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 made by kids. I had left my Sim in the area while taking control over the other one at home & noticed the unhappy/dirty mood on the sim I left in the area & was shocked at how many messes he was attempting to clean.Perhaps toning it down some would be great. I understand the feature & why it's there, but it was pretty out of control in my play-through.No Mods or CC used.

I agree, I have tried to get my sims kids to stop, I've asked them nicely, I've put them in time out and I've grounded them but they still keep continuing. They do it even more when I'm not playing that household, I can see them in the park defacing everything. :/

It's not just your play-through. All toddlers/kids do this interaction constantly. On the positive level, Kids actually play in the parks now. It makes it much easier to complete the social aspiration, but the parks are constantly a mess. Even kids with maxed out responsibility do it constantly. Plus side, they get some free skill from it, but it isn't as efficient as other methods like the activity table or violin. There is a mod that stops it, but no other methods I'm aware of.

That's the problem with this game, the AI is either extreme or nonexistent, and it happens for so many things. Why can't they balance it properly like with previous games? It's extremely frustrating trying to play this game when the basic AI is so poorly programmed.

"RnM92;c-16269924" wrote:That's the problem with this game, the AI is either extreme or nonexistent, and it happens for so many things. Why can't they balance it properly like with previous games? It's extremely frustrating trying to play this game when the basic AI is so poorly programmed.This is true.I'd rather we got to choose the attraction of interactions.It could be done with a config file which we could then edit.Some mods kind of try to help with this, but they are not really a good solution - ie remove the brute force attraction of a Sim to a computer, etc.

Personally, I'd like it if this was just on a sims home lot rather tan outside of that.Had caught one child doing this in a restaurant with their parents and just they sim parent didn't say ANYTHING. Your child is right there making a mess on the floor and you're blissfully ignoring it. Sim is on a date and the atmosphere was being ruined by this little booger. I wish parents would stop their kids from doing that or if your sim could at least scold the child and their parent. :#

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MegiAre
7 years ago
"Devynsims00;c-16277620" wrote:
@MEGIARE omg lol, that's exactly what the area looked like in my game!!! 100% spot on :smile:

I've tried cleaning it, but it's no use. As your sim is cleaning one spot, there's 2 other kids making new messes. Oy vey.

(I have no idea who is in your sig, but he's looks like a snack o:) o:) )
MegiAre
7 years ago
"jude72pla;c-16277582" wrote:
Could the amount of messes go down if Sims families volunteer more often?

Interesting thought, but I haven't seen anyone mention it yet. I think maybe higher responsibility and emotional control and they'll do it less? Idk.
Jude1072
7 years ago
"Devynsims00;c-16282991" wrote:
"megiare;c-16278516" wrote:
"jude72pla;c-16277582" wrote:
Could the amount of messes go down if Sims families volunteer more often?

Interesting thought, but I haven't seen anyone mention it yet. I think maybe higher responsibility and emotional control and they'll do it less? Idk.

That's a good idea, but what about the townies (Sims never played). :cry:

Could it be coded like gyms if you send your Sims to workout the townies show up, and then tend to be over all thinner and more active?
MegiAre
7 years ago
"Devynsims00;c-16282991" wrote:
"megiare;c-16278516" wrote:
"jude72pla;c-16277582" wrote:
Could the amount of messes go down if Sims families volunteer more often?

Interesting thought, but I haven't seen anyone mention it yet. I think maybe higher responsibility and emotional control and they'll do it less? Idk.

That's a good idea, but what about the townies (Sims never played). :cry:

Yea, townies I'm at a loss. TBH if the frequency could just be toned down, I'd be good. Maybe even keep it off the public lots?

"jude72pla;c-16283117" wrote:
"Devynsims00;c-16282991" wrote:
"megiare;c-16278516" wrote:
"jude72pla;c-16277582" wrote:
Could the amount of messes go down if Sims families volunteer more often?

Interesting thought, but I haven't seen anyone mention it yet. I think maybe higher responsibility and emotional control and they'll do it less? Idk.

That's a good idea, but what about the townies (Sims never played). :cry:

Could it be coded like gyms if you send your Sims to workout the townies show up, and then tend to be over all thinner and more active?

Idk...the kids from my active households come to the area and do it, but not as frequently as the townies. If they're responsibility is high they'll usually clean it up, but it doesn't help when the 5 townies I don't play make new messes as others clean.
Pegasyms
New Spectator
7 years ago
What would happen if you created a club with cleaning as its activity and had the club meet at the park? Could that all get cleaned up really quickly then?
pixiejuice
7 years ago
"Pegasys;c-16283695" wrote:
What would happen if you created a club with cleaning as its activity and had the club meet at the park? Could that all get cleaned up really quickly then?

But that space in Newcrest is not an actual park lot, it's just neighborhood space. So I don't think you could get a club to show up there and clean.

The messes are out of control in my game too. I don't mind them in theory, but the problem is that the children show up unsupervised and there's nobody there to tell them off or make them clean up their mess. If the messes are going to happen on community lots and spaces, then I think they also need to program parents into the scenario to mind their children. Or else some kind of "playground nanny" NPC who can lecture the kids and tell them to clean up the mess they made.

But if the developers are not interested in providing a solution, I'd rather they just keep the messes at home. That particular spot attracts far too many messes for one sim to clean on their own, especially since the children never stop making new messes.
Amistri2015
7 years ago
I have this happen in my game as well. Anyone else have a city game going with nothing but food & beverage cups all over the ground as well? The same with park grills & food everywhere.

This is suppose to be a simulation game & I often wonder why I never see any "CITY/TOWN/COUNTY" employees. It would be the park department's job to keep those areas clean.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
"Amistri2016;c-16315738" wrote:
I have this happen in my game as well. Anyone else have a city game going with nothing but food & beverage cups all over the ground as well? The same with park grills & food everywhere.

This is suppose to be a simulation game & I often wonder why I never see any "CITY/TOWN/COUNTY" employees. It would be the park department's job to keep those areas clean.

Maybe they should have the community gardener NPCs do that job. And with the cities, the city repairmen could do it instead.
SproutLee
New Spectator
7 years ago
I also hate this. I wish the townie kids would just not make a mess. My sim owns a restaurant and almost every time a child sim comes in, they take it upon themselves to make a mess, although it's still not as bad as the park areas. I wish the sims team at least fixed the issue with park areas.
Tip: type in testingcheats on and reset the piles and they'll go away. Just an easy way to clean the park areas, instead of sims cleaning them themselves. :)
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
"crazycat_135;c-16315927" wrote:
I also hate this. I wish the townie kids would just not make a mess. My sim owns a restaurant and almost every time a child sim comes in, they take it upon themselves to make a mess, although it's still not as bad as the park areas. I wish the sims team at least fixed the issue with park areas.
Tip: type in testingcheats on and reset the piles and they'll go away. Just an easy way to clean the park areas, instead of sims cleaning them themselves. :)

You can also reset the kid making the mess and it'll be like they didn't make the mess at all!