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Bluebell23456's avatar
6 years ago

Do you enjoy clutter?

I go back and forth on this one. On one hand, it does not really add anything and for a long time I did not really use it. There isn't much point without an appearance system (or a more crucial one). On the other, it can be satisfying to see a well decorated room and clutter allows you to do that. Once I started experimenting with it, my favorite builds began to have an excess of it and they do feel lived in with personality.

However, at the end of the day, I think it is fair to say there is way too much of a focus on useless decorative items in 4. I would be more forgiving if well decorated rooms had better positives and bare rooms had more negatives, but as of right now the clutter section of BB feels unnecessarily copious. While clutter can be expressive, it feels tipped too far toward the dollhouse for me.

How about you?

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  • I like it, mostly for building but it does help in live mode too.

    Most peoples houses I go to have stuff around on kitchen counters, shelves, tables, chests of drawers, etc. so it seems more realistic to have stuff on them rather than empty shelves. That's only for residential, I'm much more minimal for community lots as in real life that seems to be the case. Obviously exceptions exist, but that generally is the case I've found.

    I do use move objects, though mostly for plants, wall decor and stuff on surfaces where I dislike where the slots are (desk lights and centering objects where there is no centered spot are my biggest issues). I try not to use it too much though, especially for actual usable objects, most just making things slightly closer together (like putting the fridge next to the counter or an accent table next to a chair). I playtest any build that uses it a lot or in ways that I don't usually use it though. I do put everything on the gallery but I'm not a popular builder or anything so I don't worry too much about it tbh.
  • Clutter is fine as long as it's not excessive. I don't want my sims lagging around and failing to get places because of a random laundry pile on the floor.
  • It's kind of a yes and no for me, theres clutter and theres clutter, a little bit clutter is nice, like others say, it makes sims houses look lived in however there is a such thing is too much lol
  • I love adding clutter to my houses because it makes them look much more alive and less boring. Whenever I add clutter to my houses, I never have a problem with having to balance functionality and clutter, everything in my houses look pretty and work perfectly.
    I don't feel like there is too much clutter and if you ever need more, then the debug objects cheat is amazing.

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