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astera00's avatar
astera00
New Spectator
7 years ago

Upgrade beds

In the game, there are a variety of different beds available, with different looks, styles and comfort levels. That's all fine, but what I find quite irritating is if you have a bed of a certain style, but it has low energy/comfort ratings, then your sim won't get a decent rest, no matter what. Where this gets very annoying is when your sim has worked their way up, their well-off and you want them to have a decent bed, the only problem is, maybe you like the style of a cheaper bed for that specific sim. Maybe you want them to have a more comfortable bed, but the more comfortable styles don't suit your sim's interior decoration. In short, if you want your sim to have a decent night's sleep, then you have to completely exclude some beds from consideration, which narrows your options in a way.

Now what I'm thinking is, instead of being limited to specific styles of bed for quality sleep, why can't we upgrade the quality of the beds by being able to buy a better mattress? That way, we can keep the same bed if we want to, but have an upgraded version. It seems to be such a simple thing to do to improve gameplay. What does everyone else think?
  • Movotti's avatar
    Movotti
    New Spectator
    I agree!

    Irl, my bed came with a cheap mattress. It wore out, and the springs started to poke through. So I got a new one. Not a new bed, but a new mattress.

    Also, lots of woohoo in a bed should degrade the mattress, or break the bed.
  • It would be better, instead of like having to have one of the high comfort level beds that look so posh and over the top for your small and cozy home XD
  • I don't mind the level of energy that each bed has to offer, it is the uncomfortable rating that come with some beds irritates me ! The level of energy on each bed indicates how much time your sim would takes to recover from sleep but some beds just randomly yield an uncomfortable mood which I find it so annoying, and I try to avoid those beds and instead I chose the high end ones but the problem is, these beds don't always match the room theme so I always find myself with bed crisis when building a house. I don't understand the notion behind with the uncomfortable rating on devs part, I honestly think this is a dumb idea.
  • Oh, yes, please. Although there's a mod for it: http://littlemssam.de/buy-a-better-mattress-better-energycomfort-on-beds/, I believe it definitely should be the in-game feature. It's always buged me in every TS game that we sometimes have to buy objects just because of their stats. It's cool that we can upgrade many housewares, but it should be used more.
  • astera00's avatar
    astera00
    New Spectator
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    "Sonia016;c-16411410" wrote:
    I don't mind the level of energy that each bed has to offer, it is the uncomfortable rating that come with some beds irritates me !


    This is what I forgot to post about. It's that too and actually the bigger issue for me. There's a perfectly fine bed, but they constantly have to be "uncomfortable". Actually, on its own, I don't mind the concept of the uncomfortable moodlet so much as I hate the fact that I can't upgrade. Feeling moody because of an uncomfortable mattress because you can't afford a better one is perfectly reasonable and can add to more immersive gameplay, it's just that once you can afford it, you tend to upgrade and not necessarily change the bedframes, right?

    I mean, we can upgrade all sorts of appliances so the sims are happier using them, why not beds with new mattresses? Especially because it's such an important part of their day and has such a negative impact (whereas using an un-upgraded object just has them indifferent about it not being upgraded).

    Considering the fact that we already have the ability to upgrade, I don't think it would be a big stretch to add to the game. The improved mattresses can be very expensive compared to the bedframe, it doesn't matter because the whole point is that you're working your way up to be able to afford these things. I mean the best and worst beds have a price difference of over 9000! thousands of simoleans, so I'm not asking for them to be cheap.
  • I have asked for this so many times! :) I hope they will finally add it in a free update soon! Some of the lower stat beds just look better. :(
  • astera00's avatar
    astera00
    New Spectator
    @FreezerBunnyCowplant Any idea which gurus we should direct this to? I sometimes see people say to direct specific types of requests to specific gurus, but I'm not savvy enough around here to know who and you have so many posts.

    Love the signature by the way, it always makes me laugh and we definitely need one of those, but that's another discussion :D
  • "astera00;c-16413831" wrote:
    @FreezerBunnyCowplant Any idea which gurus we should direct this to? I sometimes see people say to direct specific types of requests to specific gurus, but I'm not savvy enough around here to know who and you have so many posts.

    Love the signature by the way, it always makes me laugh and we definitely need one of those, but that's another discussion :D


    I presume the guru for B/B stuff/tools?