"Yeah he's a real loser" "Surely no one can love him" Icing on the cake 😂😂😂

I felt personally attacked lol

CarlDillynson I read this as he was saying this 😂

My cat feels threatened

I hired a nanny multiple times, I winded up just having her become part of the household since it was cheaper to just house and feed someone than to pay them $180 x2 a day, she was literally an on-call nanny 24/7, well, maybe 22/7 but you get the idea. Too many kids, not enough adults in the home. She had a non-committal trait, goof ball, and ambitious, she drowned. It seems like there isn't a way to save someone who's drowning? Which is a bit unfortunate, I exited the game when that had and just reloaded, it was a huge set back, since then I've Save'd before a Sim repairs anything, and I also don't let/tell Sims to go swim if they have low energy. In my game the sims have full autonomy, but there's definitely not I in AI for the Sims, this idiot who complains about having to work as a musician (They had 10 piano, 10 guitar, 10 violin when I brought them into my home) and is literally free loading, and was about to be deported over to Sulani to get the Beach Life trait making her never get Tense, even though I had over 5000 aspiration I was still on the edge about wasting it on this Sim. Well, she drowns, I get the notification, I find my best Fitness Sim on the lot (9) send her in to swim to her to save her, I tried clicking on her but pulling her up/swimming to save wasn't an option, I jump into the pool hopping maybe than an option appears, none does. I couldn't be arsed to roll back my game for the Nanny who complained about living for free and just going to work to pay for what she ate (she made very little, only level 6 of the musician category, and rest of the house made much more in comparison., yes, even the 3 teens.) *TL;DR* Sims AI has no "I" in it, likewise non-committal sims are a pain in the ass, and I'm not annoyed that she drowned other than now I have to find another Nanny or age up my teens so they go live with their father in Sulani, but he's off-the-grid, so that will be fun. (Oh, and reason why Non-committal Sims can commit to anything is otherwise they wouldn't ever commit to a job, you'd maybe have them do only Freelance Jobs, or perhaps only Odd Jobs, which I think are both behind a paywall.)

I'd say it's not that things should matter more in ts4...they just should MATTER at all to begin with.

@@thundertea For some reason it's like they make the game more for children. And honestly ii don't think children are their biggest fan base. Prior Sims games were a lot better with the AI. It seems in my opinion the only plus of Sims 4 is the graphics and that's it, anytime they attempt to add AI anything, it does nothing. I'm sure that's why they no longer add traits to the game they've given up and become lazy. Every sim acts like the last with just a different look no actual personality. Sims 3 may have been buggy but I adored my sims and their offspring, I enjoyed the townies I enjoyed them actually living and acting outside of my control. I could play for hours while in Sims 4 I could just play a hour then get bored VERY fast. Sims 1 2 and 3 I had on PC and in my opinion I never felt mods were needed for their personalities. But playing this game on console the game is just boring and I have all EPs and SPs. It is a shame really. Bring back story progression Sims team

@@sukirinaa i just got back to sims 3 and i remember why i love the game. it has all the details. the open world, cars, incredible gameplay, everything.. and i don't need +7GB of cc and mods. a few hairstyles and that's it. sims 3 is fun and it has content. it makes you want to leave your lot and explore the world. sims 4 has a nice cas but that's it. that is everything it has for me. in sims 3 i also love how i don't have to pay 20 € to have a curfew for the teens..

Unflirty sounds like aromantic, but it doesn't work like that at all...

Yeah, not too bad. Was hoping for occasional interruptions from it. Evil wasn't picked because it would make him happy any time he upsets someone.

your clumsy sims fall over? I give them the clumsy trait and it just acts like I didn't pick anything! lucky!

@@vroomlucas they don't fall onto the floor or anything, tripping and wobbling might be a better description

As a clumsy person I can say I trip so much that I just reflexively laugh now.

My sims make a skipping motion like they slipped on a banana and then flails like he’s gonna fall face first or on his butt. But then quickly regains his balance like nothing happened. And it’ll happen at random times. Like it happened my sim was going to the chicken coop to feed his chickens.

with chocolate, skittles and that coca-cola you hear about in every factoid from the 1890s.

It's not even that - they're on ecstasy 24/7.

@@IsomerMashups those decoration manufacturers are really selling drugs, hah.

Z. Well, flirty ambience items are pretty dodgy in the whole concept of "freely given consent" - like an aphrodisiac gas released into the room without the person's consent.

The only side affect is that they speak in a garble version of every language

That sounds really cool, like something out of Sims Bustin Out

LG 92 - Love Bustin Out. I think it was the second time I played the Sims after Sims 1 since I moved to primarily gaming on console.

Sounds fun!

If yer not against using whicked whims, you could download it for the attraction system and make them dislike each other traits. It will actually make it quite hard for them to become romantic.

Verônica Prata - Not possible. I’m on console...In any case, we shouldn’t need cheats or mods to do that.

Hail to the dear leader.

The dear leader shall set us free.

DEAR LEADER!!!

We worship dear leader

All hail the dear leader

Ikr instead of them making useless packs they should make a big update for their behaviors or make a pack for it or else the game will be unplayable even with new packs

I made myself in the Sims 3, gave myself the clumsy, brooding, socially ankward, shy and ambitious, and it was so hard to make friends and was legit a challenge, i gave myself the non-commital trait in Sims 4, got a girlfriend in 2 days.

@@Nobody-qk4xu My non-committal sim in TS3 has had 1 marriage, a divorce, a bunch of breakups and career changes (all on her own wishes). My non-committal sim in TS4 is married, cool with it (apparently?) and only wants to look at paintings. And if that ain't just a baffling lack of depth right there, I don't know what is! 😂😂

Findme Atglen sims 2 was a blessed game- Sims 3 doesn’t have a real reaction when you change their appearance.

ArtemisMoon12 yes, I it was Sims 2, so long ago :)

this explains it so much. It's the fact that emotions override traits. Spot on!

It's not just that, though, Sims 4 aspirations are a complete joke, and the fact that you can change them so easily means that every sim ends up completing a massive number of aspirations in their lifetime without any effort. Whims mean absolutely nothing (and they're disabled by default), so there's never any push for the player to do something interesting (like adopt a baby just because their sim wanted it).

Right @Isomer Mashups - it's not everything, it's just a very easily provable problem that we can say, "please fix" to. I am 100% in agreement we need a broad effort to make Aspirations something other than tutorials and to give more for Sims to do with large sums of money and improve autonomy/storytelling, AI, career rewards, and mainly those areas off the top of my head. This is me chopping down what was a 25m video into a couple sentences but.... I really hope they are planning to tackle the issues we seem to almost universally agree upon.

@@IsomerMashups Right? I loved the aspirations in Sims 3, they actually meant something and you had to work to achieve their goals.

@@RedRoseSeptember22 I liked the Lifetime Wishes in 3, but preferred the Aspirations in 2. Since the aspirations were vague, the wants were the real heavy-hitters for shaking up gameplay, and since those are randomized, no two sims were ever alike.

yeah, low fun is tied to tension like being overworked ( the main drain of fun) while boredom is generally, "I want to do x but haven't done x in a while" like for dance machines. But yeah, happy or uncomfortable are the major players here. Being sad + uncomfortable should likely overwhelm your +happy points and make you not feel so hot. That's my take.

Slice of Life mod can help

Another thing that really bothered me is I have two sims with the "hates children" trait, they're males and got abducted, both came back pregnant and they were happy about it -_- they should've been tense or angry, etc. Super unrealistic.

@@RedRoseSeptember22 that is super weird considering that normally they would've been losing their minds. Idk TS4's a wide ride.

@@RedRoseSeptember22 agreed. I dont hate kids, but i defenitly want to be childfree in life. I would be upset and angry if i ever got pregnant.

Ikr instead of them making useless packs they should make a big update for their behaviors or make a pack for it or else the game will be unplayable even with new packs

I miss my evil sims being able to steal candy from babies and toddlers.

Don't. Kill the Reaper could crash your game, or so I heard. Maybe don't do it if the Reaper is an NPC.

Oh thanks for the heads up @@gumballz.9259 but I just didn't know it was possible or hadn't thought about it. It's really pretty cool still

Lol!

Someone also did it around the time the sims 4 first came out. She did a whole test around it. If you wanna check it out, her name is PrettyGrumpyBear.

I usually dislike messing around with Grim like he's a regular Sim. It messes with my headcanon regarding the Sims mythos in which Death is a "greater deity" which is why the Watchers (us) have less direct control over him. Any time Grim appears to be killed, cursed, beaten up, etc. he's just messing around with mortals.

Yeah those two do cause a more lasting impact with negative moodlets. Especially Roburky's mod where they can stack and can linger for hours.

What are your other three? Genuinely interested.

@@MieSyzygy Well, the general lack of risk and challenge for one. The fact in many ways it is less developed than sims 3, no open worlds, fewer pets, fewer life states and more. Is another. And the last is it lacks much of the quirkiness of the earlier packs.

@@TheScoed I agree with you on those. Really did expect much more from the game at this point. Thanks for sharing your reasons, I know we all have similarities as to why this installment is lacking. The fact that we have to rely on mods says a whole lot about where their headspace is at. I keep crossing my fingers that they'll take a hint from the thousands of us who interact with them, but it's almost like a deaf ear in response. It's such a shame because this game is graphically very nice, build/buy/cas is wonderful. It just lacks so much depth with the gameplay. Thanks again. 💖

@drunkdeity Yeah I only play with mods now lol. I can't without them.

@@MieSyzygy This is really interesting and I just don't know why Maxis steadfastly refuse to listen to fans. AKA the people who pay over and over for games right from the Sims 1. Almost everyone says the same thing about lack of challenge, lack of consequences for actions, shallow gameplay and just generally feeling bored and uninspired with the game. And these are the die-hard dedicated fans I am talking about, who actually care enough to make these suggestions and comments. But instead of listening they just release more random stuff packs or add things like mermaids instead of challenge. Its says a lot that fans are forced to create their own artificial challenges like 100 baby or rags to riches etc, to create the element of difficulty and depth not provided by the game, plus relying on mods and downloaded content just to make it fun. But I highly doubt they will ever listen. They'll just take our money from the dozens of Sims 4 expansions so far then move right on to the Sims 5 and expect us to do it all over again.

Agree 100%. I hope this is part of what they're cooking up to improve gameplay. I really look forward to covering whatever big patch they are working on based on that survey and hope it wasn't just to put some more stuff in some kind of snow retreat pack (because that type of activity was mentioned in the survey as well).

oh god do I feel this pain as a console player. buying the packs on 50% off sale JUST to keep me interested. Thank goodness we at least have access to some of the gallery now! even if it does take several minutes to place a lot...

The fact you can't get mods and CC on consoles are part of why I'm getting a gaming desktop.

I confirmed all my traits were firing, even with that many they were still too infrequent. It's a shame, really. Thanks for sharing your experience.

@@CarlsSimGuides it seems that positive traits occur more often than negative ones, I paired a genius and a gloomy sim in a single household to test this up, and the gloomy sim would get sad a lot less frequently than the genius sim would get focused, seemed like the genius sim would get focused 3/4 times a day while the gloomy sim would not be sad more than once a day, I may need to test this a bit more

@@tonyshum5569 Do keep me in the loop. I may follow the lead you've given me as well... though I have to pace out critical videos as this one turned out to be. I want the best for Sims 4 but I do not want to be seen as hating it or ruining others' fun so I try to space that out. It'd be quite shocking to me given how easy things are if the sad/angry moodlets fired less period. So you can't even make a real hot head if you want to..

@@CarlsSimGuides celeb's quirks and vampire's weaknesses are more reliable in that department. They are triggered all the bloody time! So if you want to make the worst sim, add those in as well.

@@gumballz.9259 The emotion-bomb trait should really help to bring out the negative emotions.

I'm glad you found it helpful, thanks for letting me know.

Add into the mix with celeb's quirks. Emotional bomb and juice addict or vain would make your sim even more terrible when it comes to emotions.

I find emotional bomb not that bad actually. It’s actually one of the quickest ways to get rid of a sad mood let from a death. Sure they’re very sad for a bit but then they just have a cry and all the sad moodlets are removed.

Klepto is boring to me because even if I get caught stealing there are no consequences. I can't go to jail, won't get fired from my job, you won't have a meaningful loss in friendship. They should make it so that if you're caught stealing you get kicked out of the place you're at, or if you get caught stealing at work you can get fired/demoted. Also when you don't get caught if would be cool if there was still a possibility to be caught later, like you get a text from the Sim you stole from asking if you took their object. It would be great if you could be arrested for stealing as well as fighting, throwing drinks, streaking, etc. since we already have the jail and police station from Get to Work but I get that's too much to ask

@@saintazepam I mean honestly you’re so right this brings up a point I’ve thought about for a while. Like why is there so much missing? it because of EA restrictions and not wanting to trigger their fanbase using police, robbers, etc? Cause you know this day in age you can’t do anything without offending at least someone 🙄 Is EA trying to make ts4 appeal more to children? Like is that why there’s so much missing from sims 4? I don’t freaking get it!

However our glorious leader is, in fact, very good at being bad.

God, I love the guy.

He's a good guy really

5th mention of this mod, I'll be looking at it. Thanks again.

@@CarlsSimGuides I just downloaded it based on it popping up in related videos. I'm curious to see how it goes.

We won't get a complete overhaul, now when sims5 has now been announced. That will be under development as we speak, so most of the energy and resources will be going towards that. They might add stuff, but I highly doubt they'll do a full rework of existing features.

Stettafire you’re right - it’s a shame but we have to stay realistic.

He will lose all his extra traits, leaving you to get the mod and customize him - since you're not gonna be the only one to ask, I went ahead and did so just now. He's in the roommate household found searching hashtag #carlsguide

You're like #4 to recommend it to me, but I"m taking these to heart and will definitely be investigating the mod :)

yeah that is a good mod.

if it stayed updated, yes.

Even with that great mod, that doesn’t remove the core gameplay on how not meaningful the traits are. I’ve experimented with and without, this issue is at its core gameplay.

@@Hestia23 True, it doesn't fix traits, but at least it eliminates the easy manipulation of emotions through decorating and sims being happy all the time by default :) I would love for traits having stronger consequences too, sure.

sucks we have to resort to mods for a decent gameplay...

I rolled Mean as a trait for one of my Legacy heirs and she'd often get a Happy moodlet from being mean to someone, but it would be great if it was a little more smug than just happy.

And maybe even DF!

It's entertaining for me too. I'm enjoying the process of learning to edit and get better footage, so it's definitely super exciting people actually watch that when I make it!

People are watching my videos more than ever, and it's exciting. I'd love to do this for life. I don't have some calling for it, I've just learned a lot in 18 months and hope it continues like this so I can make use of everything I learned. Thanks for the well wishes :)

@@CarlsSimGuides I really hope that you can make a living at this. I have followed the supercarlinbrothers since they had only a couple thousand subscribers. They now have over 2 million, and have hired, I believe, five people for their office. They have recently tried to tackle the Sims 4 with hilarious results. I wish you equal or more success. You're providing a rare service that any and every Simmer really needs. I have been playing The Sims since the first pack came out, but had no idea about several of the things that you brought to my attention.

Yes, since happy boosts all positive emotions like inspired and confident, but negative emotions do not boost each other at all, happy wins hands down and there are many sources of it. Decor in particular is problematic. I think a hot-headed Sim should react MUCH more strongly than a regular Sim to angry moodlets, and that'd be better than giving them a regular +1 angry that disappears in a few short hours. Sims must be amazing at letting things go, because things from a week ago can sometimes bother me today. Not ruin my day level but you feel the world is against you sometimes when problems stack up. In addition to being too weak, they don't ever get to stack up because they all have the same duration (in many, many cases).

@@CarlsSimGuides Yeah -- Decor should only ever give one very minor mood boost, and the negative emotions need to help boost each other/be stronger in general. (This is particularly apparent if you watch CallMeKevin or GrayStillPlays or anyone else who does Sim torture -- it's amazing how happy the Sims stay even when you're actively trying to torment them!)

Disagree, I don't think this is malleability at all. The opposite, in fact. I can't personalize my sim no matter what traits I use, they will be exactly the same as any other and ruled almost entirely by the room decor. I don't find that to be a feature at all, it's a critical part of the game that does not function in the way it logically should.

Hi again Felicia. It turned out to be a fun one to make but definitely had disappointing results. I don't want to go negative and make all my vids about TS4's shortcomings, but I do feel it helps generate discussions that could help the game to improve.

Yeah that doesnt surprise me. Some of the rewards for the cards that come up are very strong, and could wipe out a day's progress at farming negative points.

Thanks for letting me know. I have a tendency to go overboard when I learn things but gradually settle into a comfortable place :)

So much of that video is just fine in my monitor but when I go to a larger screen I think I immediately see the biggest problem - the swirly ones with the large flash of light? Some others are a bit too slow as well. Let me know!

I'm considering doing some for nostalgia's sake. Because of how much 4 has taken up my attention I haven't played 3 in 5 full years... life and all that, and heck.. space on my SSD! I reinstalled for a video a while back and haven't had the chance to play with it. Always have to be thinking of what's next. I definitely want to compare Ambitions vs GTW in a video.

I'm trying to get better footage that lines up with everything I talk about, so my videos will come a bit slower. I wish YT didn't push longer videos so hard, because I do enjoy a quick one every now and then. My channel's success has literally been tied to average watch time increasing. Thankfully this 11 min vid felt easy compared to the 25m ones tho, yikes.

Eh, plenty of non-commital people get married irl. I reckon NC sims should be able to get married but will only be able to propose or accept a proposal if they are feeling super happy at the time (overriding the discomfort from being committed). But being married should mess with their happiness more and more as time goes on until they are extremely sad or angry af all the time, basically they could learn new skills and improve relationships way slower as a result, and risk dying from being so unhappy. Ie more severe consequences. Also, in the base game, noncommital sims don't like committing to one relationship or career. Its not just romance. At the moment you can play that off and keep a non-committal sim happy in one career by constantly switching relationships, or keep them in a happy relationship by constantly switching jobs. It's way too simple, and unrealistic. I think this is okay but there need to be consequences for constantly switching careers (eg unhappy that you are suddenly earning way less in a new career than you were before, tense because they have to get used to a new routine, sad nostalgia because despite themselves they are missing the little things about an old lover or job) there should be a way to balance this but only after a lot of trial and error. And the longer a specific state (eg having X job or Y lover) remains a consistent cause of various negative emotions, the more long-term unhappiness or tension is built up over time, til they have to deal with it positively or negatively. I guess i agree with your conclusion but not the suggestion you gave lol

Yep it's going way too slow. I like the pushes and how they appear on larger screens but that's just no good.

I've literally deleted them so I can't accidentally forget/use it again. I don't like that feeling myself.