The Sims 4 needs urgently an option to adjust the random events frequency. My game is boring since the events like abductions from Get To Work, party invites from Get Together and vampires break in are so rare. We already can adjust many aspects of the gameplay and for sure an option like that will please so much players that like and don't like the random events. I love when unespected things happens in my game and I'd adjust the random events frequency at least in 50% of chance.
What do you think?
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We definitely need more random events, and we should have the ability to control the frequency, but the game as a whole is just too predictable. You go to a lot, and you can pretty much know what will happen from the moment you enter to the moment you leave.
I wouldn't mind random events being a whole feature expanded upon in an expansion pack. Spontaneity is sorely needed in The Sims 4.
I totally agree!
That would be perfect!
Agreed, you can do this in MC Command Center if you don't mind using mods. (MCCC > MCCC Settings > Notification / Console / Menu Settings > Phone Texts)
I play with aging turned off, and also with seasons set to their longest setting. So a sim "year" for me is 112 days. And I play with the same sim for many sim "years". It fact, in most cases, I never age them up at all. And if I do, I base it on the real-life number of years in an average human's lifespan. So my sims can live for thousands of sim days.
My scientist sim has been abducted by aliens at least 4 times so far in about about 80 days. For me, that feels like a lot of abductions, because that's less than three quarters of one of his "years". If I got abducted by aliens 4 times in 9 months, I'd be like... "Maybe I should quit this job and stop contacting aliens."
But it's an average of one abduction every 20 days. For someone playing with aging set to the short lifespan, that is a huge chunk of a sim's young adult to elder stages, and because it's random, there is a decent chance it won't ever happen before your sim dies. So it feels way too seldom for someone who's playing on short lifespan and actually wants it to happen.
So, not only do I want the ability to change the frequency of events in different saves for different story ideas, I also think this feature is needed so that players can adjust the events to fit the length of their sims' lives.