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

When you end up losing all your cc because of some clumsy oaf who dropped my external HDD backup drive on our move from the other house in April. :(

...and now I gotta start ALL over again with some of the cc that I actually created myself too. Hopefully I can recover the drive from my laptop. But that might take some time. Probably easier to rebuild.

I prefer low will for my sims because half the time they do things that I don't want them doing.

None of the clothes, except some, are maternity enabled and that really bothers me. The clothes they can wear are cute, but I'd rather have my sims in the clothes I put them in when I made them.

Not being able to play kicky bag indoors in the winter because the snow is too deep.

Needing to take that glorified station wagon called a limo everywhere when I have a car worth over 100k simoleons with a speed of 10 in my inventory.

@Simsalot99
Have you tried setting the expensive car as their preferred vehicle?

"Oh, I'm sorry, you can't get out of the seat because someone left a plate on the floor beside the space where you have to get up and walk around even though there's open space on the other side of the chair...and ten feet of clear space on that side so essentially you're stuck until you starve?" ~facepalm~ "...ever heard of stepping over the plate? No? Well OK then..."
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@texansky
Of course! :) I don't know if it is the same for every career, but I can't use anything but the limo. First there is no way to make a single vehicle, in the inventory or parking space, the preferred vehicle. Then I buy a second to see if setting a preferred vehicle works to get around the limo, but it doesn't. Even when using a preferred vehicle, from inventory or parking space, the limo is always used... for everything. It takes almost twice as long to get anywhere.

I LOVE that I can carry a bike, car, fire truck, or UFO in the backpack (what a backpack,) but I HATE that I can't buy the car and put it directly in the backpack - because carrying vehicles in a backpack does not defy the laws of nature once they are purchased and placed in a parking space, but carrying them in a backpack before they are placed in a parking space does. I usually end up on a small lot where I have to remove things to fit a parking space, or put it in the attic, where it is swiftly deleted once the vehicle is purchased and put in the backpack. Because it doesn't defy the laws of nature to materialize a vehicle in the attic, but it does to put it directly in the backpack.

@Nikkei_Simmer But once the Sim has died of starvation, and becomes a ghost, they can walk through the plate.

Here are two trivial annoyances

1. Sims yawn at others during a party when they wear the wrong outfit.
2. Children automatically go home when they hit curfew (used mostly to get rid off curfew)

I do find it frustrating that not all clothes are maternity enabled but then I figure it's because by default pregnancy is only 3 days, if I remember correctly, therefore not worth spending time on. However, I am sure there are some who have modified their pregnancy length to be longer, so I understand the want for more options. In fact, I changed the pregnancy length in my game to mirror 9 months but in Sims time. I used to be opposed to using mods and that is not the case anymore, though a lot of trial and error.


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-Sims can visit whenever they want but it's against the rules for your active household/Sim to do so.

-Sims who can call your active household/Sim at any time they want, but it's against the rules vice versa. I do not like this kind of gameplay which limits my options and is also a double standard.

-Sims can autonomously make a single serving of a dessert or any other dish that is only multiple servings, but it is not a player directed choice.

-Not being able to get in the bed from the front beside the left or right side. And not being able to use the bed with half a square like you can with the couch and an coffee table.

> @GraceyManor said:
> 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.

NO BUT ACTUALLY, the first two? my sim missed his carpool to work and was late all because he was waiting for 2 random sims who didn't even know the family to walk up the stairs of the porch. and the rocking chair... if my sims are sleepy, they B line it to the rocking chair