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HollownessDevour
Seasoned Ace
5 months ago

Completely Disable Phone Feature & Alternate Computer Option

I can't stand mobile phones and computers in Sims since Sims 3, and it is worse in Sims 4:

  • Phone Idles
  • Phone Pop-ups (Calls & Texts)
  • Interactions locked to phone or computer only (including skills, aspirations and career goals)

For the love of gawd, please add a disable Phone toggle in options. And anything and everything that is only able to be done via Computer/Phone have an alternate way (such as mailbox and bring back the newspaper). 

Writing should have a typewriter and/or scroll/book/paper alternative. Aspirations and career goals for progression should have an alternate method/version for "use the computer to...". 

I wouldn't mind more land line phones, especially era versions early phones, and rotary phones. I am just so sick of how much the game tries to revolve around the mobile phone. I know many people do IRL, but some of us are a bit more old school too. 

Thank you for your consideration.

edit: I think we need this now more than ever between EbN and R&L and those storytelling era/fantasy based games would not ever use phones/computers, and we need an alternate so bad! I saw that replying to royal mail increased Writing Skill so that was nice! But we need an full opt out of phone/computer option ASAP :D

 

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  • mariefoxprice83's avatar
    mariefoxprice83
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    I think the fact that mobile phones and the internet are so much a part of everyday life, it sometimes makes me want to let my sims do less of that stuff.  I particularly enjoy historical and fantasy saves, which is of course much harder in Sims 4 than in previous iterations because so much gameplay is tied to phones and computers.

  • Zasz_Zerg's avatar
    Zasz_Zerg
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    Im totally with you. The problem is some interactions are so deeply tied to phones for no good reason like checking bills information. Go to lifestyle coaching and many services are on the phone and computer. Why "move household" is on the phone is beyond understanding. This is something we should do from the region map. Buying a vet clinic, retail store or restaurant is already in the lower right in its own menu. One sim heavily relies on plopsy which only works with the phone...

    It makes no sense

    You wont believe how many mods I accumulated to prevent sims from constantly doing something with their phones. I got a mod to lock computers and other electric stuff to specific sims. Another to prevent most idles. For the rest I use MCCC's autonomy tuner module.

    On top of it all for a long time I played a castaway theme in sulani. I managed to disable the phones for the sims but its not working perfectly. And I had to place a computer and something to produce power for certain interactions. But mostly I managed without technology. And then the game tortures my sims because they dont have any technology and cant do anything with deep uncomfortable moodlets.

    It makes no sense.

    So I fully support a button to prevent sims from using their phones.

  • thefirsttemplar's avatar
    thefirsttemplar
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    I wish a competing game would use the 90's or such as a setting so we don't have this. It's boring already to see people in real life constantly sit on their phones, we don't need our sims to do that too. 

    It's been a mistake to try and focus too much on contemporary things either way, a more timeless setting would work better. A lot of stuff from sims 4's early years is already out of fashion or outdated anyway. 

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