3 years ago

What Currently annoys, or irks you during your playing of The Sims 4 but isn't quite a bug?

Hi, I I just started playing Sims 4 about 3 months ago and play it almost every day, I have about 40 percent of the expansions/packs and am for the most part enjoying the game. But heres a list of things that Irk me and could be improved in the game.
-Giving your sims commands in a particular order for a reason and the game remixing that order (based on what algorithm I have no idea).
-Chickens live extremely short lives, you can't build your relationship bar up with them and you have to name new ones so often (and before you suggest turn animal ageing off, I already know about it and don't want too).
-The household inventory not having a delete/sell all stack option
-the long loading screens despite not being a graphically complex game and occurring every time you make a move to a new location basically.
-Right now, I'm having an issue with hamster/rodents, when I hover over there encloser it always says their hunger level is fine, I never have to feed them, they are never hungry, the option to fill bowl is greyed out and can't be selected despite looking in the enclosure and seeing that it is empty. This ruins having the pets completely for me so I don't bother anymore
-Running a vet clinic is not fun, and the vets you hire barely ever do the job correctly they just stand about doing nothing half the day, even if trained well.
-The Butler is almost useless, not bugged but almost useless and they walk around all the time never sleeping and look tired.
-My cat ran away recently and came back very dirty, he has yet to clean himself and there is no option to bath/clean him/her. This actually dont really bother me yet, but if it continues it will.
-Working a regular job nets you about 2000 dollars a day if your moderately up the ladder. Well having a good garden nets, you 50,000 every day or two. and there's nothing to spend money on once you have the big house, the fancy pictures and furniture.
-sims walk halfway across the house to use a sink after using the toilet.

What gameplay issues do you find, lacking or annoying or falling short in some way... (we all know about the insulting, and it has been spoken about by the developers so no need to bring that one up really).

simgirl1010
Hero
3 years ago
You might want to check out this thread in Feedback.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/993510/what-are-some-trivial-things-that-annoy-you/p1
simgirl1010
Hero
3 years ago
The old musical chairs catastrophe. ? It's been well documented on the forum.
Thehiddenreturn
3 years ago
@JustinB113 Reward trait gives you the option to get a money tree combined with, bonsai buds, and Roses gets you a lot of money...to much if I'm completely honest and serious.
Fragaria_ananas
3 years ago
> @AlienTusks said:
> @Fragaria_ananasa Just a thought, since you are into gardening, Cottage Living Expansion should be on your radar, it adds new things to gardening as well as owning chickens, lamas and or cows. The chickens will aid in your garden by eating bugs I think but that's not the only reason for owning them, it also adds a new lot challenge where you have to use fresh ingredients to cook your food, stored in your fridge some ingredients you grow, some you can purchase from a grocer who comes to your house and gives you the ingredients. So overall that expansion will add gameplay to your gardening, the world that comes with it is decent, not great.

I got to admit that it is very high on my wishlist and hope to find it in my Christmas stocking ?.
Brd709
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
Not being to be able to build in foundation/auto foundation. I play on PC but it still applies to me.
Thehiddenreturn
3 years ago
@Fragaria_ananasa Yes you will probably like that expansion, the clothes are not all that great some are some aren't for example some are like farmers clothes and not very good looking, but overall, I think it's a good expansion and I'm glad to have it...speaking of Seasons expansion which is one of the must own expansions...it has its flaws though, for example it doesn't add a new world, which isn't a big concern since it adds seasons to every world you already own as well as holidays and such. But what really doesn't make sense about seasons it why it rains so much during summer and during winter is snows and blizzards all the time. I live In Virginia, USA (I hope it's not against rules to mention where your general location is) and during winter it snows maybe 4 times or a tad bit more and only a couple of those times is it enough to build up on the ground. But In sims 4 it snows every single day, lol. And I'm in summer right now in my game and I'm reminded of how often it is raining. This flaw should have been fixed long ago It's just not realistic, I know you can turn it off, but I don't want to do that.
And lastly, I've learned as I too am a gardener part time, that it's not good to constantly give your sim commands to garden, such as water this or that, and plant this and spray for bugs etc. for too long of a time in a row or your sim may get upset (Sad or Angry for example). So, what I do is like in the morning I just weed and kill bugs, then return to doing other activities then maybe at night I will return to the garden and fertilize things. You may already know this but just in case you don't you can give it a try it may help.
N7ShadyParagon
2 years ago
I haven't played in forever, so I didn't know about recent "improvements".

The Fear of a Dead End job is the most irritating thing added, it is a daily thing for someone over half way up the career ladder.

"I'm a lawyer now! And...and I...I don't know where THIS IS GOING!" Inconsolable sobbing commences.

Are you serious? What was this supposed to improve?
Also the fear of being controlled or whatever.
It's a game. Adding things to irritate and make the game less fun just means I'm not going to put another dime, much less any more of my time, into the game.

I mean, these are so easily fixable with Toggleable options that people's games are just being messed with for absolutely no reason.
ChadSims2
Seasoned Novice
2 years ago
Setting your Sim to do something and they instantly cancel it to do another action even though all their needs are met.
Simmingal
Hero
2 years ago
randomized townies existing
Thehiddenreturn
3 years ago
@simgirl1010 Lol, I just glanced over some of the posts in that thread and they don't know annoying like I do in my game...No body mentioned how you go on a date and sit down together say one thing then one sim gets up and sits down at another table, and after that my sim gets up and sits down at the table that they just went to all the while I'm trying to click on conversation options and sit-down options, they need to play my game for a couple days...