The let it out thread :)

Kids will often choose the nap option instead of sleeping in their bed even when it’s late at night. This is another thing that has been driving me crazy for some time now.

I'm tired of being told it's my fault that the Sims 4 is such a "terrible game" because I like most of the packs that come out and the look of the game more than TS2 or 3.

"Sthenastia;c-17756175" wrote:
I am really upset when I try to built something unusuail and detailed because I am wasting sooooo much time to find matching swatches or find any solutions by useing MMO cheat. Grrrrr.

Same. It's so annoying. Two things I've done that helps with this:

- Limiting the amount of packs I use in a build. Example: If I'm building something mid-century I'll limit myself to Get Famous, Bowling Night, Seasons, and base game. GF and BN because they have the most mid-century items, and Seasons for the thermostat/holiday items. Sometimes I'll throw in the popcorn maker or ice cream maker from those packs so max I'll have maybe 5 packs.
- Filtering by colors. This helps with the swatches because I've filtered by say, green, and there will be swatches of stuff I didn't even know existed. And it helps me match things together.

Just a few tips in case it helps. I don't drive myself nearly as crazy now lol.

I am like some of you, playing my Sim Self. I like Get To Work, except they forced aliens, so I disabled it. I won't get any packs that push Occults. I am trying to keep things realistic. Now the last update forced a thousand new dark skin tones. So now, in my Northern European town of Wittenburg, EVERY townie is brown or black. I have to go into Manage Worlds constantly to edit or delete all the newly created townies that do not belong in a typical Northern European/Scandinavian city. It really detracts from enjoying the game when you are constantly needing to mod or edit something that should not be happening.

I’ve always hated the checklist when building a community lot...like let me play and build how I want.

Also how the packs are not integrated with each other .. i tried creating a bowling allley with a diner and sims refused to bowl only eat.

"Yautjagirl;c-17755289" wrote:
My biggest pet peeve is the absolutely cluttered chat menu. Even without extra mod interactions there is just so much useless stuff, it takes forever to find anything quickly without having to pause and stack interactions in a row. And then sim just suddenly cancles the interaction and I have to go through the super cluttered menu again :neutral:

Another thing that I noticed lately, and I am not sure if it is because of some mod, or why it happens, but for some reason all of my characters want to do is being mean to others, even if they are not angry, they just keep insulting and yelling at people when I let them chat unsupervised... I even downloaded a mod that should help with that, but they still want to be mean to everyone they meet, even friends and family... Just why :D

The big thing that annoys me about menu clutter is all the little interactions that pile up over packs and skills and the like that could probably be placed under a category, but are just a miscellaneous interaction for some reason. For example, Sing Song is its own menu, but Practice Singing isn't under any menu. Practice could just be placed under a generic menu called Sing and have it also include the menus for song types (Folk, etc.)

Or another example, Acting skill's Perform Scene, Perform Scene for Tips, and Cry on Demand could all be placed under an Acting menu. Instead, they're just generically thrown in there, not even an Acting icon to make them stand out.

I don't understand why they do this so often. I get not wanting to put everything under layers of menus, but if you have to scroll through pages to find stuff that doesn't even stand out or is sorted in any distinguishable way, how is that better, ya know.

Yesterday I realized another thing that really breaks the immersion for me XD The fact that cats and dogs apparently have cell phones and you can call them... Why... Especially when they made pets not playable, I don't really understand why you can call them. I would be much happier if you only could meet them organically like when you see them outside or they came to your house.
Also, yesterday I was playing a family that runs a small store in Mt.Komorebi and guess who were coming as costumers, yes pets :D But they just hanged out in store, so it wasn't as immersion breaking. I can live with that, it was more funny and cute to see them hanging out in the store, ocasionally disturbing other costumers and leaving.

It has annoyed me a lot that every time I load into another household they are not at work or at school, they sit and do something else and I have to click on every single one of them to get them to go to work or to school. And you get notifications that they are all late.

I wish that the game actually checked if they should be at work or school and put them there when you load into the household.

"Camkat;c-17760335" wrote:

"logion;c-17760306" wrote:
It has annoyed me a lot that every time I load into another household they are not at work or at school, they sit and do something else and I have to click on every single one of them to get them to go to work or to school. And you get notifications that they are all late.

I wish that the game actually checked if they should be at work or school and put them there when you load into the household.

Oh this annoys me too. I always send them straight to where they should be.

If they should be in bed, they're usually out back at the BBQ...

It's the same with when you call someone, unless it is night everyone is always available :( I really wish the game recognized when non active sims were at work and made them unavailable. It is really one of the biggest immersion breaks for me :/

Dear Sims: STOP. COOKING.