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The Phone Addiction
Catzilla
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I was thinking about the phone problem and I wondered if the cell phone could be added to likes and dislikes or maybe an Off button (and a low and high use level) on the phone interface that could allow players to adjust the interest/obsession levels of sims and their phone interaction. Folks who play historical stories or off the grid stories would dearly love the Off feature and some of the rest of us would like less phone use but not entirely Off and def not phone obsessed (except for the that one teen).
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video gaming so that they won't want to play with the phone.
Unfortunately, I can't get them to stop browsing web on their phone.
> I always have my sims turn off notification & social bunny. Also, I have most of my sims dislike
> video gaming so that they won't want to play with the phone.
> Unfortunately, I can't get them to stop browsing web on their phone. :'(
What is Social Bunny? I get tired of my sims rudely checking their phone while they are socializing. Also, if I change the color of the phone or case to their favorite color, they are CONSTANTLY defaulting to changing one of these colors.
I tried to get used to the constant phone usage for half a year but then I caved in and got a mod to get rid of it. It is now a must have mod for me.
Yes, I agree they should add a toggle. Perhaps a trait like technophobe from sims 3 where they would avoid a lot of electronics. I mean it might get annoying if they can't enjoy watching tv then, but on a scale of things, I wouldn't mind it completely.
I use a mod too so that I can at least enjoy the game without being constantly bothered by this.
Almost none of my characters are smart phone users and the fact that mobiles and computers are the only way to communicate is in my opinion an odd game design choice. I can have ancient vampires and spell-casters, but somehow I can’t have them live in a world that doesn’t run on modern technology?! It’s incredibly immersion breaking and it’s not how I want to tell my story.
There should be wall phones and an option to write letters or send smoke signals. I’m ok with a limited menu, I don’t need to troll teh forums or check how many simstagram followers my sim has gained.
At this stage there are about 500 different ways to be one of those annoying hip online influencers but there are zero options to write a good old fashioned letter to my sims great great great aunt who happens to be a living dead and resides in an off the grid medieval castle in a swamp with her slightly obnoxious but quite useful Werebeast pet husband and cat. She’s ancient and doesn’t know what a phone is. If there ever was a phone her husband must have devoured it because there isn’t a phone now.
I don’t want her to call my sim via a smart device and ask him whether or not she should become friends with some random purple haired townie person. I don’t care. In fact, I don’t want anyone to call me or my sim. Write or leave us alone. No phones allowed. Some letters shall be burned. 🤨
Smoke signals?👀👀👀
Never thought of it but gosh that would be amazing!!
Please devs, I beg of thee, have mercy on us! Mercy! *Sob*
*Mutters madly in a frantic whisper* The phone use... Stop the phone use...Make it stop... someone please, make it stop...
*Quiver*
*Twitch*
This is just one more example of how this is not the "Player's Game" and instead it's the dev's game. Player's choices in how they want to tell their story always revolves around if the devs feel like that's a viable way to play.
How can you play a "Rags to Riches" type game play or homeless person down on their luck? You can't because the devs think everybody MUST have a cell phone.
For most people a cell phone is luxury. And if it came down to buying food and paying for shelter to keep you out of dangerous elements or paying a cell phone bill each month, I can guarantee the cell phone would be shut off because that is not a necessity to sustain life, where shelter and food are.
They were already using the phones on their own every now and then, but I could live with that. They should have skipped the intrusive animations and just created a cellphone walkstyle if they want their Sims to stare at it all the time. Yes, I'm still bitter over this "gift". When the game crashed all the time, at least I could rely on them to to solve that issue. This one came with their blessings and I can't get rid of it. If there was one time I would have caved in and use a mod to get rid of something, this would be that time. Alas, console player.
What's next, every Sim will randomly wave a flag with a happy face on when they're on a good mood, no matter if they're walking, sitting, swimming or talking with another sim?
We want: Faeries, with a good ability tree, hopefully before summer 2024.
What do we want to get rid of: The holiday bug, the constant showering and the weed glitch.
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