Do the constant calls annoy you?

Yeah I've stopped answering phone at all with my sims cause theres just no end to the spam

probably missed some fun ones but like when 99%of it is some "i heard you're friends with your kid" kinda nonsense...

"Simmingal;c-18146190" wrote:
Yeah I've stopped answering phone at all with my sims cause theres just no end to the spam

probably missed some fun ones but like when 99%of it is some "i heard you're friends with your kid" kinda nonsense...

Those are the worst.

I kind of like the constant calls! It makes it seem more realistic to me. I don't always have my Sims answer if I don't want to do those activities though. It's usually pretty easy to ignore if you don't want to do those activities.

It's very repetitive and distracting. It's okay when you want to play the pack that they are calling about but if you are playing another pack and have done these activities like visiting the City Living festivals a hundred times, then it's pretty annoying to keep getting calls to go to them.

When it is constant, yeah, I'm annoyed. Some of them are just ridiculous. Parents calling children to congratulate them befriending their own siblings is pretty unnecessary, for example. However, I am not always spammed.

That being said, I wouldn't want the whole system above removed, just more refined code. A lot of of the nuisances in 4 seem to be a product unrefined subject Sim pools.

Where do I even start...

- There's too many calls and no way to turn them off. Muting the phone only takes away the sound, as the name of the function implies, but you still see every single call that comes in.
- If your sim knows only one person outside their household, then that same person keeps calling over and over and over again to invite you to different places. It's ridiculous.
- If you accept to go somewhere, you have to drop everything and go immediately. That's the main reason I almost never accept, not because I strictly don't want to, but because I may have other stuff to finish first.
- I agree that the "I heard you're friends with your kid" calls are the worst. Especially when the kid in question is still a toddler that has never been outside, never met anyone, and the caller couldn't possibly know who they're talking about.

I do like it when they just call to talk, though. That could happen more often, because it's realistic and a subtle reminder that there's an outside world without pushing you to go anywhere. But those are actually the rarest calls.

Give me something that changes things up. Give me an invite to the flea market, ask me to party down at the ruins in the middle of the night, invite me to the circus just as I'm about to leave for work. Maybe I'll say no, but maybe I'll ditch work or decide this is more fun than sleep! It's the Sims, I can do whatever I want. :)

I do wish there could be a way to set a time to get together with others because it is all or nothing, you can't make plans for later, so if you're not available spur of the moment, it's a flat no. I also wish parties could be planned, then set up to happen at a day and time, later. The "plan a wedding event" caught me off guard because it really means " have a wedding right this instant". Or is that different with the new wedding pack?

The absolutely meaningless ones (like congratulations on becoming friends with so-and-so, etc.) are very annoying indeed. But I like getting calls in general because I sometimes find emergent gameplay (and sometimes even unexpected story elements) from others. Calls have already been nerfed at least once, and we lost a lot of the ones I used to like. If they nerf them again I fear all that would be left would be the most universally annoying ones. :grimace:

The career change calls and the "Hey I heard you're friends with your toddler now, that's cool!" calls are very annoying.

I don't mind the invites, except the "Want to go out tonight" at 1 in the afternoon and if you say yes you go right away. It's always my vampires too.