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Kids are so Boring

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The title says it all!
They are so boring in this game. There is hardly anything for them to do.

All they have is:
1. Activity Table
2. Monkey Bars/ Jungle Gym
3. Toybox
4. Stuffed Animal
5. Violin
6. Computer games

And when they're not doing those things, all they do is CLEAN. Mopping up puddles, washing the dishes, taking out the trash. The kids literally are so bored they're cleaning.


Can we please get some more content for kids?

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    BabykittyjadeBabykittyjade Posts: 4,976 Member
    edited March 2022
    I can't dispute this. Kids always felt left behind which is a shame because I really enjoy them.
    I'm glad they are adding things for thing in New packs like kids being able to dance but at this point they really just need a whole dedicated pack.
    I always wanted to my kids running around chasing eachother, jumping on couches and beds, hiding under tables and stuff for hide n seek, food fights, fighting over toys (actually tugging it back and forth) building forts, building cardboard box houses, tree houses, drawing on walls,(when I was a kid my favorite was drawing on walls under the table and blaming it on my sister lol)
    pillow fights.
    I also want to see them being taught how to ride bikes and roller blade with good animations! Not just parents standing there pointing.
    And I can go on and on.

    In addition I would love to see more affection too. The cuddling option is one of my favorites. It's sooooooo sweet. Would love for parents to be able to walk holding their hand, carry them, sit on the parents lap and watch TV etc.

    But my kids are like mini adults. They clean all the time and sit around talking or playing with a toy hitting themselves in the head over and over.....😑

    BTW I hope they don't leave childish sims out if kids ever get more things.
    Zombies, oh please oh please give us zombies!! :'(
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    hely0thely0t Posts: 345 Member
    edited March 2022
    I find real kids more boring than the Sim ones. But like anything in life, it's only as boring as you make it.
    "You've got a face, I've got a face, it's all gonna be alright." - Noel Fielding
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    Mistletoe143Mistletoe143 Posts: 2,803 Member
    edited March 2022
    We really need a Generations Sims 3 / Dating System Sims 2 type EP.

    I would like child bikes, strollers, and child wagons / trailers for adult bicycles in the game.
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    PhobostimePhobostime Posts: 38 Member
    I wish there were more ways for kids to play with other kids, instead of just interacting with an object together. Sims 2 had some great options - playing tag, Mary Mack, Marco Polo...
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    alanmichael1alanmichael1 Posts: 5,490 Member
    Looking at Bienchen's list, I have to say that kids are the best young life phase in the game. I always enjoy them much more than toddlers and teens. Kids are the only age group I use for clubs. I also like the scout career.
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    bixtersbixters Posts: 2,299 Member
    Phobostime wrote: »
    I wish there were more ways for kids to play with other kids, instead of just interacting with an object together. Sims 2 had some great options - playing tag, Mary Mack, Marco Polo...

    Totally agree, I'd love some more group interactions for kids in the game!
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    bixtersbixters Posts: 2,299 Member
    edited March 2022
    Looking at Bienchen's list, I have to say that kids are the best young life phase in the game. I always enjoy them much more than toddlers and teens. Kids are the only age group I use for clubs. I also like the scout career.

    Most of the actions on Bienchen's list are actions all sims can do in game. And the ones that are unique for kids often reuse animations or just aren't very interesting.
    I'd like more interactions and objects that just kids can participate in.
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    bixtersbixters Posts: 2,299 Member
    I can't dispute this. Kids always felt left behind which is a shame because I really enjoy them.
    I'm glad they are adding things for thing in New packs like kids being able to dance but at this point they really just need a whole dedicated pack.
    I always wanted to my kids running around chasing eachother, jumping on couches and beds, hiding under tables and stuff for hide n seek, food fights, fighting over toys (actually tugging it back and forth) building forts, building cardboard box houses, tree houses, drawing on walls,(when I was a kid my favorite was drawing on walls under the table and blaming it on my sister lol)
    pillow fights.
    I also want to see them being taught how to ride bikes and roller blade with good animations! Not just parents standing there pointing.
    And I can go on and on.

    In addition I would love to see more affection too. The cuddling option is one of my favorites. It's sooooooo sweet. Would love for parents to be able to walk holding their hand, carry them, sit on the parents lap and watch TV etc.

    But my kids are like mini adults. They clean all the time and sit around talking or playing with a toy hitting themselves in the head over and over.....😑

    BTW I hope they don't leave childish sims out if kids ever get more things.

    That's a great list of unique interactions and special activities for kids!
    I also agree that kids just feel like mini adults, there's nothing unique about them. They don't even behave like normal kids, going around cleaning the house rather than having fun or using their imaginations.
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    alanmichael1alanmichael1 Posts: 5,490 Member
    bixters wrote: »
    Looking at Bienchen's list, I have to say that kids are the best young life phase in the game. I always enjoy them much more than toddlers and teens. Kids are the only age group I use for clubs. I also like the scout career.

    Most of the actions on Bienchen's list are actions all sims can do in game. And the ones that are unique for kids often reuse animations or just aren't very interesting.
    I'd like more interactions and objects that just kids can participate in.

    Yes, but the fact thall ALL Sims can do an interaction is not a weakness, it's a strength of the game. Players always complain if children can't do certain things and Maxis has improved a lot in this respect. Instead of having unique child actions I would rather love if all age groups could play voidcritters or if children could immediately start to learn piano playing instead of going through ten senseless "unique" child creativity levels first. And I would of course like children to ride bikes (but not with the current routing).
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    bixtersbixters Posts: 2,299 Member
    bixters wrote: »
    Looking at Bienchen's list, I have to say that kids are the best young life phase in the game. I always enjoy them much more than toddlers and teens. Kids are the only age group I use for clubs. I also like the scout career.

    Most of the actions on Bienchen's list are actions all sims can do in game. And the ones that are unique for kids often reuse animations or just aren't very interesting.
    I'd like more interactions and objects that just kids can participate in.

    Yes, but the fact thall ALL Sims can do an interaction is not a weakness, it's a strength of the game. Players always complain if children can't do certain things and Maxis has improved a lot in this respect. Instead of having unique child actions I would rather love if all age groups could play voidcritters or if children could immediately start to learn piano playing instead of going through ten senseless "unique" child creativity levels first. And I would of course like children to ride bikes (but not with the current routing).

    But if all life-stages can do the same things, what makes those life-stages unique? Specific life-stages, in my opinion, should have unique interactions, abilities, and objects. If they don't, then it makes the game bland.
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    83bienchen83bienchen Posts: 2,594 Member
    I see what you are looking for and it's not that I'm looking for the same things, because I am. Generation themed packs have always been on the top of my wish list right after horses.

    It's just the way you put your post that wasn't clear.

    That being said, there are quite some activities to choose from with that list in mind - it's not that they're all just boring. And yes, I do use all of them in my day to day gameplay and do not get bored with my Sim kids.

    I also don't think you don't have a proper understanding for what it takes to convert an interaction to be available for children. It's not just EA snipping with their fingers.

    @alanmichael1: Exactly.
    Now now EA, don't be stinking up our lovely lavender bath with your shopping fart. - My TS4 mods - Gallery ID: 83bienchen
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    ChadSims2ChadSims2 Posts: 5,096 Member
    I truly wonder did the Parenting pack actually make kids worse by this I mean they use to have an idle animation of doing nothing but now all they do is make messes dumping stuff on the floor why is this behavior a default instead of something they do when fun need is low.

    Sure children have many activities they can do they can stomp in the pond as someone mentioned or go swimming and do many other things like wear face masks or cross stitch but these are not the type of activates many are asking for when we speak of improving children.

    I for one am looking for game play multiple children can do together not always content developed for adults given to children which is usually tied to an object. Let my kids play Marco Polo in the pool or play a game of tag with other children or hide n seek, why can't children ride bikes in the first place I'd love to watch kids ride their bikes around the neighborhood, play in a clubhouse, play super heroes or a game baseball they are mini adults now named children who drop paint on the floor.
    Sims 4 went from "You Rule" to "One of the stories we want you to tell"
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    alanmichael1alanmichael1 Posts: 5,490 Member
    The point with actions like hide and seek may be that the game mechanic is not good at doing them. Take the bizarre slow-motion water balloon battle as an example or soccer playing which after 3 years still produces broken tense moodlets.
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    InuMiroLoverInuMiroLover Posts: 1,187 Member
    Id really love it if occult kids could actually do occult things. I was so annoyed when RoM came out and the only thing spellcaster kids could do was summon their familiar. (And dont get me started with their animation in CAS or I will rage forever) Im not saying that occult kids should have full access to their powers, but they're not normal kids! Let spellcaster kids learn a basic spell or have their parents teach them magic! Let vampire kids drink plasma packs or get uncomfortable when they're out on a sunny day! I'd honestly play occult families more often if occult kids were actually interesting to play. I dont want them acting like human kids all the time.
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    ignominiusrexignominiusrex Posts: 2,680 Member
    bixters wrote: »
    The title says it all!
    They are so boring in this game. There is hardly anything for them to do.

    All they have is:
    1. Activity Table
    2. Monkey Bars/ Jungle Gym
    3. Toybox
    4. Stuffed Animal
    5. Violin
    6. Computer games

    And when they're not doing those things, all they do is CLEAN. Mopping up puddles, washing the dishes, taking out the trash. The kids literally are so bored they're cleaning.


    Can we please get some more content for kids?

    You should try Sims2! The kids have so much, I was astounded. They play cops and robbers, tag, toss a football, play catch, play Marco Polo in the pool, families can not only hug but give 'kiss (family)', tell stories, be read to, I've seen parents spontaneously go past their sleeping teen and smoothe the covers over them and lean down and kiss their cheek.

    I ended up adopting 6 kids because I didn't realize I could use a reward item to change my sim's aspiration so I didn't have to slog through getting 6 kids all the way to married, and I really don't want to play that many kids, lesson learned: but I also learned that Sims2 is so much deeper and better than any other Sims game, it's incredible, you don't even need mods to add anything (except certain ones to correct some built-in game corruption issues that were there from the start).

    I saw one of my dads riding one of their sons around on his feet, both of them laughing. The teens noogie each other, start water balloon fights, get into it with the "bubble machine", they can choose to sneak out at night, though I haven't tried that yet.

    When they get an A+ report card, they come running into the house yelling with excitement and go get their parents and show them, and the parents whoop with joy too!

    And there are SOOOO many TOYS!

    Including RC cars and an RC helicopter.

    And teens (and adults) can work on fixing up a junker car, doing engine work and body work, sitting there with the grinder working on rust and minor dings (get after it with the body filler when the suction cups aren't an option LOL), throwing sparks, revving the motor...ahhh memories! Good times!

    Watching teens and adults around the working pool table or playing poker, shuffling, pushing chips, having a great time, it all feels so real.

    And I haven't even played babies or toddlers yet, as I adopted all these kids as school-age kids but I see the enormous amount of stuff for babies and toddlers in build/buy mode, plus an aspiration award is this bottle warmer full of "special toddler milk" to help your toddler gain skills a lot faster.

    So while I do not want to be neck-deep in 6 kids ever again, I'm blown away by the depth, and how great the animations are, and how many things kids and teens can do, and how they just take life and run with it, rather than stand around doing nothing unless you make them.

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    lebgirl_18lebgirl_18 Posts: 142 Member
    Yeah, I agree with you. Kids and teenagers are so boring. I mean, what's the point of them when all gameplay options are meant for adults
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    haneulhaneul Posts: 1,954 Member
    bixters wrote: »
    The title says it all!
    They are so boring in this game. There is hardly anything for them to do.

    All they have is:
    1. Activity Table
    2. Monkey Bars/ Jungle Gym
    3. Toybox
    4. Stuffed Animal
    5. Violin
    6. Computer games

    And when they're not doing those things, all they do is CLEAN. Mopping up puddles, washing the dishes, taking out the trash. The kids literally are so bored they're cleaning.


    Can we please get some more content for kids?

    You should try Sims2! The kids have so much, I was astounded. They play cops and robbers, tag, toss a football, play catch, play Marco Polo in the pool, families can not only hug but give 'kiss (family)', tell stories, be read to, I've seen parents spontaneously go past their sleeping teen and smoothe the covers over them and lean down and kiss their cheek.
    You can tell stories and read to children and toddlers in Sims 4. Children can perform puppet shows for their families. Children can also be tucked in, read to sleep, etc. I think the game is just worth a bit of exploring because there's quite a bit for kids. We're just lacking the group animations like tag, tossing balls for all ages -- for some reason, these seem not to work well in the Sims 4 (someone already mentioned the odd snowball and water fights). I wish they would work more on activities like these, but I think there's a good amount of stuff for kids to do already.

    This isn't about toddlers, but toddlers sometimes use their imaginations when playing with adults. We can only see their thoughts when we have them selected.
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    KironideKironide Posts: 804 Member
    I think it would be nice to have a few more child specific activities, but I also think its good that they now have more to do generally like the dancing animations, things are improving for them.
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    SimLarkSimLark Posts: 144 Member
    They are boring, indeed. To the point that I always turn them into teens, as soon as possible. Almost with the same speed I am ageing up the babies into toddlers. Anyway, with the children am so tired of the ''make a mess'' interaction; can't stand it anymore. And it seems like the favourite activity of all child Sims.
    I am not an English native speaker, so excuse my French :)
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    LiELFLiELF Posts: 6,591 Member
    It's a Sims 4 design flaw, I think, that Sims of any age really lack a variety of autonomous interactions and animations between them and that's what makes the game constantly feel like it needs more. The majority of interactions in the game involve objects and the autonomy is repetitious and samey with all Sims who have a tendency to be drawn to the same objects or have all the same idles. They are consistently drawn away from each other in favor of objects like the computer and when they are drawn to each other it's just the same idle chatting they do day after day and it never seems to change.

    So frustrating.
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    telemwilltelemwill Posts: 1,811 Member
    I would like more things for kids to do together with other kids. There are options with objects like the soccer ball, dollhouse, etc. But more options like tag and other games where the kids play together without a toy.

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    motdkmotdk Posts: 208 Member
    edited March 2022
    Yes EA needs to work on their family dynamics and gameplay interactions there’s so much that could be added. Should add Board games not just the don’t wake the llama game. kids should be able to dress in imaginary outfits pretend like they are those characters. Toddler should be able to dress in imaginary outfits and toddlers should be able to act out the wheels on the bus with hand motions and itsy-bitsy spider. Elder should be able to walk with a cane be chaperones for teenagers on dates at prom or dances. We need real fairs in the game with amusement park rides so the families will have somewhere to go and do stuff. I would love to see hopscotch in the game. Bikes for children and tricycles for toddlers. Parents need a mommy‘s day and a daddy‘s day. Parents and elders should be able watch sitcoms on TV. Teens should be able to have comic books, teen magazines. elders should be able to play croquet. Teen should have skateboards, scooters and hoverboards. Elders could have wheelchairs and scooters. We need family reunions not just family gatherings. They need to be able to video record family get together‘s or reunions. They need to be able to play tug-of-war and three Legget race, bobbing for apples. Holding a spoon for Egg walks, fly kite , play with motorize sell boats. we have plenty of water in some of the worlds. What happened to a finger paint for toddlers. Face paint station for kids. Fundraisers bake offs. Lemonade stand and race for cures.
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    friendlysimmersfriendlysimmers Posts: 7,587 Member
    i fully diagree as i see nothing wrong with how it is in the sims4 as a player
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