If it wasn't for MCCC and other mods, this game would be completely unplayable for me as well. I finally found out how to stop all the autonomous flirty interactions in MCCC. To me, those read as straight up assault on my sim because i could never get them to stop and my sim couldn't defend themselves in any way. If a random stranger just walks up and assaults my sim, my sim should at the very least be able to instantly fight them.
Speaking of needing to fight, why can strangers just walk into my sims house and get on their computer and insult their furniture?
- There will be 3 or 4 strangers in my house sometimes just milling around. My sim can't do anything except say go away at which the stranger just walks a few feet away and continues to mill around my sim's house.
- Locking the door just locks out my family. I give keys to family, and they still stay stuck outside while strangers with no keys just come right in.
Toddler interactions are also awful.
- Who decided that screaming and kicking at a pet was cute and adorable in the "imitate pet" stoopid thing they do. That whole interaction makes me just want to set the whole house on fire. The pet looks so confused and upset.
- Same with the "play" toddler interaction. Making like my sim is banging her toddler's head into the ground is not cute or adorable. The whole interaction is infuriating to me and i would LOVE to have a way to just turn those off.
- I don't like my toddlers interacting with adults or teens at all because I'm afraid it will kick off the "play" interaction that i hate so much i have to reset everybody. I cannot express how much i hate that interaction. And half the time the toddlers don't like it either, so i don't understand why it's even there.
- There should be a way to discipline toddlers, ESPECIALLY for splashing in the doodoo toilet. THAT IS SO GROSS! There is a "Time Out Box" mod out there which is a great idea, but the mod doesn't work very well.
- Otherwise, the toddlers are my favorite part of the game, after i learned to never ever even try to use highchairs. So much of them is so cute.
Discipling and grounding children are completely broken. One household with two children spent the entire weekend grounding and yelling because the kid would be standing right beside the parent, after they already got in trouble, and instantly start making a mess again. After the parent had both kids grounded for every single thing on the list and they constantly broke time out and grounding over and over and over again i gave up. They didn't work on a single skill or scout badge the entire weekend.
And don't get me started on children of all ages not even being able to talk to their grandparents because they are famous. Oh! and adult children standing outside of their famous parents' house squealing and swooning at their own freaking parents!!