Things that annoy you in the Sims

[MoMoll]

Honest! Some EA clothes are for the birds. They should let you delete some if you don't want them. For instance, I hate cowboy outfits, so why is there so much of it with Pets. Why do they think anyone who loves horses wants to dress like a cowboy? I'm a city girl and all of my family ride horses and we don't dress like cowboys.

[KirbyAndKat]

We need an option in CAS:

CAPS:

Create-A-Pregnant-Sim!!

[alex51299]

Agreed. I hate that you can't put certain occults (vampires) and pregnant sims into CAS. (using cheats) I once had a vampire couple and they had a baby girl who was really ugly because she looked exactly like her father. I wanted to make her look more feminine but I couldn't because she was a vampire! 

[FireRaye93]

We need an option in CAS:

CAPS:

Create-A-Pregnant-Sim!!

Absolutely! I've never understood why a pregnant sim couldn't plan her outfits. I've known several pregnant women and they don't walk around in shabby clothing.  It's really annoying when I forget to change my Sims clothing a head of time.

The loading time in Create-A-Style is why I do all the color changes at once when I'm building a house. I wait for a whole minute for each category to load and when I go to that category again it is significantly faster. It makes the waiting time slightly less annoying, but it's a drag when I'm in Create-A-Sim because I don't have the luxury of coloring all the outfits at once.

Part of the problem, if you're like me, is that I save every single custom color I do which adds to the problem. I don't even use them again most times. I always think "well if I get lazy and don't want to re-color a pattern I'll have this to choose instead." Well brain, I have yet to get lazy with my CAS. That's more of an annoyance with myself though.

[jeanamariex3]

The pattern/clothing options don't bother me much. I can either be super lazy, or just leave them as is, because I like the CAS design options.

Me, deciding last minute, I'm like, this outfit, no this one, no this one!


I think it's a little annoying that we can't just put one little streak of color in our hair. You know, do all one normal color (red, brown, blonde, black), and just do one random bit of the hair one different color, like say, pink or purple.

[Jeeb]

The magical baby swing. As much as I love to use it, I hate it equally as much. At least in larger families. In one of my families, 8 total sims in one house, the teen puts the toddler in the swing and hes got the fast speed queued up before her butt even hit the seat. Then I notice the other six sims pretty much breaking down the door and running each other over to put it on fast. All of them!

Funny and annoying at the same time 

[Jade]

I just HATE when something breaks right after you fix it. 

[Kaye]

I just HATE when something breaks right after you fix it. 

I hate that too! It seems like I'm repairing an object at least once a day!

[Tuesday]

The magical baby swing. As much as I love to use it, I hate it equally as much. At least in larger families. In one of my families, 8 total sims in one house, the teen puts the toddler in the swing and hes got the fast speed queued up before her butt even hit the seat. Then I notice the other six sims pretty much breaking down the door and running each other over to put it on fast. All of them!

Funny and annoying at the same time 

I hate that.  I will actually drop the weird little nooboo caterpillar thing into the swing and then lock all the other sims out of the room.

[Magz from Oz]

Firstly, Meteors!  Hate them!!!

They always land fair and square on my perfect veggie patch and obliterate it.  They also manage to wipe out all the masterpiece sculptures and high end furniture in my garden except for the letter box and rubbish bin which (somehow) remain intact.  Then the singed and blackened Sims just stand around nearly naked (no attempt to cover up) with their hair standing on end.  Really, anybody singed that badly shouldn't have a hair left on their body.  I think that if the blast was sufficient to disintergrate the clothing, the hair would be long gone.  Then, after a quick shower, everybody is fine. The insurance pays out for your lost property (just like real life... NOT) and as a bonus, the Sim gets a gigantic space rock she can pick up and put in her pocket.

Secondly, fish that weigh nearly twice what the Sim weighs.  Angelfish to be precise but others are just as bad.  Perfect Angelfish can go well over the 80 kilograms in TS3.  My Sim would be about 55kg wringing wet!  How she can stuff 15 perfect angelfish and assorted other fish in her backpack?  And how realistic is it that something about as big as her hand can weigh that much? 80 grams instead of kilograms?  More likely.  But place 15 fish weighing nearly a (UK) ton in your backback with the gigantic spacerock and you have a major manual handling problem.  Where's OSHA when you need them?

[Ricalynn]

A Sims inventory is akin to a bag of holding without a weight/mass limit.


As for meteors, I completely agree.  I've only managed to get them in important files though like Dynasties. 

[Magz from Oz]

A Sims inventory is akin to a bag of holding without a weight/mass limit.

I understand that, and I do believe that someone in EA not accustomed to metric measurements stuffed up the weights.  But I see images of my poor little Sim holding up this 84kg fish and I've just got to shake my head at the absurdity.  I feel like my Sims are my friends because I generally play the same couple over and over again in different locations and houses.  So whenever I leave the computer, I imagine they down tools and have a break... not unlike that Kit Kat ad a few years back.   

[Serena Darrin]

A Sims inventory is akin to a bag of holding without a weight/mass limit.

Ok, this just totally made me laugh.  I never thought of that!

And it's just like the holes you get from mining -- I've always wondered, "How'd you get that through that hole?  No, on second thought, I don't want to know. It's just magic."

[Jade]

I also don't like when I'm trying to get a picture or screenshot, and then someone's phone rings.

[KirbyAndKat]

Well I've never gotten a meteor..

And whomever posted about the snapshot and phone ringing..just pause the game before taking the screenshot.