Put away the cell phone!

"elanorbreton;c-18031237" wrote:

"BettyNewbie1;c-17945292" wrote:
The children in The Sims 4 seem about 8-10 to me, they shouldn't be on phones I.M.O.

Lol, I've seen kids as young as about 5 walking down the street chatting on their phone...

Not too long in the future, babies will be born talking on their cell-phone. :D

I still wish there was a toggle to turn off the phone, except for talking only.

I agree with toggling being on their phone all the time. I had a werewolf sim who was rampaging on all fours with his phone in one hand (no mods), it looks incredibly stupid and ruins the story telling. not all sims have the personality to want to be on their phones like my old fashioned farmer sims. bloody irritating that it even interrupts some of their actions

Really, if they were going to add all these changes to the phone, it would have been nice if they could have added a "sleep mode" to the phones, while they were at it. I.e., your sim selects an option on the phone to turn on sleep mode, and then until they turn it back on, they don't get incoming calls or pick it up autonomously to mess around with it. Then they can just unlock it when they want to use it again. Or if you are doing a historical save, never.

I agree with all the things that have been said here, but, like the original poster, I am particularly annoyed about the new "walk and use phone" animation that has been added with yesterday's patch. I saw that this was coming in High School Years and assumed it would be teen-specific, thereby creating some actual visual difference between teens and adults. No such luck. My adult sims do it too, with no regard for personality traits, preferences, lifestyles, contexts--I had a sim do this animation while she was jogging! I think sims should only do this new animation if they are teens, technophiles, or phone fanatics. It definitely should not be for everybody.

"ncisGibbs02;c-17920106" wrote:
I’d love to set browsing habits or playing games.

One time I called up Caleb(I guess that's his name. The vampire dude) as a SimDa date, and my sim I was using is hot, so you'd think he be all for talking to her non stop. The first thing Caleb did was superspeed straight up the stairs and to the computer. That was the fastest I ever ended a SimDa date.

It's also why I lock the door to rooms with a computer and restrict entry from everyone except the primary household sim.

One thing I found funny recently was going to "woohoo", one of the couple chatted on the phone as they were walking through the building upstairs to the bed. :D

The phones should at least have a battery life. Why do they have a never ending charge? Then I could just let them all die and never have to deal with it again.

Oh for an option to turn them off in settings unless you call out with them , I am sick of my other families phoning my current sim up to ask if they should have a baby or random townies asking should they make friends with some other townie i have never even heard of

"LiELF;c-18159023" wrote:
The phones should at least have a battery life. Why do they have a never ending charge? Then I could just let them all die and never have to deal with it again.

In "Sims" most things are unlimited. However I get what you are saying.

"julienrob2004;c-18159043" wrote:
Oh for an option to turn them off in settings unless you call out with them , I am sick of my other families phoning my current sim up to ask if they should have a baby or random townies asking should they make friends with some other townie i have never even heard of

I would like an option in game settings like that too.

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I noticed in real-life a couple days ago, I went to a waterpark for children here in my town. My sister and her fiance have two children, that was why I was scouting out for things to do. On the big sign at the waterpark, one of the things posted was, "No cameras, computers, electronic devices, mobile phone usage allowed while in the waterpark. Ever.". It was explained under that although you may be just trying to take photos of your children, you may catch others in the photos. What it didn't say is that 'creepy' people could be on the phone, (so to speak) but actually taking photos or video.

I think that was a great call to ban all that at a children's waterpark.

On a different aspect, as a parent, I would want to spend time with my kids rather than 'be on the phone'. anyways. :)