Off the grid items (confused)

"ddd994;c-17135556" wrote:
Lol at the comment about not using washing machines as you don’t want happy buffs!

If you used the pack you’d see happy is hardly every what you get. Unless you obviously upgrade the washing machines with all the features, you always get “fine”. Or at least 9/10 times it’s fine, not happy. And surprisingly this “Fine” buff is actually pretty strong, like it often overpowers other emotions. Which i always thought was weird, why go through all the effort of adding a laundry pack, getting your sims to actually do the laundry, all for a “fine” moodlet??!

::Sigh:: Mine are always 'confident' when they put on their spiffy, clean clothes. And have a weird desire to sniff each other.

"Zasz;c-17135207" wrote:
@SilentKitty Did you look at my picture? That sink works off grids.

Yes, I saw the sink :) very happy that it will work. Just wish laundry by hand would work too.

"ddd994;c-17135556" wrote:
Lol at the comment about not using washing machines as you don’t want happy buffs!

If you used the pack you’d see happy is hardly every what you get. Unless you obviously upgrade the washing machines with all the features, you always get “fine”. Or at least 9/10 times it’s fine, not happy. And surprisingly this “Fine” buff is actually pretty strong, like it often overpowers other emotions. Which i always thought was weird, why go through all the effort of adding a laundry pack, getting your sims to actually do the laundry, all for a “fine” moodlet??!

Feel free to lol :) The let’s plays I have seen had quite a bit of “happy” going on and that wasn’t too interesting to me.

I got the pack for buildmode, it got the theme I voted for. I voted for off grid so that is what interests me in this pack. Have toyed around with an idea of having a historical save and then washing by hand would be good. Laundry in itself doesn’t interest me, especially if there are more happy buffs involved. Off grid functionality would make the gameplay in this pack more enjoyable to me because I was so so disappointed when laundry won.

Edit: Adding this just as an answer to why going through all this work for just a fine buff.

Hmm, I think some simmers perhaps have their “happy zone of playing” in the style of making a good life for their sims. My personal “happy place” in playing is less of seeing my sims being happy and more about overcoming challenges and living through a bit of hardship. I don’t get my creative gears going on the idea of putting a load of laundry in the machine before making dinner. Need a way to make things difficult, interesting.

@SilentKitty same I really wanted off the grid, maybe as a game pack though to really go to town on some good features. But they seem to have split the off grid elements across various packs instead. Kinda a shame really as I doubt we’ll get an actual pack dedicated to it now. I’m not sure if IL did it justice.

"Simsandra;c-17120557" wrote:
Here you are. Seems like a proof that the washtub is not meant to be working off the grid.

https://i.imgur.com/L4w0M8s.png

That makes no sense. Way back in the beginning, one of the EA people suggested that the way they were doing this iteration would be things would all tie together in the end. I thought, wow, now the wash tub has it's true place. In the 18th century, it was common to have to draw water from the nearby river or creek. That water would have to settle for a few days so that the sediments would sink to the bottom of the pot. Then they would boil that water and commence washing their clothing and things. They used a bucking bat to swirl the load, unlike the washboard we got, which came later in time. Once the water was well-used, they would replenish their pots by gathering more from the body of water used in the first place. Since they didn't often do laundry in the winter/inclement months, and waited for the first good day of weather, sometimes that meant a whole month's worth of clothing for the family had to be done.

Makes no sense that the washing tub water in game, cannot be replenished. I guess one would just have to keep buying a new washtub. Face/palm. Who gets this money? And why are our Sims being oppressed? LOL

"loubyloulou;c-17122962" wrote:

"Laira;c-17122936" wrote:

"loubyloulou;c-17122918" wrote:
It seems counterintuitive that a fridge can work off the grid... What the heck is it running on?!

A fridge can run on gas.

I guess... but still seems to go against the whole ethos of living off the grid :D Oh well

There is also a really dodgy stove that sort of works ... using gas. I can get it to cook things about one time in three.

"FurSimsOfficial;c-17129587" wrote:
I was annoyed when I saw what items work with off the grid. an OVEN? Sink?? Really? How? And then no working tub for laundry.. What the ****
I wish they would just give us new objects that would make sense to be used without automatic flowing water or electricity off the wall. An outside old fashioned oven would have been a lot better then just flagging already existing items that do not look very off grid to me.
Or a shower with a bottle as if it was man made would also been a lot nicer. They got to work a little harder on these things. The sims is not about easy solutions. You can't sell this to us.

I spent like 20 minutes looking for solar panels. lol

Has anyone figured out how to order upgrade parts for an off-the-grid lot? It seems like the phone functionality is limited when I’m home and I can’t find the “order upgrade parts” option at the library computers.

In case you're interested, there's a decorative kava bowl in Island Living that provides light off-grid.

@Simsandra There are mods which allow you to use more items off-grid according to Lazy Gamer Reviews, but if you wanted to play without any MODs for your Sims 4 game.