With the addition of Neighborhood Stories, these calls are getting more frequent. There had been a
suggestion that a Voicemail system should be implemented. With a voicemail system, you don't have to pick up a call or miss them while in the middle of micromanagement. How the Voicemail system works is either show up as a Notification at the top-right, or as a panel in the cellphone. In the voicemail, you get to answer at your own leisure. Or ignore them, which would then expire at a certain time.
Anyone thinking the same?
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I'd also like the ability to not receive calls at all. Muting the phone just means it won't alarm when getting a call/text. But sometimes I don't want a sim to get calls at All. Especially since I keep mostly getting calls to go out with sims my sim doesn't know, or getting calls about "Wow you're friends with [insert sims name]? They're so cool!" and stuff like that.
I'd like the phone calls more if they were actually substantial and came from sims my sim actually knows more often. Having a good reputation or knowing more than 5 sims just means I'm always getting calls about making new friends or getting requests from random townies to join a new career or something.
So yeah. Voicemail would be cool but Only if it's mainly substantial calls and not just a bunch of spam.
Also, I hate how someone calls at 10am and asks: "Do you wanna hang out tonight?" which translates to: "Let's go out RIGHT FREAKING NOW!!!" There's been many times when I'd have liked to say yes but I didn't want to interrupt some other action I was just doing. (Also, my day phobia vampire would like an option to tell them to go soak their heads and call again at night.)
I also think it should work as it works in MC Command Center. You can enable a setting in that mod (Silence_Phone_Texts) so that when your phone is muted that means no messages, no invites and no calls showing up on your screen.
Also agree about the spam calls. Because I actually love receiving invites or interesting calls but I swear they are all spam and career questions. I don't even play careers so that's pretty blah.
Now if we got some really weird and creepy scam/spam calls I'd be into that 😎 but these are just boringly uninteresting. Or either my cat Congratulating me on being friends with my daughter 👁👄👁
A phone on/off toggle in general would also be wonderful. It wouldn't just be convenient for people who don't want constant phone spam, but for historical games, it can be a real annoyance to see your Sims autonomously playing with their phones.
Please devs, make this happen.
Edit: I forgot the do you want to go with me somewhere calls(spice fest, romance fest, geek, bluffs, date, hang out, etc)
Not to mention the ever annoying "I heard you became friends with so-and-so blah blah blah". I can't tell you how utterly tired I am of that call. I mean, how do they even KNOW? I can check the callers relationships, and they don't even KNOW the sim they are calling about?!
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I don't really care about being bothered with calls, It's just annoying when you get a call from someone who want's to go out right now.
I usually refuse because I am doing something more important. If I had voice mail I can take on these social engagements at a better time.
Maybe make the "Exchange numbers" interaction Friendly and the only way of gaining access to your sim via phone (apart from things like school/work calls where having your number makes sense).
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