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. :#

djfire1569

8 years ago

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 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.

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paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"Pegasys;c-16361620" wrote:
"ldmarko;c-16360918" wrote:
"Pegasys;c-16360415" wrote:
Well now I'm worried they'll nerf the kids making a mess and the kids will never make messes again.

Please DON'T!!! If you must make any adjustments, please just tone down the messes in community lots.

I like the way kids make messes at home just the way it is!!

As far as I'm concerned they can take that interaction out altogether. But I have noticed it's diminished quite a bit since Jungle Adventures came out, but that could also be because I've started a new game & don't have a lot of children in it yet.

Do you really, really want to make it "okay" for EA to take out existing features of the game? Do you really want that to be the norm? Next on the chopping block might be a feature or interaction you cherish. This is not like previous games. We can't simply undo any update by reinstalling the games from disk.

A lot of people have issues with the autonomy related to high chairs. How would you feel if one day after a patch you started playing and all high chairs were gone. "People were complaining about high chairs, so we just removed them."

These requests for existing, established features to be removed is treading on very very thin ice, in my opinion.

If this ever becomes accepted practice, I will stop playing immediately. There are plenty of other games that can occupy my attention.

I... just... can't...

It's probably already too late, they have the fix to nerf making messes already lined up in the next few updates probably...
djfire1569
7 years ago
@PEGASYS I understand what you're saying.

But it also ruins someone's game play experience when things like this happen, as it may equally ruin yours if it were totally removed.

Should it be removed? No, it's hilarious to see it happening & it's something that makes the pack what it is. Is it overkill when neighborhoods are completely destroyed? Plum right it is. There needs to be a balance somewhere, whether it be fine tuning in future patches, options to turn of/on, something. Anything.
djfire1569
7 years ago
@PARADISEPLANET Good to know that it's being looked into.

I do not want to see a total removal of this feature, but it really needs some work. :)