NAPs are boring

They are also a buggy spammy mess. NAPS are by far the worst implementation of a feature in all of Sims 4! The developers need to work hard on completely fixing the disastrous way most of them play out.

It is as useless as it sounds. I was unimpressed before and now I have have played it, yea it is boring mess.

What I found is the NPC voting seems to favour the green items. Now with rubbish gone, Evergreen Harbour is now more like an extension of Willow Creek! ? .
I had to greet lots of people to gain enough influence to get the paper bag N.A.P. through on the next vote. My Sims were exhausted by the end! ?

I am enjoying EL but NAPS are one of my least liked features.

It was fun at first, and some NAPs are pretty good (like Green Initiatives or Modern Development), but the activity ones are spammy and annoying. My sims could not enjoy a meal last night because a fight occurred every two minutes.

I also thought they were replaced, but you have to repeal one before you can change one. I feel like my neighbourhood is stuck with 4 NAPs. Any tips on this would be appreciated.

"ParmaViolet87;c-17535016" wrote:
I am enjoying EL but NAPS are one of my least liked features.

It was fun at first, and some NAPs are pretty good (like Green Initiatives or Modern Development), but the activity ones are spammy and annoying. My sims could not enjoy a meal last night because a fight occurred every two minutes.

I also thought they were replaced, but you have to repeal one before you can change one. I feel like my neighbourhood is stuck with 4 NAPs. Any tips on this would be appreciated.

I guess we could just add the 4 NAPs we find least annoying until someone mods them. :joy: You can shift click on the mailbox to instantly repeal or enforce any NAP.

Just because I don't want to be totally negative, here's some NAPs that would make gameplay more meaningful:

• Fund Our Public Schools! Sims in High School and University have a better-funded curriculum, so they learn more in class and therefore complete homework faster. The "Breeze Through" and "Dominate" Homework interactions would be available to Teen and older Sims. Elementary School students could instead gain a bonus to skill gain. Property taxes are increased.
  
• Smoke Detector Distribution (I stole this one from Cities Skylines). You get a rebate for buying Smoke Detectors (like the Rebate Day holiday in Seasons, you get a kickback for buying one?) but you get fined if you don't have one.
  
• Encourage Cycling (okay, these are all gonna be inspired by Cities Skylines) Joggers are replaced with Cyclists. You get a rebate on bicycles.
  
• Book Fair Sims can go to any public Library lot in your world, and get increased skill gain, but property taxes are increased.
  
• Historical Walking Tours You see Sims milling around outside community lots, listening to a well-dressed Sim giving a speech on the local history. At night, ghosts appear, and you can ask them about the local history, too. You see text popups with little snippets about the world, talking about historical events; a war from long ago, the first settlers to the area, that time Miss Willow Creek lost her crown because of some famous scandal... Sims would get an Inspired or Focused moodlet from learning an interesting fact.
  
• Parks and Recreation Sims become Happy when they visit parks, and Bored when they haven't for a while. Property taxes are increased.
  
• Support Local Businesses! Business owners (Retail, Restaurants, Vets) get a rebate from the city council, but local Sims get increased property taxes.
  
• Challenge Week! Jasmine Holiday reappears, and until the next voting period, you can participate in the Growfruit Challenge, the PlantSim Challenge, or the Kindness Ambassador Challenge.
  

I already wasn't too fond of the lump of clay, now I literally hate it. I have no idea how many I've deleted in Buy mode, after having visitors just drop them on the floor. A real hassle having to load BB constantly.

I do like some of them, honestly. Just had the "save power" one last night. Only problem was, it was Harvestfest, and my sim was in the middle of making a grand meal when the power was shut off. No problem, I thought, there are off-the-grid stoves.....nope. Didn't work. OTG lights worked, but not the stove and fridge. Didn't help that I had windmills either.

"crocobaura;c-17535051" wrote:
I guess we could just add the 4 NAPs we find least annoying until someone mods them. :joy: You can shift click on the mailbox to instantly repeal or enforce any NAP.

I'm liking this. Its exactly what I'll do. There are just some NSP's I'll NEVER use, no matter what.

"calaprfy;c-17535078" wrote:
But didn't they give simmers the option to control the voting? If so, just don't vote the ones you dislike. Simple.

They did, but they're all terrible. They do nothing worth voting for.
I can spend influence to earn influence (WHY?), or I can get fined for using electricity.
They're boring.

Roughhousing Encouraged = CONSTANT fighting! ANNOYING! , Creative Arts= CONSTANT BLOB OF CLAY and it reproduces magically over and over in your Sims' inventories=Annoying and glitchy! Possibly game breaking if enough produce! , Performing Arts= Constant violin playing! = ANNOYING!, Foodies United= Let's constantly spam making food and cakes and food and cakes and food and cakes= ANNOYING ANNOYING!!! See where I am going here? I honestly think most of these plans are the most terribly implemented features of ALL OF SIMS 4! The developers need to address all of these quickly. I am very upset that such a huge and intrusive feature of this new pack is so severely annoying and spammy and also very buggy! Can you tell I am not please with Neighborhood Action Plans yet? :) I will continue moaning about them too. We need the developers to take notice! :)

"kwanzaabot;c-17535062" wrote:
Just because I don't want to be totally negative, here's some NAPs that would make gameplay more meaningful:

• Fund Our Public Schools! Sims in High School and University have a better-funded curriculum, so they learn more in class and therefore complete homework faster. The "Breeze Through" and "Dominate" Homework interactions would be available to Teen and older Sims. Elementary School students could instead gain a bonus to skill gain. Property taxes are increased.
  
• Smoke Detector Distribution (I stole this one from Cities Skylines). You get a rebate for buying Smoke Detectors (like the Rebate Day holiday in Seasons, you get a kickback for buying one?) but you get fined if you don't have one.
  
• Encourage Cycling (okay, these are all gonna be inspired by Cities Skylines) Joggers are replaced with Cyclists. You get a rebate on bicycles.
  
• Book Fair Sims can go to any public Library lot in your world, and get increased skill gain, but property taxes are increased.
  
• Historical Walking Tours You see Sims milling around outside community lots, listening to a well-dressed Sim giving a speech on the local history. At night, ghosts appear, and you can ask them about the local history, too. You see text popups with little snippets about the world, talking about historical events; a war from long ago, the first settlers to the area, that time Miss Willow Creek lost her crown because of some famous scandal... Sims would get an Inspired or Focused moodlet from learning an interesting fact.
  
• Parks and Recreation Sims become Happy when they visit parks, and Bored when they haven't for a while. Property taxes are increased.
  
• Support Local Businesses! Business owners (Retail, Restaurants, Vets) get a rebate from the city council, but local Sims get increased property taxes.
  
• Challenge Week! Jasmine Holiday reappears, and until the next voting period, you can participate in the Growfruit Challenge, the PlantSim Challenge, or the Kindness Ambassador Challenge.
  

Why are you so incredibly smart and creative? Now THESE are Neighborhood Action Plans!! They involve some perks and consequence all in one. They add a little flair to each neighborhood depending on which one is voted in. They don't make your sim act like a sociopathic kleptomaniac with a pension for sinks!