Please revamp the whims!!

"MidnightAura;c-16429921" wrote:
Yup that’s the sims 4 for you. All sims with a family lifetime aspiration get that all the time. My sim who has the music aspiration gets multiple wants to buy instruments, play instruments, listen to stereo, buy a stereo, buy more instruments. All.the.time.

For me it’s very distracting and one of the reasons I barely play 4.

Now for me the wishes in TS3 are distracting, with that kind of flash and sound effect in UI, every time I visit a park etc. (That's what I meant by being hard to ignore) In TS4, even though they're not perfect, they're easy to ignore for me. But to each their own, I guess.

"MissNightOwl;c-16429953" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16429921" wrote:
Yup that’s the sims 4 for you. All sims with a family lifetime aspiration get that all the time. My sim who has the music aspiration gets multiple wants to buy instruments, play instruments, listen to stereo, buy a stereo, buy more instruments. All.the.time.

For me it’s very distracting and one of the reasons I barely play 4.

Now for me the wishes in TS3 are distracting, with that kind of flash and sound effect in UI, every time I visit a park etc. (That's what I meant by being hard to ignore) In TS4, even though they're not perfect, they're easy to ignore for me. But to each their own, I guess.

Have you played the sims 2? The sound of the wants resetting every time they wake, a sim ages and they go to a community lot must be distracting. I don’t mind what you are describing, I wish the sims 4 whims would actually be meaningful rather than a clicking exercise.

"MidnightAura;c-16429964" wrote:

"MissNightOwl;c-16429953" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16429921" wrote:
Yup that’s the sims 4 for you. All sims with a family lifetime aspiration get that all the time. My sim who has the music aspiration gets multiple wants to buy instruments, play instruments, listen to stereo, buy a stereo, buy more instruments. All.the.time.

For me it’s very distracting and one of the reasons I barely play 4.

Now for me the wishes in TS3 are distracting, with that kind of flash and sound effect in UI, every time I visit a park etc. (That's what I meant by being hard to ignore) In TS4, even though they're not perfect, they're easy to ignore for me. But to each their own, I guess.

Have you played the sims 2? The sound of the wants resetting every time they wake, a sim ages and they go to a community lot must be distracting. I don’t mind what you are describing, I wish the sims 4 whims would actually be meaningful rather than a clicking exercise.

Yes, I've played TS2 for quite a long time. I guess I'm just too sentimental about that iteration to complain about it :) Also, I think it fits better to quirky esthetic of TS2.
I'm not saying that these effects are the worst thing about TS3 whishes. They bother me mostly when it comes to the minor ones, like using festival tickets etc., when there's quite a lot of them at one time. But it still is not a really big complaint, I was just pointing out that TS3 system is more distracting for me than TS4.

I agree with all of you, that the whims in TS4 need to be better - which I said in my first post. I'm just saying that in my experience TS3 may not be the perfect model for that. It could be clicking exercise sometimes too, and wasn't always that different for different Sims (as I find it rather odd that e.g. my Loner Sim wants to throw a party every single holiday). That's all :) I believe we need totally new direction where the whims or wishes are based both on traits and surroundings, and are just more diversified.

"MissNightOwl;c-16429953" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16429921" wrote:
Yup that’s the sims 4 for you. All sims with a family lifetime aspiration get that all the time. My sim who has the music aspiration gets multiple wants to buy instruments, play instruments, listen to stereo, buy a stereo, buy more instruments. All.the.time.

For me it’s very distracting and one of the reasons I barely play 4.

Now for me the wishes in TS3 are distracting, with that kind of flash and sound effect in UI, every time I visit a park etc. (That's what I meant by being hard to ignore) In TS4, even though they're not perfect, they're easy to ignore for me. But to each their own, I guess.

Flash and sound effect...? You seriously made me doubt myself there lol, thinking I somehow managed to unsee/unhear something for 8 years apparently, but...




At 01:07 a wish pops up. I have no idea what you might be referring to.

"JoAnne65;c-16430003" wrote:

"MissNightOwl;c-16429953" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16429921" wrote:
Yup that’s the sims 4 for you. All sims with a family lifetime aspiration get that all the time. My sim who has the music aspiration gets multiple wants to buy instruments, play instruments, listen to stereo, buy a stereo, buy more instruments. All.the.time.

For me it’s very distracting and one of the reasons I barely play 4.

Now for me the wishes in TS3 are distracting, with that kind of flash and sound effect in UI, every time I visit a park etc. (That's what I meant by being hard to ignore) In TS4, even though they're not perfect, they're easy to ignore for me. But to each their own, I guess.

Flash and sound effect...? You seriously made me doubt myself there lol, thinking I somehow managed to unsee/unhear something for 8 years apparently, but...




At 01:07 a wish pops up. I have no idea what you might be referring to.

I'm not sure if it in fact pops up, it looks more like she just changed Sims and a wish was there. Maybe it's more noticeable here, at 6:33:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIB6MaUaEdE&t=483s

Again, I'm not saying it's extremly annoying, as you can see it can be even overlooked. I'm just sharing my experiance, and as I said it's mostly distracting for me when a Sim is in 'wish-inducing' situations like festivals.

Yes, you're right, she changed icons there, missed that. Just went into my game.



I deliberately made sure there were no other noises. You must have sensitive ears, even turning the page of her book is louder ;) How do you cope with all the emotional sound effects in Sims 4?

"JoAnne65;c-16430336" wrote:
Yes, you're right, she changed icons there, missed that. Just went into my game.



I deliberately made sure there were no other noises. You must have sensitive ears, even turning the page of her book is louder ;) How do you cope with all the emotional sound effects in Sims 4?

I can bare the sound, the visual part is more distractive to me ;) I believe it also depends a lot whether or not you get used to something. If you play TS3 for so long, it's no wonder that some things are just there for you. I've played TS2, then went to TS4, and just then I've tried TS3, so it was pretty noticable for me, compared to TS4. But when it comes to TS2, which in fact has pretty noticeble sound effect during changing the wants, I didn't even think about it as something distracting since I'm so familiar with that.

Either way, it's not what the OP is adressing I think, so let's stop derailing the topic ;)

I am playing a household at the minute where two of the sims are cat lovers but there are no pets in the house. Sure, they're getting the pet toy wishes but so is my other sim who doesn't have a pet lover trait. Her wish to buy a pet ball was from being materialistic! I was like really? Shouldn't she be rolling wishes to purchase big ticket items and not pet balls? Or rolling whims to move to a more expensive house, get a raise at work, something related to wanting to have nice things. I am also getting "Ask to be BF/GF" whims for noncommittal sims, which shouldn't happen. I wish they were more in depth and I wasn't getting the same ones for no matter what their traits or aspirations are.

I agree, sometimes I don't even do their whims because I get more points from their aspirations.