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Communicating in the Sims 4
Garethlex
Posts: 159 Member
Thought I would start a new thread to hear your experiences with the new social system on the Sims 4 and what you think could be improved.
My experience so far has been when ever I go to a bar and I’m talking to a spouse or friend other sims will randomly join in and you obtain unnecessary friendships. On residential lots sims shouldn’t really talk to you unless you engage at least to manage your friendship inventory I understand the free will of sims but the invasion of conversations is just unruly.
Another prime example is when you go to clubs you get a swarm of random sims added to your friends list because of invasive interactions when out with other sims.. dancing
I would really like to see the interactions fine tuned because right now there are no boundaries.
If it isn’t for mods I wouldn’t have the option of deleting idle “friends” from my contacts.
Please share your views
My experience so far has been when ever I go to a bar and I’m talking to a spouse or friend other sims will randomly join in and you obtain unnecessary friendships. On residential lots sims shouldn’t really talk to you unless you engage at least to manage your friendship inventory I understand the free will of sims but the invasion of conversations is just unruly.
Another prime example is when you go to clubs you get a swarm of random sims added to your friends list because of invasive interactions when out with other sims.. dancing
I would really like to see the interactions fine tuned because right now there are no boundaries.
If it isn’t for mods I wouldn’t have the option of deleting idle “friends” from my contacts.
Please share your views
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But, as you said, when they are in a group conversation, random NPCs will starts join in. I found it more interesting rather than annoying... but, I do get you because there's a time, my teenage Sims was on a date, a random NPC join in their flirty conversation which I found it is kinda weird..
Exactly ! I found that with the Doctor career and to be fair they never do their job most are stuck in conversation with one particular patient on the bed.
I do the same and cancel interactions while at work and shift+click to reset sims or objects . Another example is when you have your own business you talk to one sim to build repport with customers so they can buy your stuff other sims will join in and it becomes a mothers meeting! This really interferes with selling! And a big put off ...
It is interesting to have random sims approach you how ever there needs to be a boundary Set in place so that if you are engaging in convo other sims won’t just come and intersect like you said it could be an intimate conversation between you and another sim and someone jumps in very weird and random lol when a 3 way is not what you had in mind
Perhaps, if we could actually set individual Sim personal space, based on their friendship level, like how they greet each other...it could possibly change the random interruption. Or else, if there's a small UI pop up saying that XXX wants to start a conversation, or introduce themselves.. then our Sims could have an option to accept/decline it..
You can't even go on a date without someone wasting your time with idle chatter.
Perhaps they need to fix it such that sims outside of your playable sims will not autonomously talk to your sims, if you have to direct your sim to talk to others, for there to be any conversation between them.
thats a great option. in real world retail when a floor associate is helping one customer other customers patiently wait their turn, it should be the same in sim world retail. its a special space within their world, not walking by on the street so it should have special social rules.
IMO the mobile functionality needs to be overhauled. if im invited somewhere i want to be able to decline it and have that sim leave me alone instead of another message 10sim mins later for another event. itd be nice for a return of 'ill meet u there' instead of accepting an invite and whatever im doing is being dropped immediately. if im meeting the sim there, put a timer on so i have that amount of time to meet them or the invite is declined and we suffer a relationship drop.
id also like the option to have an sms convo with my sims friends. they message me about random stuf, why cant i? for example: a pop up near the notification wall (which doesnt impact gameplay and goes away after say ... 10 seconds or something) that says "insert name here, just 'intsert new thing here (married, engaged, baby etc etc)' would u like to send a congratulatory message Y/N" and if u click yes they get the messages we get.
Yes interruption of conversations with another known sim from a random sim to me just highlights the flaw in the social portion of the game there needs to be a better structure in place it just makes conversing with other sims meaningless...
And worst of all is when you invite a sim round or out that is automised they break convo to go play a video game or do something else when I havnt finished the queue of interactions I have once again a flaw in the social system which clearly indicates the lack of structure in social interactions... with sims 3 this was a lot more engaging and you didn’t have random sims popping into your convo or walking away from your convo to do something else of no high priority such as if they needed to use the toilet fair enough but to break a convo when there is still a queue to go clean the sink or play video games it’s like really !? ....
exactly. it also annoys me (but i think other threads have covered this) that sims will invite us places, talk minimally and then leave the lot, like "um hello u were my ride where are u? oh u left... guess ill catch an uber or taxi" type thing
im hoping this big patch theyre working on brings other improvements in to the game as whole and am getting more and more impatient waiting for it
Lmaoo!!! I never thought about that ! I mean to be fair our sims have so much disposable income can’t spend it on anything else why not ! Haha
However these are very good options.