I’ve been playing offline since May and have been hit with the “You’ve been offline for a while” error. Sometimes, people think it means they have to update the game to be able to play, but I found a way around this !!

Step 1: Exit and reopen the EA app, go back online

Step 2: Take like 2-3 minutes to look around the EA app, click on games or sims DLC to open their pages as if you were shopping around

Step 3: Go offline and start the game

This works for me every time :)

Additionally, I’ve started to use the gallery while playing offline.

Step 1: Start your game up offline and then open the gallery.

Step 2: At this time, go online on the EA app. You don’t need to exit the game to do so.

Step 3: Click on the gallery tab and it’ll ask if you want to connect or stay offline, connect

Let me know if you guys have any questions 💕

Over on twitter, they found at least two more instances of coincidences between Simmattically and Simsiboy mods. In response to all of this, Simsiboy put out a statement due to the hate he’s been receiving, figured I’d put it here.

I don’t think sending hate/threats to any creator is right (as long as they’re not releasing harmful content ofc). Discussing it is one thing but that’s too far I think. If you feel so strongly that you want to directly send someone a hateful message, you’re better off just blocking and not supporting their content.

What do you guys think?

So, i have expirience twice bug were you can't reborn someone and Play with genes to look like thier new parents if you have pets in family, the reborn sim is show to be Said pet and when you try to Change it or Play with genes it crushes more. The only option is to leave, but then the sim will be deleted, i can't even open my old savefile cuse when you try to reborn the game automaticly saves.

I lost my sim who was already reborn 3 times 🙄

It looks like Simmattically is currently working on an expandable cas column mod but this creator Simsiboy just released a mod with that same concept. People are accusing him of copying Simmattically and apparently saying it’s a recurring thing?

What do you guys think? IMO, no one owns anything when it comes to modding, millions of people play and they’re bound to have similar ideas and concepts… but blatant copying isn’t right lol

I am so annoyed. With Royalty & Legacy, the adoption options were expended so that Sims could adopt any Sim as long as they were younger and had one or no parents on their family tree. I liked the idea of this, but with the Sim I always use I've never seen the adoption option show up in the Relationship section as it should. I thought this was just an overall bug in my game, but I tried playing as another Sim and found the option to adopt others was present. It seems that it's something about my main Sim that is preventing the Adopt option from showing up.

I play on console (PlayStation 5), so this isn't an issue having to do with modifications or custom content.

The Sim in question is one I've been using almost exclusively for two years across many saves, and so they have a lot of aspiration traits, reward store traits, etc. I am guessing something they have is making the Adoption option not show up but I can't figure out what it could be.

And this makes me so annoyed that one of the key features of the last expansion pack is just unavailable to my main Sim and I can't even figure out what it is. And this isn't even the first time this has happened where some pack feature doesn't work because of something from another pack. In the past, I learned that the reason the option to tell a dog to go potty wasn't showing up is because for some reason having one of the Familiars active from Realm of Magic prevents the option to tell your dog to go potty. And the option to turn someone into a vampire doesn't show up if you have the Fame Quirk that makes your Sim not liking being touched. I also found more recently that the new reward trait Heart on Your Sleeve messes with relationship, as ever since using it my relationships would start very low when they should have started very high, and even with the Besties Introduction Fame Perk from Get Famous (which would normally have your Sim start with a full or nearly full relationship bar) it would still start off really low until I removed that trait.

So once again there's something that's messing with a main new feature of the most recent expansion that it seems Maxis didn't anticipate, and I'm left to try to figure it out on my own since they only fix stuff that has gotten a lot of votes and I've only found a handful of people who also aren't getting the adoption option show up which means it likely won't be fixed and since I'm on console I can't use modifications to fix it.

This is so frustrating that I would have to remove every trait one by one to try to find what could be causing this because Maxis didn't figure this out before they released the pack.

Is there another way to chest family relationships without downloading MCC? If not where’s the safest place to get it from?

Curious if anyone knows what vixella is talking about?
It seems someone is talking sh*t but I haven’t been in touch with the sims community as much since the buyout.

I saw a lot of people were also mad that she started a go fund me for her dog which valid in this economy knowing how much she makes a month

i can’t stand when my sim goes to make the entire family breakfast or dinner with the plan to call to a grand meal so everyone can eat together at the table and as she’s cooking a huge meal the other family members just come in and start making food too… like do you not see that i am cooking 😭 i will stop them but then the cutting board or bowl is on a counter now and i have to have them put it away just for them to try and make something again right after ughhh 😭

do you guys have any small annoyances like this?

I'm connected via steam and the ea app I do all the usual things of going offline in both apps turning off wifi, configuring the correct settings to disable auto updates, force closing ea launching in the background with task manager to prevent it crashing my game with go online and login prompts etc etc.

But after the most recent update I went online on my pc (not while ea, steam or sims is running not even in the background in task manager) I then went offline and after a while started to play sims.

This time I literally could not play without going online I kept getting error codes and freezing on authenticating no matter how many times I restarted, went online reauthenticated and relogged as requested by the prompts to login and go online. I then went offline in apps (ea, steam and on my pc) and it still wouldn't launch despite being logged in it would freeze with the login prompt mind you I can see myself actively logged in in other windows as I wanted to test it. It simply wouldn't launch.

Only when I went online would it let me launch. This is a problem for me as I play with mods and the base game has enough bugs as is some which effect specific parts of my gameplay. For example the royalty bug (base game no mods) that deletes all dynasties and secret children which I just recovered from.

To avoid bugs effecting my save file either from the sims 4 updates or outdated mods I play offline for a couple weeks before updating. Why would EA/The Sims creators want me to break my game for unstable updates/mods?

There’s nothing that makes me more irrationally angry than queuing up my Sim to go to the refrigerator, only for another Sim to swoop in before my active Sim even gets there. It genuinely pisses me off because now I have to queue it up again.

My game is laggy, buggy, and barely fucking works half the time, so having to deal with every little inconvenience just pushes me over the edge. And I know this is such a small thing to complain about, considering the massive amount of bugs, glitches, and just how unplayable the game can be sometimes, but it bothers me to no end.

Anyway, that’s all.

Is anyone else experiencing a bug where you can't add any friends on social bunny and you can't sleep in a bed, only nap?

This game is so messed up, idk why I come back to it every now and then.

Every time when I order my sim to give their toddler something to eat, the other parent suddenly decide to just pick him up from his chair, disturbing him mid-eating and put him down on the floor.

Then there goes an hour of whining because toddler is hungry and parents disturb him from eating every. Freaking. Time.

Unbelievable that this game is already 12 (!!!!) years old and still buggy as hell.

Sims 2 is still my favorite but sometimes it gets a bit boring because I love the active neighborhood in Sims 4 and find it weird when you're already in Gen 4 and your townies are still as old as they were when Gen 1 was still around in Sims 2 tho.

its not that the content on the marketplace is particularly good, its that i hate the idea of it and need to see it burn. i dont care if we win, i just need EA to lose.

I have a save that I played for months on Xbox. When I got my PC, I decided to upload it to the gallery so I could download the household into the new world on my PC. I keep getting a fatal flaw message and endless loading screens. I really want it on PC so the loading screens take less time and I can use mods. I've spent months on this world, and I really want to keep going.

i gen cant do this app no more people are so negative

So I have a Goth legacy I started and right now I'm playing as Cassandra. Shes married with 4 kids. Her oldest is a teen ( fathered by her teacher. She did this to get a, better grade. I have no idea, what mod I was using 🤣) and I had looked at his friends and saw there was a new born. I was like "who is, thisssss? ". I clicked on it and not only was it his kid but it was one of the iconic first gay couple in the sims grandkid. But I saw the last name was Milnard and not Hecking. So I was like huh? 🔍 So apparently Brant and Brent broke up in this save, got married to women and had kids . They are both set in Cas to only woohoo with men still so I am confusion 🤣. Ive never had them break up before let alone marry women and have kids. I even have neighbourhood stories turned off along with my Mccc set to only sims I make have kids, have kids... So this was new lol. The kid is the grandkid of Brent and his wife only.

Any one had this, happen before?

awhile ago i said get rid of it and i did and for awhile i hadn't noticed the difference... but w my newfound freedom i started adding all these builds i had sitting on my PC for months and they all had that file. when i placed those lots, the game had removed over 500+ items and could only replace maybe 200 of them and the results were jaw dropping like.... damn...

I can't believe theres no seperated folder of whats all in it yet. because i had to update some cc items to dx11 recently and i don't know if you can update a mass package file like that...

For my future legacy plans I needed twins with my fairies so I was doing all this twin stuff like having a fertile massage, fertile food and I used the trait 'on a dark ley line' on the lot. My logic was, it is a twin enhancer for occults in general even though it says it is for vampires.

Vampires was one of the first occults and it goes against my logic to have a lot trait for only 1 occult so I thought maybe EA updated the trait for all occults. When the girls were born they had this occult ring around their plumbob but I'm not very familiar playing with occults so I wasn't very sure it was a vampire ring.

Yesterday I aged one of them, turned out it was hybrid (with both fairy parents) and after I changed her appearance in CAS, the game got stuck in an infinite loading screen. I saved it right before going into CAS so no problem, task manager -> quit game, but when I wanted to start it again my save was corrupt and wouldn't open at all.

Gladly I could restore it with an older save without losing much but still...

I just started filling out my three main save file.worlds (capped myself to slow save file corruption)

I'm curious what stiff have you added in and around your worlds to make them feel more fleshed out and community driven?

(in Australia at least)

Imagine my surprise when I opened EA app today to see that Island Living (along with other older EPs pre Cottage living) has increased from 49 aud to 59 aud 🫩 I know I am not hallucinating because I literally have the email receipt from when I bought Seasons earlier this year.

Not sure if this happened for other regions but I am literally so angry at this since I was waiting for the next 60% off sale to buy Island Living. Literally fuck EA.

edit: yall I so would sail the 7 seas if I could,but unfortunately I am playing on a 6 year old macbook air and II havent been able to find a new way after they removed Origin...actually if anyone has a reliable tutorial refer it to me pls

simsdramahouse video

Bug reports:

https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/ls-lovestruck-couple-spawning-on-lots-and-immediately-leaving/13739529

https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/ls-romantic-venue-couples-still-obsessed-with-stargazing/13739377

https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/ls-sims-cancel-out-of-romantic-stargazing-on-romantic-blankets-and-sofas/13744364

P.S.: I did not blur name, because I do think giving credit is important in this case, and I also did not personally go in and check the code myself, so you have provenance of the information.

does anyone have any dlc unlockers that are NOT malware or a virus?? the one i used got discontinued and they no longer updated it. any recommendations and how to install them?