Things that annoy you in the Sims

[Odinsdottir]

What annoys me at the moment is not the sims but the frailty of computers.  Mine just up and died Saturday, taking my first attempt at an Immortal Dynasty with it.  I have a good friend who's worked for Dell for 20+ years helping me reset it to the factory settings, but I've lost everything.  Remember folks:  back it ALL up.  I could just cry.  At least he thinks the hardware is ok, ie, that I don't have to buy a new computer, I just need to re-install everything.  Am waiting on a disk he's sending me in the post... 

[jeanamariex3]

The accuse of cheating thing can be pretty random and in my experience doesn't always make sense.

For instance I am playing a vampire in Moonlight falls who has moved in the fairy Oberon.She got pregnant without him breaking up with his wife,I know I know naughty!. But I couldn't get the option for him to break up with his wife no matter what I did.
So anyone one day he comes home and accuses the vamp of cheating.Hello there mister technically you are the one that is cheating pal.

Rachel

Oh Rachel, I've hated the cheating system since Sims 2! It happened quite frequently whenever Kaylynn Langerak cleaned the Pleasant Family's house, and she got angry whenever she caught Daniel kissing his wife Mary Sue. It's been around since Sims 2, really, and nothing has changed. Maybe Sims 4?

[Tealeaf]

My Sim changes to Formalwear because his/her subway stop was on the same lot as a high-end bar. He/She also gets wishes and/or memories regarding such.

Oh, so that's what's happening!  I've had this issue from time to time and I had no clue what was causing it.  But you explaination clears it all right up.  Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Gameactive]

Oh, so that's what's happening!  I've had this issue from time to time and I had no clue what was causing it.  But you explaination clears it all right up.  Thanks for clearing that up for me.

No prob. But it shouldn't be that hard to tell 'em to change once they're inside, you know what I mean?

[Tealeaf]

I don't really care about the formal clothes thing.  I just wondered why the heck they would want to order a drink or visit five hotspots or whatever when they were comming straight home from work or whatever.

[Odinsdottir]

I forgot and had the wrong sim do the marrying, so I have to slog them to the courthouse to change their names. I know it's a minor thing but it gets my goat.

[saltpastillen]

I just hate the horrible travel glitches. Like when your sims leave from vacation and you are left behind there with no sims to control. Or you get home only to have greenscreens, or clones showing up. It irritates me so much. I just spent about three hours trying to get people home from Shang Simla. I'm done traveling for a while. At least when it's a file I care about.

[Grim Reaper]

I hate it when in The Sims 3 Pets (PS3) your sim pet follows you when you go into town when you didn't want them to go with you.  Most of the time when I have a sim go into town I want them to go alone to go there for something then go back home.  When I find a pet has come along too I quickly tell them to go home to find they come back.  It's good to be loyal but not good to be an annoyance.

[Odinsdottir]

@Saltpastillen, I'm beginning to feel very grateful that I've never had a travel bug, excepting the one where a sim with the LFW of Possession is 9/10ths gets his progress restarted!  Sounds awful.

[saltpastillen]

@Odinsdottir
Yeah, it was pretty annoying. I just had to close down the game and reboot the computer over and over untill it all worked out. But it took about 2 hours and countless tries.

It was my immortal dynasty file too, otherwise I guess I could have used some mods to make traveling more stable. I've learned the hard way that traveling get's more and more buggy the longer I play a save file, so I'm planning on getting it all out the way as early on as possible.

 

[Odinsdottir]

@Saltpastillen, that's a useful tip.  You might want to pop over to the board about dynasty tips and hints and include that.

[Wai]

For me, right now, its the lack of matching sets, mainly in build and in some cases in buy mode.  That front door looks really good, but there is not a single window style that compliments it.  Curtains, Ok, the big ones fit my main window perfectly, but nothing fits the little side window and the styles are totally different anyway.   Chimneys, yuk, red brick or red brick so how do you get complimentary walls?

[Rainbow Dash]

Maids. When my Sim aged up my maid helped herself to cake then left for the day leaving dirty dishes and a dirty shower behind at least, she didn't even finish cleaning!  The worst part is she stole one of the toddler books I had left on the nursery floor for said toddler to read. I knew Maids put them away but I can't find it anywhere not even in the bookshelf!

I hate Maids and that's the last time I cake up while on is one the premises! 

[saltpastillen]

@Rainbow Dash

The book going missing might actually be connected to the latest patch. I, and several others have had books, and sometimes cars go missing but later turning up in the basement. So if you have one - look there.

[Shirin]

For me, right now, its the lack of matching sets, mainly in build and in some cases in buy mode.  That front door looks really good, but there is not a single window style that compliments it.  Curtains, Ok, the big ones fit my main window perfectly, but nothing fits the little side window and the styles are totally different anyway.   Chimneys, yuk, red brick or red brick so how do you get complimentary walls?

You could try going into Create-A-Style while in buy/build mode, then things will match. When I was using a foundation in my Dynasty file for awhile, I recolored the red brick to match the rest of the wall (grey brick). Also, if you have Master Suite,  they have these lovely floor length curtain halves. As in, you place the left side independently of the right side, so it's always the perfect width.