Who else dislike clutters ?

I don't mind the functional 'knickknacks' as they used to be called. I dislike the term 'clutter'. ;) And, yes, sometimes I will purchase a SP for the functional piece(s), but generally there is more than that which has captured my attention.

I'm going to say it: I love using clutter to make my teen guy sims' room as messy as possible and as close as it would be to real life. I'm talking piles of clothes on the floor, books strewn about, posters overlapping on the walls, and random trinkets mounted on shelves ?. But I totally agree, as a fellow gameplay-focused simmer, that more interaction provoking items wouldn't hurt either ?

I really dislike it unless it's specific, like a messy teen room or a dirty basement. Otherwise we have a word for houses that actually are as full of clutter as some builds on the gallery: "A maid's nightmare".

I dislike clutter items in gallery houses. There is usually routing issues involved with a lot of clutter. I place very little clutter in my builds. I might place a console table behind a sofa for clutter but I do not use MOO to cheat the fit. I do ALT place chairs or lamps into a corner though.

When I down a house from the gallery I usually have to declutter it mainly because of routing issues.

I like having a lot of 'klutter" as you call it to chose from. I dont go to the strore to buy every item, to me going into buy mode is the same I find what I like and apriciate the choices available.

Clutter and gameplay objects are done by completely different teams. Gameplay objects are a lot more expensive in production (I still prefer those).

I'm on the fence about clutter really. I like the way it looks at times but I am more likely to use something like the dessert tray, the toothbrushes, the knife set... rather than the pots and pans. If it is functional then I am 100% behind using it. Auras, definitely. I am much more likely to use clutters in a storage setting. The garage or the attic for example. I do use MOO a lot but mostly for placing furniture, not clutter.

"wylmite1986;c-17455118" wrote:
I do see your point. It'd be nice if the clutter actually functioned. I don't mind though because I like my Sim to be happy in their house and if that means it being beautifully decorated with as much stuff as possible then so be it. But at the same time especially certain items would be cool if they actually worked instead of just for decoration purposes.

Wow...I actually forgot that "well decorated" houses make the sims happy, lol. I almost always use a mod to nix that (to change happy buffs from environment to fine), cause I got so tired of all of my sims being ecstatically happy all the time just cause they have a nice couch or something. It just felt so shallow and completely erased the impact of all negative emotions from the game. I mean, it's so easy to make money in the game so all my sims end up with swanky houses before to long, which with the "nice decor" moddlets literally just makes them generically happy all of the time. So for me, that's even more of an argument against having a lot of clutter and random decor--if some decoration or object in the house makes the sim happy, imo, it better be really freakin' special decor, y'know? Like, it would make more sense if, say, a masterpiece quality painting did that, rather than some random statue you can just buy in build mode.

I like the clutter, I'm a builder. But not too much of it and some of it is just stupid. But we all like different things. It would be cool if some of it was functional but it would be a mess if all of it was tbh.

I have like ten clutter items that I use in every home, only in different swatches. But I don't like when there's too much of it, it makes my builds look messy.