May Patch out now!

changed some households but I'm fast realizing my bias for sims that like metal or spoopy music :sweat_smile:

i so wish there was occult activities listed for the activities though

and stuff like playing chess and reading books and cleaning and...

i gave some premades likes and dislikes though

for example i decided eliza pancakes likes and dislikes as such:

Likes:
Colors: Pink, White
Music: Pop, Classical music (cause fancy rich ppl listen to it right)
Activity: fitness, wellness

dislikes:

colors: Black, Brown
music: Spooky, Metal,Strange Tunes
activity: cooking, baking

I'm so disappointed with the new black hair color , in most of the hairs it looks almost the same as the black-dark blue color
definitely not what i expected

Sims can scoot now! Gosh, finally.

"calaprfy;c-17893867" wrote:
Dislikes, I'm struggling with. For example, I cannot see the point in setting rocket science as a dislike when none of my sims will be doing it anyway.

I've been adding programming, robotics, and rocket science as dislikes for my creative sims, so that they hopefully won't show up to the geek festival and monopolize all of the activities as they usually do. It's a real chore sometimes trying to find a free computer, rocket, etc., for the sims I've actually chosen to take to the festival, who do like those things.

I'm adding a fishing dislike to any sim I don't actively want to have it as a like, in hopes that it will stop every sim in the world from never talking about anything other than fishing.

I'm adding video games and mischief as a dislike for nearly all my sims, except the very few I specifically want to like those things, so that they will stop autonomously pulling out their phones or pranking other sims constantly.

I'm adding fitness as a dislike for my sims who are not supposed to be particularly athletic yet somehow seem to be constantly breaking out into exercise.

Basically, as a rotational player, my hope is that some of these dislikes will minimize the extent to which I see my sims doing things that I consider out of character when I run into them out and about in the world while playing other sims. Or for that matter, if I'm actively playing their household and just take my eyes off them for five seconds.

"calaprfy;c-17893867" wrote:
Not really bothered about setting favourite colours/music unless someone can enlighten me to any benefits to it.

colors and music feels easy for some of the premades like vlad obviously likes black grey and white over other colors cause well.. have you ever seen him

eliza likes pink cause her room is full of it

but also i have sim that is supposed to be like me but the problem is i like all colors pretty much same if you put them in nice hue so lmao it would have been easier to just say likes "dark colors" and "pastel colors" dislikes "neon colors" instead of basically choosing or not choosing all of it

also music has same problem for me like for self sim? almost impossible to pick

for other sims? yeah i can't really picture vlad enjoying hiphop... or do he tho

@Amapola76 I like your ideas for assigning dislikes. Think I'll do it that way also.

"simgirl1010;c-17893915" wrote:
@Amapola76 I like your ideas for assigning dislikes. Think I'll do it that way also.

Me too, great idea @Amapola76

For likes, I'm not sure how to choose music.

Activity likes are easy enough, colours can be chosen from maybe current outfits or bedrooms etc, but how to decide about music?

I tried giving George Cahill from Strangerville some likes and dislikes as I hadn't played him before. I went into CAS and gave him some outfits of all types, then found he had a rather nice official uniform there so he must be high up in some security force? It's not a usual choice there. I then made him adopt a pitbull dog to guard him and found those interactions very much tightened up and work much better now. The dog's very trainable and now runs out to greet him when he comes home from work.

He appears to have a job now too, without my having to find one for him and I don't think he was given one when Strangerville came out or was he? I'd given him likes, Research & debate, handiness, robotics and rocket science, dislikes fitness and acting and he'd been given a job in the Media.

"Seraphiel;c-17893950" wrote:
I just set up my Sim's likes and dislikes, which included disliking Research & Debate, and what does he go and do? He went and autonomously went to a mirror and start to practice his debating skill. Is that a bug or just something they overlooked?

Anyone else finding that their Sims are autonomously doing things that they dislike?

Could it be that it is meant and you are supposed to get some negative actions to make you have to work a bit harder or stop it before it goes too far. That might be Maxis' idea of a joke!

"Adi;c-17893857" wrote:
I'm so disappointed with the new black hair color , in most of the hairs it looks almost the same as the black-dark blue color
definitely not what i expected

Has your game definitely updated properly? There's very little blue for me on the new black on any of the hairs. I have noticed some colouring issues though, for example this is the same hair in grey vs the new black, the grey looks more black than the black does



Hoping this'll be a "work in progress" and they'll go back and improve some of the blacks that are looking a bit grey, because some of the blacks are really good whilst others just aren't there yet