I bought myself an external harddrive for games and it significantly decreased my laptop lagging! There are lots of tutorials on YT on how to move the games on the drive also
I don't understand why people say downloading from the Gallery is "stealing" when the entire purpose of it is for others to download from it. As long as you don't reupload their stuff without their consent or credit them, then it ain't stealing lol. I always found this argument amusing
Sadly, I've seen people literally having to delete their builds or stop building entirely because of people reuploading. Even though the original creator is there, people never really bother check so the stolen build ends up with more saves
@@mattowy155 yeah, I know. I download builds too when I'm too lazy or exhausted to build. Especially now that I'm doing a legacy challenge. There's nothing with downloading a build for your own personal save
The trick is to make a family with a small legacy, like grandparents, parents, their kids grown up with kids, and then those kids children when they grow up. And then playing rotational gameplay with your legacy. It's so fun and it the best way to do it
@@Acceptrans I almost did that with my Sim but then I realised I liked seeing them get older and visiting her daughter and grandchildren, it was really nice. And she gets to grow old with Akira so I guess that's a win for her 😂
The touch grass tidbit at the end is so funny. Reminds me of when I was little if I ever complained to my mom that I was bored, she'd make me clean something to not be bored anymore haha
I find that just randomizing sims' traits, picking new aspirations, refusing to use cheats, and paying attention to some of my sims' wants (especially the ones related to their aspirations) makes the game pretty lively. It makes me go through a lot of new gameplay. I was shocked, for instance, to learn that playing as a decorator led me know everyone in town, run across, and pick up dozens of tombs. That's what led me to build a graveyard, and then to make a formal holiday to visit the graveyard....
Hi! somewhsome here. A couple of people said on my gallery page that they came from your youtube/tiktok. Thanks so much for the shoutout! That's so nice of you :)
Rotational gameplay is so much fun, I would recommend for anyone. Personally I play 1 week per rotation, and turn aging on for active household only. It's fun to create really entwined stories between households with friendships, rivalries etc, and develop the world around you as you play. It's also a fun way to start playing in a downloaded save file. I've downloaded a few and felt overwhelmed by the choice, but rotational gameplay is a good way to try out a lot of different stories.
I think it's more fun if you turn aging on and everything else for every household. Then a lot of random shit can happen to your sims and make more interesting stories, giving you inspiration. Even deaths 😂 Realistically, most of us don't let bad stuff happen to our Sims on purpose otherwise... The only thing I turn off is moving out because otherwise my Sims end up scattered all around and I can't find them (or their tomb) anymore.
I've taken to playing rotationally in the Sims 2, and it's actually really fun! And it really fixes the issue I've had with children in the household I mainly played growing up, while their parent living in another household is still the same age.
I always create Sims based on things I enjoy, for example, my House of Night household. House of Night is my favorite vampyre book series. (And no, it's not misspelled, that's how vampyre is spelled in the books).
I made random sims with random personalities and I made them sleep in tents and It seems like they are in a survival reality show ,I made them fight and sleep around .I also steal sims from the gallery and make their lives miserable and the moment I got the paranormal stuff, everything in the game became better,having Bonehilda and Giurdy is so much fun
The most interesting sims gameplay I expiriensed is when I created the whole world filled with my own families (I didn't deleted other families but they eventually die on their own). So there's a vampire lord that planed to create new vampire dynasty with a human but totally failed; an ancient alcoholic witch who made a child with Santa; a snob kiddo that got kicked out of a rich family with $0 and end up a criminal etc. And I still have a lot of plans for them all :)
Build mode can be so fun when you think outside the box, like making every room focused on a shape, or all rooms don't touch eachother, your sim needs to walk 3 different stairs to get to each room, make the smallest house possible or even don't have an actual house! Try living as if your sim is camping fulltime etc
I'm currently, slowly, making my own save file. It's a lot of fun. And, I throw my shells up on the gallery for people to use. It's not stealing at all.
I usually do a mix of the two :) sometimes I try to play without cheats (I especially use the needs one), but if it gets too much which makes the game not fun anymore, I will use cheats. That's the beauty of it, you don't have to completely play without them or only play with them, you can use them freely and fit it to your needs 😊 the same goes for mods
Same! I find going through the actual stories of the Sims the only way to actually play them through, which means no cheats... unless it's bb.moveobjects, that one's ok for me :'D
I've actually been playing with a Scenario and it definitely helps keep some interest if you get bored of playing the same old Sims. For me, it forces me to play a new career or with a family I wouldn't create myself, and there are actual goals to keep pushing towards. It feels like a lesser version of Life Stories. And when you complete the Scenarios, it's a good way to populate neighborhoods with Sims who have actual backstories.
Tbh I'm quite suprised hearing how people are playing the Sims. Starting new save file over and over again, giving Sims the same perfect traits all over again, money cheats, this indeed sounds like no fun at all. I have one save file that I play rotationally with, every sims has randomized traits and I focus on personal aspiration an work achievements for each sims and on relations and deep stories between families as well. Every Sims game can be interesting and challanging if you have some ideas for your gameplay and each one can be boring otherwise.
Wow I've made almost about 80 different saves lol I decide on something and plan on playing that one save for a very long time but I'm always licky to spend a month on it before starting a new game. Depending on my save I play both with and without cheats. I'm currently playing without cheats and it's more fun than when I do cheat.
@@Xxxxxohssome of us are impatient and have a very hard time sticking to one save. I repeatedly feel like I want to play one save for a very long time but I always find it too hard to stick to it and I start a new save.
Since adding holidays for my sims, and making them go on vacation and celebrate things like Mothers/Fathers day, Easter, Simdependence Day, Bonfire Night, movie nights and even joining clubs, I've enjoyed my game more than before. Even just using swatches that I wouldn't normally use helps change up the game.
my favorite family to make lately, is living outdoors in the tent from battuu. OMG it is so much fun going around getting plants to put in the garden, finding the dig spot, and i write books with a side of authenticating items for a living. once thee garden gets to big, and i have a gardener, i make over $65k a day, and have no reason to go collect plants anymore.
The grilled cheese aspiration was an aspiration that was in the sims 2 originally. There were objects you would get as rewards and if your sim wasn’t satisfied enough, the objects would go wrong when you used them. There was an object that allowed you to change your aspiration (which you couldn’t do like in the sims 4) and when it went wrong, you would end up with the grilled cheese aspiration.
I feel like I've matured similarly to you Satch which is probably why I've been a fan for years now - your videos are literally always exactly what I want to hear about the game (constructive criticism, honesty) and these tips are so good.
Yes I started doing a rule that I at least needed 2 bad traits in sims 3 when making sims, but in game i have to randomize up to 3 times if I can choose or I live with the trait that is given and then force myself to make the sims style etc based on traits so not all guys are jocks and not all girls are popular, cause if they got the nerd trait then bam its a nerd instead.
I feel like in order to make the sims 4 less boring you need to focus on storyline, I personally make my game tedious as hell. My sims birthday is coming up so I made a restaurant and a private room that I decorated for her, so I’m removing 1000 simoleons when she “rents” the space out. Making my sim do work from home careers so I can take them to an “office” and make a club of coworkers who work with them. Crappy traits (jealous is my fave) or the neat trait so my sim can have cleaning days. Making more holidays where my sim will go to the beach, or have the 4th of July, all of that. Also I try not to rush through relationships, I use to be that person who makes my sim meet a guy and boom they kiss after five minutes which isn’t realistic so now I do it similar to real life, I make my sim go on several dates before they even get into a relationship. Another thing I’ve started doing is building, Pinterest is my bff when it comes to lot inspo. I sometimes even make a board on Pinterest for my sim, what do they like, what are their hobbies, their style, where do they like to go for fun, what do they do for work. I play with different skills I usually don’t mess with. I create their friends and extended family, love the family dynamic system especially…anyway…I have 15,000 hours in the game so…I’ll make a personal chef that my sims can “hire” who’s well known for events, or a singer to perform at their party. I’m currently working on a home decorator who my sim is going to hire to decorate her new apartment. I play the game from all angles.
This is exactly why I’ve been loving a few build videos from simmers. I actually do copy and try to build things like these simmers, but only for me and my learning experience.
Since sims 4 pack is very shallow, I always have 1 sims that have different lives. For example, One save is a rancher other is a doctor etc. I like the struggle but get bored when I am in the top (which was quite short). Funnily enough the one sim I use is John Krasinski I got from the gallery.
Oh- I just started using MCC to replace randomly generated Sims with ones from my gallery and it's amazing. Also, have a save with a fully build Newcrest, complete with a modern district and a historical home district.... as for builds, I almost always build my own homes or fill out shells. I think it's one of my favorite parts of the game. It's also fun to see how many downloads I get on the gallery. I never play with aging on, even on normal play.
Thanks for the tip about shells and daniellebuilds. I find building exteriors and layouts so boring but love to furnish for families as they evolve and collect things.
I find it interesting how much more work it is managing a large household when you don't buy the perks that make it so they don't need to sleep, eat, or use the bathroom
i've been playing sims 4 ultimate decades challenge, my sims started in year 1300 and currently in 1329, I'm having so much fun and its made me love the game again
It is international, and the sale ends on the 28th of March. I just got the last two packs I never bought (the occults one and the very last pack, To the future)
In the sims 4, you just have to put in more effort to make it fun. I love the Sims 4. I feel like I can create more of my own backstory and lore while playing.
Yesss! Ugh lol I don’t get people that get soo angry about people using other people’s build that are from/on the gallery…that’s literally why the creators share them duh 🤣😮💨♥️. If the creators didn’t want other people using them they wouldn’t upload them.
I agree about the gallery I take things from there all the time and I share my own builds or sims or pictures. I truly thought that was the whole point
Whenever I feel like building something, I open the game, open the building mode, feel overwhelmed by millions of furniture and accessory options, feel confused and lose all my motivation and will to build 😅 I think this is the main sims 4 problem: it's TOO focused on customization options, visual things and minor details while it should be focused on gameplay
You need to use filters. And maybe start with a build on the gallery that you want to remakem. Definitely need to have an idea in your head of the kind of style/color pallet you want. I love looking up color pallets or making one from an inspiration image. you don't need to be good at it, you just need to have fun. Lastly, making the build limited based on packs can make a build more accessible to more people, so restrict the packs you can use too. It doesn't fix every problem, because going into the general "decorations" atea will give you items that should show up in the "bathroom decorations" so, finding exactly what you need is tough. But it might still help some.
It is lacking in gameplay, but the customisation options and many choices in build&buy mode are great. There's many types of players, some do nothing but building.
that honestly just sound like a personal problem, like it's not a flaw to have a lot of customization options. they definitely should have more gameplay but having a lot of customization options will always be a plus to a lot of people
I know not everyone will do this but i like to make characters from videos games, animes literally any media and play as them because often times they arent the same bland sims i tend to make and they have their own problems and stuff so its kinda fun :3
10:09 so I had to download 3 different bobs burgers off the gallery to recreate my own perfectly. By the 4th rebuild I started to see how other simers did theirs. But with horse cc Tina's room looks almost accurate.
For me, a way to make it fun is to Buy Get to Work! The retail option is everything to me. Making retail stores of all kinds is a really fun way to make venues! I ran a yoga studio by "selling yoga mats" and in the lobby, which attracted NPCs and leading classes in the other room which they would join. I also made a bar and "sold drinks" as a mixologist sim. I want to try making a grocery store too. It's also interesting setting up fashion trends using retail, cause sims will actually wear what they buy from you. I really like making my sims go out to buy some things instead of using build mode and CAS.
something i like to do when i get bored is play survival challenges or challenges based off of reality tv shows, like right now i’m playing too hot to handle in a save. i think it’s fun bc aside from creating rules you don’t actually have to think about what you’re doing, you just let the sims take over so it’s a good reset every once in a while !
I enjoy making new sims start out in Henford on Bagley in the middle of town. There is one house where at least 2 sims stop to talk around noon each day, so you can interact with townies without leaving your lot. Also doing the fair every week is stressful and fun and something to do outside of normal gameplay. Also rebuilding Henford on Bagley because all the houses are weird and annoying to navigate
Another way that Satch didn't really say is try and "roleplay" your Sim. Try and play the game with a goal and your sim's personality in mind, and don't just play it with the mindset of just taking good care of your Sim. If there's something you want to do or accomplish, then do it. Maybe you want to make a story out of your Sim. Make good use of the camera and the screenshot hotkey which is your "C" key. Press tab to disable the UI, and if you want to disable the plumbob, open up the cheats and type in "headlineeffects off". I've taken several good screenshots of my Sims based on things they did, and some sets of them even form their own stories. Mountain excursions are a good example.
You can earn money from the bug habitat - like grub meal and the biofuel. You can make money (I think?) from the recycle machine. You can rubbish through the trash bins in town and find stuff to sell. hehe Paint, write books, sell your cross stitches, sell your canned goods and pies at the fair, dig all around town for gems and minerals, etc. It is actually pretty fun to start with the small amount of money you are left with after you move onto a lot and work your way up. And of course - you can get a job! I also like to demolish the house on a lot and start over with a "tiny home" then make improvements as I earn. I do, however, really miss the cars in the previous versions - wish they would bring those back. Oh well - plenty to do without them. Like flying on one of the various brooms - or become a vampire and turn into a bat to travel. :-) I don't know about everyone else - but I'm definitely NOT bored of the Sims 4 yet.
I implement a lot of these options. One I really like to do is the extreme violence mod, let the killers and thieves do their thing and if my sim was meant to live, they will. If not, well that's the way the cookie crumbles. I made twin sisters whose house burned down because of the arsonist and the elder twin had a terminal disease that was almost unable to be cured. I do get bored with this game even with different game plays and all so I just go play another game or watch some RU-vid videos of other people playing the games I like. It motives you to play your games again.
Bruh, I have a save file where one of the main characters is a materialistic snob, the other one is jealous. But the hardest trait I played with yet was High Maintenance. It can literally kill your sim on the first night in San Myshuno [which happened to me multiple times].
Really great ideas and information, actually learned a lot too. Lots of things I hadn't considered that I'm also going to apply to my Sims 3 gameplay. Thank you.
I know this is SUCH wishful thinking, but I hope they have something big planned for the tenth anniversary. I think they could seriously breathe some life into sims 4 if they, for example, made a world editing tool.
1 tip is very true. One way that kept things interesting for my legacy playthrough was whenever a new pack came out that interested me I would work that into whoever was going to be the new "heir" in my sims family. Get Famous? Actor. Cottage Living? Farmer, Werewolves...duh. There hasn't been a new pack that's interested me lately so I took a break form playing. Also only ever downloaded a sim for my sim to marry once...otherwise my sims find someone in the world by chance. Very fun to see how the genetics have been passed down~
my sim (who is me) cooked food with Malcolm Landgraab ONE TIME and now every time she walks downstairs, he's standing in front of the fridge eating yorkshire pudding and she's just accepted it
I have 5 open tickets with EA because they deleted my sims 3 and all my sims 3 packs off of my computer and for 3 weeks now, all I get are emails from non-english speaking people saying they're here to help me and are working on my issue. I'm thinking it's gone forever and I see on answers HQ that a lot of people have had their sims 3 games stolen from EA and I think we should all band together and sue the shit out of them for it.
I think I've had mine taken too. There's a warning on Ea when I log in saying something like "some games have been removed due to corruption" or something g like that. It's theft! It's just theft.
I had deleted the Sims four in order to download another game, then I had some issues with my EA account. After getting that back I re-downloaded the Sims four and it wouldn’t work. Luckily I’m getting a Nintendo 3DS with the Sims 3
The problem with Sims 4 is that you HAVE TO buy all the packs to really have some fun. Base game is so poor in...everything - clothes, furnitures, items, sim-creating options, careers...EVERYTHING. For some time I had a chance to play with all pack that was available at that time. I had tons of fun, every single game was completly different. Now I have like 3 expensions and 2 game pack and its boring like hell. Even if randomize some things its still boring, because "I saw that already". In my opninion if you have to downolaod mods to the game because the base is boring that say a lot how bad game is. There's a lot of games where the very base is fun and you download mods only to try something new not to make base game fun at all.
I would play the sims 3 but my brand-new powerful pc won't start it (idk which mod broke it but now it won't start even after re-install and adler patch). So now am set on becoming the best Watcher and building a nice kingdom in Sims Medieval! Thanks for that series)
Hi there have you tried changing the graphics card in the game? Could be the game is reading the graphics card wrong! There’s many RU-vid videos that go over how to change it over to the right one!
You could try updating the EA App, my game stopped launching one day, and it was the broken ass EA App's fault, of course. I don't think mods can break your game. I don't know the Adler patch, I'm using LazyDuchess' smooth patch and launching the game from it. Works very well.
it's boring because they ruined the game by taking away what made Sims great. The life challenges like random chances of getting your house robbed, having interesting npcs like crumplebottom smacking you with her purse when you are showing public affection. The game lore. From the first sims to current game the lore should have carried through each one. Maybe the detective career gives you a quest in solving the disappearance of Bella Goth. Now there's nothing but a buggy sandbox game. It just a electronic dollhouse game.
These were... actually great ideas! I can't remember how often I've googled ways to introduce some change into the gameplay, only to end up with.... you nailed it, Rags to Riches and Berry Challenge. Thanks a lot for putting together this list, I really enjoyed your way of presentation, footage and most importantly: the content. Off to try out something new!
My sim messed around with Tina Peeping one time and then a few days later she shows up with a big belly. The next day I get a notification that she had twin girls. Now I gotta go to family court to fight for custody. 😂
one tip is to recreate an universe you like! im rewatching naruto anime so im hyperfocusing on it to the point i recreatead most characters on sims 4 😂 and now im playing it in a medieval style, creating my own storyline with these characters i already love!
Sometimes when my Sim travels or I change aspiration, the game "forgets" progress I've made on the aspiration steps. I'm 100% using UI cheats to check them back off because I'm not going to do 5 more rocket upgrades or catch 25 more fish when already did it.
Great idea on recommending trying to recreate builds someone else made. I sometimes try to follow along in recreating a build while watching a speed build (if it's not too fast or advanced, lol) and it's a truly great way to get more comfortable with going through the whole process of making a build. Once when I watched lilsimsie making one of her Water Tower Way builds and I couldn't find it anywhere on the gallery (love that it's so broken, thanks EA!) I recreated it while following along watching her build video and then I uploaded it to the gallery so I'd be able to find and use it (while giving credit ofc, since I was recreating and literally copying someone else's work). I highly recommend recreating people's builds. From the gallery is a good idea too. It's very helpful to not just watch someone build, but to actually try to model the action yourself, you'll end up learning so much more about how to build in general, all the little tricks you think you pick up on watching but can't easily replicate in practice unless you've done it before.
lol these are great! And honestly they do help the game even though I diss Sims 4 a lot (because 3 was so good!) doing these things help. Especially adding Mods !!
Love that suggested no cheats! I play on Xbox and didn't want to lose achievements progress. I also like the challenge of building without cheats and not having to feel pressure to be clutter everything.
It started being boring after 4 rent broke the game. Since then I’ve been in a constant battle trying to save my save my corrupted file, finally accepting its corrupted, starting a new one, the new one becoming randomly corrupted, creating a new one just for it to get corrupted again, random patch updates which keep corrupting my save files, so many corrupted save files and constantly dealing with sorting through corrupted mods and updating mods. I have to be super on top of my mods folder. The whole thing just became so damn depressing to play anymore. I just stopped playing one day and just said to myself “you know what? F it. I’ve had enough 🤷♀️” I haven’t played it for months. It is what it is. I’m just sick of this 💩
I've been playing The Sims since 2001 and on Sims 4 online hours I have almost 4,000 logged and for the very first time I'm playing a new save game and using cheats and I am having a lot of fun LOL
I downloaded cracked version of TS4 and played with it for about 3 months (with a bunch of mods ofc), stopped playing for 2 years, bought the game off of steam while it was on sale, told myself I'm going to play it one day but never touched it again despite buying it 😂
I have such a love/hate relationship with the Sims 4. I used to start a new save file just about every time, and indeed started to get bored. What I did was, first: install a few necessary mods (or literally just MCCC), and started with a 100 baby challenge (I was motivated y'all. I am on kid 78 right now. I've gone through the alphabet for names three times). I randomized all their traits, so they're definitely not the "ideal" Sims I always used to play with. Then, I sent my kids into the world as young adults with full free autonomy to marry, move, start careers, etc. When I noticed they started dying of old age I turned off aging for unplayed households (otherwise all my Sims are sad ALL THE TIME even for siblings they've never even met), and now I rotate gameplay and do random challenges with the kids I have left. Which is still a VERY big family. I only play with aging up for my current household to keep things somewhat under control, but it's a lovely chaotic save file. The family tree is unlike anything I've ever seen before. It's wild. I've got a vampire grandson - his dad was Caleb Vatore, who, according to the family tree, died from killer rabbit(?). I also have a couple of werewolf twins somewhere, I have a daughter who is the child of Father Winter (one of her "magical" traits is that she's really good at grilling. Also she is a toddler.) I am having so much fun. I keep importing new Sims from the gallery to populate the world with (because my main 100 baby mom is ummm... well... let's say she has a very well decorated dungeon and Grim is a frequent guest at our house). I imported Shanice Shanice and her sister as my neighbors, they live in your trailer park, and I am currently doing a soft rags to riches challenge using one of your houses. I love seeing my kids pop up randomly in town. I also got really attached to some of them and I cried when my Sim's first child died from old age (although mom herself is "just" an adult). I named my first Sim Ruby Goldstein and I swear I see that surname pop up EVERYWHERE now.
1. Think start file instead of save file. 2. Only follow maxis in the gallery 3. Research lore, study the trailers, 4. Put the puzzle together 5. Wait for more clues
