Sharing is caring is annoying.
Sharing is caring isn’t even the chosen NAP in my sims world, but items are disappearing from community lots, it’s so annoying, sent my uni sim to party to celebrate the end of the semester and while ...
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100% agree that "Sharing is Caring" is broken as is.
Notable instances I've seen:
During Winterfest Father Winter showed up. I gave him a present of strawberry juice and started cooking a grand meal so I could fill that part of the holiday traditions. Father Winter then stole one of the countertops from my kitchen. This was the first time I saw how Sharing is Caring works and I could barely believe it.
After that, I locked my doors against everyone but household, but allowed employees so the gardener could come and water all my plants. Fortunatly the gardener never takes anything even on the occasions I stop to chat with them.
Then, later Jess Sterling stopped by to chat and I tried inviting her in but the lock wouldn't allow it. Against my better judgement I let her in to serve up one of the new meals. She stole another one of my kitchen counters, this time the one with my dishwasher in it. So I told her to leave and never let her back in.
Then again, Vladislaus started coming by wanting to suck my blood or whatever. I was pretty tired but didn't want to fall asleep with him around and figured I could chat with him or distract him until the sun came up to kill him (I know you can ban vampires from showing up using the door, but it resets every time you leave the lot so it wasn't in effect). So I tried chatting with him and then bought a chess table with two chairs so I could play chess with him over and over till the sun came up. My sim passed out from exhaustion, Vlad got up, he swiped the chess table and both chairs, and left. I bought the simray and waited for him to return the next night, then I froze him, took a nap, froze him again when he thawed out, and let the sun burn him while he was stuck frozen in ice.
Fortunately, you can repeal Sharing is Caring if you can get 5 sim signatures. Which is what I did.
I imagine Sharing is Caring wouldn't be too bad if you had some degree of control over what the other sims could take. Like if you could set up one of those sales tables, but put up a sign saying that sims could just take what they want. Or, some way to mark specific items as things they can take like how when you're running a retail business you mark things for sale, but in this case you could plop a few appliances or craft items on your front lawn with "for free" signs for people.
Would also be nice if they left something in it's place. Like, if you put a rug or table on your lawn, put some craft items, fruits, or appliances there, and then sims would come by and take items but put other items in their place. So effectively you're randomizing those items, kind of like the Transform Object function in the simray. It wouldn't even be so bad if they tended to put broken/burned items to replace them since you could potentially repair or recycle them.
But yeah, Sharing is Caring is not fun. It pretty much necessitates you locking your doors and gates to keep people out, and it makes all the people who show up at your doorstep even more annoying. Particularly when they're stealing countertops. I mean... it's one thing to steal everything that isn't nailed down, but these sims were starting with the nailed down stuff. That's taking it too far.
Notable instances I've seen:
During Winterfest Father Winter showed up. I gave him a present of strawberry juice and started cooking a grand meal so I could fill that part of the holiday traditions. Father Winter then stole one of the countertops from my kitchen. This was the first time I saw how Sharing is Caring works and I could barely believe it.
After that, I locked my doors against everyone but household, but allowed employees so the gardener could come and water all my plants. Fortunatly the gardener never takes anything even on the occasions I stop to chat with them.
Then, later Jess Sterling stopped by to chat and I tried inviting her in but the lock wouldn't allow it. Against my better judgement I let her in to serve up one of the new meals. She stole another one of my kitchen counters, this time the one with my dishwasher in it. So I told her to leave and never let her back in.
Then again, Vladislaus started coming by wanting to suck my blood or whatever. I was pretty tired but didn't want to fall asleep with him around and figured I could chat with him or distract him until the sun came up to kill him (I know you can ban vampires from showing up using the door, but it resets every time you leave the lot so it wasn't in effect). So I tried chatting with him and then bought a chess table with two chairs so I could play chess with him over and over till the sun came up. My sim passed out from exhaustion, Vlad got up, he swiped the chess table and both chairs, and left. I bought the simray and waited for him to return the next night, then I froze him, took a nap, froze him again when he thawed out, and let the sun burn him while he was stuck frozen in ice.
Fortunately, you can repeal Sharing is Caring if you can get 5 sim signatures. Which is what I did.
I imagine Sharing is Caring wouldn't be too bad if you had some degree of control over what the other sims could take. Like if you could set up one of those sales tables, but put up a sign saying that sims could just take what they want. Or, some way to mark specific items as things they can take like how when you're running a retail business you mark things for sale, but in this case you could plop a few appliances or craft items on your front lawn with "for free" signs for people.
Would also be nice if they left something in it's place. Like, if you put a rug or table on your lawn, put some craft items, fruits, or appliances there, and then sims would come by and take items but put other items in their place. So effectively you're randomizing those items, kind of like the Transform Object function in the simray. It wouldn't even be so bad if they tended to put broken/burned items to replace them since you could potentially repair or recycle them.
But yeah, Sharing is Caring is not fun. It pretty much necessitates you locking your doors and gates to keep people out, and it makes all the people who show up at your doorstep even more annoying. Particularly when they're stealing countertops. I mean... it's one thing to steal everything that isn't nailed down, but these sims were starting with the nailed down stuff. That's taking it too far.
