4 version of this thread expressed her disappointment with the lack of modest clothing options and I have to agree! I've thought the same during all my years of simming. (Thank goodness for CC clothing. :blush: )
And yes, I would be totally grossed out to see my mother dress in some of that "trash" clothing too! :flushed: She's a very refined woman so it would be quite the shocker! :lol:

@emorrill Glad to know I am not alone :)

Love your answers :D
My opinion: the attraction system drives me crazy as I like my sims to be faithful to the partner I chose for them :D

"Mikezumi;c-17238050" wrote:
I know I am oldish so my opinion on the lack of "respectable clothing" might not be popular ;) I see my female sims age up in short shorts or mini skirts/dresses and I cringe :confounded: and my first thought is "trash" (apologies to anyone who reads this and dresses this way) :p It's all well and good when they are teens or YA but I know I would have been appalled if my mother had dressed like that and I certainly wouldn't embarrass my son by doing it either. Sure, there are some outfits of a decent length but mostly in themed sets from a different era.

Yes, I think we shouldn't underestimate the psychological effect the clothes of sims have on how we as players perceive them. Clothes can tell more than just the few sentences that are normally used to characterize them. I noticed this myself with Jamie Jolina, the family mother in my current game. At some point, I decided that, as the game considers her to be the head of a wealthy family and she's basically head surgeon, she should also look that way. The result was that this totally changed how I made use of her in the game. It's funny how this works.