I will sometimes drag plates to the sink or bin and often drag food to the fridge as they are useless putting it away, but I try to make them do it themselves.
When my Sim is finished eating, I smack their hand and tell them to go do something else, I've got the dishes! Silly Sim, you've got skills to build and goals to achieve, and considering it'll add another ten minutes onto the time it just took you to eat that grilled cheese, and it'll take me three seconds... just go, Sim. Let me clean up.
No, I've grabbed the odd plate if they are doing a lot of things at once or if I just don't want to focus on it but I usually make them clean up or take out their trash or mop.
Usually, my Sims keep their homes tidy on their own. I'll step in when they've been really busy with things like work, school, or skilling. I'd rather not have them die trying to do something when they're exhausted or on the brink of a breakdown. I rarely have an issue with a Sim leaving a plate of glass on a shelf that they can't reach later. If they do, then I figure it was my fault for putting the shelf there in the first place so I'll take care of it. I tend to build small homes so there usually isn't a lot of space available for deco items except for some of their paintings.
I make sure to have them clean up after themselves and when they are away i stack those chores in one location if possible so the place doesn't look like a warzone.
No, I never have, never will. It's a life simulator, they made that mess, they can clean it up. No one in my life reaches down to drag my trash on the floor over to a self paying can. Why should Sims have it so easy? It breaks immersion in my opinion. The only thing I did often was sometimes move a newspaper inside when I got tired of a grumpy Sim or a Sim who was mad at my Sims (TS2) from stealing it if they hadn't found a job yet. But I don't usually use the hand of god in any of these games. And only if a plate was stuck and they couldn't pick it up anymore and need to cheat to reset it.
LOL, and omg, compare the 'mess' in TS4 to TS2's fifty stinky bottles on the floor, are you kidding me, they can pick this stuff up in TS4 themselves, they don't know what dirt is and would probably snap if they lived in some homes in TS2.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
I prefer for my Sims to clean up after themselves, but I'll intervene and drag books to shelves and dishes to the sink, from time to time, if they aren't keeping up.
I honestly don't see the need. They don't step over books nor even see them, they can walk right through stuff, it's not usually blocking them like in older games, so yeah, it's just more like FX at some point and not even necessary when a tense or uncomfortable moodlet doesn't even matter anyway, and always happy no matter what.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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@CAPTAIN_NXR7 I clean up for them... But I make them single parents of seven toddlers. Does that count as discipline?
That’s just cruelty. 😂
I just force them to eat it all.
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They can do that themselves!
LOL, and omg, compare the 'mess' in TS4 to TS2's fifty stinky bottles on the floor, are you kidding me, they can pick this stuff up in TS4 themselves, they don't know what dirt is and would probably snap if they lived in some homes in TS2.
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I actually saved some dirty glasses and plates in my sims’ inventories so they would have something to clean on my Spring Cleaning holiday.