New Player Questions

Welcome to the simming community @Khloe_Noelle ! Glad to hear you are enjoying your time so far with TS4. I love this version of the game and get a lot of enjoyment out of it so it is great to hear that you are enjoying it too. 🙂 There are so many tips and tricks, too many to list, and I have personally have found a few websites that have helped me in how to learn and explore the game and play it to it's full potential. Not sure if I can list those websites here though so I'll cover a few things below that I hope will help you. 🙂

Live Mode

Best way to explore and learn about the game is to have your sims travel to different community lots & districts with in the worlds and interact with different sims. Don't be afraid to click on things, you won't break anything! 😉 If you have City Living the festivals are a great place to meet other sims and try different types of foods.  

Bills are something we can't escape even in the game and even though they are too high realistically, you can reduce them if you have the Eco Living pack which has energy saving objects that help lower your bills. 

For money you can get your sims to fish, click on any fishing sign in any world/district and then sell the fish from their inventory, they can write books via the computer and publish them via the mailbox which will give you some weekly royalties. If you write enough books your sim can get a pretty nice weekly pay packet which will hopefully cover your bills. I can see someone already mentioned gardening so I won't go into that. All I say is garden is a personal choice, I love it for my adult & elders sims but not so much for my young adults sims. 

Completing whims (which has now changed to wants/fears) is a great way to accumulate extra satisfaction points, as well as completing milestones in your sims aspirations. I like to have several aspirations going at the same time, as there is no limit and you don't lose progress if you swap to a different aspiration. 

Build Mode

Love love love build mode! One of many things that I love about TS4, the building and creating that we can do in game. 

Building & decorating takes practice, so start off small when building as I always find it's easier to add than subtract from a build. With decorating I like to have colour schemes through out my sims homes and try to have a general theme/feel to it. Like country or modern, or bright and colourful.

I mostly enjoy renovating existing EA lots that came with the worlds and I think this has helped me get better at building and decorating over the years. The gallery is a great place to find some amazing and very unique creations. If you are searching on the gallery, it helps to search by the actual lot name that you want to add to your game. Many players add this as a hashtag in their upload so it makes it easier to find something for that specific lot.

At the moment I can only think of two objects I cannot live without in my game. Incense stick/holders - these help with getting rid of negative moodlets and give your sim positive moodlets. A tea brewer - again, this is something that helps with negative/positive moodlets, but I also love tea in real life so it's only natural that my sims would have one of these too! 

Hope this has helped you in some way. 🙂

There is a lot to this game, especially if you have a few packs installed, and it can take time to fully explore everything. I do find for me that no gameplay session is ever the same and even after years of playing this game I am still discovering new things or something small that I never noticed before that makes me smile.