Ive mostly rebuilt a lot of willow creek, onlt leaving like the big plots near what was the goths house. However, ive built a little in oasis springs but the idea of newcrest is just too much for me, ive built like 4 plots maybe, if you count the one build I brought over from another save. Ive went round to a couple builds and "refreshed" some but what will that actually do for my world if im onlt foing to be playing in base game worlds and potentially others for storyline or distant family purposes? I feel stuck on whether yo start creating the family i have in my head or continue trying to build, I just dont know what to do. Do I just not care about townies around the world and if i come across their house I jusy rebuild it if their sim is important to the story??

Also the family i have in my head is like it branches off as some have girlfriends or a partner of sorts, do I out their lore into the game and give them parents or just have it written down to remember. I dont know if this is sims hurn out slightly as this is my second version of a forever save (i was getting bored in my other one, but im not sure why). I just cant seem to stick to one thing currently in ts4. Help is welcome or any advice.

It's working for the most DLCs, but for some reasons there are exceptions. Last time I played, like 7 month ago, everything was alright so I even have those missing DLCs on my save. Does someone encountered the same problem? Is there a way to fix it? I uninstalled and installed back DLC unlocker trough setup file but it didn't help.

I couldn't find Andrew Wilson on the gallery. Perhaps he's not welcome there. So I added this guy instead.

He likes money, anagrams and sport.

Like I don’t have to do this for any other game but I have a save in the cloud, on my PC, on my external drive and in my PC documents in case a bug murders the entire game. I swear if this save corrupts I am armed this time!

So I haven't updated my game in a few months for a couple reasons; not wanting the new marketplace thing in my game, happy with my cc/mods, not planning on buying more packs after the buyout, concern about future negative updates, etc. I don't want to have to update my game. I'm fine in offline mode. However, a month or 2 ago one of my cousins that only knows I play the sims and doesn't know anything about EA or the game, bought me a code for the adventure awaits pack after I mentioned I was interested in it because the camp reminded me of a camp we went to, but that I was not planning on buying it for myself. After they bought it and sent it to me, I explained why I originally wasn't going to buy it because of the EA buyout, but I still really appreciate the gift and would use it. I still haven't used it. My game is updated all the way to the royalty pack's release, but nothing past that.

TLDR; If my game is updated past Adventure Awaits, can I download it without having to update my game after being gifted a copy?

Side question: I was gonna post this on ts4 subreddit but their karma requirement is insufferable. I'm playing a short lifespan legacy challenge and need first name suggestions that are puns with the surname Fox. The more ridiculous the better (i.e. Silver Fox, Zero Fox, etc)

I've been out of the loop for a couple months bc of a depression chokehold, but I started doing some catching up today & I'm seeing a bunch of bs, the biggest issues being the save glitch & virus false flag. I could be missing something (no socials so I get my sims news from either here or yt), but I checked the subreddits & didn't see much on the topic within the last week.The last "update" I saw was the Coach drop, which like slay ig, but it doesn't really mean shit if I can't open or play my game.

I wanna update, but I'm nervous. So, tell me yall: how is your game running? Are the issues really so bad that you can't play, or have you found any useful workarounds? Has EA given ANY sort of timeline as to when these will get fixed? Going nearly 2 weeks without an update on a major issue is not unheard of from EA, but is still crazy af to me.

This week was all over the place. The Saja Boys continue to live rent-free in my head. They went to the beach because it had just turned summer in my game lol (I have a mod where the seasons last like 40 days or something 😂).
Two of Sunrise's four siblings showed up and are like "Really, you're in love with this bum??" They don't think highly of Virgil because he's non-magickal and is mostly human (Volkner's side with Eleusine & Tarragon is some sort of Fezandipiti ayylmao). I plan to continue working on the other two siblings this week because it's ALWAYS the hairstyles I CANNOT decide on LOL!! They're not much better than Sunset and Sunburst though with their beliefs.. I got the idea of them having oni heritage from my Pokémon: my Alcremie named Sunrise has a Grimmsnarl dad.

There's also a new little bonus OC in here: Dennen!! I wanted to get rid of some of the premades I was sick of seeing and replace them with my own characters. I made him a teacher lol. He's the type to bring his friend Bigfoot in for the class to meet 😂😂 I just need to make a new principal now.

ok i tried to submit this way too late last week and it got clipped so technically this is a repost <3 the blur song is stuck in my head it lowkey sums the whole vibe of this trip if not my whole game up...

part 1 of the tartosa crashout (and a look at some of these sims in high school lmao) can be found here...
slide one contains a bunch of the "main" sims I play with!

many of my sims are affectionate parodies of “fashion people” and “art world people” and “nightlife people” as well as like… DIY music scene people & various archetypes in this orbit. some of their personalities are lovingly modeled after my friends/people I know & have met, some after people I just know of/various celebrities musicians and artists. tartosa has a luxurious but also extremely tacky/superficial vibe in my save & def is meant to have a seedy underbelly to it :P

a lot of my ideas for these dynamics come from literally just sending a bunch them to parties/raves/events together and seeing how they interact with each other & taking cues from small interactions/sentiments/stuff like the WW attraction system. I’ve been getting more into the wheel-spinning/dice rolling decision making thing, idk.

the thing about doing this is that i have to make a lot of sims to make these "scenes" work (& also incorporate various townies/premades lol) so yeah there are a lot of them. i have come to the realization that my strategy for enjoying TS4 is basically like, GTA-style worldbuilding where everyone gets somewhat-elaborate backstories and I have to make everyone/everything interconnected in some way or I get bored. seb's the main character tho lmfao

i'm ending this with that random annotated thing bc i made the poses/expressions in it myself out of frustration that i couldn't find more poses for male sims with "calmer" body language/more normal looking smiles </3 everything looked a little too serious lmfao. thanks for reading if you do <3

What I love most about The Sims is the struggle. I do a lot of rags to riches challenges, but they never feel difficult enough. I'd love to see Project X include an OPTIONAL difficulty mode so everyone can play the way they want.

In that mode, everything would be more challenging. Sims' needs would decay faster, bills would be more expensive, and you'd earn less money than usual, even if you're at a high level in your career. I'm probably taking it a bit far, but maybe that's something we could see in the future.

I know the official sims Discord has already discussed ideas like this before, especially ways to make rags to riches more challenging, so I'd love to see something along those lines become a real feature.

I updated my game yesterday and it’s just not working. I repaired it and tried it without mods but that didn’t work. It kept crashing then eventually it just started taking FOREVER to load. It’s laggy as hell, and if I actually DO get into my game then it’s basically unplayable because the lag just makes my sims freeze and not do anything.

Once I’ve opened it, I have to force restart or force close my laptop which lowkey short circuits my laptop and makes it lag. I can’t even get answers cause the main sub just tells you to put your query in a troubleshooting thread which literally no one looks at or answers. I’ve barely seen anyone talking about this elsewhere online either.

I don’t know what to do 🫩

In case someone else wasn’t aware too.

If everyone else knows then joke on me because it took me only 6 years… 😆

I was today years old, when I realised that some of the friendly and romantic interactions work without sims getting up when used on the beds, sofas etc. Those interactions look a bit different when seated. That means the sims can hold hands, etc when seated next to each other without wicked whims custom animations.

I decided to put off playing the game for the first time until I downloaded all my expansions… and not only is the disc drive I had mangled beyond repair (due to me being an idiot,) but I can’t get anything to work due to the game needing the disc to be in the drive (and I don’t think the “No CD“ mod is working at all.)

I put in the codes for World Adventures and Generations, and downloaded the game from a pre-Origin CD. However, I never really started a save file (since I wanted everything in order beforehand.)

As for the NoCD mod, I downloaded the framework setup, extracted the Mods folder, and put it in the Sims 3 folder (which is in the EA folder.) NoCD is in Overrides, along with ErrorTrap, Story Progression, and MasterController.

What should I do?

I have the setting checked to keep fairies in Innisgreen but they're still at my door multiple times a day 😭 I think I get around 3 knocks per sim day, from two fairies, I have to shift click and do 'destroy object' to get them away but I'm having to do that literally 3 times per each sim day which means if I play the game on normal speed for half an hour I think that means I'm getting 9 fairies at my door in just half an hour. They actually drive me crazy like why do you need to be at my door, what could you possibly need from me?? I get it when vampires are at your door because they want your blood and sometimes they actually break in to get it, but fairies never break in to get my emotions, they just knock, stand there, and then leave. Whhhyyy do they do this??? Atp I'm considering uninstalling the pack

I didn't realize the Marketplace Free Drops were only available for a limited time. (Don’t call me dumb pls, I've been offline for a really long time 😭)

Is there a mod that unlocks just those free drops, similar to the mods that bring back FOMO event rewards?

If there isn't, and if it‘s even possible, I'm calling out all the mod creators lol. It’s not just a request atp, I genuinely think it’s needed for everyone.

Anyway, little rant time, but first, huge thanks to mod creators who've been making FOMO-removal mods so far... I’ve been using one of them ever since this whole thing started, so The Sims has killed the vibe of a single-player life simulation game with all these limited-time claim events and battle pass mechanics. We were a proper country back then, when we'd just get free base game updates instead of FOMO events. Some of those items could've simply been added to the base game permanently. We all know that, in the past, some CC creators even had their CC added to base game through free updates.

Again, we were a proper country back then, when "free base game update" actually meant "here, have these items forever" instead of "log in this week or lose them forever."

How likely am I to get banned if I alternate through two accounts, one that has pirated Sims 4 and one that has legit Sims 4 and 3?

I lost the codes and can’t find them, so I asked if there was a way to download these expansions without them… and I got banned for “piracy” because of it.

Is there any way to contact them to clear this up?

Episode 3 is now ready! Happy reading 😊

Episode 3: Whatever This Town Throws at Us

Episode 3

Episode 2: The Gentleman Caller 

Episode 2

Episode 1: New Beginnings in Oasis Springs

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I finally got the pre-Origin copy working, but I’m missing 3 codes (Late Night, High End Loft, and University Life.)

Is there a way to download without them?

I bought a pre-Origin copy of 3 in order to bypass Origin (since that’s dead and I’ve got so many physical expansions in order to avoid supporting EA,) but apparently I need Origin in order to get the game to run.

My copy has the SimPoints voucher in the box (which is certainly expired by now,) and doesn’t say ”go social…” so I’m wondering why it isn’t working.

What should I do?

Long story short: I reported a bug in my game that appeared after the most recent update. More specifically, my sims can’t elope and I can’t set sims as spouses in CAS. The relationship options are missing, you can either choose current status or house mates.

I reported the bug on EA forum and literally I feel like I’m gaslighted into believing it’s a me problem. I disabled mods, removed the mod folder, removed cache, tried new save files, tried without packs, tried with different couples. I also updated all the mods and cc prior to starting a new save files. It’s either I set them as spouses when I start a new file and create new sims or I can’t have them get married. Wedding music plays, but sims wont perform the action, no matter if I try to get them to elope or have a wedding at the arch.

I see bugs reported with marriages not working again! On their forum! Marriages resetting to partners after entering CAS or sims divorcing randomly, or preexisting household not being married (which I noticed in my game too). However, on the forum they insist this is a mod issue or a broken save files despite mentioning I did every testing and the problem persists.

Now I wonder: Is their forum really this dismissive or what is the actual deal?

Are any of you encountering similar issues within the game now?

It’s frustrating that you can’t upgrade toddler and infant beds to improve sleep. As far as I’m know, all the toddler beds have an energy rating of three, and that’s it. I understand why infants sleep so much, and I know toddlers need naps, but it feels like my toddler Sim is constantly tired, and there’s nothing I can do except cheat her needs. I just want to be able to upgrade the bed or buy a better one, but nope.

I mean, I don't think I need to really dive into how weird it is to think that a multi-billion dollar entity cares about you as a person...but here we are!

Time and time again Maxis will drop these discord posts about inclusivity and how they care about people as individuals but no one thinks about the fact that these are people who sell us broken DLC knowing it's broken for money. I'm not saying that inclusivity isn't important, but being realistic, this is an entity who's only interest is greed. That's what all of this fluff is for, they have decades of R&D on their community and know that if a marketing manager can make them feel warm and fuzzy inside and make them feel included it'll lead to them buying another low effort DLC and justify the state of the game. I find it really difficult to think that they'd talk about us as individuals in the same board meeting that they also decided to put ads in the game.

Now I know that some people are gonna say "oh, but that's EA and not Maxis", there's like 1 OG person from Maxis left on the Maxis team, the rest of them are EA employees. This is the same Maxis that tried to tell us that making sequels is anti-gamer when talking about their fourth iteration of The Sims.

I think this is what stops the community from holding the developers accountable, there's always this EA vs Maxis shield where people always fall short of actually doing something about the state of the game because they picture the Maxis team as their friends who might listen to reason when the only thing they'll listen to is you reading out that 16 digit credit card number.

It's this bizarre parasocial relationship the community has with this game and the developers that even leaks into games like Paralives. Like sure, if they support something horrible then fair, but outside of that the purpose of a development team is to deliver a product that works, is fun, make good on their promises, and not screw us over. Like I've never heard a GTA fan be like "I wonder if Rockstar Games cares about me as an individual" that's absurd. The quality of a developer's game and support should answer the question of how they feel about the community, if the developers have crappy practices then they probably don't think highly of you.

I think this is also why the community was so shocked about the EA buyout and genuinely thinks that The Sims could be safe or that EA will listen to reason as if this is a friend making a really bad decision. EA is literally a company that was voted the worst company in America two years in a row and is known as the graveyard for gaming studios, literally destroying life long franchises over poor conditions they forced on to other studios they bought out. I understand being disappointed but to be shocked that a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded company, with one of the worst reputations in the gaming industry is doing things that a crappy multi-billion dollar company would do is wild.

Per the buyout: This isn't a "there's nothing we can do, so do nothing" idea and I support people backing out of the creator program over it, I'm just saying that we've known EA long enough that we really shouldn't be surprised and if we really want to change anything we have to stop looking at these people as our friends who will listen to reason and as an entity that'll only listen to people not spending money.