So something has been bugging me to no end and I would really like an answer or maybe support from people who feel the same.
I find that having a phone from the start is kind of annoying for when you're going for a specific lifestyle. I love technology, however my sims often do not, atleast I want them to not care which they seem to do almost everyday when they're browsing their phone. I get the idea why you'd want to give phones for every sim (even children..) but what if my sims are poor? What if they hate the outside world and only want to work on their garden and enjoy the simple life.
Not to mention, even if I turn my phone on "silent" for my sims they still get messages. They still look on their phone. I had a very poor sim, living on a flat piece of land with a tent. Somehow she was still rich enough for a phone? It just doesn't make sense and it's becoming more annoying now I want to have an option to play however I want to.
So please
@SimGuruDrake @SimGuruGraham or any other guru working on TS4, would you be able to make it optional. Something like in the options menu where you "buy phone online" or "have a phone for everyone" option where you can choose for yourself? I don't want all my children getting a phone, not every child wants a phone. I know they come in handy, but not everyone actually likes having one.
Hope it will be possible one day. Thank you for reading!
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Good luck.
Edit: I just want to add that irl I hate how little kids have cell phone. Whenever I go to my nephews elementary school to pick him up I see little 7 and up kids using expensive phones. I got my first cell ten years ago, when I was fifteen. I would like it if children sims didn't have phone by default unless they are boughten for them by the player.
Btw, I got my first cellphone when I was in 3rd grade, so with age 8-9, but it was a simple phone where you were only able to call or write text messages (which costed much back then). Such phones were very normal, because the smartphones that existed were so expensive that the average person couldn't afford one.
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Sorry, I had to personalize your quote
The smart phone in S3 is annoying and nothing has changed with S4.
My Sims can't have friends because all they do is call you at all hours to watch a loading screen and go to a bar.
IRL, I can turn my phone off. Food for thought.
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I wish we could play without phones, the next best thing is MC Command Center. I use it now and have removed the phone. It works really well and I can't say how happy I am not to be bothered by it all the time. No idle fiddling and no playing games on the phone all the time.
Now if I could do that without a mod it would be even better. Optional phone ingame would be best. Then I could let the geeks have the phone and the rest skip it.
How did you use the mod to remove the phone? I would love to be able to do that for some of my sims and I use that mod.
Choo Choo!
I don't want my child to have a phone and play videogames when we live in a very bad apartment trying to pay the bills. Why would my child have an expensive phone in that kind of situation? So here's hoping they'll ever read this *fingers crossed*.
I concur.
It's in the tuner-section.
https://deaderpoolmc.tumblr.com/doc/mctuner
I stopped my sims from using the computer unless instructed to do so as well. There are several really nice one
I get calls to go out to eat or meet up with someone, they are only there for a minute, unless we are at a restaurant and them I have to pay ????
The only thing they might be good for is when someone texts you about a promotion, birthday party, or when you have a child. Otherwise they are just annoying.
Turning it off doesn't actually work. You still recieve calls and messages. Sims also use the phone on their own to play games or check the web.
bahaha "We're sorry Sim Nectere has run out of data playing blickblock and is unable to send or receive calls, you may upgrade your data plan for an extra 1000 per week."