I have a similar thread in the Sims 4 section and it always seems to get a lot of comments so I wanted to make one here as well! This is a thread to discuss not major issues or major negatives but trivial things which annoy you. So as the title says, what are some trivial things in the game that bug you?

One thing that annoyed me the other day is how mermaids get around Isla Paradiso - they don't autonomously use boats, even if they have one, and instead swim no matter how long the distance?? For example I sent my mermaid sim on this route:https://i.ibb.co/v3Mjd0H/Screenshot-68.jpgHe's SWIMMING.https://i.ibb.co/BZRpMtP/Screenshot-69.jpgHe left at 6 and got there five hours later, at 11. For reference I tried the same with a human sim, with only a cheap boat, he got there in an hour... Teleporting everywhere is definitely the best way to deal with this world :D

So many of these annoying things pop up, but the first ones that come to mind are:- that you can't throw a funeral party at a graveyard- that you can't throw a wedding party at a resort- that bands and singers are two completely different and separate things and can't collaborate with each other

https://i.imgur.com/UCQ2Qku.jpgWhen your Sims be looking cute, so you hide headline effects and bring the camera down to take an eye-level screenshot of them being natural and in-the-moment somewhere out in public, then some barefoot nobody in a crayon green martial arts gi meanders into the middle of your shot and you're like, "Huh??? I've never put anyone remotely like that guy in my game." so you quickly change him into whatever his casual outfit is -- a tuxedo jacket, plaid shorts, and flip flops -- and that's when you notice he's wearing a top hat in every category because that's just his hair, so you open him in Stylist to change it only to see the same face as every EA-generated Sim who has ever existed -- that late '90s Ryan Phillippe / Reese Witherspoon / "God just picked the first preset in every category and clicked 'DONE'" default face -- so you edit him in CAS, randomize until he looks like anything at all has happened in his life, unpause your game, and now you've got this brand new Sim you didn't ask for dressed in all Diesel attire midway through scowling in an exaggerated fighting stance, and you're like, "JUST... just get out of the shot. JUSTGETOUTOFTHESHOT4526t345" *Ctrl+Shift+C resetsim Randy McDefaultface* which causes your Sims to reappear into a split second T-pose on the other side of the lot and decide of their own accord that this is just taking way too long and they want to sleep.

I agree with the merfolk and swimming. My sims are in the pool all summer, but not so much in other seasons.If your singer has a guitar in their inventory, they can play and sing, but that's it.My annoyances include walking to the table outside to eat, instead of the dining room. Walking to the bathroom sink instead of the kitchen sink to wash the dishes. And getting a dirty room moodlet and you can't find the dirty object anywhere.

Bridgeport being so grey.That's the only TS3 expansion I've bought, Late Night, because I really wanted a city to live in. And... it's so grey... all the buildings, the lighting, I just hate it.

What are some trivial things that annoy you? (Sims 3 edition)

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Onverser
3 years ago
One thing that annoyed me the other day is how mermaids get around Isla Paradiso - they don't autonomously use boats, even if they have one, and instead swim no matter how long the distance?? For example I sent my mermaid sim on this route:

https://i.ibb.co/v3Mjd0H/Screenshot-68.jpg

He's SWIMMING.

https://i.ibb.co/BZRpMtP/Screenshot-69.jpg

He left at 6 and got there five hours later, at 11. For reference I tried the same with a human sim, with only a cheap boat, he got there in an hour...

Teleporting everywhere is definitely the best way to deal with this world :D
PalmArrow
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
So many of these annoying things pop up, but the first ones that come to mind are:

- that you can't throw a funeral party at a graveyard
- that you can't throw a wedding party at a resort
- that bands and singers are two completely different and separate things and can't collaborate with each other
Archivist
New Ace
3 years ago
https://i.imgur.com/UCQ2Qku.jpg
When your Sims be looking cute, so you hide headline effects and bring the camera down to take an eye-level screenshot of them being natural and in-the-moment somewhere out in public, then some barefoot nobody in a crayon green martial arts gi meanders into the middle of your shot and you're like, "Huh??? I've never put anyone remotely like that guy in my game." so you quickly change him into whatever his casual outfit is -- a tuxedo jacket, plaid shorts, and flip flops -- and that's when you notice he's wearing a top hat in every category because that's just his hair, so you open him in Stylist to change it only to see the same face as every EA-generated Sim who has ever existed -- that late '90s Ryan Phillippe / Reese Witherspoon / "God just picked the first preset in every category and clicked 'DONE'" default face -- so you edit him in CAS, randomize until he looks like anything at all has happened in his life, unpause your game, and now you've got this brand new Sim you didn't ask for dressed in all Diesel attire midway through scowling in an exaggerated fighting stance, and you're like, "JUST... just get out of the shot. JUSTGETOUTOFTHESHOT4526t345" *Ctrl+Shift+C resetsim Randy McDefaultface* which causes your Sims to reappear into a split second T-pose on the other side of the lot and decide of their own accord that this is just taking way too long and they want to sleep.
KevinL5275
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I agree with the merfolk and swimming.

My sims are in the pool all summer, but not so much in other seasons.

If your singer has a guitar in their inventory, they can play and sing, but that's it.

My annoyances include walking to the table outside to eat, instead of the dining room. Walking to the bathroom sink instead of the kitchen sink to wash the dishes. And getting a dirty room moodlet and you can't find the dirty object anywhere.
LetMePlaySimSoo
3 years ago
Bridgeport being so grey.
That's the only TS3 expansion I've bought, Late Night, because I really wanted a city to live in. And... it's so grey... all the buildings, the lighting, I just hate it.
texansky
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@KevinL5275
When I've searched high and low for the cause of a dirty object, sometimes it turns out to be a broken TV! Now I check all of the appliances, electronics, and even the Sims' inventories!
I have no idea how that food got in there!
FutileGesture
3 years ago
"StephSteb;c-18161889" wrote:
If you leave your sims alone for 5 seconds and have a pool...they're in the pool. Gotta go to work? Nope, in the pool. Need to tend the garden? Too bad something messed you up and now you're going in the pool. Drives me up the wall so I just try not to have pools, anymore. :D

Agree. I delete pools for any house that I play. And hot tubs.
graceymanors
Legend
3 years ago
I absolutely hate the random visitors that come knocking at all hours.
I hate how my sims get obsessed with rocking chairs and will literally spend all day rocking
I hate how my sim will randomly go to bed even though he just got up and is not tired.
bajatx
New Veteran
3 years ago
"SimSpock;c-18166181" wrote:
"StephSteb;c-18161889" wrote:
If you leave your sims alone for 5 seconds and have a pool...they're in the pool. Gotta go to work? Nope, in the pool. Need to tend the garden? Too bad something messed you up and now you're going in the pool. Drives me up the wall so I just try not to have pools, anymore. :D

Agree. I delete pools for any house that I play. And hot tubs.

Hottubs had a magnet on them for TS2, but I'm not finding that with TS3, though I do control them a lot, is anyone else finding this? I was worried that when my sims got a hottub that their guests would also head to it and skip them, they don't.
FutileGesture
3 years ago
"tallcoolone;c-18167891" wrote:
"SimSpock;c-18166181" wrote:
"StephSteb;c-18161889" wrote:
If you leave your sims alone for 5 seconds and have a pool...they're in the pool. Gotta go to work? Nope, in the pool. Need to tend the garden? Too bad something messed you up and now you're going in the pool. Drives me up the wall so I just try not to have pools, anymore. :D

Agree. I delete pools for any house that I play. And hot tubs.

Hottubs had a magnet on them for TS2, but I'm not finding that with TS3, though I do control them a lot, is anyone else finding this? I was worried that when my sims got a hottub that their guests would also head to it and skip them, they don't.

Hot tubs aren't nearly as bad as pools. But some sims seem to develop a hot tub habit. It's more of a carried over annoyance for me from TS2, as you said.