What's something you wish was overhauled?
Something that's already in the game but you wish was different. How would you change it? For example, the Sickness system for me. I dislike it greatly compared to sims 2. It's really only a te...
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WHIMS!! I used to love doing 'wishacy' challenges in TS3, but the way whims work in TS4 would just mean that my Sims would spend all their time/money buying 1 x 1 pools, playing in the rain, walking a dog (that died two Sim years ago) and getting to know their partner (whom they've been with for years) or wanting to talk to a Sim who is apparently in the neighbourhood but whom I cannot locate for the life of me...
Whims need to be way less repetitive - if I click off a whim for whatever reason, there should be a cooling down period of at least a sim day before it pops up again; or if I fulfil the whim, it also shouldn't appear for a few days at the very least. And if I have my Sim do something a few times in a row (e.g. cook a few meals to restock the fridge), then all s/he'll get whims for thereafter is to cook different meals non-stop.
Whims also need to be more logical. For example, if my Sim is on a date with somebody that she has a fullish romance bar with, you'd think she'd get some whims related to romantic interactions with that Sim, right?! Wrong! I sent my romantic Sim on a date last night with her beau to a club. ALL her whims were related to socialising with anyone other than her date, or playing in the rain, or buying a washing machine (because the club didn't have one - what were they thinking, not supplying a washer for your laundry-obsessed Sims to use in between dances...?!). Even the emotion-based whims were unrelated to the person she was on a date with and had absolutely nothing to do with the situation she was in (send a flirty text, have a cold shower, go steady with someone - other than the person she was already going steady with, presumably!)...
And I don't want to switch them off as I like to use them to let my Sims decide whom to date, marry, how many kids to have, etc. I just wish so much that they worked better...
Whims need to be way less repetitive - if I click off a whim for whatever reason, there should be a cooling down period of at least a sim day before it pops up again; or if I fulfil the whim, it also shouldn't appear for a few days at the very least. And if I have my Sim do something a few times in a row (e.g. cook a few meals to restock the fridge), then all s/he'll get whims for thereafter is to cook different meals non-stop.
Whims also need to be more logical. For example, if my Sim is on a date with somebody that she has a fullish romance bar with, you'd think she'd get some whims related to romantic interactions with that Sim, right?! Wrong! I sent my romantic Sim on a date last night with her beau to a club. ALL her whims were related to socialising with anyone other than her date, or playing in the rain, or buying a washing machine (because the club didn't have one - what were they thinking, not supplying a washer for your laundry-obsessed Sims to use in between dances...?!). Even the emotion-based whims were unrelated to the person she was on a date with and had absolutely nothing to do with the situation she was in (send a flirty text, have a cold shower, go steady with someone - other than the person she was already going steady with, presumably!)...
And I don't want to switch them off as I like to use them to let my Sims decide whom to date, marry, how many kids to have, etc. I just wish so much that they worked better...
