Noisy Neighbors

"kalaksed;c-16326415" wrote:
use a simray to freeze them! that should teach them. but yeah, the noisy neighbors stuff can get just a wee bit frustrating, esp when you're on good terms with the other sims. and esp when they decide they can be as noisy as they want all the time while your own household can't

Case in point - Raj and Geeta Rasoya ! ALWAYS NOISY! In one of my most recent games, my Sim (Shayna Felix - former NPC) just got home and got a book off the shelf. She sat down, and just started reading, when Geeta came pounding on the door, yelling at her to keep it down! Is Shayna turning the pages too loudly? Anyway, I went out and used the Freeze-Ray on her, then went back in to continue my book.

I've completely given up on having neighbors. My sims literally can't do anything between 10pm to 7am because apparently everything they do
upsets the neighbors. Yet EVERY night the neighbors are doing something that keeps my sim awake. Good relationships help a little but it's really hard to build that up when every night they yell at each other because of noise complaints. There is no preventive options either. No lot trait, no aspiration rewards, volume control, quiet options, or trait features. The night light that stops the monster from coming under the bed in the kids stuff pack is a perfect solution for that similar repetitive issue. Some kind of noise canceling wall item or item upgrade or something to stop it would be great.

This was driving me bonkers so now I move everyone in the building out. No more neighbors. Easy work around, of course apartments now feel less lively but at least my sims get to sleep through the night and sing in the shower while getting ready for work in the morning.

Apparently running on the treadmill is considered loud enough; ironic that I was actually running on it with a Sim who lived in the Feng's old appt bc the neighbors woke me up with their arguing, and then had the audacity to stop their arguing and pound on my door to keep it down!

"kalaksed;c-16344548" wrote:
seriously, @paradiseplanet, simray and freeze. it's all that's needed. or, if you're a vampire, drain 'em and leave 'em snoring in the hallway

also, for @trufan1 there *is* a lot trait for it...but it's locked to exactly one apartment. i believe it's just called 'quiet'. if you save that apartment as a room and load it into your other apartments, the lot trait should transfer with it (just be aware that you'll have to fix whatever it replaced back to however you want(ed) it)

Actually, that lot trait only works one way, as I learned the hard way. You won't hear any noise from your neighbors for sure, but they can still hear you. That means if you play the appt that neighbors the one with Quiet, you'll still hear them. I had some very interesting moments with both households in that apartment, since I created and control both of them.

My sim lives in an apartment with wife AND toddler, and dear god the neighbours were so annoying!! Every night my toddler would wake up (and she got hardly any sleep as it is), so id have to get one of the wives to pound on the door. This left three angry, sleep-deprived sims wandering around the apartment. I think I'm going to have to move them out but I'm not sure where lol

Mine had the option to pound on the door, which brought them out for me to scold them. I eventually just switched my sim to a midnight person and became the noisy neighbor! If you can't beat 'em....

> @BrokenChaos69 said:
> My noisy neighbour said I have a boring life and proceeded to dance in the common area right in front of my Sim after she complained about the loud music. You can bet I left a passive-aggressive notice on the board for her to see in the morning!!! LOL.

My noisy neighbor said that too after I sent my sims' child over to ask them to be quiet. idk what kind of person tells a 10 year old to go to a bar lol

> @paradiseplanet said:
> There is a very easy solution to this, and it's to simply leave the neighborhood and visit any other lot outside it, then plop right back home after you just got there. Neighbors won't be noisy when you head back and you can then sleep soundly (unless the moodlet still won't allow you to sleep).

I can confirm this works. Saves time.

Lily Feng is the freaking worst, my kid leaves the house to go to school in the morning, not one second after the kid is gone, she's at my sims door pounding saying that my sim needs to control his "unruely" child -_- . Take a chill pill Lily, my child just left to go to school, you wackjob.

I have a teen living in an apartment, and had loud neighbors.
I had given her two dogs, and the dogs had puppies, and the noise was scaring the puppies.
However, that was during the time game crashes kept happening, so the neighbor would apologize, or tell her to get over it. When the game stopped crashing, I got the get over response.
However, my teen has five dogs, that like to be loud at times, so it bit of karma came back for that neighbor.