How do you get trick or treaters in seasons?

I am sure you knew that you need the "Trick or Treating" tradition. However, I had trouble with not seeing any trick or treaters my last Halloween. Hopefully I will have luck for the next one!

"thegreatkait;c-16571444" wrote:
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I have had two Halloween’s...only one kid at the door, a teen. I thought maybe I just wasn’t looking frequently enough, so on #2 I looked closely...nobody. I have tons of kids in my game...maybe a glitch?
I too wish that “my kids” could go out as well. Don’t know why that wasn’t added.

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> Yes, they seem to show up randomly. What I can't work out is how to get the child sims in a household to go trick or treating? I tried to get them all in costumes and visited a known household with an adult sim in tow, but there was no option to trick or treat on the door, nor could I find one in the menus or phone menus. Anyone have any ideas?
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> Unfortunately, you can't take your own sims trick or treating. Trick or Treating only involves other sims coming to your door.



Really? That is so stupid!

Sims 4 is literally the laziest game ever.

It might be a bit of work but maybe you could edit the houses you want thembto visit to have the candy bowl outside and visit them manually. Lots of loading screens but the kids would have candy, might be worth it.

"Smoothleaf86;c-16638908" wrote:
It might be a bit of work but maybe you could edit the houses you want thembto visit to have the candy bowl outside and visit them manually. Lots of loading screens but the kids would have candy, might be worth it.

Yeah, I was trying to think of ways to simulate, haha, going trick or treating with kids in one's own household. I do have an assisted living facility in my Template Save, which is what a lot of my games are based on. I was thinking I could decorate it up and put candy bowls outside the bedroom doors of the elder Sims that live there. A lot of the larger facilities in our town in RL do this, and a lot of the kids just do that. The residents do love to see the kids in their costumes.

There is also a carnival at the convention center here in town. I was thinking I could fix up a community lot with some "booths," games, and of course candy bowls. But I wonder how I could trigger kids to come there in costume.....ah, I wonder if it would work to host a Spooky Party there, and just invite kids? I'd have to get to know more kids than I typically do, but maybe.

"Hobbitmama75;c-16571253" wrote:
Yes, they seem to show up randomly. What I can't work out is how to get the child sims in a household to go trick or treating? I tried to get them all in costumes and visited a known household with an adult sim in tow, but there was no option to trick or treat on the door, nor could I find one in the menus or phone menus. Anyone have any ideas?

But how is trick or treating supposed to work without an open world? If you haven't loaded a lot, the only things loaded are the house itself and the furniture inside, not the sims living there, so how are they suppposed to come out of their house when you're trick or treating?

.. I don’t think I’ve had spooky day yet..and I’ve played through 2 complete seasons. Do you get it only if you have the spooky stuff pack?

I played with halloween for the first time today, but no kids came to my door even though I put that as a tradition. I've waited until 2am which is when the holiday ends to see if any would come but they didn't and the holiday ended. Is this a bug or do I have to do something for them to come to my door?