How Do You Decide Where To Live?
There are so many worlds in the game now, I just cannot decide what to do. Usually I play on rotation in the same game save and use maybe four or five different worlds for the sims to live in, but I am still missing out on so many! How do you decide which world your sims will live in and how often do you change worlds? Do you have any worlds just for community lots or vacation lots or other specific types? ---------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Thank you so much to everyone who replied ❤️ I've gotten some good ideas and think I am going to be less regimented from now on! I am going to just go with a random number of households in all the worlds that I think will suit their storyline, just swapping whenever I feel like it, and do ageing for everyone on long lifespan. I will keep Newcrest for a big variety of community lots and a couple of my less favourite worlds are going to be just for vacations. I can't wait to start!
Small Business Wins and Fails
Share your wins and fails when running a small business from the Businesses & Hobbies pack. I will start. Maker Space Additional Packs Used Eco Lifestyle Employee Tasks Mentor Run Classes & Lectures Owner Tasks Clean Scrap Crafts Repair Customer Tasks Attend classes and lectures Fabricate Handiness Set Up I created three classrooms (woodworking, candle making, and fabrication). I hired two employees （one for lectures and one for mentoring). I trained the employees by giving them lectures so they could reach level 5 of both the handiness and fabrication skills. I also had a small shop in the front, but no one shopped from it because I didn't set the task for shopping. Problems I Ran Into You can't mentor on the candle making station. The option isn't available to mentor Sims. The fabrications classes require level 5 of the rocket science skill. I only had level 5 of the fabrication skill. The employees also only had level 5 of the fabrication skill. I didn't train them in rocket science. [BH] Several classes/lectures don't work | EA Forums - 11968151 Customers don't use the fabricator or the candle making station during the fabrication class. Customers don't finish their crafts. They always abandon them. The candle making stations weren't autonomously cleared. [BH] [GT] Certain objects aren't cleaned by employees/club members | EA Forums - 12239563 I got two last exceptions related to the pack. Final Verdict Even though there were a good number of problems, I will classify this business as a win because it mostly functioned. The Sims 4 is a buggy game so I'm trying to be fair.Danger Kid
Has anyone been able to trigger the Danger Kid formative challenge? I really want a particular child to do this but cannot think of many 'dangerous' things for him to do which may trigger it. I had him play out in the rain during a thunderstorm, play with a cooking fire pit and I had him try to talk to the monster under the bed... I thought one of those would have done it but, nope. I also just tried the 'start formative challenge' option but Danger Kid didn't appear. Any ideas?
[Discussion] Custom Venues, Getaways, Roles and Schedules
Post your Custom Venues, Getaways, Roles and Schedules. What combinations, and selections are working, and which did not. There are endless combinations, and set ups. Help other players figure out what they want, without having to test each themselves. Please share your results :) Also, do not forget to Name and Save Role to Library, and Name and Save Schedule.
Q&A: Adventure Awaits
#AD (just in case this counts as social media) I can tell you ahead of time this time... I was invited to join the CFE (not final build) opportunity for The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits. Thank you to the EA Creator Network for this chance to answer questions for you about the pack! I will be taking and answering mainly questions about gameplay - Skills/Traits/Aspirations/Career/Venues/Systems/Lore - and anything else you guys want to know about! I will be testing with ALL PACKS in as I believe this is yet another pack with endless cross-compatibility possibilities. (Please Note: Testing with other packs in is unsupported before regular Early Access, so may be extra buggy.) I'm not a fast builder so will likely be testing things on a save full of downloaded Gallery lots. If you have any lots you want me to test flow for, either as a Custom Venue or Getaway location, then post a link to what you want tested and a description of how you envision it running. I'll play around with it and post any issues I find during testing. Format will be similar to past Q&As where I have links to each subject and add more info to each based on questions asked and as I discover things through gameplay. I can't start posting right away this time due to the embargo, but will be taking notes/screenshots and will post info when I can. P.S. - I also have a Creator Code now, so if you find my Q&A useful you might consider it as an option at checkout. This doesn't give you a discount, but it would give me a 5% commission on price of the pack. If you wish to use it, my code is EmmaVane. Just enter the code on the the payment screen where promo codes normally go. Thank you, EA for this opportunity. INDEX (to follow): Custom Lots Getaway System ~~ Vacation Days/PTO ~~ Prizes & Rewards Premade Getaways: ⛺Camp Gibbi Gibbi/Kids Weekend Stayaway Camp ❤️Love Highland/Romantic Competition 🏋️Revive & Thrive/Fitness Retreat Formative Moments New Careers 🏕️Park Worker New Interactions New Objects 🍹Blender 🐛Caterpillar Incubator 💭ImagineMe! Dolls 🚸Modular Playground 🏊Pool Objects 🚲Spinning Bikes New Traits & Aspirations New Quests New Skills (WIP) 🏹Archery 🏊Diving 🦋Entomology 📔Papercrafting Cross-Pack Gameplay Build Buy Systems Miscellaneous
Plans for Adventure Awaits
Now that we know a little more about what is coming, what plans do you have for getaways, custom venues, etc? Cinderellimouse , lilsimsie , and EmmaVane have given me an idea for a way to make money from finding a spouse for a Sim just starting out. You need Lovestruck and AA. Set up your Sim on a lot. When you get the offer to have 7 perfect dates, accept it. Set up a getaway on your home lot. Have 7 prospective spouses as your participants, and begin dating them. Choose player elimination as your way of eliminating them. It's possible to have at least 2 perfect dates in a 24-hour period, so do that. When elimination time comes, send home one of the first 2 Sims you dated. Date 2 the next day, and repeat. When you've finished your 7 dates, end the getaway. You'll get 25,000 simoleons for the 7 perfect dates and 10,000 for hosting a getaway, and hopefully, your Sim will have found the love of his or her life.
Creating a (magical) boarding school
With the new adventure awaits releasing soon I am thinking of creating a custom boarding school, probably for spellcasters or supernatural sims in general. With the new custom venues and getaways it seems possible to create a recurring weekly getaway for teens (because supernatural children don't exist. They only got a supernatural icon but no gameplay) I wonder what happens to base game school when sims are on a getaway. If this really causes problem I would set it to only saturdays as a sort of extra carricular activity for teens next to traditional school. During daytime I can set activities like cast spells or use cauldrons to simulate classes. In the livestream at around 1:20:43 you can see them listed as activities for getaways. In the evening they can even have one hour of astronomy class with telescopes. Perhaps a gemology class or paranormal medium activity can add some more flavour. The night activity will obviously be sleeping. I think this sytem might actually work to create a magical school situation. There can be staff to prepare meals and clean up the place and teachers, I don't know yet what role I will give the teachers. It all depends on whether or not the whiteboard from the small business pack can be combined with the rules. Is anyone else planning on making a school or boarding school. And let's not forget the school uniforms which are also possible. 😀
Poll: Do we need a towniecore crackdown?
We've all seen them, the towniecore mavericks. The ones who've never met a mismatch they didn't like. They don't care about color coordination, stylistic cohesion, or moderation in accessories. Some consider them offensive, as evidenced by this bug report. Others find them amusing, as evidenced by this thread. What do you think? Are the towniecore mavericks fashion terrorists or fashion freedom fighters? Do we need a crackdown or should we just let them be? 😴 Whatever. You can call me fashion unconscious, but I really don't care what townies wear. 😎 Let the townie flag fly! The Sims would be less colorful without our towniecore mavericks. 🤔It's a little much. I don't mind townies having some individuality, but maybe they could make some adjustments to prevent the more egregious offenses. For example, lowering the likelihood of spawning with accessories, or giving each towny a filter setting for color and/or style. (Please suggest a possible adjustment that you would like). 😱Stop the reign of fashion terror! The Townie Fashion Police have been too slack. They need to change the outfit generation process so that townies can only get their outfits from a selection of pre-set, carefully coordinated ensembles. Note: We now have at least one comment for each of the four options. If you want to vote, but don't want to write out a comment, you can like a comment you agree with.For Rent best practices?
My supersim is finally tackling the for rent aspirations. She is temporarily in a throwaway save. In my storyline she is dreaming of an alternative life and once she is done with the aspirations she will 'wake up' in her normal save with the aspirations ticked off for my list. The question is how to best approach rental units. Should I completely set up the rental units and then start renting them out or can I build and improve while there are already people living there. I am currently in the process of creating a rental lot from scratch to avoid problem with downloading rental units. I have one apartment for my owner and 4 small units to rent out: one two bedroom apartment and 3 studios. For now it is still a regular lot, I will convert it to a rental unit very soon. Does anyone have tips or tricks for me? Does and don't that minimize the risk of lot corruption.
