I agree with you all. I have thrown up my hands in defeat on teh mischief thing, though. I don't play mischievous sims, they are quite nice sims and not causing issues with others, don't have personality traits that should lead themselves toward mischief or negative interactions with others, but I have found that if I have them autonomously or due to career or gaining time on the computers, I keep getting mischief raising over time. My 'sim-self' (who I play a lot), her hubby, some of their children and grandchildren have autonomously been racking up the mischief in this way, and there is no good reason for it. Even when I play a sim who is a gamer, streamer, computer 'whiz', computer programmer, technician, etc., I never have them doing mischievous computer stuff. However, I do play with full autonomy, and this is apparently the price I pay at the mercy of the algorithm. Hey, I could cheat their mischief back down if the skill cheats were working, but it creeps back up, so I finally cried uncle.
And as both @PugLove888 and @simsplayer818 well know, don't get me started on vampires!! I'm just eternally grateful that they added the no trespassing block option for them on the front door. Thank you, EA!!! Oh, goodness, I had to move my lot and household to a new save to do a workaround for the HS graduation bug and I forgot to check my front door lock settings and hired a butler and ranch hand (and maybe a gardener) and started playing and noticed a few odd behaviors. I think maybe it was Vlad that came to the lot and got my attention, but I also went in and checked the traits for the 'help', and sure enough the butler was a vampire, as was either the gardener or ranch hand. Ugg! Idid a fulleditmode on the vamp help, got my trespassing settings fixed on the front door, and my problem was solved. Man do I love those front door settings!!
@SheriGR , I think of you every time I set my door to not allow vampires on my lot, which is most of the houses that I play unless I'm purposely playing with vampires!😂
Before that setting on the front door, I would often just look each individual bedroom door to only allow household members.
Unfortunately that was not guarantied to work so I used garlic which was 100% effective.
@jpkarlsen , Oh, I always have garlic in my inventory as well, and usually some by the front door as well. I still do it even though we now have the option to block vampires, because A) it can't hurt and can only help, and B) old habits die hard! 😅
