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How do you make the Sims 4 fun again?
Summerjase
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I want to hear the ways you make the Sims 4 enjoyable. Whether it be challenges, gameplay, stories, etc, I want to know.
I've sort of been 'off' the Sims 4 for a few weeks, which is super surprising because I'm usually an avid player. Upon returning to it, I just don't feel that interested. I had a huge generational family that I was working on, but it seems like no matter what I try to add into their story/gameplay, that I just don't find it fun anymore.
So what do you do when you lose interest? Challenge recommendations?
Yes, I do have more than one game. Several games, actually. I have been playing a lot of different ones lately, but I was hoping to return to the Sims 4 by now. I miss being creative in the Sims 4 and I sort of miss how much fun I had playing it.
Edit: I also might be open to mods that would make it more interesting
I've sort of been 'off' the Sims 4 for a few weeks, which is super surprising because I'm usually an avid player. Upon returning to it, I just don't feel that interested. I had a huge generational family that I was working on, but it seems like no matter what I try to add into their story/gameplay, that I just don't find it fun anymore.
So what do you do when you lose interest? Challenge recommendations?
Yes, I do have more than one game. Several games, actually. I have been playing a lot of different ones lately, but I was hoping to return to the Sims 4 by now. I miss being creative in the Sims 4 and I sort of miss how much fun I had playing it.
Edit: I also might be open to mods that would make it more interesting
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Kind of what I've been doing for the past three or so weeks, but unfortunately a new pack isn't in my budget right now
But there'll be a patch soon- there's always that! If the configurable stairs don't help, I'm sure some crazy challenge will. If you'd like, I could link a huge (200+) list of Sims 4 challenges.
Sure, if you would kindly link me to said list. I'll read through it and hopefully find something
Kind of what I've been doing, but I need a break from GTA sometimes too
As do I
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If I lose steam on a game, I take a break and play something else. My current TS4 save is keeping my interest however. It's nothing special, just generational, family play.
Sometimes, the latter can serve as a source of inspiration for my game such as when I build or decorate (for example, I may see something in real life and then get inspired to want to build/decorate or replicate what I may have seen) or maybe I might issue myself a personal challenge to limit myself to certain items or have sims living off-the-grid or in different eras, etc.
I recommend doing exact opposite of it for one save at least
play too much families?
don't cause any kids
play too much couples?
ban romance
only skill your sims?
well, sims will gain skills but don't use books or skill objects on purpose of skilling
always trying to complete same career?
choose different one youd never choose or don't allow your sims a career
cheat?
just don't
don't cheat?
cheat away and cause weird things happen
don't play premades?
play ONLY with premades
play premades and make no sims?
create a world of sims and play with them
never build?
build whole world
build too much?
only allow yourself to change insides of premade houses
always build with same stuff?
just build with other stuff
or think of a ridiculous theme
like trying to fit every princess cordelia item in one room so it makes sense
and so on
personally i used to always delete premades but it turns out i find it way more fun to play with them than my own sims now so at least for me worked
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@Summerjase
The link you requested.
http:/https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/906643/sims-4-challenge-list-updated-july-1st-2019/p1
I’m the same. Just before new content drops, the anticipation overwhelms my interest because I just want to get my hands on the new stuff
The challenges are often a good boost of interest, but also, if you have a save already and it’s not fun, start a brand new one. Try out the CAS Stories, a simple challenge, poke at build mode and see if you can build something you haven’t before. Experiment
Hope you find a way to make the game fun again. If not, take a break and play something else for a while.
It is actually fun to watch them and see what happens. Some flirted with others, some ruined relationships, etc...like a never ending soap opera.
Explore different careers, aspirations (that alone can take some time to complete). I sometimes discover something I never knew by trying different things.
Saw a sim smash cake in their spouses face once. Someone recently posted a picture of a sim washing a cupcake, I noticed clumsy sims actually break dishes when washing dishes (I found that out when I heard crashing noises and went to see what was happening), etc....take your time and you will notice all sorts of things.
I once added a kleptomaniac unknowingly at first in one of the clubs I made and noticed items started to slowing go missing. A neat sim was cleaning even computer desks on his own (that isn't even an option I think). Goofballs great sims in an unusual way.
If you only play with a few sims or just speed the game up, you are probably missing out on things.
A sim lost her elderly mother and the grim reaping started to follow her around the house and flirt with her even though she is married with kids and her mom just died. That was interesting. The ghost grandma would actually help care for the babies.
Try different emotions and watch them. Angry sims will stomp around, kick trash cans and slam refrigerator doors, etc...erratic sims will be mean for no reason to others. Has no mean trait and wasn't even angry and then flirt with them. Embarrassed sims will always try to hide, etc...
A vampire who just broke up with her boyfriend and had no sun resistant trait kept wanting to go out in the day time and stand outside and if I hadn't stopped her, well we all now what would of happened. It was strange and sad really and had to keep forcing her to go back inside. I noticed it seemed to be a habit of sims who are upset in general, they like to just go outside and ignore the weather or time of day. That was how one angry dinner guest froze to death. I think patches helped with that as at first, all my sims kept freezing to death.
Recently a celebrity sim just got a new stan who apparently thinks she lives in my sims apartment as she never seems to leave for long.
Lets make this a reality!
Controlling 1 sim vs a multi-gen family is a nice break.
I’ve tried to get a couple 100 babies challenges off the ground but I haven’t found a good enough founder yet- aka the genetics of the babies bore me or look... odd. So I need to make a sim with genetics that mix in interesting ways with other sims to keep it interesting.
Oooh, the ISBI challenge is always fun, but once again haven’t found a founder to keep me invested yet.
Generally I pick challenges that allow me to try something different. The reason why super sim and legacy are my main two right now is because they are practically opposites- one sim vs dozens. Complete control bs carefully choreographed chaos. Strict ‘do this than this and now this goal’ guidelines vs ‘come oooon randomizer pls give me something good.’
Similarly, I like the 100 baby challenge and ISBI because they offer a structural difference. ISBI allows me to see more autonomous actions and limits my puppet master tendencies, whereas 100 baby lets me play with genetics and cackle.
So Sims 4 sits on the sidelines while I put 100s of hours into Fallout or other games. Sort of sad really, because Sims 4 has alot of wasted potential.
I got a part time job to supplement my full time career. The part job is just for the summer/fall so I can buy another computer game that caught my interest. The part time job is also going to fund my new computer that I need to play the new game.
I still play The Sims but not as much as I did before two jobs. Maybe with a new computer I can play on ultra and have a whole experience.
Anyway ...
The only whims thing that I did in one save was very fun. You let whims and the game control your Sim and it makes a very interesting story. My male Sim got abducted by aliens... and had triplets! Can't get bored with that. lol ... but I did. I lost interest right before the kids became teens. Can't play teens. I wish I could turn off the parenthood crap. I kill teens with that sluggish walk. I don't like to kill Sims so I do not play teens. The parenthood messages are annoying. I could disable the pack but then I would miss the objects. I don't know what it is but I seldom play a family after the toddler stage. I think that those parenthood messages pop up and ruin the my immersion that I had going. I don't like having to make decisions that negatively damage my Sim child no matter what I choose. I would love to turn that crap off.
Okay
.... Right now I have two young adult Sims running a store that sells art that she paints and photos they both take. Photos do not sell for much so she paints and does the fashion career also. He mostly runs the store while she paints and writes fashion columns. I had him in the freelance photo career but I made him quit because of the bug. (rumor has it that they might fix it with today's patch) I built her a little office at the store. She can jump in and help if needed because she works from home. When the store is closed they travel around to take more photos to sell while also completing the friend of the world aspiration. She needs charisma for her job. Might as well get some points along the way.
that would indeed be miraculous to the point of unbelievability