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

"Kimmer;c-17826066" wrote:
I haven't even asked the dust bunnies to find me anything and they haven't brought any money for me.
Also I don't think I want to keep the dust bunnies as pets, even if they are cute. It's too grindy to befriend them and most of my Sims have other pets already.
I think I'll just make my Sims treat them like real life dust bunnies and vacuum them. I simply just wanted my Sims to be able to use a vacuum cleaner. Maybe I'll use the bunnies for money some day if they won't get nerfed.

Yeah, I don't want them nerfed. But simoleans every few seconds is a bit much. It's scary though to ask for tuning adjustments because they seem to tune it to zero, instead of just dialing it back a bit. I have used MCCC to slow down the game speed as a whole, and that has made everything more manageable, so I am happy with that. I only ask the bunnies to search for treasure when my family is really hard up, and slowing the game speed has slowed the random small cash drops from the bunny. MCCC has the game speed defaulted at 25, I moved it to 50 and it's giving me a real nice balance as far as managing my little family of 5 overall.

"Mareah;c-17825965" wrote:
Well, one suggestion was saying to make it so that bunnies bring you things only when you ask, would some of you consider that nerfing? I am curious to know.

I would prefer that, to be honest. Then everyone has the choice.

I hope they don't get nerfed when you can turn off the effects in the options, if they can no longer spawn when that option is clicked they should be left alone completely. Can't nerf everything just because there are people who don't like it, it's a video game there will always be things different groups don't like eventually have to focus on moving forward instead.

"Chazzzy;c-17825963" wrote:
I think the fact that they find you money autonomously while your Sim’s sleep is the part that’s overpowering to me.

If they had just left it so you had to ask the dust bunnies to go find you money then it wouldn’t be an issue because you could choose not to do it.

Yep! I couldn't agree more with this. It would of actually been fine if they hadn't added the autonomous collecting.

It seems to me that everything that is added to the game starts out at maximum everything and then either get taken out or tuned down so much it ruins gameplay. Can’t they just go middle ground from the start or at least give us the options of Off/Low/Medium/High on all the toggles. Then people can set up the options to their own liking. Not just on or off.

i dont have the kit but also watched james turner vid and if its like that...honestly i dont think i get it unless it gets optimized

i already dislike when my sims get random objects in their inventory and family inventory cluttering things up

and i dont want bunnies to add more of that unless i specifically ask them to get me thingies

+ i find it weird dust disappears from rooms your sim isn't in like idk i think it should be by room not by floor so i could for example have neat kid and slob kid and their rooms being opposite despite being next to each other

aaand yeah it kinda gets dusty too fast probably

i have feeling my sims would just be stuck on endless vacuuming loop in their mansion

"Simmingal;c-17826443" wrote:
i dont have the kit but also watched james turner vid and if its like that...honestly i dont think i get it unless it gets optimized

i already dislike when my sims get random objects in their inventory and family inventory cluttering things up

and i dont want bunnies to add more of that unless i specifically ask them to get me thingies

+ i find it weird dust disappears from rooms your sim isn't in like idk i think it should be by room not by floor so i could for example have neat kid and slob kid and their rooms being opposite despite being next to each other

aaand yeah it kinda gets dusty too fast probably

i have feeling my sims would just be stuck on endless vacuuming loop in their mansion

Yeah the more I think about it, and after downloading like 10 mods to fix it, I don't think I am going to get it. I don't use the laundry machines cause I am not about the extra work and at least that is able to be limited to lots only with the machines. I don't want all of my lots to get dust. The other two seem ok but this one I just can't justify at the moment. I super appreciate Zer0 and how quickly he modded it despite disliking it so much.

I'd like to buy the kit too, but I'm waiting to see if they balance it :/ It should be possible to turn it completely off (no +2 inspired moodlet or stuff like that) and not receive gifts from dust bunnies without asking for them (and maybe more cheaper gifts too, so the big ones would feel more special).

I also probably wouldn't mind slower dust accumulation, because then I'd most likely play it with more families, but if the dust resets everytime I visit another lot or switch families it kind of doesn't make sense to make the dust accumulation slower... I'd have to wait for ages to have a filthy home if I wanted to play in one. I could use the lot trait options @mightysprite suggested.

"calaprfy;c-17826661" wrote:
Best thing to do at the moment is to hire a butler (if you can) and gift them a vacuum. Then they do all the autonomous vacuuming leaving your sims to get on with what really matters.

That feels like a cheat somehow!LOL ...or just how the rich sims live!


I think the passive money from dust bunnies is wrong, they should only be finding you spare change maybe once a day IMO. I dont have a problem with search for valuables though as its a lot of work to keep your dust bunnies happy enough to give you hundreds of bucks and even at a very high level mine mostly give me food or collectables. It seems to be on par with dumpster diving really.

They need to fix the aspirations though. Ive tried the filthy one with 1 sim and I had to cheat some of the goals because they werent registering after Id done them. At the end my sim should of been happy in a filthy environment according to the reward but he still wanders into rooms and acts disgusted by the filth (in which case he should never visit my house!!LOL).

In apartments, Penny Pixies only find you money at night.

Also, cleaning is what Butlers and Bonehilda are for, so I don't see it as a cheat really.