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What Currently annoys, or irks you during your playing of The Sims 4 but isn't quite a bug?
AlienTusks
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Hi, I I just started playing Sims 4 about 3 months ago and play it almost every day, I have about 40 percent of the expansions/packs and am for the most part enjoying the game. But heres a list of things that Irk me and could be improved in the game.
-Giving your sims commands in a particular order for a reason and the game remixing that order (based on what algorithm I have no idea).
-Chickens live extremely short lives, you can't build your relationship bar up with them and you have to name new ones so often (and before you suggest turn animal ageing off, I already know about it and don't want too).
-The household inventory not having a delete/sell all stack option
-the long loading screens despite not being a graphically complex game and occurring every time you make a move to a new location basically.
-Right now, I'm having an issue with hamster/rodents, when I hover over there encloser it always says their hunger level is fine, I never have to feed them, they are never hungry, the option to fill bowl is greyed out and can't be selected despite looking in the enclosure and seeing that it is empty. This ruins having the pets completely for me so I don't bother anymore
-Running a vet clinic is not fun, and the vets you hire barely ever do the job correctly they just stand about doing nothing half the day, even if trained well.
-The Butler is almost useless, not bugged but almost useless and they walk around all the time never sleeping and look tired.
-My cat ran away recently and came back very dirty, he has yet to clean himself and there is no option to bath/clean him/her. This actually dont really bother me yet, but if it continues it will.
-Working a regular job nets you about 2000 dollars a day if your moderately up the ladder. Well having a good garden nets, you 50,000 every day or two. and there's nothing to spend money on once you have the big house, the fancy pictures and furniture.
-sims walk halfway across the house to use a sink after using the toilet.
What gameplay issues do you find, lacking or annoying or falling short in some way... (we all know about the insulting, and it has been spoken about by the developers so no need to bring that one up really).
-Giving your sims commands in a particular order for a reason and the game remixing that order (based on what algorithm I have no idea).
-Chickens live extremely short lives, you can't build your relationship bar up with them and you have to name new ones so often (and before you suggest turn animal ageing off, I already know about it and don't want too).
-The household inventory not having a delete/sell all stack option
-the long loading screens despite not being a graphically complex game and occurring every time you make a move to a new location basically.
-Right now, I'm having an issue with hamster/rodents, when I hover over there encloser it always says their hunger level is fine, I never have to feed them, they are never hungry, the option to fill bowl is greyed out and can't be selected despite looking in the enclosure and seeing that it is empty. This ruins having the pets completely for me so I don't bother anymore
-Running a vet clinic is not fun, and the vets you hire barely ever do the job correctly they just stand about doing nothing half the day, even if trained well.
-The Butler is almost useless, not bugged but almost useless and they walk around all the time never sleeping and look tired.
-My cat ran away recently and came back very dirty, he has yet to clean himself and there is no option to bath/clean him/her. This actually dont really bother me yet, but if it continues it will.
-Working a regular job nets you about 2000 dollars a day if your moderately up the ladder. Well having a good garden nets, you 50,000 every day or two. and there's nothing to spend money on once you have the big house, the fancy pictures and furniture.
-sims walk halfway across the house to use a sink after using the toilet.
What gameplay issues do you find, lacking or annoying or falling short in some way... (we all know about the insulting, and it has been spoken about by the developers so no need to bring that one up really).
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The action that fixes this is actually βbrush petβ.
Yes... having some apple trees is more profitable than being president in the sims
- You cannot queue "Grab leftovers" and "Use toilet" together, because sims will then sit down on the toilet to eat their meal. Toilet use shouldn't multitask with eating or drinking.
- There is no way to opt out of eating at work. My sims in a poverty challenge work a modified career, 12 hours a day, but they get fed there twice a day, rendering gathering/growing food useless. (Yes, I can make them hungry with UI cheats, but it's tedious/I'm lazy.)
But in principle I quite like the Seasons expansion pack. Having a change in seasons, building a greenhouse and using sprinklers make it a bit more realistic to do some gardening.
What I am missing is a plant growing light like they had in Sims 2. Especially since Plantsims respond to that growlight as well. I feel quite sad to drain energy from the plants everytime it is cloudy or snowing, because it sets them back in their development.
But if I am wrong, I am happy to be pointed in the right direction (btw, I am currently only owning Seasons and Eco lifestyle, so if it is in another package, let me also know).
> @Fragaria_ananasa Just a thought, since you are into gardening, Cottage Living Expansion should be on your radar, it adds new things to gardening as well as owning chickens, lamas and or cows. The chickens will aid in your garden by eating bugs I think but that's not the only reason for owning them, it also adds a new lot challenge where you have to use fresh ingredients to cook your food, stored in your fridge some ingredients you grow, some you can purchase from a grocer who comes to your house and gives you the ingredients. So overall that expansion will add gameplay to your gardening, the world that comes with it is decent, not great.
I got to admit that it is very high on my wishlist and hope to find it in my Christmas stocking π.
And lastly, I've learned as I too am a gardener part time, that it's not good to constantly give your sim commands to garden, such as water this or that, and plant this and spray for bugs etc. for too long of a time in a row or your sim may get upset (Sad or Angry for example). So, what I do is like in the morning I just weed and kill bugs, then return to doing other activities then maybe at night I will return to the garden and fertilize things. You may already know this but just in case you don't you can give it a try it may help.
> Not being to be able to build in foundation/auto foundation. I play on PC but it still applies to me.
I am not completely sure if I intrepetaded you 100% correct. But if you mean that you would like to be able to put, say a self drawn fountain on top of a foundation, I agree with that.
At least I have been trying to do that and got the error "cannot build underneath". That I was thinking: but I want it on top of it. And I do not understand why because you have a lot of fancy places where you would have an indoor fountain, or where they have raised them on a platform.
Also, I wish that basements could be half underground. In my country, usually old historic houses in the inner city, have sometimes basements that stick 1/4 to 1/2 out of the ground, so they can have natural light inside. And I am quite sure that this feature is not limited to my country.
I saw a work around on YouTube, though. I haven't been able to try it out yet. But the drawback of the one method is that you fill up the gaps between the soil and the wall with bushes. Meaning, you can't have the pavement up to the wall of the house. Which you would have, if you want to create that inner city feeling that is around here.
The other way is some method using roofs. In this situation you can have the soil straight up to the wall. But this way, your basement ends up with double walls. So you have some issues with the windows.
And while we are talking about historical buildings, I really would love crow-stepped gables. I tried making them using half walls, but it still kind of looks akward, since walls must be a whole square. It would be in better proportion if half square walls would be allowed.
The Fear of a Dead End job is the most irritating thing added, it is a daily thing for someone over half way up the career ladder.
"I'm a lawyer now! And...and I...I don't know where THIS IS GOING!" Inconsolable sobbing commences.
Are you serious? What was this supposed to improve?
Also the fear of being controlled or whatever.
It's a game. Adding things to irritate and make the game less fun just means I'm not going to put another dime, much less any more of my time, into the game.
I mean, these are so easily fixable with Toggleable options that people's games are just being messed with for absolutely no reason.
I rarely go on dates due to that issue with sims and musical chairs and such.
So, I just noticed the overall discussion section, apologies since I play on PC. Sorry about that.
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