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This is just the kind of garbage that shows me Maxis will never get it
ravynwolvf
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It's a never ending battle of fighting Maxis' programming, while trying to play the Sims like in past versions of the game. And I know this is gonna just seem like a small thing, but it's another in a long line of computer forced outfits, diversity, ambient mailmen, maids, and pizza guys. It's obvious you are never going to understand that what I (and a lot of other players, I think) want is to just set things up the way I want without your constant programming in of ways to change it. Newest example; I just spent three flippin' hours redesigning Drake Hall into a classy looking dorm, complete with little studious decorations on desks, tables, walls, etc. I take a break, go back in, excited to start my new degree, and when I appear in the dorm, there's new items like those dumb little big headed figures, on every desk in the building, replacing half the things I put there. Lamps are gone from tables, replaced by other items. IT'S MY GAME, NOT YOURS! It stopped being yours when I paid for yet another overpriced, buggy, pack. Bad enough I have to be your beta tester and spend half my time finding workarounds and ways to make things function properly that you failed on, but the least you could do is stop trying to personalize the game when that's MY job. You are never going to be better at making the game the way I want it than me.
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Thank you for helping me play my other sims game, which is making the first sims game work right (I think I play that one more).
A few items here and there is realistic. Having so many items clutter a room that a sim can't even find clear desk space to study is not. I had lamps lined up next to each other on desks. Random kitchen sauce bottles on top of closets and the above mentioned giant head figures spawning all over the place. It was to much. It probably sounded like a good idea but like many things in TS4 it was implemented very badly.
I hate to say it, but the mod doesn't seem to work; at least not for this. I have it installed now, and it just keeps happening. And I thought that maybe after everyone moved in and brought their stuff from home, it would stop, but it doesn't. Every time I exit the game or leave the lot, when I come back, it's changed again.
It also makes it harder to use desks. They don't just put items on the side; they put them in the middle, too. So instead of using their desk, they run into your room and use yours. And they put them on end tables, and replace whatever lamps you put there.
They added bed assignments, btw, so why didn't they add desk assignments? Would've taken less time to do that then to figure out how to have random items popping up everywhere.
I think the way that roommates decorate and behave is a little fun, but it should be a fun occurrence, not something that happens over and over. I do not think that my sims should be constantly sad or play the violin over and over to the point that they are getting hungry and tired.
The sims4 could have use for a "random occurrence" setting where you could set it to high, low or off.
I actually like this feature myself and makes things feel more lively. My sims roommates seem to keep to putting stuff on their side of the room if they bunk with my sim or just their room when I assign them as I never seen them decorating outside the bedroom.
Can understand what others mean though.
I like those, too. And every once in a while a sim will decorate with one. But the figures everyone is talking about on this thread look like they were made with lego bricks or like they came from an early 8 bit video game. Not the same ones.
I think they're kinda supposed to emulate the Funko Pop figures
Honestly, things were spawning a bit "randomly" some sims had sauce bottles on top of their closets but since it wasn't in my sim's room I didn't really care.
This feature is there to give the player a sense that the roomates think for themselves and change things around in their space. I think it's fine...not great though. What bothers me most is the AI of the roomates since some of them mostly stand around doing nothing for hours.
And I would feel better about everything if my sim would just change out of his pjs on his own from time to time.
I can see how this could be frustrating for some players, but I don't really care about it myself. Especially since my roommates were all randomly generated sims so I had no prior experiences with them and couldn't care less about them. Autonomsly decorating at least makes them seem less hollow to me. I may have felt differently if any of them where existing townies or my own sims.
Now, that's just plain weird. Have you tried to do a repair game? I would.
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Weird. I will admit that I am still having items spawning myself with the mod but it's at a much slower more realistic rate. With the mod I actually think it's a cute feature. Last night when I was playing in the dorms one of my roommates spawned a stereo in their room which is something I didn't have my sim buy herself. It turned out to be a fun little addition to the dorms. My sim would sometimes go dance with her new university friends when not studying or doing homework.