My pet peeve is that my celebrity Sims cannot talk to their own grandchildren just because they are famous and little timmy is not.

When sim really has to use the bathroom they go as slow as possible. It's so strange cause in The Sims 3 they used to make a mad dash for it, you know like a human would do.

One pet peeve of mine is that sims are not allowed to dislike each other. Your sim can woohoo with someones spouse in the same house, convince them to divorce, then marry the sim and after one negative reaction with the cheated on sim they may laugh and joke like nothing happened. Your sim can (with a player controlling them) over time build up hatred between two sims. But leave them alone with no personal input and after one or two negative interactions they are laughing and having a great time. I'm not looking for an everyone hates me game play (like some of the earlier games felt like), but longer lasting consequences for poor behavior would be nice.

Condolences to all family and friends of Pam. RIP

I miss when traits led to suggested lifetime wishes.

I'm so sorry about losing Pam. I didn't know you had a partner in starting your forums, but that means she was a huge part of our lives too. The forums, guides and comments are indispensable resources for us Sims players. She helped thousands of people around the world. Rest in peace Pam, and thank you for taking care of our community.

A huge peeve of mine for the sims 4 is when the devs will build a HUGE neighborhood world but there's a total of 3 liveable lots on it (see the quarry from eco living and the starter neighborhood from get famous)

Why TF are they trying to make the game more palatable to children? And if they are why can your sim 🦴 everything from a scarecrow to Father Winter?

so they weren’t even making whims properly for the FIRST expansion pack? and then they abandoned them after the second one? jesus christ, every new thing i learn about this game makes me just stare at the screen in disbelief. and the sprinklers being useless grinds my gears because i love gardening but hate having to go water plants for ages when you’ve already gotta manually plant, fertilize, weed, and harvest them. RIP Pam 🤍

I'm sorry to hear of your loss :( Rest in Peace, Pam

I have more faith in Carl's vision for Sims than the entirety of EA company.

The aspiration reward traits are so unbalanced it's ridiculous. I realized this while playing a Super Sim challenge and I noticed that all these reward traits I was accumulating were utterly useless. For completing the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration (which is too easy to complete imo but that's another conversation) you get a reward of weekly checks in the mail for 5% of your funds. But if my Sim is already rich, what am I gonna do with 5% more of my money? I don't need it!

One thing that annoys me about city living is that in the social media career when you want to do a sponsored product your fans are always angry and you always lose followers and you never get paid. It drew me away from the career entirely

I have one. Sims mobile, a game that literally IS BASED on the sims 4 models, has usable bunk beds, but for some reason they haven't even added any bunk bed even tho THEY LITERALLY HAVE THE MODELS AND ANIMATIONS TO DO SO

There is a mod for licensing song multiple times. But then again we shouldn't have to use mods for that, oh well

"i added the little kicks so u can see he's enjoying it" 🤣

Seasons being a pack? This will never make sense to me. It should be apart of the base game

One of the most irritating things is your teen has a girl/boyfriend and they age up and they're still their girl/boyfriend but all romantic things disappear. A little warning please!

Even worse? I still have whims active. I TRY to use them. But when my sim does what the whim says ... it doesn't process. It just stays there until I unpin it and it goes away. It says catch a fish. Fine, I send my sim fishing. He catches three fish. Whim is still there. Oh another one! Eco Living. The reward is to USE less bits and pieces but as soon as my sim got the aspiration reward... she RECEIVED less bits and pieces when recycling. Good thing she didn't need as much because she wasn't getting hardly any. Had to work HARDER to get the bits and pieces to use in the first place. Theres more, there are sooooo many more.

The whims thing is really bad. Ever since TS2, I’ve played a wants-based play style. So for TS4 I tried to adapt that to following the Sims’ whims but it quickly became apparent the system was broken. Thank goodness for modders like Bienchen who have overhauled the system; I just wish Maxis/EA would put in the effort their fans do sometimes! Sorry to hear about Pam. My condolences to everyone who knew and loved her.

It still irks my nerves that we can’t build/run our own apartments buildings if we own City Living. We can only remolded existing ones. My deepest condolences to you and Pam’s family and friends.

On the subject of the camera bug: Polite Introduction gives you 50% friendship with anyone immediately.

"sims can be friendless and still be happy" that sounds like me IRL.

everything feels like a dead end after playing for while. unless my sims are making babies. so now although i was planning to raise one now i'm raising triplets.

The vampire one annoys me so much, especially since the perk has absolutely no use. You can just as well knock on the door. In all my years of playing Sims 4, no Sim has ever refused to let me in.

My biggest pet peeve in the Sims 4 (the one that made me completely stop believing that things would get better) was when Get Famous came out, I genuinely liked the acting career. My Sim was doing an awesome monologue scene in an elegant, Victorian style dress and then, at the climax....she started breakdancing.

Your giggle during these kinds of videos is amazing lol These really are things that make no sense lol

Not to mention they added the Celestial Crown with Get Famous, which can use the Jet crystal to boost whim gains... which they discontinued with said pack. Sorry to hear about Pam, btw. Hope you feel better.

To me is infuriating that teens look like adults, I always have trouble telling them apart without passing my mouse on top of them. I wanna know from looking you at the distance if you are a kid! Make them just a tad shorter for God sake.

I'm sorry about the loss of Pam. I remember she was such a welcoming presence on the forums. My condolences to her friends and family during this time.

7:53 the same thing applies to the serial romantic aspiration. You get a trait that lets you have as many romantic relationships as you want with nobody getting jealous, after you earned it by having eight boyfriends or girlfriends at the same time.

The easiest way to be a mansion baron, after building your lovely big house, is to throw in a basement and as many high-price computers as it takes to hit that cap. You can then sell them all back after you have the thing. The collections for Plantsims, Easter Eggs and Sugar Skulls are still right there. I have no idea why they could not at least be a yearly event.

I’ve always wanted a child > preteen > teen stage Edit: I’ve put some thought into this Infants 0-1 Toddlers 2-4 Children 5-9 Preteens 10-12 Teens 13-19

Oh, wow. I'm so sorry to hear about Pam. She will be missed. I haven't been to the sight or participated in any tournament challenges in a while, honestly been on a sims break for nearly 6 months. Prayers for her family and friends.

Another thing that makes no sense: Why do Sims improve their fitness skill when emtying the potty? Is that poo that heavy?

So sorry to hear that. May her memory be a blessing.

I can see Pam was special to you. My condolences to her family and friends.

Oh, I just about choked on my shrimp with JtB, crickets, THE AD, and the toilet flush. Best ad placement ever. You win. EDIT: And just finished the video. Hope you are well.

1:59 plot twist - that was Kissing Neck - Romantic Interaction

So sorry to hear about Pam, Carl. My condolences and well wishes for you, her friends and her family. She sounds like she was an awesome lady. Take care of yourself in the meantime.

The other added benefit to the Grilled Cheese aspirations is you get to paint all styles of Grilled cheese sandwiches.

There’s so many things that is just plain irritating but for sure one big gameplay aspect is the fact that the same talking points are for everyone. You can’t ask your friend that came over RAGING MAD why they are mad, or your friend you bumped into in the park, they’re sad, only to “cheer up”. If you play the friends household, you know it’s because they had a family member that died but can your other sim find that out? Sometimes, if they say “console about death” you can but who might have died? No. You can’t get any info on other Sims moodlets. No info on someone’s birthday, that they just got a promotion, new job, moved, got married, had a baby, got an A on their test (or a c) or graduated...etc Gameplay relationships are flat out boring

great video as always carl, and im sorry for your loss

Not to mention the one thing that has confused me ever since the game was released. How can you make a BLT sandwich without cooking the bacon?

I remember reading Pam's dreamweaver dynasty so long ago. Rip Pam 😢

Your videos give me opposite feelings: enjoyment 'cause you're so funny and also anger & disappointment with every Sims 4 shortcoming realization. Thank you for the video and I'm sorry about your friend, Pam, may she rest in peace! Sending all the best from Europe!

First, my condolences to you and Pam's family. Also, yeah the reward system in this game is questionable. Not only the trait rewards, but also the item rewards. Some of the trait rewards are also the same as the other rewards, like the Beach Life trait and the Carefree trait. Really wish they focused more on these rewards, it gives incentive to playing a feature of the game again. :/

Is anybody having a problem with sims randomly playing the guitar, violin, molding clay, pulling out the work pad for the civil designer career (even though they're not in that career), amongst other things??

Seasons gives you the stupid “get a bee box” whim every time! That’s when the father winter trait comes in handy, YOU BUY A LOT A BEE BOXES AND IT MAKES YOUR SIM SO MUCH HAPPIER! Makes total sense yeah, everyone loves buying beeboxes

The talking toilet and the toilet from snowy escape sometimes will produce fire for no reason. I know the talking toilet always goes on fire but the toilet from snowy escape was funny. My Sim was doing his deed and it caught on fire. What a funny way to deal with.

i always visited your site back in the sims 3 days love your vids

Plants don't even get watered when it rains

I hold a degree in music performance, and I can attest to the fact that one must play every instrument to make money 😂

I would genuinely kill for a preteen stage. Like, pre-teen times are so awkward and full of SUCH wild times, middle school is sheer awful times.

Sims slogan: There's a problem, theres a mod

So sorry to hear about Pam's death, seems like you two have been part of my Sims game since day 1, take care of yourself and keep well

I thought you were going to mention Island Living Beach Life aspiration reward trait, which is exactly the same trait you can buy for satisfaction points in the reward stoee

After hearing you say 'they used to be called tree huggers' why the hell did we not have a 'hug a tree' interaction with the eco pack

I have fond memories of Pam’s Dreamweaver Immortal Dynasty on your Sims 3 forum. She was a great storyteller and her posts were part of my childhood.

Carl, I think I stumbled upon something interesting in the game that I can't find any word about online. So, long story short, I always play peaceful sims (key note, I would never select a mean or mischievous interaction, thus the algorithm never auto selected the interactions on full autonomy). Then I decided that I was done being bored and wanted to create an evil sim on it's own save. Evil sim would autonomously do good things, until I forced it into always doing mean actions (yeah, it even had the evil trait, so idk). THE TWIST: when I went back to my other games, again different worlds of their own, now the system is having all of my sims act more evil, no matter how nice they are. POINT: I think the game has an algorithm in it that notes what interactions the user selects and then tries to incorporate the into autonomy, which is fine, but it doesn't keep it with that sim. So I can't create a world in which Mother Theresa is 100% a good person and another completely different file and world in which something like Lucifer/Satan/Karen exists WITHOUT the game making Mother Theresa in her game, on her own, likely to have evil interactions with everyone simply because I have a completely different file and world for karen to destroy. TL;DR> the autonomy it creates is based off of ALL INTERACTIONS the user chooses in ALL FILES. Autonomy is based on the user, not the sim. So the more variety you usually play with for sims interactions, the more random the autonomous actions are overall in the game. There's just so much wrong from quick decisions, half executed, poorly researched users, and abandoned things left for dead but not removed or fixed enough to abandon. Just thought I'd share this with you. And sorry to hear about Pam. Remember that the community is here to support in any way we can. Take time to mourn and find peace, we'll still be here :)

I love your content 💛 That note at the end about Pam ... Made my eyes well with tears 💛 Rest in peace beautiful soul 💛 Much Love 💛

I'm sorry for your lost. RIP Pam.

this is so sad! I'm sure Pam will be dearly missed, my condolences to her family and friends, its always very painful to endure a death of a loved one. 😰

The seating (musical chairs) and social interactions are the two worst aspects of the game for me. I tell a Sim to grab a meal out of the fridge and rather than eat at the dining room, they beeline to the basement where another is working on furniture crafting. You can order them to sit at a particular spot after grabbing the food, but they'll only recognize it after they've completed the previous action. Glasses and mugs are especially bad because they'll drop everything to place them on a far away coffee table. It's frustrating how Sims always need to be near one another, especially when you have Loners or kids with the Distant trait - I want my Loner to sit in an isolated section of the library, but nope, he has to climb two flights of stairs to read next to a stranger. It's also annoying how the game will randomly spawn an NPC on the map that will immediately chat up a conversation for absolute no discernible reason. The game's social pie menus are an absolute mess with the more useful (well, less useless) options like Get to Know set at the bottom while garbage like Ask if Mermaid cemented on the top. The problem grows worse as your Sim develops skills or earns new traits, and after a while socializing becomes a tedious nightmare - most of the unlocked options do nothing but show new word bubbles. I'm glad you shared that photography trick because that'll be much more efficient than navigating through five menus over and over again. Sims 3 did it right with more options per menu and better organization. Adding to your list, I'd throw in candle making, which is a massive waste of time. It takes hours to craft one candle that might last 12 hours if it's exceptional and you have to manually replace them (including setting them to auto off or on). In the time that takes, you could just harvest a whole neighborhood and outfit your entire house with build mode candles that never have to be replaced. My condolences for Pam. Know that you two made something very important for us old school Sims fans, and I'm glad to see you continue the good work.

i miss career driven aspirations. what’s so wrong about wanting to master the criminal or painting career? if my sim is creative, a bookworm, and good why tf would i wanna make their aspiration collecting??? edit: rest in peace, pam 😔

When I play my family, if I have a teen sim and a child sim, and the child sim ages up while the other is still a teen. It's all in my head but they just look younger to me. But that's just pretend

I love how deep you go into the game to prove everyone how nothing works in it! I'm sorry about your mate, may she rest in peace.

6:32 There's another exploit you can use using the holiday system. When you make a holiday with the thankful spirit tradition you can repeatedly send a thank you card to any sim you want and build a friendship with them in the span of a few minutes.

re. sims not needing any sim friends - reminds me of how in sims 2 you'd need to make friends in order to progress in your career. it made sense since irl (most of the time) it's easier to get to the top with connections. the issue was that it was so hard to make and keep friends in ts2 😂

I’m sorry for the loss of your friend. Your continued honest views and informative (and creative) videos are a tribute to her. Keep them coming. I anxiously await your vids every week.

Sims 4 is just so lazy. I can’t even play it anymore.

I find it truly honorable and respectable that you waited until the end to drop that dedication to your friend Pam. I know this was years ago but people still experience loss or are coping. That sentiment definitely hit me and I was not expecting it.

In Sweden - we put our babies outside actually

your humour is so good i've missed it. the vampire animation almost had me crying with laughter.

3:06 "Is this teenager 13 or 19? There really isn't any difference" --- Lol! Many guys have tried that line with the judge, it never works......

Sending positive thoughts to you and Pam’s family/friends. Your website was and still is my first place for learning everything I know about sims. She definitely was a needed factor 💕💕

I get that a lot of people don't like whims and this was before I even realised they were broken, but it gets annoying when things don't get improved on because of the majority, and The Sims team doesn't investigate why the majority has an issue, instead leave things as is. I love the whims system because the first sim day is boring as hell. You create a sim, move them into a lot, get them a job then nothing until the next day when things pick up. The whims make it easier for me do something with my sim especially since I personally HATE the loading screen so it's highly unlikely I'd make my sim travel anywhere the first day. The team really needs to take a break from producing DLC's and fix everything about the existing game.

URGH. The whims thing!! It's bothered me for YEARS now, and I never really could articulate why. TS4 Sims have no personality at all, and whims were the closest thing they had to a basic personality (you know, on the whole Disney musical I Want song level)... small wonder the game felt hollow from so early on. It is pointless when the Sims are all alike, and Fine, and so easily made happy by all the same things. There's no conflict, no struggle, no stakes, no point in the Sims themselves in TS4. I've been playing the series from the beginning and TS4 is such a let down in the actual life sim aspect - the build mode is gorgeous and innovative, but the actual simulation? It's got the depth of an empty candy wrapper.

im a total sims casual and was pretty much only attracted to sims 4 bc of CAS and have spent very little time actually playing the game outside of making sims, but im really enjoying this channel anyways. :)

Very sad for your loss and her families. Bet she was awesome. Heart hugs.

Carl’s voice is so soothing

Liked as soon as you mentioned getting consent from a grub! 😂

First and foremost, I am so sorry for your loss. Love the look of your video. I totally agree with much of these things that don't make sense.

I'm not currently in a period of playing Sims, but I do love to check your videos anyway. Thank you for all the work you put in and I am so sorry for your loss. Take care!

I'd like more whims (and never noticed they stopped after a set pack). I'd also like other supernatural Sims (Ok just Death seeing as Father winter is already there) give a buff or something if you have a kid/kids with them. Also it's kind of like it went like this: Maxis 1: People don't like whims. Wonder if we could do anything to help that? Maxis 2: There broken. We 'could' fix them but people don't like them so lets just leave them alone Maxis 1: Ok.

The first one was funny so I'm excited about this one!!

Today I passed by Union Cove on Sims 3, visited the open market and gave a sad hug to Pam, who was there on her usual Consigment Specialist job. I really appreciated the work both of you did on the Sims 3 days, so thank you, Carl, for being and old theSims friend, and Pam, for the same reason, may her family and friends find peace on these sad times. F

omg the "hug a bug" feature is something i need in my life. if sims 4 wasnt expensive garbage id buy the extension just for that.

12:52 If I remember correctly, it once was a Sim Guru that said they're not really adding anything to enhance family gameplay because Simmers don't really play with families. Which feels very similar to the Whims Situation. No, Simmers don't not use Whims or not play with families because they're not interested in them. We don't play with them because they're either broken or because there is little to do to begin with.

Thank you, Pam. May you all find peace. My prayers are with you 💝

Rest in power Pam! Much love to you Carl and to Pam's family!

I'm sorry for your loss. RIP Pam 💙

I'm still SO mad that babies in this game are just objects tied to other objects, and the interactions are very limited even 8 years later. Even the Sims 3 did better, let alone Sims 2. And the fact that we didn't have toddlers for ages until they were patched in... I'm not excited for Sims 5 unless they leave behind the worst aspects of 4 and bring back the best aspects of 2 and 3.

I am so sorry for your loss, your videos are always great and cheer me up.

this is my first time watching one of your videos but i've always read your guides and your voice sounds just what i imagined

and how about the festivals the geek-a-thon and the weather another that makes no sense , computers in the rain havent fixed that

"Hug a Bug" feature, lol! Coffee on keyboard.

Sorry to hear of your loss, I always used your website, Pam her work had a great influence on me. Take your time to heal from the loss.

Thank you for the great video. Your Sims 3 forums were a big part of my teenage years and Pam was always a great person, her Dreamweaver dynasty was the first dynasty write-up I got into. My sincerest condolences to you and all her loved ones - RIP, Pam.