Parenthood (Making a Mess)
The kids making a mess is becoming chaotic in public area's. In my Newcrest play, I was jogging around the block and where there are monkey bar's and a nearby picnic area, there were over 20 messes ma...
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"ldmarko;c-16275720" wrote:"pepperjax1230;c-16271862" wrote:
You knew what the pack was going to be Parenthood to teach kids responsibility and good manners so if you didn't want the messes in the neighborhood why did you even buy the gamepack? Were you expecting the messes to only be at your sims house or wherever the kids in your household went?
I bought this pack because I expected it to be much more than just paint & cocoa powder flung all over the place. Yes I did expect this to only be an active household action, there is no reason for a non-active child to be doing this, since the whole point is for responsibility & discipline, and that only affects the active household. Where exactly in the game pack description did it state that literally every child, played or non-played, was going to saturate the world with these messes? And where did it state that discipline was going to have virtually no immediate effect on them, that they sometimes even start making another mess before the parents are even done scolding them?
Actually, pretty much every interaction in this pack annoys me, especially the phases which are also excessive. But I do like the school projects, CAS & build/buy objects it came with and that's enough for me to keep from uninstalling it & demanding my money back. But that doesn't mean I don't have the right to say, look, something here isn't working right. How can they fix problems if they don't know about them?
This. Some of the objects are nice. But the over excessive behaviours like flinging coffee/paint everywhere is too over the top. Tell the kid off and the kid will have the same reaction to if you "hug it out" More often than not they will go straight back to it. Great parenting!
The problem is though is that when people complained about autonomous punishments in the sims 3 that had an effect people complained. This is the result a game where the AI doesn't care unless you make them care. Where the only bad thing children will do is fling paint everywhere to the point where your world is covered in mess because its not just your active household that's programmed to do it. What I don't get is though, townie kids do not get character values, so if they don't have to "play" the system why get the behaviours associated with it? If they are going to get the behaviours then give all sims the power to say something about it.
