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    Ponder the SimPonder the Sim Posts: 3,054 Member
    in The Sims 4 Ideas Corner
    I'd like to see difficulty sliders in this game.

    I find this game to be incredibly easy, but on the other hand I see others complaining that bills are too high and needs are hard to keep filled.

    I think some slider options for needs, bills, etc would be beneficial for all.

    What do you guys think? Would it even be possible?

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    • AstroAstro Posts: 6,651 Member
      Hmm, I don't really know if that's possible. I guess you could just use a mod for higher bills...

      But I think the needs are fine the way they are, it gives you more time to do other activities.
    • EvalenEvalen Posts: 10,223 Member
      I like that idea
    • shellbemeshellbeme Posts: 2,086 Member
      Wish we had debt options.
    • Ponder the SimPonder the Sim Posts: 3,054 Member
      shellbeme wrote: »
      Wish we had debt options.

      Yes! I think it would be neat if your sim could take out loans from the bank to buy a retail store.
    • AstroAstro Posts: 6,651 Member
      edited November 2015
      Speaking of banks, I'd like to have a banker career/job.
    • GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,552 Member
      Ponder the Sim wrote: »
      shellbeme wrote: »
      Wish we had debt options.

      Yes! I think it would be neat if your sim could take out loans from the bank to buy a retail store.

      We do. It's called "kaching" or "motherlode". ;)
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    • Ponder the SimPonder the Sim Posts: 3,054 Member
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      GalacticGal wrote: »
      Ponder the Sim wrote: »
      shellbeme wrote: »
      Wish we had debt options.

      Yes! I think it would be neat if your sim could take out loans from the bank to buy a retail store.

      We do. It's called "kaching" or "motherlode". ;)

      Lol, yes I know that but I'd love it if it worked like a bank loan were there was interest and debt.
    • AlanSimsAlanSims Posts: 713 Member
      Whoever says Needs are hard in this game has never played The Sims 1 or 2.
    • madokamadoka Posts: 277 Member
      edited November 2015
      They could have "difficulty options" that say things like "amount of bills" and have either sliders, or if that is too difficult just small medium and large. I could see that happening... maybe.

      EDIT
      I'd like to add that I hate receiving a 12k bill for my favorite build of mine. It's a beautiful build and its not that large, but every time it's a 12k bill and it just feels so unrealistic. I'd love to get that lowered.
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    • AstroAstro Posts: 6,651 Member
      AlanSims wrote: »
      Whoever says Needs are hard in this game has never played The Sims 1 or 2.
      Agreed. :D

      I probably spent the majority of my time managing needs, especially if there was more than one sim.
    • Ravager619Ravager619 Posts: 3,738 Member
      I like the idea, but at the same time there are things in the game to make it more difficult. I use the free real estate cheat at the start of every game to get my Sims in a somewhat pricey house ($125k or so) so their bills are about $2500 when they're just starting out. Some of the careers don't pay well until you get to the higher levels, like Criminal or Culinary.

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    • Mstybl95Mstybl95 Posts: 5,883 Member
      Good gawd, yes. I need some challenge in this game. It's not even about the bills for me. It's that all some seem to be in happy land where nothing ever goes wrong. I'd like a difficulty level for there to actually be consequences to actions or something similar to that.
    • Rflong7Rflong7 Posts: 36,588 Member
      edited November 2015
      But how would it work? Where would the challenge be? That would be interesting to see how many ways it can be made easier/harder.

      -They're needs would be static or 3 times a day they have to use the bathroom/eat/shower?
      -Cheap rent?

      Cheats are there if anyone wants things easier/harder. That's how I always looked at them.

      *TS2 got easier with each additional expansion- OFB with the dragonflowers/Freetime (?) Aspiration Benefits/new career rewards like Jumbok - plus the plan old, base game Aspiration rewards.
    • SmoochSmooch Posts: 387 Member
      edited November 2015
      I find myself leaving out fun content to make things more of a challenge (aka lifelike). Sims have to earn the ability to go to the Spa, etc and what they do there depends on financial ability no matter if they have the money or not. *I* am their financial institution.

      However, I would love some more difficulty put back into Sims. Found myself losing interest back in Sims 2 when easiness was being added. You can't readily re-establish something you've removed though so I agree with @Rflong7 on implementation. :|
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    • Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
      edited November 2015
      I don't think we need this, I don't think I need this. What I need is more detail and what if's added to things. Like...what if a burgler robbed you? This would surely increase the difficulty in the game and is much easier and fun then just making a slider that you have to pull in order to sort of have fun (though as always people will probably complain they get robbed too much and they'll make put it at 0 percent like the aliens, so much for anything fun these days). It would be also cool though that after the light and water were cut off if the repoman appeared in the house, there's just so much they could do and it would make the game fun and harder not just harder in some way.

      Though let it be said that I think that careers in TS4 pay really really bad as opposed to the OP paintings sims sell for money. They need to tweak these two really bad.

      Also like people said, you can use cheats to make it easier or harder for you, or you could make your own limits and make the game harder for yourself.

      So, in short, again, no, this is not something that this game needs or is all about. Plus bills in the game are already pretty 🐸🐸🐸🐸 high unless you have a ton of cash and live in a small house with not many expensive things.
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    • MasonGamerMasonGamer Posts: 8,851 Member
      About bills, They're not to high, they're too frequent, like who pays $8800 a week? I don't, gradually per month yes, but not per week, absolutely
      not!

      Needs you can make it easier by:
      A: disabling needs all together.
      B: reward Traits, Steel bladder, Never weary, Hardly hungry, Antiseptic, Independent.
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    • Prink34320Prink34320 Posts: 5,078 Member
      Perhaps increase difficult equated to:

      Faster Need Decrease
      More Expensive Bills
      Slower Work Performance
      Slower Skill Speed
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    • Ponder the SimPonder the Sim Posts: 3,054 Member
      Prink34320 wrote: »
      Perhaps increase difficult equated to:

      Faster Need Decrease
      More Expensive Bills
      Slower Work Performance
      Slower Skill Speed

      Sounds good!

      Also would like a chance to get fired from my job.
      Chances to die or become very ill from sickness.
      I'd like a messy house to result in bugs and sickness.
    • AstroAstro Posts: 6,651 Member
      Ponder the Sim wrote: »
      Prink34320 wrote: »
      Perhaps increase difficult equated to:

      Faster Need Decrease
      More Expensive Bills
      Slower Work Performance
      Slower Skill Speed

      Sounds good!

      Also would like a chance to get fired from my job.
      Chances to die or become very ill from sickness.
      I'd like a messy house to result in bugs and sickness.
      Are there any chance cards that can lower job performance drastically?
    • friendlysimmersfriendlysimmers Posts: 7,546 Member
      sorry op but i disagree i like the sims4 as it is
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    • Ponder the SimPonder the Sim Posts: 3,054 Member
      edited November 2015
      Astro wrote: »
      Ponder the Sim wrote: »
      Prink34320 wrote: »
      Perhaps increase difficult equated to:

      Faster Need Decrease
      More Expensive Bills
      Slower Work Performance
      Slower Skill Speed

      Sounds good!

      Also would like a chance to get fired from my job.
      Chances to die or become very ill from sickness.
      I'd like a messy house to result in bugs and sickness.
      Are there any chance cards that can lower job performance drastically?

      Not drastically no. You really have to slack off to get demoted. Come to think of it, I've never been fired in the sims 4.
    • AstroAstro Posts: 6,651 Member
      Ponder the Sim wrote: »
      Astro wrote: »
      Ponder the Sim wrote: »
      Prink34320 wrote: »
      Perhaps increase difficult equated to:

      Faster Need Decrease
      More Expensive Bills
      Slower Work Performance
      Slower Skill Speed

      Sounds good!

      Also would like a chance to get fired from my job.
      Chances to die or become very ill from sickness.
      I'd like a messy house to result in bugs and sickness.
      Are there any chance cards that can lower job performance drastically?

      Not drastically no. You really have to slack off to get demoted. Come to think of it, I've never been fired in the sims 4.

      Hmph, I don't think any of my sims have ever gotten fired either, same with TS3. In TS2 I've had a few sims get fired... I miss the challenge of TS2.

      And I still wish sicknesses actually had an affect besides a negative moodlet.
    • Prink34320Prink34320 Posts: 5,078 Member
      Ponder the Sim wrote: »
      Astro wrote: »
      Ponder the Sim wrote: »
      Prink34320 wrote: »
      Perhaps increase difficult equated to:

      Faster Need Decrease
      More Expensive Bills
      Slower Work Performance
      Slower Skill Speed

      Sounds good!

      Also would like a chance to get fired from my job.
      Chances to die or become very ill from sickness.
      I'd like a messy house to result in bugs and sickness.
      Are there any chance cards that can lower job performance drastically?

      Not drastically no. You really have to slack off to get demoted. Come to think of it, I've never been fired in the sims 4.

      I think the higher you are in a Career, the easier it seems to be demoted, perhaps once a Sim reaches Level 8 of their Career in Hard Mode, 'Normal' won't do much or anything at all to increase work performance without an emotional boost, that would make it more difficult but it is possible to get fired from a Job, but the easiest way is only to not go to work for consecutive number of days I think.
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    • Savage_Patch_KiddSavage_Patch_Kidd Posts: 2,937 Member
      I am more of a speed grinder. I get pretty annoyed when my sims get demoted for picking the wrong choice at those special interactions you get now & then at the end of work hours. Plus you can still get demoted if you repick the correct answer you had before :s
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    • DeKayDeKay Posts: 81,595 Member
      AlanSims wrote: »
      Whoever says Needs are hard in this game has never played The Sims 1 or 2.

      Yeah, I know right? The fun and comfort needs are just ridiculous.
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