It might not be that important to many but i am really getting annoyed by this unknown need for sims to spam those stupid weather related socials. is is REALLY necessary to complain about the Sunny weather 5 times in a row????! and the holidays are even worse -.- i already pretty much cancel out any holidays on the calendar because well...they are just boring checklist things to begin with except for the Christmas day, i'll give them that. but really….if left active sims will do nothing but complain or sing about this stupid random holiday!!
Dates are also a nightmare because of this because the autonomy keeps ruining the mood by forcing my sims to spam those stupid seasons socials everytime the conversation is going somewhere causing me to have to build the mood all over again! and i already had 3 proposals fail because the game rushed in ...yup...complain about love day >.< i am on the verge of uninstalling seasons JUST because of this! i am THAT annoyed by those stupid lame weather socials! who the F cares about the ffing weather when on a romantic date??? i certainly wouldn't and i would get quite annoyed if i had a date with someone and that person would not shut up about the weather...who cares!!!
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over this and i miss those Seasons festivals from the Sims 3. That felt more alive.
that's the whole thing: i never use them myself. the sims autonomy rushes those in, especially if i try to set the mood for proposals and such. and they Always set the mood back to everyday conversation causing the proposal to fail. sometimes i can just cancel out, but more than often there is nothing i can do to prevent the game forcing these in just as i had the mood right for proposals.
same here! they were fun.
TS 4 holidays are nothing more than checklists and that's it: no special parties, no ferstivities around town...just a lame checklist... and apart from new years eve and xmas i Always end up removing any other from the calendar. harvest day is just stupid in general and love day… well i pretty much stated why i dislike it: romancing is a nightmare if the sims autonomously spam complain about love day whenever i have the mood set right...
But I have never had sims spam complain about weather or any other weather related social.
right? altho the Christmas one is kind of ok imo and the new years eve one can be fun too, but all the others are just lame and to have them sing Christmas songs for some lame day where you have to talk like a pirate -.- poorly designed if you ask me... at least use a sims version of a pirate's life for me for that day, that would actually make sense and even be amusing! but they sing xmas songs all day during every single holiday if they are nort complaining about it that is.
count yourself Lucky then… just had another date gone awkward because my guy felt the need to complain about the Sunny weather 4 times in a row once again, and since i try to simulate reality in my games the girl got annoyed by it and told him to get lost and cry about the weather to someone else. i swear...sims autonomy is the worst! this is exactly why i never turn this on but during conversations the game still baffles me with it's stupidity >.< why even complain about good weather anyways?? why do my sims Always LOVE to complain all the time about anything possible -.- even gamers on forums don't complain as much as my sims do XD it is that ridiculous!
this is exactly how i think about them!! and i agree with you that forced features are extremely annoying… and this is a major problem i have with TS 4 in general: it is filled with forced features! just like the whole celebrity feature: ok cute we have celebs but if even one small 2 star appears the whole lot goes nuclear and everyone will do nothing but fawn over the celebs… and i don't think i nhave to say much about the dancing celebrities… think everyone's annoyed by that. and then there is the whole deal with vampires.. they show up every day knocking at my door or breaking in -.- i know my sims look tasty but this is overkill...kind of the trademark of EA: overkill!
you'll have to if you want to complete the soulmate aspiration or want to do love day righjt, but this is indeed a reason why i hardly ever do the goaled dates anymore… avoiding all kinds of gameplay just because EA botches up with their tendency to go all overkill. same reason why i never visit nightclubs anymore: some celebrity will just show up and clog up everything when dancing anyways, and if i wanna dance alone i can just stay at home right?
Its cool to have that option? yes, but i understand that the sims will choose to complain about the weather more than anything.
You can have the love day date without goals too. I'm not sure about the aspiration though as I haven't played it in a long time. Have you actually tried?
I’ve never had my sims autonomously spam holiday/weather socials though? It sounds almost glitchy?
I've never had Sims get stuck on the weather, though. They rarely ever seem to mention it.
I go back and forth on the holidays, sometimes I go all out with them, sometimes I forget and everyone is sad, and sometimes I cancel them early and everyone is sad. But then, I've had my fair share of sad holidays so it seems fitting to me in that regard, too.
And I'm guessing the OP never lived in the UK, where there are two basic topics: the weather and everything else. My Sims seem perfectly normal in that respect.
Morgan Fyres ahem… probabely the prettiest female premade in the game imo...yes i like her even more than Bella lol but that could be my irl love for redheads maybe… i deffo would not complain about the ffing weather if i was on a date with her lol i don't even know what's to complain when it is a pleasant Sunny day XD but sims just looove to complain in my games for some reason and their favorite subject of complaint is the weather… so much that they do it multiple times in a row even when flirty.
i avoid autonomous flirting like the black plague because for some reason my sims Always rush flirts with those hideous pearshaped random generated freakazoids. don't get me wron: i LOVE unique sims like the Bunches in ts3... well maybe not Arlo but Lisa, Darlene and Ethan are deffo not models and yet are very interesting sims, just like the Alto parents. Holly is a stunner! yet Vita and Nick are not and generally make terrible nooboos but i like Vita's demeanor: she really looks like that evil woman she is portrayed as and Nick has that mob boss vibe… but most ts 4 random generated are not just ugly, they are plain weird and almost Always have terrible traits, but i noticed a lot in my games at least that the game seems to favor them over the premades or sims i placed in town for some reason ergo premade/custom are used as bouncers and such while those freaks pollute my town and force themselves onto my sims even tho i don't want to interact with them at all.
actually, i live in the Netherlands and even here people don't complain this much...and believe me i often get bored when talking to my fellow Dutchies because they do complain a lot about the weather...but mostly about rain or cold...never about a pleasant Sunny day XD and they deffo do not yap on about the rain non-stop when indoor for example >.< who cares if it's raining when you are nice and cozy indoors with a lovely person next to you….
wow...even when on a date?? guess i lucked out then in my life hahaha because the weather was the least of my interests when i am on a date, and so far none of my dates cared either XD and it would be fine if we had that system of ts 3 where the other would get bored/annoyed if you repeated the same old interactions over and over. that would at least make sense like: "ok dude it rains so ffing what nobody cares!"
"Yay party! Lets Dance"
UK. "Can't it's too hot, don't you just hate the sticky heat when it's too hot?"
"Great date, lets snuggle"
UK. "Are you kidding, it's freezing out here in the park! What are you? Insane and don't even think about whoohoo in that bush, I'll freeze my berries off!"
"You look a bit sad, what's wrong"
UK "Rain it's always raining and if it's not it's drizzle, you know that fine rain that you don't see, but it gets you wet all the same. Brings me right down, I wish it was sunny!"
"How are you doing?"
UK. "Nice weather we are having!"
Seriously I live here and that's exactly how it is so one up for the Sims 4 for realism.
Can't say the complaining isn't bothering me in game, though. I've canceled my fair share of "Complain about ....." from simmies that should have more interesting things to talk about.
The holidays aren't bothering me quite as much. I delete the ones I don't like (Prank Day comes to mind....) and edit the ones want to keep, but have goals I don't like.
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