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New Veteran

3 years ago

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Who asked for more phone use?

I see posts all the time from before the high school pack asking how to disable sims fiddling with their phones all of the time. I don't ever remember seeing any post asking for more phone use. Why d...

gameplay issue

siirysiir
3 years ago
@CharityCodes "That's why I think it should be tied to traits and/or lifestyles and maybe adjusted for age." YES! We also already have the fame quirk phone obsession so there's really no point in just slapping these idles on everyone, everywhere. They could have used a lot of the same code from that Get famous quirk and then just apply it to some teenagers and young adults with appropriate lifestyles and traits.

atreya33

Legend

3 years ago

I would greatly appreciate an option to turn off the constant phone checking. I realise a lot of people in real life use their phones a lot of times but that doesn't mean 100% of the sims in my game should do so too. I play the sims to see them do interesting things, often things I can't do in real life. I don't play sims to see how addicted they have become to their phone. This doesn't add any value to the game. If I want to see the animation of my sims fiddle with their phones I can tell them to play a game or send a text. There is no reason to make it autonomous. The constant phone checking can even break immersion in the game. Why would a transformed werewolf need to check his phone? The sims are so intertwined with technology that it is becoming problematic if you try to play a sim who doesn't like/need/use technology. This recent change only emphasises this already existing problem.

Idle animations in general are a nuisance in the game because sims loose a lot of time on them. I would like sims to just quit idle animation immediately when I direct them to do something, it is frustrating to have to wait until the unwanted pointless idle animation is finished. The sniffing with bust the dust is another good example of excessive idle animations.

MaggieMae7276

Seasoned Ace

3 years ago

I haven't even been playing my game, even though I miss it and want to get back to it. I am very unhappy about this phone obsession. Don't like it in real life and definitely don't want it in my sims game. When I play my game I get very involved in my story I am creating. Isn't that what Sims 4 was always supposed to be about? Even before this I was getting frustrated with the draw of sims towards computers, phones, and other objects, including the drink water bug. It ruins the fun and immersion of playing. The actions I set up drop and I have to constantly monitor all of my sims to make sure they get their basic needs and important things like skill building done. I play with families and want larger families, but this makes it even more difficult to keep even a couple on track with a storyline. I love and miss my Sims 4. I have many storylines I want to follow with my games. Please fix this so I can enjoy playing again!

SilentK008
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I play occult sims, I play adventures, I play quirky sims.
Why oh why do I have to watch them play with their phones.
I am so so happy that players are talking about this.
- Why is a possessed sim in Stranger Ville walking like a zombie then they check their phone and they are regular from the waist up.
- Why are mermaids texting under water when they should be out swimming.
I do not want to have a idle-animations with a phone. I have saves placed in Batuu or imaginary fantasy worlds or the middle ages. I look for the perfect CC to make a specific story come alive and then they pull out a phone.
I have too many packs for each and every one of the to have idle-animations every few seconds. These packs need to work together. I am very very upset over additional phone-animations that I cannot opt out of. You have made the phone mandatory because it connects with traveling, work and everything else so I cannot leave it behind. Fine. Then you start adding animations to it and now you are interfering with my stories, the very same reason that I started playing in the first place. My stories do not include phones.
Can you please make this game work for those who do not play present-day-phone-obsessive-sims!
Hawksdaughter
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
"Who asked for more phone use?"
"I am very unhappy about this phone obsession. Don't like it in real life and definitely don't want it in my sims game."
This, very much this. I hate the excessive phone use...Phone while walking, phones while on a date, phones at the gym, phones while having normal conversations, etc and on and on. I'm surprised at this point that they don't have them out in the bath or shower. Please get rid of this or give us options to disable or Something! I am just about to the point of uninstalling the High School expansion (and the preceding patch) as a mess and waste of my money.
- simmemoirs
  Seasoned Hotshot
  3 years ago
  I feel like this type of animation does not add much to the game. It's a bit presumptuous of EA to think that every sim from teen to elder would be using their phone this way. EA need to narrow it down for sims with certain traits, lifestyles and even careers that would only perform this animation.