Is it even possible to ask the apartment neighbors to quiet down without yelling at them ruining our friendship/romance every few in game minutes they get loud? I mean come on these forced lot traits are bad enough I don't want to have to lose friends over them too.
1. The Sims 2
2. The Sims 3
3. The Sims 4 (5 years later its decent)
4. The Sims 1
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Next night my sim takes a shower, practicing her singing in the process, and that one sim who was making a racket the night before had the nerve to complain. I ignored her and she promised that there would be consequences! OOOOOooo I'm scared. Might be time for Penny Pizzazz to find somewhere else to live. Never much liked her from the getgo.
I've had very limited success with knocking politely as most of the times such knockings aren't heard or just ignored. I find it is best to just pound on the door, complain, and see how it goes from there. If the person takes offense then the friendship hit isn't that big.
I have found that if there is a certain distance and enough walls to the offending apartment's front door, your sim will actually not be bothered by it. So if you have a decent sized apartment, I would recommend at least putting the bedroom furthest from. It'd be worth experimenting with. If there isn't enough space, then it is high time to raise enough money to get a bigger apartment, as any of the smallest apartments will be carrying other problems as well regardless. Needs TLC and Gremlins is good for if you want a Handy Sim.
It would be nice if we could null such negative traits like Noisy Neighbors, but they are there for a reason. There is a romanticism about apartment life, but there is also a cost to it. Gotta spend more to enjoy more elbow room and peace and quiet.
@aws200 If you have a good enough relationship with the neighbors, the hit from asking them to quiet down angrily isn't that big. I always just took the hit, then hug it out to get the relationship back up, then go back to bed. It takes a few minutes after they quiet down before your sims can go to bed anyway, and that is just enough time to do a few friendly interactions to recover the relationship loss.
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2. The Sims 3
3. The Sims 4 (5 years later its decent)
4. The Sims 1
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Do neighbors never complain if you're at high/max friendship with them?
Not sure how that'd work if there are multiple Sims in each apartment, though.
There's a lot trait so that your Neighbors never make noise, but that doesn't stop them from getting mad at you for making noise.
From my experience, "loud" activities are Working Out, Woohoo, Playing Instruments, Stereos playing music, multiple TVs on, and maybe upgrading things.
I used cheats to erase her existence.
Edited for swearing. - EA_Cian
and @Genji Takaya, you get an awesome..because that was hilarious.
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Is there a mod that allows the removable of forced Lot traits, maybe? Taking off the Party Place trait and adding Quiet to all the apartments would probably help, but you'd need a mod to do it, and I don't know of one that does that off the top of my head.
I have sims living across the hall from man bun matey who live alone (can't remember his name) Ssss..S.. (nope, gone) and the amount of times I've had a sim storm over (always have the same sim do so she's disliked but her husband isn't) #ladssticktogether and its usually because of woohoo - but he comes out in a maids outfit and like @Genji Takaya she's told to go out and have/get a life of her own..
the only time I've received a noise complaint is when I didn't see the sim time and she was playing the retro game machine (like the arcade machine) at STUUUUUPID o'clock with her twin daughters... whoops, that's what happens when you get so frustrated and cheap the needs so everyone is happy all round and therefore don't need to sleep at normal times
"wahoo" - aquaman
Any of these activities after 10pm
1. Working out
2. Playing video games
3. Watching TV
4. Listening to music or playing instruments
5. Woohoo
6. Maybe arguing/fighting
I use this mod because I love apartments but hate the noisy neighbors.
modthesims.info/d/620703/no-noisy-neighbors-thick-apartment-walls.html
There's this one.
http://modthesims.info/d/588254/unlocked-lot-traits.html
You should pair it with this one though.
http://www.modthesims.info/d/588505/moveable-buyable-city-living-apartment-objects.html
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