Dryer fail

I find it 'breaks' a lot game code wise, as in it's not showing as broken, but it no longer responds to any interractions.

I'm very often having to go into build mode and place out a new one, delete the old one, and use a cheat to keep my sim's money the same - because a washer or dryer has just stopped working.

If it breaks as a part of the game, I have my sim's repair it - and this does happen an absurdly frequent amount of the time...

Enough so that if I could figure out making mods I'd make a pricey one with higher reliability.

I haven’t used laundry for several months, but when I did, I would just get rid of the problem clothes. Certain loads of laundry just got bugged, and I let them drop it on the floor and I sold it through their inventory. I wish they’d fix it, but that’s been my preferred workaround.

Am I the only one annoyed that you have to do an extra click once you put the laundry in the washer or dryer? I wish they automatically turned it on themselves once you directed them to load each! Just a very small extra step that annoys me greatly ha. I have also experienced these bugged dryers you are all speaking of too. Frustrating!!

The bugged dryer is really annoying, especially when it is fully upgraded. I also normally just get rid of the clothes pile and that usually takes care of it. The frequency of it breaking down when it isn't bugging out is crazy though.

Most of my houses are fine, but I have one where I'm constantly replacing a non-working dryer and another where it constantly catches fire. In the second case, I was checking in on the family and while I was there, I got the "Fire!" popup 4 times and it was the dryer each time. Happened with three different Sims in the house. Since I never told them to even do laundry, it was weird. I ended up taking all of the laundry stuff out of the house.

Do you clean the lint out?

In real life I've just asked my brother this and it appears he hasn't so it's stopped him from having a fire anyway. I think he had forgotten what he was told when he got it. Nobody reads the "b" manual nowadays it seems.

Thanks anyway for reminding me, (and him) EA. :)

"Simburian;c-17994883" wrote:
Do you clean the lint out?

In real life I've just asked my brother this and it appears he hasn't so it's stopped him from having a fire anyway. I think he had forgotten what he was told when he got it. Nobody reads the "b" manual nowadays it seems.

Thanks anyway for reminding me, (and him) EA. :)

I do when I'm controlling the Sims and telling them to do laundry. What was weird was they were doing this autonomously. I was paying attention to other Sims in the house every time it happened. They just randomly decided to use the dryer and caught on fire.

My sims use nature when I do give them laundry. I get tired of fixing them all the time.

I was just playing in slow mode watching my Sim, just provided with the basic clothes hampers, wash tub in the garden, additive, and clothesline suddenly deciding to go out into the garden to do her washing without prompting from me. The only thing I had to do, as she was taking some time over it, it was to stop her and tell her to put the washing on the line. Which she did.

I feel that if you don't provide too many other diversions in the house, that they tend to do better on their own, especially off the grid. This seems to follow Will Wright's axiom of just buying what you need that he used in The Sims original. He had lost many of his possessions in his house fire.

I almost never have a problem with the dryer, but I always install Lint Free and Tungsten Drum upgrades. The Tungsten upgrade makes the dryer (and washer) unbreakable.
My washing machine bugs out sometimes and claim there is no working washing machine on the lot. This is fixed by Resetting the Laundry BIN, not the machine.