Since early days on Sims3, I've always enjoyed playing a full house. I was bummed when pets came along and large families with pets wasn't possible. So, another baby or pet, because you can't have both. Personally, I wish they didn't add to the count, but was tied to the home lot somehow.
"Writin_Reg;c-16688105" wrote:
So you all that play the Sims 4 with 7-8 sims - what do you do when you decide to travel with one of the Sims somewhere - like on a date or go to a festival or night out? As the minute I go along with one sim somewhere - not a single sim left in the house will keep doing any of the things I left them doing - and to me that makes big families and households rather useless. Home work doesn't get done, sims do not take their baths, go to bed even if they are in the red - absolutely nothing gets done, they don't even eat. I am a player that loves to go places with my sims and do not feel like bringing everyone. I expect the ones at home to finish what I assigned them as I am off with the one sim somewhere getting their life and future on track. But not once do sims at home do what they were left to do, never mind care for their selves.
Maybe if I was a player that never left the home lot is the only way that would be possible. That is not the way I play. My sims like doing things and I like going with them - as in real life I can't - I am the one always left home. So I live vicariously through my sims - but unfortunately I cannot have big families and live through selected sims too.
I feel the same way about S4. Not only can't I multi task in S4, but I can't even count on sims to do what I say with all automony turned off. They cancel out my ques at times; I can't make them run; and they are obsessed with taking toddlers out of they high chair as well as toddlers getting down by themselves when I really want them to have a time out there. I get frustrated and just quit trying. Also, infants are tied to the crib and really don't feel part of the family and that is disheartening to me. I have realized that I don't play with a full house like I did in S3 and that is because multitask isn't something S4 has as far as the whole family. I can easily take care of 8, but I really don't enjoy it in the S4. There are times, that I go minimalist just because it gets exhausting leveling up all the time. I would've really liked to have seen the sandbox part of the Sims 1&2 as I really hate leveling up relationships/jobs. The needs go down to fast as well and get in the way of what I want to do. Really miss elixirs from S3. They have some really neat stuff in S4, but they really gutted some nice stuff out. Basically, in S3, I really liked playing a full house, but S4 is has changed my way of playing and not all of it is good.
