So sick and tired of fighting with this game

...and then there's his three college dorm roommates that just froze to death in the dorm within two hours of each other, despite the fact it's only "cool" outside. Sigh.

Yep, and EA still with their heads in the sand pretending all is Peachy Keen. This game has been sort of a sabbatical for me. I normally work in high end training simulations, Emergency life saving, Natural disaster training etc.
The standard of coding in this game is awefull at best and plainly substandard in most other cases.
I am beginning to seriously doubt EA can save or fix this game now. It is in too much of a mess now.

Sometimes you’ve got to step away. That’s what I did. Now I follow the game and the community from afar, hoping that one day something changes.

On top of all that, whenever I try a new style of gameplay I find more things that make me want to tear my hair out. Like today's (again). Playing a kid, and went to get him a bicycle, but lo and behold, kids can't ride bikes. Seriously? Ya gotta be kiddin' me. I don't give a llama's patootie if the pack they came in was aimed at college aged sims, this is just pure laziness. The animations are there for adults; it can't be that hard to put kid sized bikes in the game and tweak said animations to work on kids. Then was the time to do it, not when they sell us some pack for kids. And all this talk about new animations taking sooo long and being so hard to do, so they have to limit the number in each pack. Sorry, but that's what game making is all about. They've sold 30 million expansions; that's about how much money the Avengers movie took in. Can't even imagine the hours it took to do the cgi in that, but I'm guessing it's way higher than doing things like making a kid ride a bike.

"So_Money;c-17378585" wrote:
Sometimes you’ve got to step away. That’s what I did. Now I follow the game and the community from afar, hoping that one day something changes.

And if I never learned to mod, I would have done that a long time ago. One of the stupidest things I ever did. Now I just play and spend half my time fixing everything.

"shorty943p;c-17378572" wrote:
Yep, and EA still with their heads in the sand pretending all is Peachy Keen. This game has been sort of a sabbatical for me. I normally work in high end training simulations, Emergency life saving, Natural disaster training etc.
The standard of coding in this game is awefull at best and plainly substandard in most other cases.
I am beginning to seriously doubt EA can save or fix this game now. It is in too much of a mess now.

Quite agree. Way back when I did game development so know both how easy it is for things to not work right, and the absolute necessity for rigorous testing - as in doing everything possible to break it, not just playing through - before release. Also have background in QA for military aircraft engines so can tell EA simply isn't putting the effort in they used to. Not only do I doubt EA could fix the game, I doubt they even want to even if they could. It makes money broken, so why bother. A bad corporate attitude to have.

Sims3 was the same. But it wasn't nearly as shallow as Sims4 so modding Sims3 made it worth the effort because it had tons of gameplay. But I was one happy camper when it ended and I was free to play a complete game with all the mods I needed and wanted. The same goes for Sims4 when it finally runs out of steam. Once all the upating/patching is over with, I will have a complete game I can tweak and mod to the max without any interference from EA. Using mods is a hassle, I can agree with that. And most Simmers don't want to deal with it. But in order to save my sanity, I saw no other way to play the game because it is so broken. Mods didn't really become important until Seasons was released. At least for me, adding mods became a necessity rather than a luxury once those rotting leaf piles began to make the worlds look like garbage dumps. But knowing there is a large community of modders able and willing to fix the game allows the testers to overlook many of the problems they find while testing new packs, updates/patches, and new features, because if they took the time to fix what is broken, they'd need to exceed the budget or delay the release of dlc. I came to that realization very early in Sims4. EA/Maxis clearly saw there were issues with the game engine while Sims4 was being developed, and have taken this iteration in so many different directions, it's impossible to tell what it was supposed to look like versus what we have five years later. Porting Sims4 across different platforms was definitely a higher priority than creating a stable, bug-free game. And EA has done a lot of creative marketing in order to make this possible because of how much money the corporation needed to make it all happen. Now Origin/EA has a 20th Anniversary sale going on. As if this is some kind of gift to the players. No doubt it will generate some new revenue seeing as the base game is almost free, and new fans will grab packs in bundle deals, or at a reduced price. Even more creative marketing at work that will probably be successful, and the shareholders can look forward to larger dividends on their investments.

Sometimes, I also feel it's an uphill battle to just play the game. At other times, things seem to go more smoothly. I have had long breaks from Sims 4 over time, and I guess it makes me remember what to expect, but perhaps even more so what not to expect from this game.

The more I wish to control things in it, the more resistance I get. For the time being, my biggest annoyance is the routing system and how much sims clip with objects, because they can't figure out how to walk around things and other sims. I don't understand how the game manages to break so much when it didn't used to.

Yeah, it can be difficult when it feels like the game is fighting back.
Some things I do to deal with it:

• I use MC Command Center to get rid of situational outfits, and MC Tuner to get rid of annoying things they have added to the game (like playing in puddles etc.) I see them do an annoying thing, I activate autonomy disabler, right click, scan, find the thing and disable it. Not a single sim practices singing in the open street anymore.
  
• I use NPC Control by Paulson to get rid of generated sims, the mod forces the game to use existing sims, and my save is full of sims that I have downloaded from the gallery
  
• I have testingcheats enabled so I can shift click and reset sims who do annoying things or get stuck, which can also sometimes solve simulation lag. Shift-click and delete is good to get rid of sims from your lot. (It just removes them from your zone, it does not delete them from your game)
  
• Other than that, I use some other mods to just improve the game.
  

As for the problem you listed, have you checked if your sim has a hidden trait which gives him the buff? You can list all traits your sim has with MC Command Center log, and then you can remove them with the trait remove cheat.

"Nindigo;c-17379029" wrote:
For the time being, my biggest annoyance is the routing system and how much sims clip with objects, because they can't figure out how to walk around things and other sims.

I like it when teens have to disappear for school, because they all have to stand in the exact same spot before they can vanish into the void. A friend on mine who plays on console has a house with six teens and they constantly fail at going to school because they all end up standing on the same spot inside of each other, meaning he then has to go through each of them one at a time telling them to go because they don't try again.

That and when they all come home from school they reappear in the same spot all at once, all together, meaning he now keeps pausing and sending me images that haunt my dreams.


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