Is TS4 still very predictable?
So, I've been into the Sims franchise since it was first released - I mean REALLY into it. However, I haven't played TS4 in years. One of my favorite things about the Sims was that I would often just ...
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For me personally, it's still pretty happy, sunshine, and rainbows with not much happening unless I deliberately force things to happen.
If you have neighborhood stories turned on, random sims die and you get a pop-up telling you who died and how, sometimes it doesn't make sense.
Also, again if you have NS turned on, the townies (and sometimes your own played sims if you forget to configure that household) will continuously spit out baby after baby or adopt pet after pet. Again, these don't always make sense, because households could literally pop out kids every other day.
I have mine turned off because it's way too much. I also use a mod to stop the phone calls.
Plus the phone calls from NS again .... doesn't always make sense. Like I've seen where people have had phone calls from one sim to another active sim, and these 2 sims are actually in a relationship already, say that they found a ring in the other sim's purse or something like that and they think they're going to pop the question and should they say yes. So basically sim A, who is already in a relationship with Sim B, is literally telling Sim B that they found a ring in their gf's purse, and Sim B is ACTUALLY THEIR GF!
No Sense At All!
I've also seen people say that they've gotten a call asking if they should try for a baby and when the player said yes was notified they had a baby, yet when they went to that household to check on them, there was actually no baby.
Now, a few weeks/months ago there was a bug where EVERYBODY was mean and angry constantly, regardless of their traits or relationships with the other people. They were just ridiculously rude and constantly fighting. But that's been fixed.
Not sure how recently you played, but they also introduced Sentiments, which can NOT be turned off, and sometimes your sim will get a festering grudge against someone for something stupid, like a toddler who gets one against her dad because he made her try and go potty and it carried over to when she was older.
Now, if you have the HSY pack, I guess you can get crushes and from what I've heard you get a million people barging in asking you to be their BFF, and if you say yes, then you lose that status with anybody you already were BFFs with. If you say no, then your relationship takes a negative hit.
But pretty much, it's about the same as it's always been since the beginning.
Oh yeah, if you use the telescope, you are almost guaranteed to die by a meteor crash...... every time (unless that's been toned down). It's not like how it was random in TS3 and would just happen every so often.
If you have neighborhood stories turned on, random sims die and you get a pop-up telling you who died and how, sometimes it doesn't make sense.
Also, again if you have NS turned on, the townies (and sometimes your own played sims if you forget to configure that household) will continuously spit out baby after baby or adopt pet after pet. Again, these don't always make sense, because households could literally pop out kids every other day.
I have mine turned off because it's way too much. I also use a mod to stop the phone calls.
Plus the phone calls from NS again .... doesn't always make sense. Like I've seen where people have had phone calls from one sim to another active sim, and these 2 sims are actually in a relationship already, say that they found a ring in the other sim's purse or something like that and they think they're going to pop the question and should they say yes. So basically sim A, who is already in a relationship with Sim B, is literally telling Sim B that they found a ring in their gf's purse, and Sim B is ACTUALLY THEIR GF!
No Sense At All!
I've also seen people say that they've gotten a call asking if they should try for a baby and when the player said yes was notified they had a baby, yet when they went to that household to check on them, there was actually no baby.
Now, a few weeks/months ago there was a bug where EVERYBODY was mean and angry constantly, regardless of their traits or relationships with the other people. They were just ridiculously rude and constantly fighting. But that's been fixed.
Not sure how recently you played, but they also introduced Sentiments, which can NOT be turned off, and sometimes your sim will get a festering grudge against someone for something stupid, like a toddler who gets one against her dad because he made her try and go potty and it carried over to when she was older.
Now, if you have the HSY pack, I guess you can get crushes and from what I've heard you get a million people barging in asking you to be their BFF, and if you say yes, then you lose that status with anybody you already were BFFs with. If you say no, then your relationship takes a negative hit.
But pretty much, it's about the same as it's always been since the beginning.
Oh yeah, if you use the telescope, you are almost guaranteed to die by a meteor crash...... every time (unless that's been toned down). It's not like how it was random in TS3 and would just happen every so often.
