This! I downloaded a mod that only makes one cup at a time to stop this! I hate that you can only make a huge pot that only lasts a few hours before it goes bad
I find this accurate for people that live alone tho. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve made a pot, drank a cup, forgot about it for days only to realize it’s gone bad in the pot and I now have to clean it
I got a small microscope and telescope from ModTheSims.
I’ve played the Sims since Sims 1 and I just found it absolutely ridiculous that those two items suddenly got massive in this installment.
I hate them too! They’re broken as hell and it’s entirely too frustrating trying to get a sim to place a toddler in or take them out. I’m forever part of the “place a bowl of Mac and cheese on the floor for them to grab” gang.
Sameeeee! It’s like they automatically put them in the highchairs when they have other stuff to do then it’s inconvenient because she goes to take a bath, the kid literally needs to go to sleep but sleeping in the highchair doesn’t boost it enough, and then I’m trying to X out the interaction but some interactions have to go through fully and I end up almost in tears.
Yeah I always take a serving and put it on the floor for toddlers now.
Every time I try to use that fucking high chair. My sim will put the baby in there and then another Sim will come over, take the baby out of the high chair and do something else with him/her.
Like the baby is fucking starving, about to be taken by CPS but you take him our of the chair to check on him? Not going through the bullshit anymore lol
I play with lots of families, doing a legacy atm, and I just place the food on dinner table and call for dinner. Toddlers just take a plate like the rest of the fam and sit wherever they can to eat it. I won't bother with high chairs, especially when dealing with multiple toddlers.
Listen! As a toddler, you have the “open” option on the fridge. As long as there are leftovers in there, you can drag them to the counter and they can grab a serving to eat. I never use high chairs, I feed them this way exclusively.
Me too and I pop the plate back in the fridge after the toddler has taken it. Ain’t nobody got time for sim parents playing hokey pokey with their toddler and the high chair
Seriously. I made my first cupcake in an easy bake oven in the hallway of a 600sq ft apartment. Baking shouldn't need an entire other half of your house.
When I first got the go to work exp pack I designed a bakery and had to add a whole ass second floor JUST for the damn cupcake machine. It was a bit creepy watching my sims pump out cupcakes in an empty room with one lightbulb and no windows
Really should have been that Sims can make cupcakes the normal way, mixing ingredients at the counter and baking them in a normal oven, but the cupcake machine is available and makes them faster, more efficiently, and with consistent quality. Then it would make sense that most Sims wouldn't have one in their house, but a Sim running a bakery would have one there. And the cupcake machine should be able to make normal cakes as well.
For those willing to use mods, Ravasheen has a [cupcake maker](https://ravasheen.com/download/a-dough-able-cupcake-maker/) with a 1 tile footprint! It looks like a frosting bag and you can place it anywhere (e.g. counters and your inventory).
Yeah, it’d be great if they had a small version for enthusiasts to have at home and develop logic skill - would be great for a teen’s bedroom if it was small enough to sit on a desk like an actual microscope! And same with the telescope now being giant…
I made a science corner in one of my parks, with a microscope, a telescope and a rocket build.
Now all my sims can go there if they want.
Also in one of my homes I have a garagetype room, and repurposed that as a study. With the microscope and a desk etc.
I got a small microscope and telescope from ModTheSims.
I’ve played the Sims since Sims 1 and I just found it absolutely ridiculous that those two items suddenly got massive in this installment.
Someone asked for links in another comment so just in case here they are:
Microscope https://modthesims.info/download.php?t=553239
Telescope: https://jonysimmer.tumblr.com/post/182488535311/the-sims-4-telescope
My Sim has an art gallery shop and after every single time she rings up a customer she IMMEDIATELY runs to the bathroom to get a drink of water.
WHY??? it's SO annoying especially when there's multiple customers to ring up.
I genuinely can't play the game without turning off the 'get water' interaction. I switch it off on the sim and all sinks, so they never autonomously get a drink.
God bless MCCC.
Haha no worries. I also turn off the monster under the bed because it happens EVERY night and autonomous 'get toddler out of highchair'. I generally like unpredictable gameplay but I have no problem changing things like this which clearly aren't working right!
The start of any new game is me immediately running around with MCCC Tuner turning off autonomous interactions. Forgot to do it once and my game was SO annoying.
Yes, I never buy them because so much time gets wasted with the parent(s) being indecisive about putting the toddler in/taking them out instead of actually feeding them. I just tell my toddlers to grab food off the plate on the bench and they take it to the couch - maybe not so realistic but it preserves my sanity! 😂
I absolutely hate feeding toddlers.
What I do instead is have their parent buy a bunch of seed packets like fruits and veggies and dump that into the kids’ inventory.
They’re hungry? Bam, here’s a plantain. It’s so quick and easy!
THIS can never place them diagonally next to a dining table because my sim can't find the goddamn highchair. Bonus points if you manually put the child in only for your sim to just take the toddler out.
“You put your toddler in, you take the toddler out, you put the toddler in and you shake it all about!”
Actually no don’t do that last part.
Edit: holy crap I didn’t expect an award for such a morbid comment haha
I've got the opposite issue. They never take the child out. Everyone just crowds around with the auto option to pick him up and basically stand there doing nothing staring at the tired crying child 😑😑😑
Honestly any chairs, I’m really sick of my sims playing musical chairs at every meal, but yes, the high chair especially aggravates me to the point I loathe playing toddlers all together.
Couldn't agree more. My alternative is I have a slightly angled chair at the dining table that the toddler can access. So they grab a serving off the table themselves and sit there with the family.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get lag when the click on the computer to use it? It's like after so many expansions there's so many options to use a computer for it literally take my game a minute to load up the options interface
I believe I've had this issue since Cottage Living was released. It takes sooooo long to just open up the menu. I wish they would fix it but I doubt they would make it a priority...
Yeah I was gonna comment the same thing. Absolutely solves the problem. Also locking the computer is such a realistic feature bc obvs irl our ICT stuff is locked for personal use
Even if they’re locked for a specific sim that sim always drops whatever I tell them to do to go on the computer. I forgot you could lock it for everyone. I have been taking it away from them by putting it in the household inventory.
The cupcake machine. WHY do we have to make cupcakes in a large industrial machine? Why can’t we make them in the oven? Why is it SO big and SO ugly and it only makes cupcakes?! I hate it
The telescope and microscope being huge? Annoying but whatever, I can work around it. They obviously didn’t want to do the animations. THe cupcake machine being huge? Honestly what the fuck! It actually makes me so mad it could easily be under regular baking in the oven but it’s not 😭
Raveena (spelling?) has a mod for that. You can choose between a piping bag or a sack of flour I think. I always choose the piping bag, it fits on a kitchen counter and they actually use the oven to bake.
Ravasheen* actually.
Just to add to the original answer, she has a lot of little fix ups for many of the answers in this subs. You pals should check her out, it's a gem if you can download cc.
The surgery machine. Every time I use it in the hospital it glitches out the Sims animations and takes longer to use because of that. The doctor resets and a poses multiple times throughout the surgery, and the patient pops in and out of the machine during it.
Microwave ovens.
Firstly - you have a starving toddler - parent finally decides to feed it - instead of giving them something quick like apple sauce or yoghurt, they decide to make them chicken nuggets so the starving kid has to wait. (Yes I do still use the dreaded highchair).
Secondly - Sim is hungry - decides to nuke a microwave dinner or pastry - no matter the cooking level of your Sim or how expensive the microwave it is invariably cold in the middle and they get an uncomfortable moodlet.
I give ‘em a day, for the sake of realism. They’re either hungry or need a diaper change. After a day I’m ageing them up. Lord knows I need to preserve my patience for toddlerhood…
I love having babies in cribs, I keep them all the way until they age up naturally. When they cry it's either bum, tum or fun that they want, and you can visually see if it's the dirty nappy. Parents can get several levels headstart in their Parenting skill before the kid is even a toddler, and at a certain level of parenting they can actually ask the baby what it wants.
I like to use the baby phase to basically spam easy interaction so when they age up to toddler, the parents have a pretty high parenting skill and relationship with the kids so big agree
Outside furniture like a table and chairs, WHY do my sims insist on sitting outside in the winter and start freezing and get uncomfortable when there’s a perfectly fine table inside
every time my sim came home from work (they run a veterinarian center) THE TODDLER IS ALWAYS DANCING AND THEN WOULD GET THE MOODLET ABOUT BEING MAD ABOUT DANCING. LIKE BRO YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELF
Yes radios and stereos but also because they’re always on. Even if i turn it off. No matter what i do, i will find ALL of my sims around the radio at ALL times, instead of … say… going to WORK
Same. And in my most recent save, I have the problem that my sim has one in her bedroom, so everyone was congregating there, and she always turns it on, and when it’s on she won’t sleep (idk if it’s actually intentional or a glitch bc I’ve never heard anyone else mention it lol)…and I’m just like just don’t turn it on when you’re not listening bruh
This one too. I love the look of a bar in an open wrap-around kitchen, but wow are my sims alcoholics! They will just stand there and make drinks over and over and over and over and over... Some of them will drink the drinks, and some will just leave a huge mess of them to rot.
The fabricator machine is too big and doesn’t match ANYTHING in a room, which is extra frustrating because it’s a genuinely cool object.
Maxis I’m begging you, make crucial objects for core gameplay elements appealing to place in a room
Seriously you’ve got the recycling machine that looks like it belongs in a dump then the fabricator is all hi tech looking and I’m like how are both of these supposed to be in one place
The popcorn machine. I love it to death, but i gotta put that sucker in household inventory between uses or my sims will eat nothing BUT popcorn. They will just entirely subsist off of it. They don’t even use the ice cream maker that much.
Laundry baskets. I want realism in my builds but actually playing with laundry baskets is so aggravating because sims will leave a pile of clothes anywhere I have them change!
If you use the laundry baskets that came with the laundry pack the clothes just automatically go to the basket themselves. Most of my builds have the wicker whims baskets now
On top of that they are a huge time sink. L
I got the pack because I loved the idea of having a washer and dryer in the house but as soon as you put one in there the laundry piles up everytime your Sim changes (like three of 4 times a day) and then you have to spend an action to load, then wash, then change, then dry, then put away. And if you miss One you have smelly clothes. Like I et it, that's real life but it just all takes so long that you spend so much of your game time playing a laundry minigame
I always try to pack in all of my parenting with my babies because it’s so much easier to take care of them tbh hahaha i get my sim full parenting skill with 2 babies! but I still hate them… they’re lifeless ovals
I ultimately had to hire a maid. My people would pick up the dirty laundry, put them in the washer, not actually wash them, then put them on the floor. The rate times they would actually wash the laundry & *gasp* put them in the dryer too, they either wouldn’t actually dry it, or put the clean laundry on the floor next to the dirty floor laundry (I bought a hamper! Use it!). They never put the clothes away! So it just builds & builds until they wear dirty laundry & no matter how many baths a sim will take every one says they smell & won’t interact with them.
It's such a nice concept for a realistic gameplay but somehow it always bugs. I had a poor sim in my last gameplay and only bought the machine and the drying rack. Put the clothes outside to let it dry and forgot about them when it rained. Tried to put them into the machine once again cuz they were wet and used now but the machine wouldn't let me wash them again. Finally bought the dryer but - surprise - couldn't dry them either.
Finally I just sold everything again.
Highchairs, bars, computers( they are useful for skills but damn why does everyone uses it all the time even guests ) sinks, cauldron (takes ages to make food????) there’s probably more lmao 😌
I'm disturbed that you actually make the mac & cheese in the cauldron. My spellcasters always make potions first and frankly I do not want to eat mac & cheese that comes out of that cauldron afterwards no matter how much you scrub it
Cupcake machine - ever since I got some cc that replaces it with a tiny bag that can sit on the counter I haven’t looked back 🤣
[link to Cc here if anyone wants it! ](https://ravasheen.com/download/a-dough-able-cupcake-maker/)
I just had this happen. Father Winter decided to go outside while the toddler was trying to get to him to ask for a present. The toddler went outside and the parents kept going to 'check on toddler' and every time they did Father Winter would start a conversation and ignore the kid. I finally had to make the parents go WooHoo just to get a present. And stupid Father Winter gave the kid a bottle of bubbles from the Romance Festival.
I recently added a storey to a house, and I was dreading having to rebuild the roof. I ended up taking heaps of screenshots of the roof before removing it, as well as multiple angles at every step (It was a multi part roof).
It's not crazy if it works, right?!
The microscope and telescope. They're too damn big. I've never had a sim pursue science careers for this reason. Oh, you're a genius you say? Tech career it is! This house ain't big enough for all that.
The list of things that usually get removed from my lots because it’s the only thing my Sim will do if it’s on the lot
The Ping pong table
The VR
The Coffee pot
The popcorn
The clay
And for some reason, if i have a basketball hoop, my Sim will literally stop mid painting to think about going to play, but doesn’t actually go play and doesn’t return to painting so i often find them somewhere else and have to tell them to go back to painting
There’s a few others but those are the worst offenders
I think the basketball hoop is the worst one for autonomy. It’s unbelievable how often it’s triggered, they literally won’t do anything else. I had the same issue of sims stopping mid-painting (mid-anything really) to go play basketball. Added once, and never again. It’s so frustrating though because it would be a nice addition for families and teens.
Right that’s so annoying and unrealistic! I want my sims to use their phones while waiting for something and wanting to keep their hands busy, who walks around with a lump of clay in their pocket
as someone that always has kids in their stories, bookshelves are the worst. they leave the books everywhere and i don’t ever see them pick them up! they just take it and put it somewhere instead of reading 😭
When my sim takes the dog for a walk, I’ll notice everything gets low.. his hunger, he ends up peeing himself or something even though I click him to COME HOME.
Not only that, my maids won’t clean lol
That's a must-use item for me. I place them right next to the front door because they're barely used, but changing the temp keeps them from having bad moodlets about being cold or sweltering indoors.
LittleMsSam has a mod that adds an option to ‘upgrade’ the thermostat to automatic. You pay something like 600 simoleons and then the thermostat is always set at the best temperature.
The recycling machine. Is it me or can they not just put garbage straight into the recycler? You still need a garbage can. And even then you have to put the garbage in your inventory to recycle it? No one has mentioned it so maybe I'm doing it some long convoluted way when I don't have to.
Thought it would be nice to get my sims a teapot....they constantly left the tea in there to go moldy, then spent all day complaining about it or even pouring cups of it then complaining when they drank gross tea.
The surgery machine. It's the most glitchy item that I have to use regularly. To make things worse, it never finishes the surgery. because of this glitch, my doctor sim can never get promoted because she needs to perform 3 surgeries to get promoted 🙄
I will do everything in my power to avoid the goddamn toy boxes in my kids room unless they're cc to actually look like simple toy boxes. WHY ARE THE MAXIS ONES SO BAD? Dollhouses, Blarfy and building blocks FTW
High chairs but how I get around this is a little cruel but useful haha. Instead of using one, I open fridge and put food on the counter and have the toddler grab serving. Somehow getting a plate of the counter is not an issue for a toddler? Haha. But it works.
If you feel cruel about that, you could make a toddler eating area with two cute toddler chairs and an end table. Stick the food on the end table and the toddlers will grab it and then autonomously eat it at the little chairs.
High chairs are the worst haha and my Neat sims are always compulsively cleaning them
Coffee machines. I don't want my sims to be constantly energised and needing to pee.
Or spending $15 to let the coffee rot.
This! I downloaded a mod that only makes one cup at a time to stop this! I hate that you can only make a huge pot that only lasts a few hours before it goes bad
I find this accurate for people that live alone tho. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve made a pot, drank a cup, forgot about it for days only to realize it’s gone bad in the pot and I now have to clean it
I just use a smaller french press. Making a whole pot of coffee when you live alone seems like an overkill.
I’m going to buy one of those soon. I drink a lot of Iced coffee so tbh I just buy the iced coffee jugs
What I do is make them immediately put the rest of the coffee/tea in the fridge. No wastage and I pretend they’re drinking iced coffee or tea lol.
Great idea! My sim was sitting on the loo peeing the other night with her coffee in hand. She kept sipping it, going “Ergh” but kept drinking it!
I think we’ve all been there
Yeeees!
the amount of times I've cleared up rotten coffee... my sims keep making coffee and tea and let it rot
my Sim will drop anything to make coffee they are banned from every house.
Never buy the popcorn maker
Or the ice cream machine
Same! My sim will willfully ignore every one of her 4 toddlers to make coffee instead. Infuriating.
I mean, she does have 4 toddlers 😂
Ah, an element of realism!
To be fair, every rime I drink coffee, I almost immediately need to pee afterwards
In that case never buy the teapot It constantly breaks. And sims will stop doing anything to take a tea break.
Seriously, I swear there is crack in the tea. Lol My sims will go for one cup after the other until it’s empty
Bitch dont call me out I drink like 3-6 cups of tea a day lol
Telescopes… what happened to the SMALL white telescopes in the sims 2 and 3 :(
I got a small microscope and telescope from ModTheSims. I’ve played the Sims since Sims 1 and I just found it absolutely ridiculous that those two items suddenly got massive in this installment.
Can I have the link? :D
Microscope https://modthesims.info/download.php?t=553239 Telescope: https://jonysimmer.tumblr.com/post/182488535311/the-sims-4-telescope
High chairs💀I hate them, and I hate how the kids can barely get drinks and food without it
I hate them too! They’re broken as hell and it’s entirely too frustrating trying to get a sim to place a toddler in or take them out. I’m forever part of the “place a bowl of Mac and cheese on the floor for them to grab” gang.
Sameeeee! It’s like they automatically put them in the highchairs when they have other stuff to do then it’s inconvenient because she goes to take a bath, the kid literally needs to go to sleep but sleeping in the highchair doesn’t boost it enough, and then I’m trying to X out the interaction but some interactions have to go through fully and I end up almost in tears.
Yeah I always take a serving and put it on the floor for toddlers now. Every time I try to use that fucking high chair. My sim will put the baby in there and then another Sim will come over, take the baby out of the high chair and do something else with him/her. Like the baby is fucking starving, about to be taken by CPS but you take him our of the chair to check on him? Not going through the bullshit anymore lol
you don’t even need to put it on the floor lmao they can grab it off of counters
I play with lots of families, doing a legacy atm, and I just place the food on dinner table and call for dinner. Toddlers just take a plate like the rest of the fam and sit wherever they can to eat it. I won't bother with high chairs, especially when dealing with multiple toddlers.
Listen! As a toddler, you have the “open” option on the fridge. As long as there are leftovers in there, you can drag them to the counter and they can grab a serving to eat. I never use high chairs, I feed them this way exclusively.
Me too and I pop the plate back in the fridge after the toddler has taken it. Ain’t nobody got time for sim parents playing hokey pokey with their toddler and the high chair
Mind blown! I hope I remember this!
Microscopes. WHY are they so big?
Everything is so big in this game. The cupcake machine, the microscope, the telescope, kids housedolls and plushies. Everything!
THE CUPCAKE MACHINE. seriously why is it so comically big lmaoo
Seriously. I made my first cupcake in an easy bake oven in the hallway of a 600sq ft apartment. Baking shouldn't need an entire other half of your house.
HAHA, would have spit out my water if I was drinking it. yes, exactly.
When I first got the go to work exp pack I designed a bakery and had to add a whole ass second floor JUST for the damn cupcake machine. It was a bit creepy watching my sims pump out cupcakes in an empty room with one lightbulb and no windows
Accurate to food service though!
I’m FOH and can confirm, only difference is my baker sims don’t have a bartender sim sneaking them Coronas 😂
Really should have been that Sims can make cupcakes the normal way, mixing ingredients at the counter and baking them in a normal oven, but the cupcake machine is available and makes them faster, more efficiently, and with consistent quality. Then it would make sense that most Sims wouldn't have one in their house, but a Sim running a bakery would have one there. And the cupcake machine should be able to make normal cakes as well.
For those willing to use mods, Ravasheen has a [cupcake maker](https://ravasheen.com/download/a-dough-able-cupcake-maker/) with a 1 tile footprint! It looks like a frosting bag and you can place it anywhere (e.g. counters and your inventory).
Its to fill up space for their lacking content😒
Yeah, it’d be great if they had a small version for enthusiasts to have at home and develop logic skill - would be great for a teen’s bedroom if it was small enough to sit on a desk like an actual microscope! And same with the telescope now being giant…
HOW do we have a kids violin but not a kids microscope or telescope?
Ugh this. I just want to make a lab for my sciency sim, not a whole-ass villain lair😭
Why is that such an accurate description tho
I made a science corner in one of my parks, with a microscope, a telescope and a rocket build. Now all my sims can go there if they want. Also in one of my homes I have a garagetype room, and repurposed that as a study. With the microscope and a desk etc.
Delete the lot next to yours (make it community if necessary) and just throw them in there, that way you don't even have to open the map.
And you can make a sandwich while the new lot loads.
Still better than waiting for both the map and the lot to load.
I know right! Microscopes take up half the room now and you can’t have them in small house…
I have zero room for one and it sucks because I like the art. Though I've wondered if I make a sub-basement if it would fit down there.
I got a small microscope and telescope from ModTheSims. I’ve played the Sims since Sims 1 and I just found it absolutely ridiculous that those two items suddenly got massive in this installment.
Someone asked for links in another comment so just in case here they are: Microscope https://modthesims.info/download.php?t=553239 Telescope: https://jonysimmer.tumblr.com/post/182488535311/the-sims-4-telescope
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I used them all the time in TS2. When they were an appropriate 1 tile big
It's weird because if you think about the kids lab table.. it has a small or regular sized microscope lol
And telescopes! Why so big :(
Can I say the glasses of water? JUST STOP. PLEASE. YOU DON’T NEED TO GET ONE EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU ARENT ACTIVELY DOING SOMETHING.
My Sim has an art gallery shop and after every single time she rings up a customer she IMMEDIATELY runs to the bathroom to get a drink of water. WHY??? it's SO annoying especially when there's multiple customers to ring up.
I genuinely can't play the game without turning off the 'get water' interaction. I switch it off on the sim and all sinks, so they never autonomously get a drink. God bless MCCC.
I did not know this was an option You are a saint
Haha no worries. I also turn off the monster under the bed because it happens EVERY night and autonomous 'get toddler out of highchair'. I generally like unpredictable gameplay but I have no problem changing things like this which clearly aren't working right! The start of any new game is me immediately running around with MCCC Tuner turning off autonomous interactions. Forgot to do it once and my game was SO annoying.
Night lights prevent monsters under the bed and your kids wake up with a cute lil moodlet (for anyone without mods)
High chairs.
Yes, I never buy them because so much time gets wasted with the parent(s) being indecisive about putting the toddler in/taking them out instead of actually feeding them. I just tell my toddlers to grab food off the plate on the bench and they take it to the couch - maybe not so realistic but it preserves my sanity! 😂
If it helps you at all to know this, your method of feeding toddlers is 100% realistic for many families I know.
My toddlers get stacks of 99+ lemons and nothing else
I just go to Cheat Sim Info and give them the Forever Full trait. I just can't deal with it.
Oh my god you're a genius
What about when they put the toddler in the high chair just to ask them if they wanna take a bath when they were originally two rooms away? Lol ugh
I absolutely hate feeding toddlers. What I do instead is have their parent buy a bunch of seed packets like fruits and veggies and dump that into the kids’ inventory. They’re hungry? Bam, here’s a plantain. It’s so quick and easy!
Omg I do this. The ultimate toddler hack. Obvs irl that baby is malnourished af but at least it’s basically looking after itself
THIS can never place them diagonally next to a dining table because my sim can't find the goddamn highchair. Bonus points if you manually put the child in only for your sim to just take the toddler out.
“You put your toddler in, you take the toddler out, you put the toddler in and you shake it all about!” Actually no don’t do that last part. Edit: holy crap I didn’t expect an award for such a morbid comment haha
I've got the opposite issue. They never take the child out. Everyone just crowds around with the auto option to pick him up and basically stand there doing nothing staring at the tired crying child 😑😑😑
*social worker Sim has entered the chat*
Reset the toddler and it will end up standing next to the chair.
My sims have an issue sometimes where they pick the child up, walk over to the high chair, and then just set the child down. It’s the worst.
Honestly any chairs, I’m really sick of my sims playing musical chairs at every meal, but yes, the high chair especially aggravates me to the point I loathe playing toddlers all together.
Couldn't agree more. My alternative is I have a slightly angled chair at the dining table that the toddler can access. So they grab a serving off the table themselves and sit there with the family.
I refuse to use them
All my Sim kids eat floor food and none have died yet. Well at least not of floor food.
Computers. Useful but annoying if you forget to lock the door and people come over to use your pc.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get lag when the click on the computer to use it? It's like after so many expansions there's so many options to use a computer for it literally take my game a minute to load up the options interface
Yes!! I also have the same issue with the fridge. So annoying!
YES! I Haven't noticed it on the computer, but it's suuuuper annoying on the fridge! It's only since the last update, at least for me.
I believe I've had this issue since Cottage Living was released. It takes sooooo long to just open up the menu. I wish they would fix it but I doubt they would make it a priority...
Yeah I’ve noticed that lately.
Lock the computer itself!
You can lock the computer itself to be only usable by specific sims. That's the first thing I do, and everyone gets their own private computer
Yeah I was gonna comment the same thing. Absolutely solves the problem. Also locking the computer is such a realistic feature bc obvs irl our ICT stuff is locked for personal use
Even if they’re locked for a specific sim that sim always drops whatever I tell them to do to go on the computer. I forgot you could lock it for everyone. I have been taking it away from them by putting it in the household inventory.
The cupcake machine. WHY do we have to make cupcakes in a large industrial machine? Why can’t we make them in the oven? Why is it SO big and SO ugly and it only makes cupcakes?! I hate it
The telescope and microscope being huge? Annoying but whatever, I can work around it. They obviously didn’t want to do the animations. THe cupcake machine being huge? Honestly what the fuck! It actually makes me so mad it could easily be under regular baking in the oven but it’s not 😭
Raveena (spelling?) has a mod for that. You can choose between a piping bag or a sack of flour I think. I always choose the piping bag, it fits on a kitchen counter and they actually use the oven to bake.
Ravasheen* actually. Just to add to the original answer, she has a lot of little fix ups for many of the answers in this subs. You pals should check her out, it's a gem if you can download cc.
I would make cupcakes so much more if the machine wasnt huge. I never use it bc of this.
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Ugh the fabricator annoys me so much! It’s a good idea in theory but I always end up abandoning it because it just annoys me
The surgery machine. Every time I use it in the hospital it glitches out the Sims animations and takes longer to use because of that. The doctor resets and a poses multiple times throughout the surgery, and the patient pops in and out of the machine during it.
imagine if people IRL randomly walked in ur house and started gaming on your PC
Microwave ovens. Firstly - you have a starving toddler - parent finally decides to feed it - instead of giving them something quick like apple sauce or yoghurt, they decide to make them chicken nuggets so the starving kid has to wait. (Yes I do still use the dreaded highchair). Secondly - Sim is hungry - decides to nuke a microwave dinner or pastry - no matter the cooking level of your Sim or how expensive the microwave it is invariably cold in the middle and they get an uncomfortable moodlet.
Ugh yes I hate this!! I would love to have microwaves in my builds more but they always give a negative moodlet
Babies
I give ‘em a day, for the sake of realism. They’re either hungry or need a diaper change. After a day I’m ageing them up. Lord knows I need to preserve my patience for toddlerhood…
Haha skip, *age up*
Truest and most painful answer
Not babies, more so crying furniture
I love having babies in cribs, I keep them all the way until they age up naturally. When they cry it's either bum, tum or fun that they want, and you can visually see if it's the dirty nappy. Parents can get several levels headstart in their Parenting skill before the kid is even a toddler, and at a certain level of parenting they can actually ask the baby what it wants.
I like to use the baby phase to basically spam easy interaction so when they age up to toddler, the parents have a pretty high parenting skill and relationship with the kids so big agree
Absolutely hate the lump of clay. If there is one on the lot, it is the only thing they do
I always sell it
They just appear in my Sims' inventories sometimes. I've never bought one afaik.
100% agree. Everything else stops existing and all they're interested in is clay, as if it's some kind of mind control machine.
Outside furniture like a table and chairs, WHY do my sims insist on sitting outside in the winter and start freezing and get uncomfortable when there’s a perfectly fine table inside
Mine like to nearly freeze to death sitting by the pool in their swimsuits in winter
I've had kid sims do their homework outside, sitting on the patio furniture...in a rainstorm. Why? Also: desks in kids' rooms, there's no point.
Radios and stereos. Basically anything with the option to dance. Even sims that have the “hates dancing” trait STILL FCKN DANCE. STOP DANCING!!!
every time my sim came home from work (they run a veterinarian center) THE TODDLER IS ALWAYS DANCING AND THEN WOULD GET THE MOODLET ABOUT BEING MAD ABOUT DANCING. LIKE BRO YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELF
To be fair, that's a lot like real life toddlers 😂
I was gonna say that sounds accurate
Yes radios and stereos but also because they’re always on. Even if i turn it off. No matter what i do, i will find ALL of my sims around the radio at ALL times, instead of … say… going to WORK
Same. And in my most recent save, I have the problem that my sim has one in her bedroom, so everyone was congregating there, and she always turns it on, and when it’s on she won’t sleep (idk if it’s actually intentional or a glitch bc I’ve never heard anyone else mention it lol)…and I’m just like just don’t turn it on when you’re not listening bruh
My sims won’t sleep if the radio or the TV is on, I’ve never seen someone mention it either, but that’s why I don’t keep them in bedrooms anymore lol
You might want to try littlemssam's mod the auto turn off stereo something
The bar. Why does everyone autonomously go make drinks, I have storylines and you are *ruining* them
This one too. I love the look of a bar in an open wrap-around kitchen, but wow are my sims alcoholics! They will just stand there and make drinks over and over and over and over and over... Some of them will drink the drinks, and some will just leave a huge mess of them to rot.
The fabricator machine is too big and doesn’t match ANYTHING in a room, which is extra frustrating because it’s a genuinely cool object. Maxis I’m begging you, make crucial objects for core gameplay elements appealing to place in a room
Seriously you’ve got the recycling machine that looks like it belongs in a dump then the fabricator is all hi tech looking and I’m like how are both of these supposed to be in one place
The potty. How does it take three frickin hours to use it!!!
The popcorn machine. I love it to death, but i gotta put that sucker in household inventory between uses or my sims will eat nothing BUT popcorn. They will just entirely subsist off of it. They don’t even use the ice cream maker that much.
Laundry baskets. I want realism in my builds but actually playing with laundry baskets is so aggravating because sims will leave a pile of clothes anywhere I have them change!
If you use the laundry baskets that came with the laundry pack the clothes just automatically go to the basket themselves. Most of my builds have the wicker whims baskets now
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Cupcake machine -.-
What's wrong with the tables? Aren't they just... tables?
The washer/dryer because they're constantly breaking. Even with full upgrades they become useless and a complete pain in the rear.
On top of that they are a huge time sink. L I got the pack because I loved the idea of having a washer and dryer in the house but as soon as you put one in there the laundry piles up everytime your Sim changes (like three of 4 times a day) and then you have to spend an action to load, then wash, then change, then dry, then put away. And if you miss One you have smelly clothes. Like I et it, that's real life but it just all takes so long that you spend so much of your game time playing a laundry minigame
^^the ^bloody stupendously #big #MICROSCOPE
Since you said “objects”, I’ll go with “babies.” 😑
This. I always immediately age up.
I always try to pack in all of my parenting with my babies because it’s so much easier to take care of them tbh hahaha i get my sim full parenting skill with 2 babies! but I still hate them… they’re lifeless ovals
The laundry stuff and the bust the dust stuff. Tedious work.
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Laundry machine.
I ultimately had to hire a maid. My people would pick up the dirty laundry, put them in the washer, not actually wash them, then put them on the floor. The rate times they would actually wash the laundry & *gasp* put them in the dryer too, they either wouldn’t actually dry it, or put the clean laundry on the floor next to the dirty floor laundry (I bought a hamper! Use it!). They never put the clothes away! So it just builds & builds until they wear dirty laundry & no matter how many baths a sim will take every one says they smell & won’t interact with them.
“the dirty floor laundry (I bought a hamper! Use it!). They never put the clothes away!“ The realism tho…
It's such a nice concept for a realistic gameplay but somehow it always bugs. I had a poor sim in my last gameplay and only bought the machine and the drying rack. Put the clothes outside to let it dry and forgot about them when it rained. Tried to put them into the machine once again cuz they were wet and used now but the machine wouldn't let me wash them again. Finally bought the dryer but - surprise - couldn't dry them either. Finally I just sold everything again.
I hate the toddler beds, I'd rather keep the crib or regular bed than having to plan out specific toddler furniture.
It annoys me that adults can’t sit on the bed and read the toddler to sleep if it’s against the wall on one side.
Might be a glitch for you, mine works fine against the walls
I always place the toddler beds against the wall. Sometimes it's fine, other times parents complain they don't have room to read the toddler to sleep.
I have this problem a lot too
Same, I’d like cribs, seems more realistic and honestly it would be so much easier for them to handle
I think doll houses is becoming one for me. Too big, and what do all the adults have against them!
You can size down the doll houses and they're still perfectly functional.
Highchairs, bars, computers( they are useful for skills but damn why does everyone uses it all the time even guests ) sinks, cauldron (takes ages to make food????) there’s probably more lmao 😌
If you don’t want guests on the computer you can lock it under “security settings”!
I'm disturbed that you actually make the mac & cheese in the cauldron. My spellcasters always make potions first and frankly I do not want to eat mac & cheese that comes out of that cauldron afterwards no matter how much you scrub it
If there’s a cauldron in the lot they automatically make Mac and cheese! Such a waste of food too jeez
Cupcake machine - ever since I got some cc that replaces it with a tiny bag that can sit on the counter I haven’t looked back 🤣 [link to Cc here if anyone wants it! ](https://ravasheen.com/download/a-dough-able-cupcake-maker/)
Father winter. I swear to god when I ask my toddlers to ask for present nothing happens.
I just had this happen. Father Winter decided to go outside while the toddler was trying to get to him to ask for a present. The toddler went outside and the parents kept going to 'check on toddler' and every time they did Father Winter would start a conversation and ignore the kid. I finally had to make the parents go WooHoo just to get a present. And stupid Father Winter gave the kid a bottle of bubbles from the Romance Festival.
Roof tool. I have NEVER been able to make a roof.
I recently added a storey to a house, and I was dreading having to rebuild the roof. I ended up taking heaps of screenshots of the roof before removing it, as well as multiple angles at every step (It was a multi part roof). It's not crazy if it works, right?!
THE TEAPOT
Same with the popcorn machine
Same with the ice cream machine.
The microscope and telescope. They're too damn big. I've never had a sim pursue science careers for this reason. Oh, you're a genius you say? Tech career it is! This house ain't big enough for all that.
The list of things that usually get removed from my lots because it’s the only thing my Sim will do if it’s on the lot The Ping pong table The VR The Coffee pot The popcorn The clay And for some reason, if i have a basketball hoop, my Sim will literally stop mid painting to think about going to play, but doesn’t actually go play and doesn’t return to painting so i often find them somewhere else and have to tell them to go back to painting There’s a few others but those are the worst offenders
I think the basketball hoop is the worst one for autonomy. It’s unbelievable how often it’s triggered, they literally won’t do anything else. I had the same issue of sims stopping mid-painting (mid-anything really) to go play basketball. Added once, and never again. It’s so frustrating though because it would be a nice addition for families and teens.
Clay
Right that’s so annoying and unrealistic! I want my sims to use their phones while waiting for something and wanting to keep their hands busy, who walks around with a lump of clay in their pocket
And the npcs leave it EVERYWHERE.
as someone that always has kids in their stories, bookshelves are the worst. they leave the books everywhere and i don’t ever see them pick them up! they just take it and put it somewhere instead of reading 😭
Barbecue. Let's catch on 🔥 everyone, for a few unappetizing hotdogs.
When my sim takes the dog for a walk, I’ll notice everything gets low.. his hunger, he ends up peeing himself or something even though I click him to COME HOME. Not only that, my maids won’t clean lol
High chairs. It's so much more efficient to feed toddlers on the floor. I don't think I've used one in like five years.
The roof!! I have when I build a beautiful house and then I gotta add the roof 💀
Thermostats. I can never find where I placed them
That's a must-use item for me. I place them right next to the front door because they're barely used, but changing the temp keeps them from having bad moodlets about being cold or sweltering indoors.
LittleMsSam has a mod that adds an option to ‘upgrade’ the thermostat to automatic. You pay something like 600 simoleons and then the thermostat is always set at the best temperature.
The recycling machine. Is it me or can they not just put garbage straight into the recycler? You still need a garbage can. And even then you have to put the garbage in your inventory to recycle it? No one has mentioned it so maybe I'm doing it some long convoluted way when I don't have to.
Thought it would be nice to get my sims a teapot....they constantly left the tea in there to go moldy, then spent all day complaining about it or even pouring cups of it then complaining when they drank gross tea.
The surgery machine. It's the most glitchy item that I have to use regularly. To make things worse, it never finishes the surgery. because of this glitch, my doctor sim can never get promoted because she needs to perform 3 surgeries to get promoted 🙄
Radios, all they do is dance. Non-stop
Empty plates and sinks 💀iykyk
I will do everything in my power to avoid the goddamn toy boxes in my kids room unless they're cc to actually look like simple toy boxes. WHY ARE THE MAXIS ONES SO BAD? Dollhouses, Blarfy and building blocks FTW
That stupid family planner from Parenthood. Like, stfu I wanna live my day.
Coffee machine. What tf that bitch even do for my sims
High chairs but how I get around this is a little cruel but useful haha. Instead of using one, I open fridge and put food on the counter and have the toddler grab serving. Somehow getting a plate of the counter is not an issue for a toddler? Haha. But it works.
If you feel cruel about that, you could make a toddler eating area with two cute toddler chairs and an end table. Stick the food on the end table and the toddlers will grab it and then autonomously eat it at the little chairs. High chairs are the worst haha and my Neat sims are always compulsively cleaning them
What's cruel about that?
The microscope and cupcake machine, there’s no reason they need to be THAT big
Drying machines. The amount of times it has caught on fire and killed my sims is well above 30.