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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1545 on: October 08, 2013, 10:32:24 PM »
I hate zombies! I will always use cheats to turn them off at the mailbox, but they keep coming back! Ugh!

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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1546 on: October 09, 2013, 05:11:14 PM »
It annoys me when Bonehilda stands in front of the baby crib preventing my sims from changing the diaper/feeding the baby, or causing the baby/toddler to stay awake instead of fall asleep just by standing there.  She just stands there making her creepy noises, and sometimes my sims have to dance around for a minute or longer trying to get her to move.

I heard she can help you with kids, but she's never helped me as far as I can tell.  I usually just dismiss her whenever I have babies/toddlers.

It also irritates me if you have a bar that all she does is make drinks, drink them, and mops up the resulting puddle on repeat.

Also, if you have hopscotch, she will also do it on repeat.

But the thing I hate more than anything else in the world is if I que up a nice long string of tasks, and something gets interrupted or skipped and I have to delete and reque all the tasks...

I mean...you couldn't wait 5 minutes for your brother to get food from the fridge, so you just skip eating!?

Also, I would give my left arm for the ability to 'turn off' hairstyles/clothing items I don't want my sims to be randomly generated with.



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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1547 on: October 09, 2013, 05:29:32 PM »
Also, I would give my left arm for the ability to 'turn off' hairstyles/clothing items I don't want my sims to be randomly generated with.

This! Since getting Barnacle Bay, there is an alarming number of people moving into town with pirate hats, turning off clothes and hair would be so much quicker than having to use cheats to enter create-a-sim. I can only imagine how annoying it must be for people playing things like immortal dynasties.
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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1548 on: October 10, 2013, 01:23:58 PM »
I have quite a list: My biggest one is when Sims are watching TV or playing chess, etc and they wave and complain they are tired when they get the tired moodlet. Or when they wake up because they go to bed almost hungry and complain because they are hungry. For these two things, just take care of it already. It seems the Sims complain and throw fits more in Sims 3.

Paparazzi always standing outside my Sims's door, then ringing the door bell every night at 1:15 am, ghosts that "wake up" around 3 am just to watch tv for 10 Sim minutes and then take a nap, when the Sims age up the noise makers and the cheering goes on way to long and when they age up, their hair and clothes change, so you have to go into CAS to change everything back to how you had it, when the toddlers energy bar is full, and older Sims wake up from sleeping, they always want to put the toddler into the crib, it takes WAY too long to get to the top of any Showtime careers, ghosts interacting with alive Sims. I liked it better when they would scare Sims in Sims 2, almost every night the children asking for a bed time story then the child goes into the parents bed then after they go into their own bed is a waste of time.

This is just my partial list. There are tons of issues I have with the Sims 3, but for some reason, I keep getting sucked back into the gameplay.




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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1549 on: October 10, 2013, 03:30:57 PM »
Ghosts that "wake up" around 3 am just to watch tv for 10 Sim minutes and then take a nap.

Totally this!  And they end up waking up the entire household just by spookily wandering around!

Another irritation I have is when a sim has a birthday, everyone else in the household, drops what they are doing to go 'celebrate'.  Even if they are sleeping!!  Why does it have to wake everyone up, I don't understand that.


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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1550 on: October 10, 2013, 03:31:37 PM »
Hi livvielove, about the martial arts, I noticed that too and have figured out that the higher ranking sim is put at the same level as the lower ranking sim.  This makes the match even for both.  Hope that helps.
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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1551 on: October 10, 2013, 11:12:27 PM »
Totally this!  And they end up waking up the entire household just by spookily wandering around!

Another irritation I have is when a sim has a birthday, everyone else in the household, drops what they are doing to go 'celebrate'.  Even if they are sleeping!!  Why does it have to wake everyone up, I don't understand that.

Yes! I agree. I guess they don't want to miss the party.  :)



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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1552 on: October 11, 2013, 02:39:11 AM »
A new annoyance - mermaids. I like them in Isla Paradiso, where they make sense, but I'm in the middle of a run in Midnight Hollow and one of the elder ladies has purple legs and scales. It's easy to ignore if I don't pay attention to it, but it's ruining the aesthetic for me.
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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1553 on: October 11, 2013, 06:29:04 AM »
Toni, maybe she's the Creature from the Black Lagoon?
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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1554 on: October 11, 2013, 08:11:49 AM »
A new annoyance - mermaids. I like them in Isla Paradiso, where they make sense, but I'm in the middle of a run in Midnight Hollow and one of the elder ladies has purple legs and scales. It's easy to ignore if I don't pay attention to it, but it's ruining the aesthetic for me.
Same here! I have seen several mermaids in MH now and I just invite them over to use makeover station giving them long trousers or skirts just to hide the ugly socks. It's bad I can't style their leg color.
Mermaids even annoy me in IP because they will automatically swim really really slowly to a destination unless I use the boat here option. It's not that easy to deal with when I have a big family to micromanage. They are lovely underwater though, but on land the dehydration is way too fast for my liking...

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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1555 on: October 11, 2013, 02:01:56 PM »
My newest annoyance as of last night with 3 teenagers in my current household.

Pranks.

Why can't I disable these?  I don't like looking at my house with a bunch of red flashy things from every toilet, shower, chair, and computer.

Do you know how much time I spend making copies of furniture and replacing the pranked items with non-pranked items? Ridiculous.

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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1556 on: October 11, 2013, 11:22:47 PM »
Toni, maybe she's the Creature from the Black Lagoon?

Not in this file - she's the mom in the Yates/"Psycho" house.

Same here! I have seen several mermaids in MH now and I just invite them over to use makeover station giving them long trousers or skirts just to hide the ugly socks. It's bad I can't style their leg color.
Mermaids even annoy me in IP because they will automatically swim really really slowly to a destination unless I use the boat here option. It's not that easy to deal with when I have a big family to micromanage. They are lovely underwater though, but on land the dehydration is way too fast for my liking...

Everytime I see a mermaid townie, I mentally start a countdown to when their obituary will be in the paper. Poor dears.
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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1557 on: October 13, 2013, 07:57:58 AM »
My annoyance all the time when attempting dynasties - opportunities that require travelling. For god's sake I can't travel or don't want to waste my trips on such pointless things!
Even when I am not doing challenges I will skip these requests anyway - they'd give me nothing big in return except doubling the size of my game file.
Sometimes I even have the urge to uninstall World Adventures, but alas, I love nectar making and martial arts...

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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1558 on: October 13, 2013, 09:01:53 AM »
One of the many things that annoy me is having uninvited guests on your lot. Sometimes I've got the annoying as my long lost cousin mascot worrying the snot out of my panning camera! The there's paparazzi who will stand out side your front door stamping and throwing tantrums b/c they can't get in OVER AND OVER! Then there's just random people who show up...and won't go away! It sometimes is more than one so they'll make out (I have children around!) or throw the Jerry Springer show on my lot and argue til' the cows come home! It's absolute insanity!
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Re: Things that annoy you in the Sims
« Reply #1559 on: October 18, 2013, 11:17:32 AM »
The there's paparazzi who will stand out side your front door stamping and throwing tantrums b/c they can't get in OVER AND OVER!

Zombies.

My zombies will do this. Every. Single. Time.

My new despised one is when your sim has a birthday, their hairstyle will revert to the old "generated" one instead of staying with the new current one. Trust me, Sims 3, I do NOT want my guy to have that godawful hairstyle where his hair is hanging in his face and I can't tell who or what he is.