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Luturna1313
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Played 12hrs yesterday 2pm to 2am. Much of that time was actually spent hunting down answers and info because so many of the controls and functions are convoluted, like having to right mouse click on an item in inventory and then left mouse click to make engage the all items/stacked items feature so that I can drag the whole lot of items at once to sell them.. vs just being able to click grab-drag the corner count tab. Now I've been playing about 2 more hours and I'm again stumped and frustrated. Trying to get my Sim hitched. Is it even possible?? My sim has met a few male townies.. but the amount of time it takes to raise the friendship bar is insane. I finally gave in and used the cheat to add one of the men to the household. And still my sim is spending every waking minute trying to chat up the guy, and then when I switch to him I see that although she has his bar about half full, her bar when I switch to him has zero. So when friending a sim it's just one sided?? The other sim doesn't gain any friendship with my sim?? And the friendship decay... how do you even keep it up? I swear it goes down as fast as a sims normal needs. It's exhausting and boring to just keep repeating the same offered interactions again and again.. and again..... and again. Only to find out that only one sim seems to benefit from it all, and I am still not seeing any special, cool or neat effects from this new emotion feature. I just want to marry the guy, and have a kid and try to find some redeeming element of game play, but how is there time when every time I go to work or decide to skill his friendship level dwindles away. When my sim finally had him at about 3/4 full on the friend bar she tried a few romance interactions which were immediately shut down and dipped the friend bar level right along with it. I'm just getting burnt out and tired of the constant struggle to have a mutual high level friendship that I can turn into a married household before throwing my monitor across the room.
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Loving the parties!
You don't have to open up the stack to sell them. You can click and drag the whole stack right from your inventory to sell it. (Don't click the triangle in the corner, just click and drag from the center of the icon. They basically made this the reverse of what it was in TS3.) The difference is that when you do it this way you sell the whole stack. If you open the stack first and then drag one from the stack to sell you can choose how many you want to sell.
Sims are too quirky to start with but adding loads of emotions and deep traits that play out in ways yet unknown to most of us and I think its going to take a lot more hard work when playing
In contrast with Sims 3 over a long time I became a serial cheater and added mods just to be able to get enjoyment from my game using all that lovely content and I have got used to it so I know I am going to struggle when I get 4 as I will want to play it like I do Sims 3 and I don't think that's going to work.
The way you describe click grab and drag for objects sounds confusing as well and as I have never been a builder I have not for 1 minute believed the new way to build is going be easy as for me and will take some work...
Please leave your poor monitor alone it's not at fault lol it sounds like you need to take a break take a breath and plan some sort of strategy...
If it was me after I had managed to get my home lot to at least a reasonable state I would write a list of what bothers me most and find out as much as I can about it and then concentrate on that one issue until I got it sussed.
I hope you manage to work it out and are able to get some enjoyment from the game