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SimsTime
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

The Sims 4 Preferences System is Intrusive and Tiresome

Playing The Sims 4 on community lots has been a nightmare for me ever since the preference system was introduced to the game.

I can't stand playing on community lots anymore because whenever I visit this kind of lot, which usually receives a lot of Sims, it starts to pop up several times notifications from the preferences system, asking me to define if an NPC sim likes or dislikes doing certain things or activities.

I have nothing to do with NPC Sims. These invasive notifications popping up all the time, especially in environments with lots of Sims, are making my gameplay experience bad, because it keeps pausing the game all the time against my will.

You guys should add an option to the game that allows players to choose whether they want to set NPCS Sims preferences manually, via these notifications, or whether we want the game to set preferences for NPC Sims automatically and randomly.

The Sims 4 is getting full of these notifications that pause the simulation all the time, it's starting to detract from the gameplay experience.

Please consider reviewing how these preference notifications work. These notifications are annoying, and the sound that plays when we choose an option is also annoying.

The last time I was on a community lot, I received 4 notifications to set NPCS Sims preferences in a period of 6 Sims hours. It's horrible.


https://answers.ea.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/139347iCB196FFB737F54C6/image-size/original?v=v2&px=-1

https://answers.ea.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/139348iF93511BF467357B6/image-size/original?v=v2&px=-1

https://answers.ea.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/139346i562D282939B697CE/image-size/original?v=v2&px=-1

6 Replies

  • Hmm, I only get that for my own sims. Must be a feature of MCCC I guess - or maybe one of my other mods, though I haven't specifically modded that out.
  • "WildIrishBanshee;c-17987685" wrote:
    Hmm, I only get that for my own sims. Must be a feature of MCCC I guess - or maybe one of my other mods, though I haven't specifically modded that out.


    I am not using mods. These notifications often pop up when I'm in environments with lots of Sims, usually community lots.

    These notifications for NPCS Sims are so real that even a mod called "They're so random" has been created to control them, or block them, and it's already downloaded over 4000 times.

    The mod: https://modthesims.info/d/658875/they-re-so-random.html

    But I don't like using mods, I wish there was a native option in the game to control them.
  • Kyr0e's avatar
    Kyr0e
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Getting-likes-dislikes-pop-ups-from-sims-not-in-household/td-p/10376867/highlight/true
  • They confirmed on Twitter when it first rolled out that this wasn't supposed to happen, so it is yet another thing in the neglected bug pile.
  • There are an lot of things that not supposed to happen and it is happening.
  • If you’re not playing those sims, double check them in Manage Households. Sounds like you need to mark them as unplayed. I only get that message for my played households.

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