The Sims Team
So many of us are in agreement on this but don't appear to be being heard.
I've started keeping track of the problems with Neighbourhood Stories in my game on a Sims daily basis and it's surprising, a lot of it is repetition. My current Sim is from a huge family which live across 8 different households and her brother, sister, aunt, sister in law and brother's older mother in law are constantly ringing about trying for a baby. I have to check they haven't had one because No doesn't always work. Their households are set up just how I want them, I don't want any changes to them as I put a lot of work into them. There's a lot of explorers, archaeologists and celebrities and loads of Sims across all age groups. I lost them all twice due to error codes and this is the third time I've had to recreate their story.
My Sim gets about 3 or 4 NS calls a day and when she says No, they ring again the next day to update her. If they ring about a new friendship and she says No, they ring up and say thanks for suggesting it as they had a blast ..but she'd said No! With the new relationships, I say no as sometimes they want to see someone in a relationship already. When my Sim meets a townie I usually edit the NPC sim and create a flat or small house for them, so again it's messing up my work.
I've got most of the DLC and have 92 bugs/glitches in my game already and I'm frustrated that this is yet another massive addition to a broken game.
I see a new roadmap is out, these used to be what I was waiting for but now all I'm waiting for is a bit admission that they need to switch focus to fixes. I know I'd respect them so much more for that.
I love the Sims so I hate to sound so negative but I've played it from it's very first Sims game all those years ago and I feel it's getting unplayable now and I even bought a next gen console to help when even Microsoft told me it wouldn't.
NS was a good idea in theory (and the team do have a lot of good ideas) but at the wrong time. All this cheerful positivity from them about new stuff, I find it tone deaf.
I agree the calls are extreme annoying. Before NS I had the baby call maybe once in a week and it was always a household which I don’t played. Now I get constant these calls from played(inactive) households. Thank you but I don’t want changes on my played households and is annoying to ignore these calls if there so much.
+ I hate the new romance calls. They don’t filter right. I have siblings ask if they should date her OWN sibling or the crush of my sim calls if he should date other sims too. In which world calls your romantic partner if they should date another person? You want my permission that you can cheat on me? This is so nice from you! (I am old school; I don't want this open relationship in my game)
I wish I could toggle all this calls off or at least toggle it that I don't get calls from my played inactive households (I know bienchen has a mod for, but this doesn’t help for my vanilla game).
Yeah, I admit that I’m using Bienchen’s mod so that only never played households call me. I love that the panel sees us rotational players, but the calls… don’t. I don’t want my played households to make changes without me!
