I really dislike the cellphone and how much time and idles it has in Sims 4

we want that in real life also.. we do the same thing stay looking at a cell phone

Yeah there is enough phone addiction irl
in fact i am typing this on phone

I just wish i could sometimes turn my sims phone off or something so i wouldn't have notifications n stuff for time being

"but it isn't realistic" actually it is as battery life of these gadgets is nonexistent irl and my phone is turned off 60% of day anyway why can't my sims turn off their phones too?

Exactly! And if they wanted it to be so "realistic" because a lot of RL people are addicted to them ..... then why doesn't the battery ever run down?

Why don't our sims need to charge their phone or they won't be able to use it? That would be a super simple fix for those that don't want the cell phone usage.

Phone dies ..... never charge it
Need to travel? Plug cell in for a few minutes (enough to get a charge to make that call for the uber) then let it die again

I still so wish they had a toggle to turn the blooming phone off. :s However, I do have all my sims dislike video gaming & turned off their social bunny & notification. ;) Now, if only there was a way to stop the sims from browsing on their phones. :'(

I think we can all agree that overall too much technology just does not equal fun gameplay in a game no matter how realistic it may be. It's not "fun" to watch virtual people doing virtual things. The virtual reality thingy in sims is one of the items I haven't touched in years. I think much like real life modern technology is very cold and isolating and that's the feeling it translates in game. What warms the heart and makes you smile at the game is the same things that warm the heart in real life. ❤ Holding hands with a family, friend or loved one, spending time together without the distraction of technology like the way sims can cook together is really nice. Piggy back rides, playing and building things together rather it be cardboard forts, tree houses or anything creative and fun. Human to human, sim to sim contact.

You don't know how many little little children I see sitting together on their tablets and phones without even acknowledging eachother's presense. It feels very cold and robot like. My parents never allowed anyone in the house to own cellphones or computers and I'm actually grateful for it. I feel like it played a big part in me and my siblings growing such a close relationship. We had nothing but eachother, our creativity and our imagination and it truly shaped some of my fondest memories of all the things we invented and did?
Those are the feelings players want in sims. It makes you smile and it's much more fun to watch.
Although I've never played it I think ts2 came the closest from what I seen.

When we had the stuff pack vote I remember technology coming in last lol

Random memory: I remember years ago before I was allowed interne I first saw a picture of mickey mouse, and disney world in relation to the internet. And for years after that I dreamed of having the internet because Iegit thought it = Disney world. ? Fast forward to when my uncle brought my first computer and I got internet, the anticipation was so high and then all of my dreams were crusheed. All I saw were web browsers and I'm like what happened to mickey mouse? What happened to Disney world?? what I'm I supposed to do with this search bar? ?
Then I got the idea to search mickey mouse and disney world but it was just pictures and links ? Don't ask me what I thought I was going to find ?

I myself don't mind sims using the phone a lot after the update but I understand why people find it annoying since there is no way to turn it down... The interaction should probably be user controlled, not added to the long list of idle animations that we already have in The Sims 4.

Idle animations are good for making sims seem less "robot-like" (otherwise they would just stand still) but they should probably not have so many phone animations as idle animations, idle animations play whenever the game thinks it has time to play them so it makes sims look obsessed with their phones, especially on a game that runs a bit slower.

For the next sims game phone interactions should probably be user controlled somehow, so that it feels that our sims have a choice to use the phone or not.

They should strip it from the code and apply it to a reward trait.
Therefor if you want that constant phone checking for your sim, just get the reward trait that gives a fun buff whenever they check their phone
And while they are at it, make phones purchasable.

You don't get annoyed by it until you buy one.They don't get annoyed until they drop and break it.
The Sims 2 got it right.

I absolutely agree that the phone use is too much. It was too much before the update that added more of it. I have no idea why they did that, I've seen so many people asking for options to turn off the phone because of how invasive it is , and then they made it worse. Also, the new phone walk style could have been added to the optional walks in CAS. Why in the world did they force it on all of our Sims? Can they please change that? It's especially infuriating because phones ignore the off-the-grid lot trait. So there's no escape whatsoever.

I've been saying for years now that the tech gameplay isn't fun, partly because it's not optional. This is still a game and it needs to be engaging. Watching my Sims stand there looking at their phones indefinitely is anything but engaging. Some things in life, when simulated, just aren't interesting. And the constant spam calls from random townies don't even make sense half the time, I really wish I could block all of them.

And I wholeheartedly agree that Sims 2 did it right, in making the player have to actually go out and buy your Sim a phone to use it. Man, do I miss that. I could give it to the few Sims I'd want to have it, and all of my Occults, retro Sims and oddballs could be blissfully phone free, as intended.

There must be a way to toggle off the phones. Toddlers don't use them, right? C'mon devs, give us a break. I'd really like to be able to update my game again one day and buy a new pack. ?

"LiELF;c-18206034" wrote:
I absolutely agree that the phone use is too much. It was too much before the update that added more of it. I have no idea why they did that, I've seen so many people asking for options to turn off the phone because of how invasive it is , and then they made it worse. Also, the new phone walk style could have been added to the optional walks in CAS. Why in the world did they force it on all of our Sims? Can they please change that? It's especially infuriating because phones ignore the off-the-grid lot trait. So there's no escape whatsoever.

I've been saying for years now that the tech gameplay isn't fun, partly because it's not optional. This is still a game and it needs to be engaging. Watching my Sims stand there looking at their phones indefinitely is anything but engaging. Some things in life, when simulated, just aren't interesting. And the constant spam calls from random townies don't even make sense half the time, I really wish I could block all of them.

And I wholeheartedly agree that Sims 2 did it right, in making the player have to actually go out and buy your Sim a phone to use it. Man, do I miss that. I could give it to the few Sims I'd want to have it, and all of my Occults, retro Sims and oddballs could be blissfully phone free, as intended.

There must be a way to toggle off the phones. Toddlers don't use them, right? C'mon devs, give us a break. I'd really like to be able to update my game again one day and buy a new pack. ?

Jupp. I'm on the werewolf-patch before the phone-madness. No way no how am I going to introduce that into my game without an option to turn it off. It would be so much easier to update the game if there was a way to toggle the phone off.

They could just add a Technophobe Trait, Sims with this trait would avoid using phones, computers, and other tech on autopilot. They'd also get negative moodlets from using them, but that is easily countered and they can put a way to avoid it in the game. For instance, get logic skill up to 5 and the negative tech moodlets go away. That's how I would do it anyway.