How do I hire a babysitter?

Yeah TS2 nannies were awesome. I really want butlers, nannies, babysitters, and bonehilda to return as well as a bunch of other normal NPCs the Sims 4 left out.

"libra_style;13457946" wrote:
Heck I'm still waiting for baby showers and they just cut all the middle people npc's cops/burgers/firefighters/gardner/nannies actual phones I'm just appalled

did majority of the budget go to building the new engine or what??

http://media0.giphy.com/media/16q4pTTzmIM1y/200_s.gif

The budget was all used in the online game, the rest they used to transform a online game in a Sims game. :'(

"DiabolicalSim;13457282" wrote:
Lol there are no baby sitters. How... Lazy of them, right? :wink:

The NPC's in general are poorly made: No firefighters, policemen, thieves, gardeners, repomen, social bunny,....

Since Sim children are left home alone, maybe that's a hint hint to a Home Alone like expansion? lol
That would be fun! Gives me a reason to have kids since they're useless right now like babies. Kids in real life have jobs and chores and whatnot. So hopefully The Sims 4 will add these options. Get them out of the house, go water the neighbor's garden, when seasons come rake the yard, etc.

"Cinebar;13457794" wrote:

"junceda;13457787" wrote:
my sim´s baby disappeared the other day in the family inventory and nobody cared but me

Lol, at least in the TS2 or TS3 if an 'object' is removed they go look and whine and gripe that you took it away. And the thought bubble 'miss this' happens. This just proves my points over and over. Not a life simulator.

Things aren't taken away in real life when you don't pay the bills. The power goes off. It's actually more realistic now than before in that regard.

And please, stop trying to compare it with real life. There are some things that should be changed, but the whole "life simulator" argument is just silly.

If there was a true life simulator, it would take even longer to get promoted (which people are already complaining about), if you quit or lost the job, then you would have to go through the hardships of finding a new one. You would have to buy all your clothing, and the only way to change how you look would be through plastic surgery. All of those things cost money, there's no rosebud cheat in real life, if you don't have money, you don't get those things either. That would heavily restrict all the Simmers that play because of CAS. Did I mention build mode. It would take years for things to get finished, goodbye to automatic wall placing. You have to now go and buy the materials. Don't have the money? You can't build. Furniture too. Build mode would get really boring and really tedious really fast.

I'm sorry but saying the game isn't a "life simulator" because it's different from real life is silly because there is no life simulator out there besides possibly some physics-based games. Look at the definition of life simulator from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_simulation_game

The Sims matches all of those, heck, even Animal Crossing counts as a life simulator, and do you see animals walking around everyday wearing clothing? Nope, but it's still a life sim. The Sims isn't supposed to reflect real life, it's supposed to be real life with it's own twist.

I agree, emotions need to be tweaked, it's silly the way the Sims react to things, but saying that it's not a life simulator is a very very plum argument.

I haven't allowed my Sims to have an object yet. Therefore there has been nothing to age up to be a child.

I've been playing Sims 4 today and yesterday. The most positive comment I can make about it is that it still is the type of game that is a frustrating waste of time and space on my computer.

"Karritz;13471436" wrote:
I haven't allowed my Sims to have an object yet. Therefore there has been nothing to age up to be a child.

I've been playing Sims 4 today and yesterday. The most positive comment I can make about it is that it still is the type of game that is a frustrating waste of time and space on my computer.

Maybe if you actually got over the nitty gritty and tried to play you would enjoy it more.

"RoyaiChaos;13471443" wrote:

"Karritz;13471436" wrote:
I haven't allowed my Sims to have an object yet. Therefore there has been nothing to age up to be a child.

I've been playing Sims 4 today and yesterday. The most positive comment I can make about it is that it still is the type of game that is a frustrating waste of time and space on my computer.

Maybe if you actually got over the nitty gritty and tried to play you would enjoy it more.

I doubt it. I've had a few goes at it and a few weeks ago I had a complete meltdown over the mindlessness of the requirements of the game. I gave it a break and had another go at seeing what it has to offer since the latest patch. So it wouldn't totally force me to shut the game down in the first few minutes of launching it I put the entire garden in the household inventory to stop my Sims from constantly having to tend their tiny garden.

The one most obvious thing the game has to offer me personally is the opportunity to reinstall the game after every patch. That is one opportunity I am no yet going to accept. If every patch corrupts my game then it seems obvious to me that the people who make the patches either don't want me to play, or they think it is acceptable to expect someone to spend hours reinstalling a game over and over and over again until they finally get a non corrupt version of it installed. And then have it corrupted again a few weeks later by yet another patch which requires another set of reinstalling of the game.

Then there the new bugs introduced with the patch. Currently the active Sim randomly goes into an infinite loop and can't move from the spot they are standing in. The game doesn't freeze. Other Sims are still walking around. Since it is obvious to me that the sim has gone into a loop of some sort i looked around for a way of getting them out of it. Consequently, the work around I've been using is to take the stuck sim into Create a Sim and then immediately close CAS. The Sim then happily walks away.

Apart from the obvious practical shortcomings of the game, in my opinion life's way to short for me to be prepared to be miserable forcing myself to waste what time I have on a mindless boring waste of time just so someone else can approve of my efforts to play it just because they happen to enjoy it. I've got better and more interesting things to do with my time. I have only been in the game today because of the patch and I've had a long look at it and I'll close it and leave it. Maybe I'll have another look next time there is a patch.

"Karritz;13471484" wrote:

"RoyaiChaos;13471443" wrote:

"Karritz;13471436" wrote:
I haven't allowed my Sims to have an object yet. Therefore there has been nothing to age up to be a child.

I've been playing Sims 4 today and yesterday. The most positive comment I can make about it is that it still is the type of game that is a frustrating waste of time and space on my computer.

Maybe if you actually got over the nitty gritty and tried to play you would enjoy it more.

I doubt it. I've had a few goes at it and a few weeks ago I had a complete meltdown over the mindlessness of the requirements of the game. I gave it a break and had another go at seeing what it has to offer since the latest patch. So it wouldn't totally force me to shut the game down in the first few minutes of launching it I put the entire garden in the household inventory to stop my Sims from constantly having to tend their tiny garden.

The one most obvious thing the game has to offer me personally is the opportunity to reinstall the game after every patch. That is one opportunity I am no yet going to accept. If every patch corrupts my game then it seems obvious to me that the people who make the patches either don't want me to play, or they think it is acceptable to expect someone to spend hours reinstalling a game over and over and over again until they finally get a non corrupt version of it installed. And then have it corrupted again a few weeks later by yet another patch which requires another set of reinstalling of the game.

Then there the new bugs introduced with the patch. Currently the active Sim randomly goes into an infinite loop and can't move from the spot they are standing in. The game doesn't freeze. Other Sims are still walking around. Since it is obvious to me that the sim has gone into a loop of some sort i looked around for a way of getting them out of it. Consequently, the work around I've been using is to take the stuck sim into Create a Sim and then immediately close CAS. The Sim then happily walks away.

Apart from the obvious practical shortcomings of the game, in my opinion life's way to short for me to be prepared to be miserable forcing myself to waste what time I have on a mindless boring waste of time just so someone else can approve of my efforts to play it just because they happen to enjoy it. I've got better and more interesting things to do with my time. I have only been in the game today because of the patch and I've had a long look at it and I'll close it and leave it. Maybe I'll have another look next time there is a patch.

The game shouldn't corrupt every time there's a new patch. It's the first I've heard of this, you should go to technical support for help. Same with the infinite Sim loop glitch.

And I never said you should force yourself to play, just when you do happen to play, get over the small things like babies being objects and maybe try playing with children.

I do technical support. I work as a programmer. I need to reinstall after each patch and so do a lot of other people.

I enjoy Sims 3. I can get it to work and keep it working smoothly.

I have no problems with people who enjoy the game continuing to enjoy it. The fact that I personally don't enjoy it has nothing to do with how anyone else should feel about the game. A lot of people who hated Sims 3 enjoy Sims 4. I hope they continue to enjoy it.