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Gurus, can we please get an option to NOT own a cellphone and bring back home phones?
howsimlish
Posts: 709 Member
This question has been asked a lot in the past few years but I feel like it's time to bring it back.
I know it's not 'modern' to have a home phone but people do still have them, especially older people (sorry). Not to mention that some of us, while a minority, do play historical games or even Sims that are off the grid or 'homeless'.
I'd love it if you added a trait or an option to go cellphoneless and add home phones back into the game in a patch, maybe give us three options a more modern home phone, a 50s-90s era rotary phone, and a candlestick style phone popular from the 1900s-1920s,
EDIT: Payphones might be nice to have too, thought that may be asking for too much.
I know it's not 'modern' to have a home phone but people do still have them, especially older people (sorry). Not to mention that some of us, while a minority, do play historical games or even Sims that are off the grid or 'homeless'.
I'd love it if you added a trait or an option to go cellphoneless and add home phones back into the game in a patch, maybe give us three options a more modern home phone, a 50s-90s era rotary phone, and a candlestick style phone popular from the 1900s-1920s,
EDIT: Payphones might be nice to have too, thought that may be asking for too much.
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Honestly I'm fine with it, it's the world we live in, I use my phone all the time and it's the kind of parody you expect something like The Sims to do something with. But that doesn't mean there shouldn't be an option for certain Sims to not have one, can you see Agnes Crumplebottom wielding a phone on her night out shaming local teens? No.
I was honestly thinking that if you want a personal phone you would have to buy it, and as soon as you buy it it, it will be use-able.
It's kind of weird how I see my sims randomly standing. :( :(
i just wish i could disable that dumb idle animation for teens where they take selfies.
I miss those too, that would be fun to implement in a patch as well. Prank calls, scam calls, ominous calls, fortune tellers, I'd also love it if we could prank call other sims or receive wrong number texts.
edit: only used for said internet hehe
How could she find couples to shame without her handy Morality App and GPS system?
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
(still play sims 1)
But I agree, it would be nice if cell phones were optional. It's annoying for themed challenges and it would be nice to have to buy them ala The Sims 2. It could also be a whim for children and teens to buy them.
I can't speak for "most", but if you're under 40 and Australian you'll have a home phone number, but not necessarily a phone.
It really surprised me to find out there are no home phones. Sure, you don't actually need them anymore because every sim grows a mobile in their pocket when they age up to child, but not even as decorative items? Strictly speaking, you no longer need wardrobes either because sims can now change their clothes anywhere, and even if you tell them to do it using the wardrobe, they just stand in front of it and do their changing spin, not even bothering to open it. Yet wardrobes are still in the game, which is good, and I hope they'll bring back home phones too.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
If there was a stuff pack with a home phone for residents that did not want to use a mobile I would buy the heck out of it!
Ssshhhhh don't give them ideas!
I honestly think it is the only way we are going to see it, if they get some money for looking into it. Also, my budget for fun stuff was made with Mass Effect Andromeda and The Sims 4 in mind. Since BioWare won't continue with Mass Effect, still
I have a sim who doesn't own a tv or pc, she has a modern loft but she likes to do other activities, yet she still uses that dang phone. Atleast give us a on and off toggle.