Count Vlad visited my Vamp sim that he’s buddies with just yesterday. Though, the amount of random popovers does seem reduced imo. I’ve been playing a new family for about 3 sim weeks now and they’ve yet to have any visitors beyond the initial Welcome wagon. They receive constant phone calls to go out and hang though. One sim got invited out by the same friend 3 times in one day. That’s too much!
I actively chose "Private Home" lot trait to reduce this to close friends and family only, and still get some visitors, just fewer Sims my Sims barely know showing up on the front stoop.
Also, it seems visitors call to check first that it is a good time to stop by, which is a courtesy I appreciate. Close family (parents, siblings) are the most frequent visitors. If I have to turn down too many offers to visit them, or to meet them some place, I'll call back and invite them, as well.
Colleagues in the mystic arts also visit. Here is Beejay, chatting up L, Faba in their home Sanctum, while Bhakti finished up his morning meditation:
Beej is glad he picked his dressier everyday wear. Bhakti will have words with him later about steel-toed boots on the yoga mat.
No they do not and it’s rare for them to visit. I only seem to get a visit by random sims in a certain neighborhood in Willow Creek, but that is after I start a new game. Then all visits stop.
I have been building a lot recently, but when I played last night my sims friend came over two days running. And then when they moved house she visited there too!
I think it depends on where you live. I've noticed Oasis Springs and Willow Creek seem to get the most visitors when living there. When I played in StrangerVille I don't think I ever got a visitor and Del Sol Valley I'd get them occasionally but not nearly as much as Oasis Springs and Willow Creek.
I’m convinced Stangerville residents don’t receive visits from friends now. That’s where my new family resides that have yet to see guests. Reading the post above reminded me that I recently did a rags to riches with another character there who never once received visitors either. Yet, in San Myshuno it seems every sim and their grandma decides to pop over for a visit, lol.
What I love is when I have families I have placed into the game with the intention of them knowing each other. For instance, in my ancestral game save which I just rebooted, the two main families knew each other. I am playing household number 2, the Hawkins family, hoping this time to be more disciplined in giving them an entire seven days' worth of play before I switch households. Joseph purchased a retail business the Emporium, since he actually ran his own Trading Post. Who should come it to check things out? The parents in household number one. Very good. So, I used MCCC to give them their friendly relationship right off the bat.
And, yes, oftentimes friends will stop by my households in the game. Almost as if the game 'remembers', whenever I reboot, my soon to be young couple manage to 'find' each other without my help, I must add. I also love it when John asks his father is he can Adult Now, since he left school (as in he completed his four years at the Academy in Staunton, VA and refused to go further with his studies, foregoing them to be on his own). He was just sixteen when he married his sweetheart. Don't break into a hoopla, we're talking the 18th century in the deep South, here.
I find that if I give sims a key to the house, they become frequent visitors. So, I do that to encourage my sims' close friends to hang around quite a bit. Sometimes it's in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping, but...*shrug*
I get pretty regular visits from my Sims’ family members. I agree with @Sharonia - I’d love for them to add doorbell notifications again. Unless I’m staring at the front door, I only know someone tried to visit because I see them wandering off my property.
It depends on the household and location in my game. For example, I have one household who gets frequent visits from her daughter who lives in the same world, with a couple of other random visits every so often. But if I play the daughter, she'll get near to no visits from anyone whatsoever, not even her mother who she often visits.
I do remember there always being a ton of visitors all the time, back when the game was new. But it hasn't been that way in years.
I find that if I give sims a key to the house, they become frequent visitors. So, I do that to encourage my sims' close friends to hang around quite a bit. Sometimes it's in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping, but...*shrug*
I had visitors quite frequently, though mostly they just stood in my yard waiting for me to notice. I ended up setting one of my lot traits to private. Now it's only the two I gave a key to. They visit nearly every day.
I get tons of calls and texts. I'd like to disable that feature.
Family members and friends living in the same world as my Sim stop by quite often, like twice per Sim week. If friends and family members live in a different world in the same save, they generally drop by less often and I see them every two Sim weeks unless they are invited. Random drop-ins are quickly asked to leave or ignored. The random Sims popping up out of nowhere seems to have increased after Island Living, and I don't like it. The 'friendly neighbor' feature where they run over if there is a fire on the active lot, drop by with food, or just want to say hello has become a problem in the other worlds in my saves. Outside of Sulani these random Sims are not Islanders, nor has my Sim interacted with any of them. It was supposedly a new feature that was meant to be part of the experience of living on Sulani. In my game it has bled over into all the other worlds as well.
Family members drop by regularly but unknown sims visit too. As in real life, if my sim doesn't know them they don't answer the door!
I do like the "partying with club members" invites but dislike the "hangout with family" invites because family disappears within seconds. A lot like when a sim travels with other sims.
Usually it's just phonecalls from them wanting to hang out at their house. Although weirdly enough it's mainly strangers knocking on my door, I'm betting it's because they are so bewildered by how awful my houses looks that they need to see the inside.
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Also, it seems visitors call to check first that it is a good time to stop by, which is a courtesy I appreciate. Close family (parents, siblings) are the most frequent visitors. If I have to turn down too many offers to visit them, or to meet them some place, I'll call back and invite them, as well.
Colleagues in the mystic arts also visit. Here is Beejay, chatting up L, Faba in their home Sanctum, while Bhakti finished up his morning meditation:
Beej is glad he picked his dressier everyday wear. Bhakti will have words with him later about steel-toed boots on the yoga mat.
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And, yes, oftentimes friends will stop by my households in the game. Almost as if the game 'remembers', whenever I reboot, my soon to be young couple manage to 'find' each other without my help, I must add. I also love it when John asks his father is he can Adult Now, since he left school (as in he completed his four years at the Academy in Staunton, VA and refused to go further with his studies, foregoing them to be on his own). He was just sixteen when he married his sweetheart. Don't break into a hoopla, we're talking the 18th century in the deep South, here.
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I do remember there always being a ton of visitors all the time, back when the game was new. But it hasn't been that way in years.
Hmm I forgot about house and apartment keys.
I get tons of calls and texts. I'd like to disable that feature.
I do like the "partying with club members" invites but dislike the "hangout with family" invites because family disappears within seconds. A lot like when a sim travels with other sims.