#sims 4 rant

[siyabsimmer]

In light of this whole simsulani shit, I have an urge to get something off my chest. Might seem harsh, but that's just my opinion, you don't have to agree with it.

If you're in this community just so you can make a profit off of it - be so fucking ashamed of yourself.

At what point has this community become so fucking greedy? Instead of creators who are genuinely interested in making some fun stuff for the game, we get a bunch of people who are hungry for a quick buck.

They steal, they give off in game stuff as their own (/greenllammas, I'm looking at you. you might have fixed the original post, but the internet remembers all), they paywall their stuff, which is in most cases lazy and subpar to say the least. CC shopping used to be so much fun, but now you get either perma paywall, or months of early access.

Where did we get lost, people? When has this became a new normal?

And don't even get me started on poses. Putting them behind a paywall has always seemed weird to me to begin with (it's one of the easiest things you can do in blender. yes it's challenging and hard and can be very tedious, but it's not even close to how difficult it is to make a mesh for the game, don't piss me off, i said what I said) but to steal from someone else and then put it on early access??? bro, I have so many questions for you.

You all are greedy little people and I'm honestly ashamed to be in the same community as you.

[satureja13]

When I saw these two NPCs at the beach from afar, I thought 'Omg! They can walk together hand in hand now with the new pack?'

But they just accidently walked next to each other -.-

She: "Keep your distance!" He: "You keep your distance!"

*sigh*

[ethicaltreatmentofcowplants]

Having completed her Angling Ace aspiration, Marin got cake-d up and sent on a vacation to Granite Falls and try and complete her fish collection. This gen's quirk is that they have to flirt with everyone who they encounter at a fishing spot, until they find their long-term partner.

Yeah, I'm thrilled about it too, Marin.

The rant follows. It was going to be a longer rant but then I got tired. You need energy to rant - who would have thought it? (Turns out I lied. It was still pretty long.)

Also anyone who isn't a Simmer will likely think that I need to touch grass after this (which, fair tbh). But then if you weren't a Simmer, you likely wouldn't be here in the first place 😉

(And yeah, it's all tongue-in-cheek/not to be taken seriously. Well, mostly lol.)

I know that the term 'long-term partner' is deliberately vague and leaves room for an aro-ace relationship (orrrr even a bff who you live with and raise a kid together?) which I appreciate. I know that she doesn't have to find her partner from this selection - the wording is that she just has to keep on flirting until she does.

But even of the premade townies, no one is sparking joy? I could default to Nalani, who you'd think would be perfect (I mean, gorgeous merperson and actually interesting in spite of her blah occult) and yet for some reason I'm just not feeling the two of them together.

So then the Watcher, in all her benevolence (aaaannd admittedly her cheapness for waiting on a sale to buy Lovestruck) set up a club for Marin. It was to be a club for young adults. It was to be a club for unmarried Sims. Which - I wish there was a finer means of classification, because I know damn well the two of you are engaged, Darrel Charm and Mateo Markovic from My Wedding Stories (whose name I had to look up, that's how little you inspire me). Bland as forbidden word townie from a pack so broke that it may as well be a millennial. Aaaand also it was to be a club for people with Level 2 Fishing and above.

Thus: young adults, unmarried, some skill (and therefore, hopefully interest) in fishing. Cute, cool. Hopefully we've weeded the catfish out of the pond.

Then we pulled up the tab of potential candidates and guess which forbidden word comes up.

Lou. Fucking. Howell.

For context, I have history with Lou Howell. I have beef with Lou Howell. Nothing particularly wrong with the guy, apart from a certain lightfingeredness (klepto trait) and a slight body hair problem around particular times of the month. But this motherfucker is like an universal adapter when it comes to all my Sims and I have to consciously make a decision to stay away from him in saves. In other words, Lou Howell is unwelcome here.

(I also don't really know yet what I'm doing with the fourth/next gen. Yeah, the rules say using music to make money. This Watcher however is this forbidden word tired of celebrity Sims popping up around the most random and out-of-way places that she's about to eject Get Famous into the sun, however, and it's taking every last once of willpower not to deactivate it right now. Sooo if I had an idea of what the fourth gen looked like, then I may have a less vague idea of what the baby daddy/mommy/gender neutral genetic donor should look like.)

Wait - what's happening now? Who moved my cursor?

NO, LOU. NO. IT IS NOT YOUR TIME. GO AWAY.

So I don't know what to do! Lou Howell Does anyone have gallery Sims to donate to this cause? Lou Howell Are there previously untapped mines of eligible townies who I haven't thought of? Lou Howell For the record, Akira Kibo and Paolo Rocca are granddad and dad respectively. In spite of the incest glitch making a comeback elsewhere (maybe it's heard the Targaryens have returned to the telly?), they are therefore out of the picture.

Play the Sims, they said. It will be fun, they said. A casual game, they said...

I need a lie down.

odd money legacy rules here. come join me. it will be fun...

[charey111]

For the past two days I’ve been getting sim-self ready for the bday photoshoot and I’m stressed. 😫 I feel like a real life photographer trying to set the stage and find the “perfect” poses, lighting, etc and I’m tired. How do yall do it? Especially with poses that have accessories?? 😫

[sejianismodding]

Why is everything always so sad: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113337087

☢️ I have but one simple question. ⚡ Did I miss the plot with this one? I think I did! 🙀

⚡ In hindsight, I think the Pre-Order bonus is actually the frame. In which case, the rant still stands. I would have preferred artwork of the new pre-made sims because THOSE IN-GAME GENERATED HOUSEHOLD PORTRAITS ARE UGLY!

I criticize and drag EAxis a lot but I understand that there are a lot of talented people on the Sims Team.

Why is that talent wasted and misused so much?

The Sims 4 could be so much more than it currently is without needing a new game or a new engine or any other "old" bullshit reason simmers have invented as a way to defend EAxis' shortcomings.

Instead someone (Electronic Arts) has this game in a vice grip and all they care about is the 2.8 BILLION DOLLARS that 70 million simmers could toss at them if we all bought any one Expansion Pack at full price.

Why would you put THIS lame-arse "Manage Households" photo as the Lasting Legacy Family Portrait Pre-Order incentive...

... when THIS gorgeous piece of artwork exists?!

Who makes these decisions?

This is like the Body Hair.

EAxis employed the creator who made the good body hair mod then pushed out some half-arsed infected chicken scratches posing as body hair that don't even match any hair aesthetic.

Goddess, help me understand this please!

This is what these in-game generated "Manage Household" portrait objects look like - we already have one in the Base Game!

Nice frame, but huge and kinda fugly. I left the door there for scale.

[doxepinz]

When I was in the mood to play sims 4 but the patch broke your UI mod and the CAS Unlocks mod so you gotta wait for them to update the mods. 😫

[mrblazeflappybird]

FFS COULD THE INFANTS JUST STAY IN THE DAMN CRIB??? STOP TELLING YOUR MOTHER TO PUT YOU DOWN ELSEWHERE AND NOT LET ME CANCEL THE MOVEMENT MY GOD JUST GO TO SLEEP IT IS 2:00 IN THE MORNING

[anamoon63]

Rather Long Sims 4 Rant

Before I continue with my The Sims 4 stories, it is with sadness that I inform you that the Wilsons recently lost the beautiful celebrity home they had just moved into. I don’t know exactly what happened, what I know is that it happened right after the For Rent EP update (which I didn’t buy or install, but yes, I did update). From that day on, my sims, who were on vacation in Sulani at the time, were unable to get back in the house. Every time they tried to return, the game would get stuck eternally at the loading screen. I tried everything, even evicting them and returning them to the house. Nothing, just the screen kept loading forever.

I also tried to demolish the lot to re-install the house, but every time I did this, (and I tried a lot of times), the game either crashed or kept loading infinitely. After many attempts of a lot of things like repairing the game, resetting it to factory settings, removing my mods folder, restoring saves, and all the solutions I know (I am die hard when it comes to troubleshooting The Sims), I finally decided to leave it alone and accept that my sims would never recover their beloved house and that they had to move.

Now they’re happily living again in Brindleton Bay, in one of the bigger houses there; they are comfortable, and going on with their lives, though I still really miss and long for the other house, which is still sitting there, since I have not been able to demolish it to put a new one. It’s still stuck there, which annoys me to no end cause I like my cities clean and functional, and just knowing that there is an abandoned and inactive house there really upsets me.

I know I could start a new save and install the house in a clean Del Sol Valley, but that would mean Allan and his family would lose all their current social and work relationships, which at this point for me is unthinkable, with all the networking they have established, co-workers, school friends, romances, etc. Plus, what about all the makeovers I did to everyone they knew? I mean, I saved every townie I made over in my library, but would I have to reinstall them one by one? Maybe, but how? I still don’t know much about this game; I know that in The Sims 3 it wouldn’t be a problem for me.

Anyway, the Wilson’s story wasn’t over, it wasn’t difficult to move them, the only thing that hurt me were Allan and Zoe’s awards, trapped in their lost home. But in one of the rare and fortunate times that I was able to enter the bugged house in build mode, I saved the room where the awards were in my library, and then installed it in the Wilson’s new house. That’s how I rescued the awards that now lie on a shelf in Allan and Zoe’s new bedroom. I continued to play and got a lot more photo footage of them, in addition to what I had before the update disaster. By the way, this is the first time I’ve had problems with an update, of any kind. I pride myself in being an expert at troubleshooting The Sims, but I guess I still have a lot to learn regarding The Sims 4, which is a relatively new game for me.

Anyway, I plan to uninstall the entire game soon and reinstall it on my other hard drive cause I’m running out of space and will need more since I plan to get a few other game packs in the future. Once my game is reinstalled, I’d love to be able to demolish the ruined house in Del Sol Valley and, if possible, reinstall it on the cleaned-up lot to give the Wilsons back the home they lost. So, if by any chance someone read this very long post to the end, and has gone through something similar to this, (i.e. not being able to enter a house but also not being able to demolish it in order to reinstall it), please let me know if you were able to solve it and how. Any new ideas, other than everything I already mentioned and all those obvious solutions around on EA’s Q&A, would be welcome.

Sorry for the rant, and thanks for reading this far. 🩷

Note: The house is Famous Mansion, in the Sims 4 Gallery, by emma4101, original by JL_Sims 4. Never had issues with it before.

[babypeachsims]

Have any other Simmers been experiencing lots of lag lately? My game got stuck while travelling to another location - ended up having to restart my machine just to make the game close down... :(

[kokujin-josei-simmer]

Sims 4 Limited Space

I'll probably buy the latest EP (Life and Death) when it goes on sale, but we really, really, REALLY need an expansion that allows commercial rental/leased spaces similar to the For Rent system (better actually) that allows multiple units on one lot. Cemeteries are definitely needed and should've been added long ago, but now we really have space issues. My sims in Sulani should not buried in Brindleton Bay because I have no space for a cemetery in Sulani.

Most maps are too small so you really have to pick and choose what you want/need because they're still restricting our business/commercial spaces to just one store/business per lot. I want the option to build art galleries, convenience stores/conbinis/bodegas, laundromats, banks, cafes, grocery stores/supermarkets, restaurants, bars, flower shops, bookstores, clubs, libraries, onsens, spas, hair salons, vet clinics, office space, parks, bakeries, and cemeteries (and more) in EVERY world.

The Sims 4 developers are still stuck on suburban America's mindset of building outward (sprawls) and need to realize that this is a game, so give us the option to also build UP like in most city/urban spaces. Imagine how our maps would look more realistic if we could have at 5 (or more) different businesses/commercial spaces on ONE lot 🥰

*Yes, I know mods allow multi-purpose lots, but I want OFFICIAL multi-purpose lots because, that's part of life so it should be part of the game, like years ago it should've been part of the game. We have cemeteries, but no ability to build a proper shopping center/mall? Seriously?

[rippedpatches]

guys silas died on his wife’s birthday. i hate the sims why am i so upset about a sims family i was so attached to them it’s not funny. katarina is in college having to be a single parent now BEING the main source of money. she’s in 2 college classes she doesn’t have the time for a job they’re living off of what funds they had only being $40,000 that’s not a lot for the sims. silas had such a good job he was bringing home $400 a day omg guys i’m so upset kill me.

[satureja13]

And then Rosa found a pile of snow at the beach. It's summer (and I don't use mods).

With all the bugs lately I think their plan is to mess up Sims 4 completely so we'll 'gladly' move on to Sims 5/Project Rene -.-

She's doing what needs to be done ^^'

[lulucecesworld]

The Sims 4 has been receiving a plethora of new content updates, from expansion packs to stuff packs, promising a more immersive experience. However, beneath the surface of these shiny additions lies a game that still falls short of its true potential.

Despite the influx of new features, the core gameplay remains stagnant. Issues like the lack of an open-world environment, limited customization options, and the absence of meaningful interactions continue to plague the game. It's as if the developers are building outward without addressing the foundation.

The expansions, while visually stunning, often feel like expensive band-aids rather than holistic improvements. Players are left craving fundamental changes that would enhance the overall gameplay experience, such as more diverse career paths, deeper relationship dynamics, and improved AI for a more lifelike simulation.

As we celebrate each new pack announcement, it's essential to question whether these additions genuinely enrich the gaming experience or merely serve as distractions from the underlying flaws. The Sims 4 needs more than just superficial updates – it requires a genuine commitment to addressing the longstanding issues that have persisted since its release.

In the end, it's a frustrating paradox. The Sims 4 keeps expanding, yet the feeling of a truly dynamic and immersive simulation eludes us. Until the developers prioritize refining the core mechanics, the game will remain a tantalizing collection of missed opportunities.

[charey111]

Ok so boom 💥. All of my current Saves are in Spring and Summer. I’m tempted to start a new Save in Winter ❄️🤔. Maybe create a new family. Download Christmas lots and center it around the holidays. I just hope I don’t abandon it shortly after Christmas is over 😩

[sejianismodding]

Fret not, I found the plot: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113386094

☢️ Here's the plot: I'm trying to do some modding and this !@#$ is getting in my way. 💀 If you can't Go Offline, you can't bypass the update prompt. 👹 10/7/24 - Here's the icing on the cake!

I've spoken about EA's poorly made App and it's abysmal Offline Mode before - many, many times. Now some of us are experiencing this when we try to play in Offline Mode: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Error-Code-204-Game-License-Expired-when-trying-to-play-offline/m-p/14134691

⚡ Oh look, here's another report: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/after-update-ea-app-for-pc-all-my-installed-games-wont-start-in/m-p/14132660#M56596

I have shoddy and unreliable internet. I don't have the time or patience for any more of this shit.

Some of you may not be aware of this, but The Sims 4 has some Always-Online problems likely stemming from EA's ill-advised and failed attempt to make SimCity (2013) Always-Online. It totes wasn't about piracy and it was totes Maxis' vision, right?! 😹😾💀

Whenever EA's servers are experiencing "technical difficulties", The Sims 4 goes to shit, literally.

Unusually long launch times? It could be your messy Mods folder but also, it's likely EA's servers.

My game is installed on a 2TB WD Black SN-850X SSD. If you're tech savvy, you'll know that's a damn good storage device. With NO INTRO installed - https://modthesims.info/d/532966/no-intro.html - my game launches in about 18 seconds when EA's servers aren't experiencing the difficulties of existing, but when they are, my launch time extends to almost 3 minutes.

Game performance randomly tanking to below 30 FPS? It could be that in-game thing with menus but also, it's likely EA's servers.

Going Offline in App and game solves this shit.

I cover a bunch of these things in my WiP Steam Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3128600854

"Spore (2008) and EA's hand in solidifying piracy as a form of protest" is the name of the first section in my big attack on titan that began on March 6, 2024. It needs a formatting overhaul because of changes to Patreon but it still stings like a mother!@#$in' bee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99833884

EA, darling, if I can't play your Single Player game legitimately simply because my net is shit and your servers are shit and your App is shit, what recourse are you leaving for me other than the one you're totes not obsessed with? Maybe what you actually need is another class-action lawsuit because the two in your past over Spore (2008) clearly weren't enough.

💀 I hadn't considered that with this broken, there goes delaying updates. If you can't Go Offline, you can't bypass the update prompt.

👹 10/7/24 - They've done it before!

Here's a whole thread from over a year ago, June 2023: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/RESOLVED-EA-app-Error-Code-EC-204/td-p/12695282

Here's a report from 3 months ago, July 2024: https://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-4-technical-issues-pc-en/error-code-ec204-cant-play-offline-says-game-license-has-expired/4944345

And here's a report from 3 days ago, October 2024, where someone says they contacted EA Support and EA Support told them to post it in the Sims 4 Technical Issues forum: https://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-4-technical-issues-pc-en/ec204-when-trying-to-play-offline/4979345

[cyazurai]

I have a simple desire. It's not much, but it would make my simming life easier:

I wish that adults would interrupt toddlers and infants when they're throwing a fit/crying, to take care of them, instead of waiting for them to finish and then cancelling the action and leaving. The toddler/infant does not need to throw a fit! They need something!! TAKE CARE OF IT, DIM BULB.