It seems like when I'm out of the game I can come up with so many ideas on what to do, but when I'm actually sitting down to play, I completely forget about them!Most recently is when it was raining in my sims neighborhood, but I wanted her to workout. We couldnt afford any workout equipment so I sent her for a jog in the rain and she was upset because she got all wet. I told her she needed to get over it (yes, I talk to my sims) and I let her watch some TV.. but when I clicked on the TV I had realized that with the fitness pack, I could have just had her do a TV workout inside !Is there anyone else like this? Do you sometimes find that you have to remind yourself to take advantage of certain features?

All the time! I forgot they can now hold a full conversation when eating and I was worried about a specific sims social....Then I remembered I can click another sim and get my other sim's social bar completely up while they ate. I forget sims can now multitask!

Oh definitely. I'm trying to really explore all the stuff I forgot about when I took a break from the game through my legacy family and having each new sim do something I hadn't done before or forgotten about. Slow but steady!

Everything related to the handiness skill. There are a lot of cool things you can do with it, like unlocking TV stations and making fireplaces turn on automatically when someone enters the room, and that sort of thing. Still, for some reason I always forget to upgrade my possessions.

I am kinda ignoring the other features from the way I am playing now.At first I was only playing Young Adults and ignoring relationships and family life since we didn't have toddlers.Now we have Toddlers and Parenthood and I have aged all my YAs down to toddlers and given them parents, or put them in an orphanage.So, currently I am not using a lot of features. Mainly because I am primarily playing the orphanage and not the other households and not using much from Get To Work, City Living, or Pets.That's about to change as I advance the other households, so I should be rediscovering a lot of features.

Yes - I often forget multiple features when I get caught up in the storyline that I'm playing as I usually have their jobs, hobbies, etc. all pre-planned. Most recently I had my Sim family watching a movie and was thinking 'popcorn would be great' - at the end of the movie I realized I had completely blanked as there is a popcorn maker that came with Movie Hangoug :b

Do you ever find yourself forgetting that certain features exist?

26 Replies

pepero_simjang
8 years ago
All the time! I forgot they can now hold a full conversation when eating and I was worried about a specific sims social....Then I remembered I can click another sim and get my other sim's social bar completely up while they ate. I forget sims can now multitask!
littlemissgogo
8 years ago
Oh definitely. I'm trying to really explore all the stuff I forgot about when I took a break from the game through my legacy family and having each new sim do something I hadn't done before or forgotten about. Slow but steady!
kaeyresky
8 years ago
Everything related to the handiness skill. There are a lot of cool things you can do with it, like unlocking TV stations and making fireplaces turn on automatically when someone enters the room, and that sort of thing. Still, for some reason I always forget to upgrade my possessions.
ck213
Legend
8 years ago
I am kinda ignoring the other features from the way I am playing now.
At first I was only playing Young Adults and ignoring relationships and family life since we didn't have toddlers.

Now we have Toddlers and Parenthood and I have aged all my YAs down to toddlers and given them parents, or put them in an orphanage.
So, currently I am not using a lot of features. Mainly because I am primarily playing the orphanage and not the other households and not using much from Get To Work, City Living, or Pets.

That's about to change as I advance the other households, so I should be rediscovering a lot of features.
Canuckfan86
8 years ago
Yes - I often forget multiple features when I get caught up in the storyline that I'm playing as I usually have their jobs, hobbies, etc. all pre-planned. Most recently I had my Sim family watching a movie and was thinking 'popcorn would be great' - at the end of the movie I realized I had completely blanked as there is a popcorn maker that came with Movie Hangoug :b
kuhpflanzen
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
i bought jungle adventure like a month ago and i haven't had a single sim visit selvadorada because i keep forgetting that's a thing.
StardustBunny
8 years ago
Sometimes I would like to forget certain features exist. *cough* Laundry *cough* :*
Candygurl2000
8 years ago
I brought 'Outdoor Retreat' 2+ years ago and still have not played it. I forgot I had it.
SeraphicPink
8 years ago
I constantly forget about bowling. lol. I've went to a bowling alley once, and never had again.
I always forget about Magnolia Pomerade, where the stores are. I never use the retail stores there! .
shame on me, but I forget about forgotten hollow, then I go there and I'm like: WHY AREN'T I USING THIS, IT'S GREAT!

There's a lot in my game I haven't even played with such as the get to work careers like scientist and detective as well.
BlueSeaWaves
Legend
8 years ago
I never had my sim reach 10 handiness and just recently, I thought to myself “do I have to wait for stuff to break and fix it just to level the skill?!?” And then I saw on the wikia using the woodcrafting table increases the skill. Ever since it was announced in the very beginning of TS4 that a wood crafting table would be included I was so excited for it, but I don’t know how I completely forgot about it! Also the cupcake machine, I didn’t like it from the very beginning as well because of its size and look and the other day I found it in Build/Buy mode and thought what ep did I get this from and remembered it came in the base game