My sim was at the computer researching Natural Living. The split second he was done, he started to troll the forums. NO, no, no! I immediately stopped the action, but it was too late. Those few short seconds were all it took for him to acquire the mischief skill.Stop forcing this on players. It isn't mischief, it is evil bullying, plain and simple.I will go into cas.fulleditmode and make all my sims dislike Mischief. Doesn't matter, they do it anyway. Insulting other sims? Jeering at them? Yelling at them? I want to casually play a nice, calming game, and the "Bullying Skill" ruins it.:(

I have the mischief activity set to dislike on every SIM since I started playing the game because I literally hate it... in the game and in real life. Recently, EVERY SINGLE SIM has acquired the skill and uses it on all my other SIMs. I have even deleted Sims because they became too obnoxious to be around. Please disable this undocumented feature you have recently added to the game.

Miataplay wrote:Nobody is forcing mischief gameplay on you.That's the point. They ARE. I have the same problem as OP. I have set my main characters as disliking Mischief and Mean interactions. They autonomously Troll the Forums and use Mischief and Mean socials anyway. This is even with Zero mods installed. It's a known issue that's been ongoing for years now, and they won't fix it.

Okay, but I kind of take offense at Loner and Geek being “nasty and unattractive” - just because I need regular me time and like board games and sci-fi doesn’t automatically make me a bully, which is what almost all the mischief interactions are. 😒

Sadly nothing is stopping sims from being obsessed with computers, mainly to troll the forums. You have to lock them out of the computer to stop them from doing that. Likes and dislikes do nothing but add a useless buff or debuff but don't alter gameplay. Now your sims just get annoyed by the stuff they still do automatically but won't stop doing it. If they hate violins they will still go out of their way to listen to it, even if a housemate is three floors underground in a bunker playing it.

There are a few of things I feel like they should do about Mischief, and after seeing these kinds of posts I'm confident that quite a few people agree:Either stop emphasizing Mischief so much for the Goofball trait, or rename Goofball to Prankster if that was their true intention for it in the first place. If they do decide to go with rebranding the current Goofball trait into Prankster, then please give us an actual "Goofball" trait alongside it that's centered around comedy, jokes, and generally silly behavior. And likewise, if they choose to rework the existing Goofball trait as I described instead, then perhaps include a "Prankster" trait alongside it to prefer Mischief in its place.Give the Disruptive trait heightened priority for Mischief interactions. From what I've heard, they're currently no more likely to use them than the average Sim. They are supposed to love being a nuisance and messing with people, aren't they?Expand the variety of interactions available within the Mischief skill. Not all pranksters are malicious. Include more options for lighthearted pranks and gags that are more likely to make both the prankster and the "victim" laugh in the end, and maybe redo the categories to reflect this. Interactions like "give fake bad news" are actually quite mean, and ones like "invite to fake party" and "instill with false confidence" are legitimately getting into psychologically abusive territory.Stop giving heightened priority to Mischief interactions for Loners and Geeks. Nothing about those two traits says "I want to be a deliberate nuisance" on their own. Loners are not comfortable around other people, and Geeks are just nerdy enthusiasts. There are plenty of harmless Loners and Geeks out there too.

Developers - omg STOP with the stupid Mischief skill

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StarWithRockDots
Seasoned Traveler
16 days ago
There are a few of things I feel like they should do about Mischief, and after seeing these kinds of posts I'm confident that quite a few people agree:
Either stop emphasizing Mischief so much for the Goofball trait, or rename Goofball to Prankster if that was their true intention for it in the first place. If they do decide to go with rebranding the current Goofball trait into Prankster, then please give us an actual "Goofball" trait alongside it that's centered around comedy, jokes, and generally silly behavior. And likewise, if they choose to rework the existing Goofball trait as I described instead, then perhaps include a "Prankster" trait alongside it to prefer Mischief in its place.
Give the Disruptive trait heightened priority for Mischief interactions. From what I've heard, they're currently no more likely to use them than the average Sim. They are supposed to love being a nuisance and messing with people, aren't they?
Expand the variety of interactions available within the Mischief skill. Not all pranksters are malicious. Include more options for lighthearted pranks and gags that are more likely to make both the prankster and the "victim" laugh in the end, and maybe redo the categories to reflect this. Interactions like "give fake bad news" are actually quite mean, and ones like "invite to fake party" and "instill with false confidence" are legitimately getting into psychologically abusive territory.
Stop giving heightened priority to Mischief interactions for Loners and Geeks. Nothing about those two traits says "I want to be a deliberate nuisance" on their own. Loners are not comfortable around other people, and Geeks are just nerdy enthusiasts. There are plenty of harmless Loners and Geeks out there too.
thefirsttemplar
Seasoned Ace
15 days ago
I hate that they did put behaviour in to make geeks obsessed with trolling the forums, yet can't seem to give them ANYTHING when going to Batuu.
But I guess a geek out interaction when seeing all the familiar star wars characters and things would require new animations, and they really seem to hate doing that. Even sims 1 seems to have more animations than this game for sims.
Janaque
Seasoned Hotshot
14 days ago
If you are not a console player and can use mods, MC Command Center can blacklist certain actions.

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