WAAAAHHH NERF DUST BUNNIES (No, Don't!)

I think the pack could use some balancing and tuning from what I have seen.

I would recommend watching James Turners recent video where he gets 600 simoleons the first day and 30000 simoleons the second day from Jungle Adventure items.

It also looks like you can't turn off the effects from a clean or a dirty floor if you disable dust in the options, so that also seems kinda broken...

And from what I have seen it looks like your lot is gathering dust too fast as well, but I dunno, I haven't bought any kits.

Perhaps it should take a little longer to befriend them, or happen more gradually, but I see no problem with them bringing big gifts for your affection.

The only issues I've personally had from the kit is that my sim will stop doing something right in the middle to vacuum. It's annoying, but I can deal with it. And for some reason, my sim was unable to vacuum in her room, maybe because there wasn't enough room? And she couldn't vacuum up certain dust bunnies. But if she vacuumed in that vicinity, it would just disappear. Also, my sim hadn't really befriended any dust bunnies, but still was making a little money from them? I think. So I feel like there could be a little tweaking done, but nothing that makes the game unplayable or unbalanced.

I really wanted vaccuming but like most packs on release date there are some... issues. Do sims really have to sniff the air when they walk into every clean room? Why would a clean environment make a sim inspired? The moodlet buff is too strong. And floors feel like they collect dust too quickly and so the dust bunnies spawn a lot.

For a while I was seriously stumped as to why my sims were making so much money. Despite actively cleaning bunnies would spawn fast and give money. Goodbye broke sims.

Anyways since I got mods to fix those small annoyances I am back to enjoying the kit.

I modded it out of my game with a mod by Zero. I want my sims to earn their money not just be handed it for nothing. They should at least give us the choice of turning it off. I love the idea of having my sims vacuum and I think the dust bunnies will be cute in households with children but the autonomous money collecting thing is not something I want.

"Chocaholic523;c-17825850" wrote:
The only issues I've personally had from the kit is that my sim will stop doing something right in the middle to vacuum. It's annoying, but I can deal with it. And for some reason, my sim was unable to vacuum in her room, maybe because there wasn't enough room? And she couldn't vacuum up certain dust bunnies. But if she vacuumed in that vicinity, it would just disappear. Also, my sim hadn't really befriended any dust bunnies, but still was making a little money from them? I think. So I feel like there could be a little tweaking done, but nothing that makes the game unplayable or unbalanced.

You can stop autonomous vacuuming by live dragging the vac out of your sim’s inventory. They cannot use the vac if it’s not in there. Sometimes the dust bunnies spawn in awkward locations and you can’t reach them, lol kind of like real life. But you can move them by turning build mode on, also I have found if they’re still there after one go with the vac, if you ask your sim to “vacuum around” a second time they generally disappear and then you can just cancel the rest of the action.

I will say...and I cannot believe I am, that after playing this for now four days straight, *sigh*, yes, they could adjust the tuning on dust accumulation to slow it down by a day or two, and the cash flow. It’s fun to have the bunnies find small bits of cash autonomously but every 20 seconds or so is a bit too much, maybe once or twice a day is enough. As for the major big ticket items those only get found when asked for and it’s random chance what they find...but maybe it should be like a 1 in 10 or 20 chance they find priceless Salvadoran gold. Though, I personally have only had that happen once in four irl days myself and more frequently when asked to find treasure I get like $100 Simoleans or so. But I have seen several posts where big loot occurs too frequently for many.
ETA: I also think that removing the tick in the settings to toggle the system off should shut it off entirely. Dust accumulation, bunnies, fiends, sparkles, buffs all of it. Vacuums should still be useable with it off, but this way people who don’t want to deal with the other effects and simply use the machines as a story telling mechanic.

Overall I absolutely love the kit, but yes, as much as I hate retuning in packs because it generally ends up completely killing the main features this one could use some gentle tweaks.

I don't want anything nerfed and I like the challenge. Anything I have a problem with I mod it out. Like Zer0s mod to make dust gather slower and to stop the sparkles. Other than that I'm throughly enjoying the pack. I always remove the vaccume from the inventory when done. But I like to let dust get pretty thick before I clean so it's not even that often.

No what I do have an actual problem with are the emotions, buffs and air sniffing. Unecessary and annoying. I dont personally like that EVERYTHING adds to emotions and buffs. Even with meaningful stories I feel like it's getting to much and they're constantly inspired or emotional for the simplest stuff. I just want neutral sims for a while.
But I guess this is more of an overall emotion system issue.

In James video he was getting presents from the bunnies he didn't befriend also. I am not for nerfing the bunnies per say, but having a toggle to adjust if we get any revenue or how much, and maybe a toggle on how quickly the dust accumulates is what I would hope for. As it is right now, the main attraction of this pack is what I would end up turning off if I got it, which would defeat the purpose of buying the pack. I mean he cleaned every floor in his home in that video, and by the time he was finished with the last floor the first one he did was dirty again. I think he said it took like 2 hours to go from clean to dusty again, for me personally that is to fast. As is right now, it is a no buy for me for sure.

I would like to buy the kit, but a couple of balance issues are holding me back (how fast the dust accumulates, how much money the bunnies bring and the positive moodlets when it's turned off). Probably wont buy if they aren’t fixed.

"Babykittyjade;c-17825939" wrote:
I don't want anything nerfed and I like the challenge. Anything I have a problem with I mod it out. Like Zer0s mod to make dust gather slower and to stop the sparkles. Other than that I'm throughly enjoying the pack. I always remove the vaccume from the inventory when done. But I like to let dust get pretty thick before I clean so it's not even that often.

No what I do have an actual problem with are the emotions, buffs and air sniffing. Unecessary and annoying. I dont personally like that EVERYTHING adds to emotions and buffs. Even with meaningful stories I feel like it's getting to much and they're constantly inspired or emotional for the simplest stuff. I just want neutral sims for a while.
But I guess this is more of an overall emotion system issue.

I normally do this as well, but I will be honest here, I am getting tired of having to resort to mods to fix things like this. I wish they would give us more control with toggles and such, but they probably won't.