Off the Grid radio?

"Chazzzy;c-17361892" wrote:
I had no idea radios don’t work off the grid.

Weird. Batteries exist lol

Right? That's what I was thinking, too. Then again, the last I heard the wash bucket for laundry doesn't work either since you have to refill it with water. I don't know what EA is thinking half the time lol

I just had a look through too, none of them work off the grid as far as I'm aware but I seem to recall that earbuds do. I haven't tried having any sims live off the grid for a while because too many things that should work off the grid didn't and it was too much hassle. But I seem to recall that the earbuds did, which is more ridiculous than the kaboom box not working with batteries. :D

"AnnoyingTiger;d-971020" wrote:
Hey, so, I've tried googling the answer to this and saw someone say "portable radio" but I don't have this in my game and I have all of the packs. I'm setting up for an apocalypse challenge but I wanted a scene where she hears about the news on the radio, but I don't think any of them work while off the grid. Any ideas here?

One of the base game radio's is actually portable : the kaboom radio. It would make sense if a portable radio would work off grid but I don't think it does.

"Atreya33;c-17361997" wrote:

One of the base game radio's is actually portable : the kaboom radio. It would make sense if a portable radio would work off grid but I don't think it does.

I will have to test that now. Hmm

No. Doesn't work. I'm not surprised, really. The 'Slablet' works, but no connection to the internet. Just for playing games, reading eBook and viewing notebook.

There are quite a few things that work 'off-the-grid'. Take a look in build mode. ;)

"Admiral8Q;c-17362089" wrote:
No. Doesn't work. I'm not surprised, really. The 'Slablet' works, but no connection to the internet. Just for playing games, reading eBook and viewing notebook.

There are quite a few things that work 'off-the-grid'. Take a look in build mode. ;)

About that. People keep saying the catalogue says what works off the grid and what doesn't, but when I hover over something, there's no indication. I've hovered over both working and non-working items for off the grid. Am I doing something wrong?

"AnnoyingTiger;c-17362475" wrote:

"Admiral8Q;c-17362089" wrote:
No. Doesn't work. I'm not surprised, really. The 'Slablet' works, but no connection to the internet. Just for playing games, reading eBook and viewing notebook.

There are quite a few things that work 'off-the-grid'. Take a look in build mode. ;)

About that. People keep saying the catalogue says what works off the grid and what doesn't, but when I hover over something, there's no indication. I've hovered over both working and non-working items for off the grid. Am I doing something wrong?

There's a note at the bottom of the description of the item in the buy catalogue: 'works off the grid'. However, a number of items that do work off the grid aren't noted. (I think they fixed most of these in a patch, but there are still a few things that aren't marked.)

I don't think there is any radio that works off the grid - I wanted to do a musician off the grid, and she would have had to travel elsewhere to fulfill the 'listen to music for 2 hours' aspiration goal. I wish they'd give us some items that do work - aside from batteries, there are radios that work off a crank or solar.

@invisiblgirl I think there should be an old-fashion wind-up phonograph/gramophone. That would be cool for off-the-grid music.
( A more modern wind-to-charge and/or solar powered radio would work too, of course)
https://i.imgur.com/PFfALun.png
However, I wonder if listening to someone else play the violin, guitar, or piano for 2 hours would work for that aspiration goal off-the-grid?
Hmm...

"AnnoyingTiger;c-17361931" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-17361892" wrote:
I had no idea radios don’t work off the grid.

Weird. Batteries exist lol

Right? That's what I was thinking, too. Then again, the last I heard the wash bucket for laundry doesn't work either since you have to refill it with water. I don't know what EA is thinking half the time lol

Yeah the washbucket threw me for a loop, too. Back in the 18th century my family had to lug buckets of water taken from the nearby creek or river, allow it to set for a certain amount of time (mostly overnight) to let the stuff settle and then boil it before putting the homemade lye soap into it. Suffice it to say laundry was a full day affair! They also had irons, that surprised me. Box irons, where hot coals were placed into the box and from there you ironed the clothes. Yikes.

So, why can't our Sims refill their buckets, again? face/palm.

@Sigzy05 I forgot about the headphones, I'll have to try that.

@Admiral8Q In build mode, I hovered over an item that DOES work off the grid but it said nothing in the description about it.

@invisiblgirl Maybe I was just unlucky and hovered over items that aren't noted, then. And yeah, I can't find any cc for it, either!

@GalacticGal Hmm, I never thoughts about how they did it back then... that's really interesting to think about. I never would have guessed they had irons, that's crazy.

@JACKIEJOY I think as long as CallMe Kevin doesn't mention it, we should be good xD every time he features something in his videos it gets patched lol