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The Sims 4 Game Feedback — The Sims Forums https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:42:34 +0000 en The Sims 4 Game Feedback — The Sims Forums when free will is off, it should be OFF, no more AI interactions with infants please! https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1008153/when-free-will-is-off-it-should-be-off-no-more-ai-interactions-with-infants-please Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:43:05 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Sheepiling 1008153@/en_US/discussions
I know y'all probably had good intentions of not wanting to support child neglect, but it makes it difficult to even play the game when sims don't do what you tell them to do. And now turning free will off doesn't even work because random AI interaction that baby didn't even really need takes priority over everything. Social services is in the game, let it take the baby away if I neglect my child! Please re-tune the sim autonomy, and let free will really be OFF when I turn it off. I like to do time management with my household on my terms and I don't want my sims disobeying me. ]]> The sims 4 is awesome but https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1008009/the-sims-4-is-awesome-but Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:08:00 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback mollie1998 1008009@/en_US/discussions Four kits? Boooooo! https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007963/four-kits-boooooo Tue, 11 Apr 2023 22:19:18 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback asa144 1007963@/en_US/discussions I can never find it https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1008104/i-can-never-find-it Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:29:09 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Frn0731 1008104@/en_US/discussions ]]> Autonomy https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1003003/autonomy Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:09:13 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback ForbiddenOrgans 1003003@/en_US/discussions About birthmarks https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007322/about-birthmarks Sat, 18 Mar 2023 08:52:21 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Ciralinde 1007322@/en_US/discussions I like the new pack so far, however, the first infant in my game grew up with a concern... namely a large birthmark around the eyes and the scalp. After looking into it, it is indicative of a medical issue (sturge-weber syndrome fyi). I am a bit conflicted now, I don't know if this is something I would want in my game... These marks are rarely just cosmetic but they are (seemingly) treated that way. And the syndrome is very serious!

I was wondering, what are your thoughts about this? And if a baby grows up to have it, how do you treat it in-game? ]]> Bring back the stuff packs https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1008060/bring-back-the-stuff-packs Sat, 15 Apr 2023 18:24:31 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback MichelleW 1008060@/en_US/discussions For example
An infant stuff pack with expanded ways to reach milestones and strollers, plus more cas
An elders stuff pack with expanded elders cas and activities, retirement communities, gameplay specific to elders
Pool stuff]]> [ROM] Why didn't we get wizard hats? https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1008039/rom-why-didnt-we-get-wizard-hats Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:47:29 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback iliekponiez 1008039@/en_US/discussions
I'd buy a whole kit of wizard fashion if it meant hats.

]]> Feedback on having to be online regularly for Sims 4. https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007752/feedback-on-having-to-be-online-regularly-for-sims-4 Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:42:47 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback ncisGibbs02 1007752@/en_US/discussions
I am not trying to be negative but wanted to express how frustrating this regular need to be online is. There’s obviously a way for the app to detect how long a player is offline and trigger the sign in requirement. I don’t get why this is necessary.

Surely players selecting offline, want to play offline. Why is there a timer? Sure you can’t get new stuff etc until you do sign in but that should be the player’s choice.

I prefer staying offline as you can’t decline specific updates or free add ons.

If I log in, will I be able to select offline status and avoid the new infant update for Sims 4? Is that possible? 🙏

(Also EA App means I can’t play Sims 3 until I sign in, which I didn’t have to do via Origin).

I’ll recheck settings maybe I missed something? 🙄🤷🏼‍♂️.

]]> Suggestion: EA become more user friendly https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007829/suggestion-ea-become-more-user-friendly Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:51:21 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Sarah26Cat 1007829@/en_US/discussions
Now, with competition will undoubtedly come new ideas as each company tries to outshine the others, and we Simmers are excited to see what comes out of this. But there is also a thing called loyalty. EA, lets face it. Most of us don't know these other companies too well. Paralives is a tiny company, and Life by You is by another large gamer company, that unless you play a lot of other games, you've probably not heard much of. Now, EA consider this for a minute, would you rather trust your money to a company who has been charging you for smaller and smaller packs, giving you glitches on top of more glitches, or a brand new company you know nothing about. For most players, the new company will win out. BUT... It's not over yet. Listen up EA, you have until September, possibly longer if LBY's Early access proves to be less impressive on first release. You can change things and become a more trustworthy company in the meantime. To start, stop releasing new packs. I know they bring you money, but if you tell your crews to work on improving the game's glitches, and playtesting your own packs first, it will help. Undoubtedly others will suggest more things you could do to improve your image below. I encourage you to read these and try a few. For the first time, we will have a voice with our money on the types of games and gaming companies we want to support. Listen.]]> How is your simming lately? https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1004157/how-is-your-simming-lately Tue, 18 Oct 2022 21:23:45 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback CK213 1004157@/en_US/discussions I regenerated a new Sims 4 folder and added in my saves, tray files, and options files, so everything should be fresh and ready to go.
Nothing from my trial run of HSY ever happened, as far as my game is concerned.

But I had stopped playing because I was annoyed with conquered fears still lingering around and messing with my sims emotions and also from random sims invading the house to ask to be friends, or parents to go out to the prom.

What problems are you still experiencing?]]> Hobbies EP for 2023 https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1006839/hobbies-ep-for-2023 Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:24:41 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Mak27 1006839@/en_US/discussions
It can include crafting activities (sewing, pottery, glassblowing), musical instruments (bass, drums, saxophone), new gameplay systems like enthusiasm or hobbies, new recipes, new crops, and enhanced gameplay.]]> Check in? https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007916/check-in Sun, 09 Apr 2023 23:37:24 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Eleri 1007916@/en_US/discussions name" Does anyone know why they did this? It just seems odd to me because I can't think what purpose it serves. I'm not saying I have a preference, all else equal. If it had always been "Check in" it wouldn't bother me. In fact, if "Ask about day" had no dependent interactions, I probably wouldn't even be writing this post. I might not have noticed. If I had I would have just shrugged and been bemused for a second. Here are my two issues with the change:

1. Don't the devs have other things to do with their time?
2. "Ask co-worker about day" is a task you sometimes get assigned in active careers. This hasn't been updated to reflect that it's not called that anymore in the social menu. If you were to try to play an active career and didn't know about this, you would have to waste a lot of time combing through all of the sub-menus to confirm that asking someone about their day isn't an option anymore. Then you'd have to use trial and error to figure out that you can use the "Check in" interaction instead.

Does this annoy anyone else?]]> Sims 3 player, tried Sims 4, never looked back! (S4 Newbie Positivity) https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1003212/sims-3-player-tried-sims-4-never-looked-back-s4-newbie-positivity Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:12:30 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback SaskiaLovesSims 1003212@/en_US/discussions Hello fellow Simmers,

Until recently, I was a Sims 3 only player. When Sims 4 came out, I missed too many Sims 3 features while playing and quit. A year ago, I tried again and bought all the packs, hoping this would awaken my Sims 4 spirit. But alas, it did not.

A few weeks ago I contracted Covid for the first time, and even though I had been vaccinated, I became very ill and have been recovering ever since. I often had to spend my time indoors (coughing and tired). During summer, all my PC games are removed to take away temptation (no parents involved, I do this every year). Since Sims 4 was no temptation, I had it still installed on my computer.

And maybe because I approached the game in a different way, or maybe Covid altered my brain, but I have been obsessed with this game for weeks!

I haven't been part of this community (forums) for some time and have been catching up in the last days. I noticed a lot of negativity. Apparently I got lucky, since I started playing again after the first update of HSY and had the full high school experience without the problems.

It seems these days my experience is not the popular opinion but the exact opposite, as many return to Sims 3, or claim to do so.

Anyway, I'm glad to be back on this forum and hope that EA keeps making Sims 4 content for many years.

I was wondering if anyone else feels the same?

xx

SaskiaLovesSims
]]> This game is unplayable https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1004857/this-game-is-unplayable Sat, 19 Nov 2022 14:02:33 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback WorkFromHome 1004857@/en_US/discussions Sims 4 Today vs. 2014-2017 https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007339/sims-4-today-vs-2014-2017 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:14:38 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback thesimmer14 1007339@/en_US/discussions Deaf & HoH Simmers, how do you feel about hearing aids in the Sims? https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007392/deaf-hoh-simmers-how-do-you-feel-about-hearing-aids-in-the-sims Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:32:19 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback GrimlyFiendish 1007392@/en_US/discussions
And then I see sims wandering about with hearing aids, and they're not having to ask people to face them when they're trying to have a conversation, or dealing with people getting annoyed because they've had to ask another sim to repeat themselves, or having other sims shout at them because they think that yelling somehow makes it easier to lip read - and all of that's not even including the fact that I don't see any hearing aid wearing Sims actually signing, which is a language of its own and a huge part of deaf culture, plus they can all talk and be understood perfectly well which is not always the case with people born deaf. Like, I'm sorry but the hearing aid fairy isn't just going to wave a magic wand and give someone perfect hearing.

Am I just being overly sensitive? Am I the only one that's bothered by this? Honestly it's got to the stage now where if one of my born in game sims randomly has hearing aids added to them I immediately remove them in CAS, and townie Sims with hearing aids end up getting deleted. ]]> Pet Peeve about style preferences. https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007948/pet-peeve-about-style-preferences Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:53:03 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback SimSara 1007948@/en_US/discussions Gallery BARELY WORKS https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007902/gallery-barely-works Sun, 09 Apr 2023 11:57:52 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Godleyjeans 1007902@/en_US/discussions

If it was a computer issue I'd understand, however even the gallery on the sims 4 site doesn't work most attempts and I just have to bring it up in hope someone from the Sims 4 team sees it and tries to repair things. ]]> No Autonomy https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007913/no-autonomy Sun, 09 Apr 2023 21:58:21 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Montrase102 1007913@/en_US/discussions Teen Y/A romance https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007905/teen-y-a-romance Sun, 09 Apr 2023 18:13:38 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback JustinB113 1007905@/en_US/discussions
My teen sim lives alone. Meets another teen. She asks my sim to be best friends, prom and romance. They go on dates and kiss and mess around as prompted by the whims. The game prompts my sim to let the other sim move in. She joins the household and starts with 0 days played as a teen while he is near the end.

They live together, they share the bed, they mess around. For all intents and purposes they are a couple just like the YAs. The game encourages that with the prompts to be girlfriend and move in.

He ages up. They lose the romantic options and must get a new bed. They get the super sibling sentiment which is a long standing bug if two teens in the same house age up. They get the ‘family kiss’ and all the parenthood sibling interactions. I know it’s a bug but it’s going to be more prominent now teens are asking each other to move in.

I know it’s a touchy subject and I understood losing the romantic conversations and the mess around options. But the teen romance experience right now is really disjointed when it pressures them into getting closer then just ends automatically and turns them into brother and sister.]]> The sims 4 is great https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007853/the-sims-4-is-great Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:53:28 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback mollie1998 1007853@/en_US/discussions Just realized, sims 4 cats and dogs can't breastfeed https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007849/just-realized-sims-4-cats-and-dogs-cant-breastfeed Thu, 06 Apr 2023 14:58:38 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback RoseyaSimi4 1007849@/en_US/discussions Can you get better builders that are lesser known to be doing builds in packs? https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1006907/can-you-get-better-builders-that-are-lesser-known-to-be-doing-builds-in-packs Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:52:42 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback LadyKyn 1006907@/en_US/discussions
No offense to them, but their builds are usually pretty basic if not generic? Especially when they do more suburban type builds than anything. There's so many dedicated builders out there with such varying range and skills I feel like they get cheated when they aren't highlighted more in the communities. You even see a lot of it throughout the gallery for such astounding builds.

Really hope you guys branch out a lot more in the community even with the smaller gamechangers we don't see or hear about, but they definitely be posting their work. You always seem to use James, Deli, and lilsimsie ALL the time by default with some one other builder thrown in for 'variety'. So many smaller gamechangers that are just dedicated builders and you guys aren't even utilizing them.

I know of restrictions with no moo and etc, but many have been able to make very nice builds without them heavily being necessary.]]> Why do neglected kids disappear from existence? LOL https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007406/why-do-neglected-kids-disappear-from-existence-lol Sun, 19 Mar 2023 23:59:13 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback ULIBABA66 1007406@/en_US/discussions But this has been going on since Sims 1 and we still have NO WAY of putting our neglected kid Sims for adoption. Why do they disappear from existence? Can EA fix this ridiculous oversight finally?! It is beyond annoying that the neglected kids disappear into bit space forever, lol how unrealistic. Fix this nonsense already it's been 9 years already

@SimGuruFrost @SimGuruGraham]]> No slow integration for new household members https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007788/no-slow-integration-for-new-household-members Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:05:46 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback RoseyaSimi4 1007788@/en_US/discussions
I started playing with a new family. My mother Sim was picking out a dog, but the kid was still at school. Makes no sense for the kid knows the puppy already, but I can't have her introduce herself. It's not like puppies are psychic, even if they dog smell around, they don't know what they are smelling. how is that suppose to stay a surprise for anyone? I there's isn't even a way to show off the puppy.

At least she could offer friendship, but in my head I sound like this argument would come from Dr. Gluon too. However, this has to change so everyone has an equal chance to truly grow together. To slowly integrate each other's lives more slowly within the household base on how life goes in real life. At this point, it's time.]]> Maxis Pride [Broken pants, Maxis is fixing them] https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/989761/maxis-pride-broken-pants-maxis-is-fixing-them Fri, 14 May 2021 20:55:33 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback LeGardePourpre 989761@/en_US/discussions
5 years of broken pants for Feminine body Male sims, every packs were reported.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/2021-Pants-on-feminine-male-weird-crotch/td-p/10339980/jump-to/first-unread-message

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/news/the-sims-4-adding-more-choices

Q: How long did the process of adding the update take, from beginning to end?

Rachel Franklin: We started talking about expanding Create A Sim around a year ago. There was a big art effort involved, in addition to some technical prototyping, as we also wanted to make sure that the hands-on body manipulation looked great on any kind of body type. Not to mention, given the assortment of stories this update can facilitate, the team also worked very closely with GLAAD to assure that the update was authentic and respectful to the transgender community.

]]> Likes And Dislikes https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007533/likes-and-dislikes Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:21:44 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback PruThistle 1007533@/en_US/discussions I also have a Sim who hates dancing...guess what he does when I'm not directing him on a task? Yep...he dances.
Why even set up likes and dislikes when the Sims ignore them anyways?]]> Has anyone noticed how infants crawl? https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007693/has-anyone-noticed-how-infants-crawl Thu, 30 Mar 2023 03:17:02 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback MeTime85 1007693@/en_US/discussions Power Walk, like jogging. https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1007691/power-walk-like-jogging Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:20:03 +0000 The Sims 4 Game Feedback Simalleyaile 1007691@/en_US/discussions any world. It would be a great alternative to jogging, especially for elders. No need for special pathways, and moodlets, or even the ability to do it with other sims (though that would be GREAT!). Just use the same jogging routes already established in all our worlds.

Just a self-interaction : Go for powerwalk - and they change into their athletic gear and instead of jogging around their neighbourhood, they use the power walk animation instead. Perhaps build the fitness skill at a slower rate than jogging. But would be very good if it was another way to shape and tone the body.

Even if it was just for elders, it would be something new the pack has provided us to use for all our other worlds we play in.
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