I hate it when....

[Lynnard]

You finally get your Sim to the point where they can ask their girl/boyfriend to move in and you find out that they are either WAY too old for them or WAY too young for them >.>
*Sigh*
I guess its time to kick my Dennis's girlfriend to the curb (She's almost an elder, and hes five days away from becoming an adult) but hey, he can always go back to sneaking peeks at the maid :heyhey:

Is there anything that really just ticks you off during game play?

[crocobaura]

You can feed them life fruit I think, to make them younger. I don't like that if you want anything done in the neighbourhood, you have to do it with your active sim. Like grow perfect life fruit plants when all you're really interested in is tinkering.

[VampireSim]

I hate it when....

- I'm furnishing a house completly new, add new rooms and the family is moving out a few minutes after I switch to another family.

- Two teens are falling in love and when one of them ages to a young adult, they not even talk to each other.

[alan650]

I hate it when....

- I'm furnishing a house completly new, add new rooms and the family is moving out a few minutes after I switch to another family.

- Two teens are falling in love and when one of them ages to a young adult, they not even talk to each other.

Why don't you just turn Story Progression off under the Options menu? That way you won't have any families moving out unless you choose to do that yourself.

Anyway, I hate it when...

--I am trying to have two sims get married and they keep walking off or I even had the groom leave the park venue in his car from his own wedding party moments after sending them there! They definitely need more wedding items and so forth. They need to add "Wedding Planner" feature in the future where you can pick like Best Man and all that.

--The sims use the same animations over and over for different interactions. I am so sick of seeing the same animations!

--There is a fight going on in public and other sims just walk on by like nothing is going on. Sims 3 sims barely react to their surroundings which is so dull! Don't get me wrong, I love this game, but this is probably the number one thing that needs fixed. That and the fact that family interaction is severely lacking.

[el_flel]

Why don't you just turn Story Progression off under the Options menu? That way you won't have any families moving out unless you choose to do that yourself. Without story progression on the neighbourhood will eventually die out because no one is reproducing or getting married or getting jobs.

[hotaru801]

My queue line gets dropped and I miss a milestone because of it.

[alan650]

Without story progression on the neighbourhood will eventually die out because no one is reproducing or getting married or getting jobs.

Twallan's Story Progression mod has modifiable features such as limiting moves and so forth. I find it superior to EA's terrible story progression as do many others. I remember hating when families I made would randomly move.

[VampireSim]

Without story progression the game is too boring.
I removed Twallans Story Progression out of the game, because I wanted that my sims in sunset valley be transformed into vampires by EA's story progression.
Thanks for the hint. I think I put Twallans Mod back. Without it, the game sucks.

another "I hate it when"...:
- Too many sims are swimming in the pool and drowning because no one can exit the pool

[mermaidofthenile]

I hate it when... (in story progression which I dont use anymore)

~it seems every sims in the neighborhood becomes fat...

~all the work I put into a relationship is gone while playing another sim

~ I miss birthings because I'm playing another sims

I hate it when... (with story progression off)

~ I turn aging off it turns it off for ALL the sims Im playing... why cant it be for each saved sims game instead of a global one... I almost screwed up and missed my favorite family babys birthday because of this.

~I make another sim my active household through edit town option and it erases the wishes and whatnot's of the previous one... which I dont do anymore, I stick to one now...

~I need more saved slots! LOL

some of these Ive lived and learned from not knowing they would happened before I played.

[KittyCarey]

I hate it when... (with story progression off)

~I make another sim my active household through edit town option and it erases the wishes and whatnot's of the previous one... which I dont do anymore, I stick to one now...
Awesomemod or one of Twallan's mods fixes this.


~I need more saved slots! LOL
Aren't there unlimited save slots? Or at least as many as there is space on your computer for? I haven't found a limit yet... :wtf:

I hate it when... relationships change when I'm not watching. I wish that sims not affected by story progression would keep the same relationship score all the time when they're not the active family. But they don't, which is a pain.

[el_flel]

Twallan's Story Progression mod has modifiable features such as limiting moves and so forth. I find it superior to EA's terrible story progression as do many others. I remember hating when families I made would randomly move.Yeah I know, I have Twallan's because of the reasons you mentioned. My point was that whilst turning off SP would prevent random moves it's not ideal because the town won't progress.

[Lynnard]

Another thing I hate is, when you become a celebrity, you can't un-become one...
When you get someone to move in with they, they gain points, when you have kids they gain points, it gets really annoying!
I just wan't a normal family, without all the paparazzi.

[Kattmat]

Errors when trying to save. Say no more. I had this one family which I had played for like six generations, but then the save file got corrupt and I couldn't save anymore. That sucked.

[acid_paradox]

Errors when trying to save. Say no more. I had this one family which I had played for like six generations, but then the save file got corrupt and I couldn't save anymore. That sucked.
For future reference, next time try moving the family to a new hood every three generations. That helps prevent the save from getting corrupted, at least from my experience.
OT: I hate it when I work so hard to get a spouse for my legacy heir, but they just keep blowing her off. Then, it turns out that the guy just got married yesterday. :faceslap: WHAT?!

[Six_by_Nine]

I hate it when EA screws something up with a patch. :|

Err...lemme rephrase that.

I hate it when EA releases a patch.

...Eh, same difference.

[ne14gzus93]

I hate it when:

-My game glitches up the ques and everyone just stands there swinging their arms even though they have to pee/eat really bad.
-I make a gorgeous master bedroom all my sims run to the tiniest bedroom with the crappy bed.
-I DEFINITLY HATE THAT AMBITIONS DOESN'T HAVE A TATTOO ARTIST CAREER.
-Babies cry for no reason.
-People enable certain custom clothing for pregnancy and it automatically sets it to the pregnancy wear. BUT once the sim gets so big, it is obvious it shouldn't have been for pregnant sims.
-MASKS
-EA's patches.
-Save errors :/
-Random game shutdown during large House creations.
-Slow load times.
-THE CAMERA, I know their are mods to fix this.

[babele44]

I've been thinking about this question for several months now, and I came to the conclusion that what I hate most of all is dropping of the action queue.
No matter whether it's caused by absent-mindedness, co-workers passing out while at work, ghosts, simbots, mummies or, most annoyingly atm, celebrity fans and paparazzi. I so heartily loathe this that even thinking about it makes me furious.

[ohtar]

I hate when my game suddenly decides 'thou shalt not leave your house'. I tell my sim to go to work, she arrives, and teleports back home. I tell her to go to teh science center, she enters the building, doesnt even start doing what i told her to, turns around, leaves the building, and teleports back home. >_<
I have to clear all my cache files in order to get the game working again.
pain in the rear.

[Kestie Freehawk]

Since the LN patch my game saves ;)

I hate it when my Sims dont move to new homes when they get tired of the old one.
(I have SP on *shrug*)
The town dies.

People complain about *magic* babies. I dont watch every family and the baby could be a toddler forever if they were not magic.

I had to move a charactor out of a great house that I remodeled because the save file refused to save unless on vacation.

Known familys move out of houses and in with strangers not even on their freind list for no reason. IE( how does one marry Mortimer to Bella if Simis and company has moved away. )

[saeda]

-Save errors :/
-Random game shutdown during large House creations.
-Slow load times.

These are all things related to your computer and probably some CC (slow loading times), not so much the game. I have all these issues and it's because my computer barely meets the minimum reqs and I run with multiple gigs of CC.

The only thing that really bugs me is the fact that bars and clubs close and force everyone out, even with mods that alter the times. If someone is able to completely remove that 'Go Out' function then I will be their best friend forever.

[Kattmat]

For future reference, next time try moving the family to a new hood every three generations. That helps prevent the save from getting corrupted, at least from my experience.
Great tip! Will try that, thanks :)

[Simmer4Lyf]

You finally get your Sim to the point where they can ask their girl/boyfriend to move in and you find out that they are either WAY too old for them or WAY too young for them >.>
*Sigh*
I guess its time to kick my Dennis's girlfriend to the curb (She's almost an elder, and hes five days away from becoming an adult) but hey, he can always go back to sneaking peeks at the maid :heyhey:

Is there anything that really just ticks you off during game play?

Before you get all invested in a townie sim, you should throw a party after making their acquaintance and check their age group. (Edit: You don't actually have to throw the party of course.) It helps a bit.

[Techno Beansprout]

You finally get your Sim to the point where they can ask their girl/boyfriend to move in and you find out that they are either WAY too old for them or WAY too young for them >.>
*Sigh*



I absolutely hate this! My sim, Bradley, (YA) married a pretty girl named Hayley. It turned out that she was 5 days from becoming an elder! In those 5 days, I managed to make her get pregnant and give birth twice. When she aged, I dyed her hair and dressed her quite young, so really it was only the way that she walked that gave away the age difference. Now her two kids are teenagers and she's still not dead. I'm quite impressed but I hope she dies soon so that Bradley has another chance to find love. :luff:

[SuicidiaParasidia]

i hate it when the game is really slow to load a visitor sim that i invited over to kill, so all i get to go by is the floating automatic group thing (which annoys me in and of itself; i dont USE groups! EVER!).


and usually by then the visitor sim has made themselves cozy in
the hottub or in front of the TV where i have to work at getting their
ass up so i can socialize my sim. >_>

[vhanster]

I hate in when Sims autonomously climb out of pool because of their "drowning" moodlet when I'm trying to kill them off

[MnM_92]

I hate when sims take out a baby/toddler from their crib and then puts them back in another crib.

[fullsheet]

I hate it when my sim puts a toddler in a crib and goes on to another chore and the rest slider goes a little
further down on the toddler and it screams until someone picks it up only to put it back into the crib.
Geeze it is in the crib let it sleep! I'm thinking of getting rid of the crib and just letting the little beasts
sleep on the floor.

I got rid of my toddler chair as well because the sims autonomous keep making baby food over
and over for a toddler in the chair when it had already been fed. Three sims were processing food
and trying to feed to an already full baby ugh!

http://i56.tinypic.com/2r6fnsy.jpg
Here is Sam Sekemoto very sleepy but, screaming his head off.

[baratron]

I hate when sims take out a baby/toddler from their crib and then puts them back in another crib.
That still happens in Sims 3? Ugh. Pescado had a fix for it in Sims 2, but I was really hoping that EAxis would have managed to sort it out by now.

My current hate is the way that default EA Story Progression decides to pair up all of the townie sims. It seriously took me 2 sim weeks of playing to find a single, heterosexual female for Leighton Sekemoto - and that was with his mum going out to meet women and check them out for him!

[suzetter]

Yeah I know, I have Twallan's because of the reasons you mentioned. My point was that whilst turning off SP would prevent random moves it's not ideal because the town won't progress.

I have always played with Story progression off and that has not happened in any of the cities -- SV, Twinbrook, Bridgeport or Riverview--the towns never empty out. I only play my Sims and avoid townies like the plague. However, there are still game generated Sims of all ages everywhere -- clubs, parks, etc, and no shortage of service NPCs. Perhaps, that is what is suppose to happen but I haven't found that to be the case so far.

I hate that they repeatedly flush the toilet everytime. What is that about? Is that suppose to be funny? I just find it annoying.

[hotaru801]

~Because this just happened I will say it again, I hate it when the spell caused by my god complex is broken because the queue line is broken and then my sims go do something that their lord and savior (me) did not tell them to...

~I also hate playing for hours and forgetting to save and then my game crashes...

~I hate when my sims put their newborns on the bathroom or kitchen floor and then go far away to do something else like there isn't a crib...

~And when my celeb sims drop everything to take a picture or sign an autograph.

[abrtx]

~I need more saved slots! LOL


Aren't there unlimited save slots? Or at least as many as there is space on your computer for? I haven't found a limit yet... :wtf:

if not space capacity maybe you meant neighborhood lots?

[abrtx]

hates:
-game crash
-save error
-the sims are too obsessed with themselves
-in uncontrolled conversations they never care about the other sim they're speaking to, they talk about their life-in-a-bubble
-they're too dumb to do anything progressive themselves (they keep tending to their maxed bars when oh u don't need to eat anymore :faceslap: go to work you're full, work feeds you too~ i don't see why you're using the toilet, you barely have a drop :| stop bugging people that are asleep, be conscious enough that they will be mad at you if u blast that stereo in the same room :faceslap: )
-dropped queued actions
-absurd reactions/ resurfacing moodlets that cause this
-priority fail

[abrtx]

~I hate when my sims put their newborns on the bathroom or kitchen floor and then go far away to do something else like there isn't a crib...


Goodness :cry: that worries me so much!
irl within a busy household some idiot could really hurt the kid :faceslap:
HIGH TRAFFIC AREA!

[varpunen]

You finally get your Sim to the point where they can ask their girl/boyfriend to move in and you find out that they are either WAY too old for them or WAY too young for them.

I use the cellphones "Throw a party" option. When the guestlist opens up, you can easily check the age status of everyone your sim knows. And Crocobaura is right; just use ambrosia. I have 20 servings of it copied into the food replicator. :)

I hate when you invite another sim out and right after arriving, he or she announces that he/she is bored and the whole thing was just a waste of time. It happens even before my sim has a chance to open her mouth.

[crocobaura]

hates:
-absurd reactions/ resurfacing moodlets that cause this

I hate it when my sim has just cooked some dish, finishes eating it, and immediately pops the need to cook that dish. :faceslap:

[mermaidofthenile]

Awesomemod or one of Twallan's mods fixes this.

Aren't there unlimited save slots? Or at least as many as there is space on your computer for? I haven't found a limit yet... :wtf:



I know it does its just well Im afraid to use it lol.

I dunno all that I see is 5 slots.. but for some reason Sims3 doesnt play very well on my box. So that could be the issue. Thanks though I didnt know about the unlimited slots. :)

[hotaru801]

~ I hate when my sim student goes to school and comes home practically starved because they didn't eat lunch there. Same goes for those at work.
~ I hate when the baby sitter doesn't do their job.
~ I hate when I cheat on a career and then there is a frowny face for things like "research" (Things I can't cheat and change)
~ I hate unrealistic routing issues
~ I hate that Sims Medieval isn't out yet so I cannot angry rant about Sims 3 for 5 minutes
~ I hate when the babysitter starts flirting with the child's father like my sims game is a cheap porno (Happened today)
~ I hate that I can't find a mod that allows me to automatically have the achievements that go with the skills (Like run 500k or Collect x amount of bettles)
~ I hate when I spend an hour of my time trying to get a skill achievement and then I realized the game logged the time wrong and my sim has to meditate for the rest of the con-flabbed week or run back and forth across France until the end of their stay.

[crocobaura]

~ I hate when the babysitter starts flirting with the child's father like my sims game is a cheap porno (Happened today)


That behaviour is of the realistic variety. :rofl:

[baratron]

I use the cellphones "Throw a party" option. When the guestlist opens up, you can easily check the age status of everyone your sim knows.
That only tells you what age category they're in, though - not that the sim is an adult about to age up into an elder, or a young adult who's only just stopped being a teen!

I dunno all that I see is 5 slots.. but for some reason Sims3 doesnt play very well on my box. So that could be the issue. Thanks though I didnt know about the unlimited slots. :)
If you have more saved games then you can use the arrows on either side of the slots to scroll between them. I use "Save As..." all the time and save my games in the format "Family Name w5d2", changing the name every couple of sim days to ensure I have plenty of backups. I don't trust this game not to go horribly wrong! :lol:

[simintraining]

I hate that NPC sims randomly have babies even though they live alone! Also, the baby sometimes has this glitch where it is just legs and a floating head. The body doesn't show up!

[hotaru801]

~I hate that Grim babies are so black you can't see their features unless you zoom in far too close and piss yourself off...

[lenglel]

Piss yourself off? Isn't there a pill for that? ;)

[mermaidofthenile]

If you have more saved games then you can use the arrows on either side of the slots to scroll between them. I use "Save As..." all the time and save my games in the format "Family Name w5d2", changing the name every couple of sim days to ensure I have plenty of backups. I don't trust this game not to go horribly wrong! :lol:

LOL i dont see any arrows but thats okay. Agreed! I lost my first family due to the game bugging out and corrupting all my files. Thanks for the help! :D

[varpunen]

That only tells you what age category they're in, though - not that the sim is an adult about to age up into an elder, or a young adult who's only just stopped being a teen!

Not accurately in days and hours, no. But it does show you if another sim is close to becoming an elder or if they have become an adult or young adult just a short while ago - how long or short their green bar is. It's useful if one is not meticulous about days and hours. :)

[hotaru801]

Piss yourself off? Isn't there a pill for that? ;)
Yep... St. John's Wort for us poor people with no medical insurance... And Zoloff and Wellbutrin for those other people...

And to the person who disagreed with me seriously look at them. It is annoying... Their color # has to be 000000. Just a little lighter would have helped so much. This is the best picture of a grim child I have with hella lights over head.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/starrilighthotaru/Screenshot-16.jpg

[ladybutterflyxx]

I hate it when the game lies D<

Last night, I had this female sim who had been romancing with a male sim...since like...forever. And from the start, it said; "Partner: None."

Then, they're chit-chating and I get the option to; "Ask to break up with [insert name here] "

Whaaaaaaa----?

LIES.

[TheLB]

Another thing I hate is, when you become a celebrity, you can't un-become one...
When you get someone to move in with they, they gain points, when you have kids they gain points, it gets really annoying!
I just wan't a normal family, without all the paparazzi.

Twallan's Master Controller lets you set the celebrity level of whatever sim, even down to 0.

[TheLB]

I hate that sometimes my sims will forget to move their mouths when they speak, and they just have this blank-eyed smiling face while having a serious conversation.

I hate how the sims are prudes. My celebrity sim was publicly disgraced for woohooing with a member of the occult...who was her husband.

I hate how my sim's daughter gets all mad and hates her mother for kissing a guy in the other room because she is cheating on her father...who is only a romantic interest...who is the grim reaper...who said daughter has never met.

Also, I hate how my evil sim keeps rolling the wish to get married to absolutely anyone. I'm sorry, you're evil, you're a vampire, you murder women so that you can sleep with their husbands, why can't you be a single mom now?

[ani_]

I hate it when the camera zooms in when a Sim uses the fire-station pole.

[hotaru801]

~ I hate it when I work so hard to get a sim to be 'extremely alluring' and then something happens and it drops back down to 'friendly'.

[CinderEmma]

Also, I hate how my evil sim keeps rolling the wish to get married to absolutely anyone. I'm sorry, you're evil, you're a vampire, you murder women so that you can sleep with their husbands, why can't you be a single mom now?use testingcheatsenabled and change a trait to commitment problems or whatever it's called. Hopefully that will stop it?

[Kestie Freehawk]

I hate it when my sim puts a toddler in a crib and goes on to another chore and the rest slider goes a little
further down on the toddler and it screams until someone picks it up only to put it back into the crib.
Geeze it is in the crib let it sleep! I'm thinking of getting rid of the crib and just letting the little beasts
sleep on the floor.

I got rid of my toddler chair as well because the sims autonomous keep making baby food over
and over for a toddler in the chair when it had already been fed. Three sims were processing food
and trying to feed to an already full baby ugh!

http://i56.tinypic.com/2r6fnsy.jpg
Here is Sam Sekemoto very sleepy but, screaming his head off.

I have this trouble with twin types, specially when they have cute rooms and their clothes match their rooms and stuff (so I can keep track) and then the babysitter decides that the kids need each others cribs or that only one needs the one crib when there are two. Twin types include Irish Twins that are still infants, like Riskillas.

[Kestie Freehawk]

That behaviour is of the realistic variety. :rofl:

I have a freind that has married the babysitter at least 3 times. The last one responded "What are you kidding" when my ex asked her when she was returning to work. I had odds and won on her pregnancy and she had "Irish Twins". My ex asked her if she was aware of what caused that since she now knew what caused divorces.

We liked her sister better.

[J. M. Pescado]

That only tells you what age category they're in, though - not that the sim is an adult about to age up into an elder, or a young adult who's only just stopped being a teen!Do you WANT there to be? Because I can add such a thing. Except that you are a Baratron and you SUCK.

[baratron]

LOL i dont see any arrows but thats okay.
See attached screenshot. I circled one of the arrows to make it easier to see! ;)

[baratron]

Not accurately in days and hours, no. But it does show you if another sim is close to becoming an elder or if they have become an adult or young adult just a short while ago - how long or short their green bar is. It's useful if one is not meticulous about days and hours. :)
Assuming we're talking about the same thing (see screenshot), that isn't what the green bar means in my game. It shows how good the relationship is! Otherwise, why would the colour start in the centre of the bar, and how would it be possible to have red bars?

Do you WANT there to be? Because I can add such a thing. Except that you are a Baratron and you SUCK.
Hi Pescado! *kicks and punches before attempting to stomp on his head (and failing, due to suckage)*. I missed you too!

That would indeed be a pretty awesome addition to the already Awesomemod, yes ;).

[Tremerion]

I hate it when moderators reject my stuff. Like now Vampire custom careers. Only beacuse I don't upload a description for every level. I made 11 careers! It took me more then week to do this! And I was waiting for 2 months for any info from them about it!! Sometimes I am thinking that some bots have more insight then moderators... Ofcourse I can write descriptions for all 11 careers, if you like to read 3 or 4 pages of text before you will get to the bottom! Good there is 4shared, where this careers are and 30 people for now download them. And it is ok for them!

[vhanster]

Hate when my Sims adopt or have babies while I'm not playing them (I think I need a teleporter painting or OMGWTDBBQ for Sims 3)

[severedsolo]

Assuming we're talking about the same thing (see screenshot), that isn't what the green bar means in my game. It shows how good the relationship is! Otherwise, why would the colour start in the centre of the bar, and how would it be possible to have red bars?

There is always Twallans Master Controller, just click the Sim in question, then Status>Personal at the top it will say "Days to Transition: x" with X being the number of days before their birthday.

[hotaru801]

~ I hate when my sims go to the stylist when I am not playing them and change into an outfit that I did not want them (Or anyone) to wear...
~ I hate when the parents of my toddlers literally run away when their baby starts crying.
~ I hate when the burglar is still on the lot and the police has the nerve to tell me they got away.
~ I hate that when my kid of an officer is in the middle of beating a burglar senseless that if the police show up they stop for the police to try their hand and get their butts handed to them.
~ I hate that ghost keeping going in my fridge and stealing my ambrosia.
~ I hate that I can't choose a day to just send my sim to their profession and not have to stare at them all day. Yeah some of the quest are fun, but I often have other things to do.
~ I hate when my teens go all the way home when their job is next door to the school and they have to turn right around almost as soon as they get there.
~ I hate that my flirty sims are whores.
~ I hate that one of my sims loves his car more than he loves his wife and kids just because he is a vehicle enthusiast.
~ I hate when vegetarian sims are stupid enough to eat meat with out me effing up.

[Lynnard]

@Pescado
That would be awesome if you could add that :)

[brillo_pad]

I hate that non-active sims who I've given a profession become stylists or cashiers!

[hotaru801]

~ I hate when CC I download is in weird groups so then my nc sims wear random stuff they shouldn't wear... Like a ball gown to swim in and they aren't insane.
~ I hate when my sim's dad hits on his fiancee.
~ I hate when the paprazzi stalks me so bad that I can't get out of an area without teleporting.
~ I hate when my sims roll the want to live in a high rise and I don't even freaking play Bridgeport.
~ I hate that I can't delete maxis clothes out of my game without doing some extra sugar honey ice tea.
~ I hate that all my sims wanna do is read (even though they aren't book worms).
~ I hate when I can't excavate crap because it is on a slant.
~ I hate that I can't get the Sultan's Tabernacle out of buy debug.
~ I hate that no one has made a pose box for LN (I love Twallan's mods but too much work for the animations).
~ I hate when CFE screws me over.

[Lynnard]

-I hate it when all the other firemen/women wake up and leave the station at exactly 2am every night >.>

[crocobaura]

-I hate it when all the other firemen/women wake up and leave the station at exactly 2am every night >.>


What's up with the firewomen? Handling the firehose and knocking down doors requires quite a lot of force, definitely not something a woman carrying a heavy coat and equipment can easily accomplish. The fire station in my hood is serviced by 4 firewomen and 1 rusty robot. :wtf:

[Lynnard]

What's up with the firewomen? Handling the firehose and knocking down doors requires quite a lot of force, definitely not something a woman carrying a heavy coat and equipment can easily accomplish. The fire station in my hood is serviced by 4 firewomen and 1 rusty robot. :wtf:

I know, four women work at the station in my town and all of them are either over weight or tooth picks... I mean, I wouldn't mind if they were actually buff and fit to do the job, but c'mon X-P

Found another I hate it when to add,
-I hate it when my Sim is SUPER tired, goes to bed, wakes up seconds later to pass out on the floor next to the bed....

[VeronicaLodge]

I hate it when you befriend the market cashier but whenever you try to call him/her he's/she's never willing to talk since he's/she's working like 24 hours a day and 7 days a week...guess' breaks dont exists in the sims when it comes to employment.

[hotaru801]

~ I hate when my sims gets stuck on a fire trap and proceed to use up the 50 shower in a cans I purchased. Move off the trap and then douse the flames you idiot.
~ I hate when my black widow sims hit elder status and become cougars.
~ I hate when the hired help takes to long to clean.
~ I hate when my simbot drops their queue line to do some meaningless chore.
~ I hate that my playable mummies walk so effing slow.
~ I hate when I marry my sim to an NPC and then find out that they had a host of romantic interests, not because I took a peek at the relationships... No because 4 fights broke out at the wedding in the park.
~ I hate that my sims can't sit on the ground and chill.
~ I hate when my sims burn things that shouldn't have been on the stove. Why did you put the cereal on the stove in the first place you retard?
~ I hate that my sims can't do any fun beach related activities. (Sand castle building, sun bathing, swimming in the ocean)

[TheLB]

I hate it when I'm building up a conversation with somebody, and oh, here let me drop EVERYTHING so that I can sign an autograph, and when I get back to that person, they're back to "okay".

Also, I hate how male sims have the same club dance as female sims, which is the same "looka mah butt" dance. It's very...(for lack of a better word) feminine. It's fine when I'm actually playing a fabulous man, but I'm not sure I'm okay with manly men wagging their butt around for everyone to see.

[baratron]

I hate it when my playable sims go to visit sims I am not playing, who have had babies due to Story Progression without having bought a crib for them! So there are my sims, trying to talk to their friends, with a toddler screaming its head off because it needs to sleep and there's nowhere for it to sleep! Argh!

[J. M. Pescado]

I know, four women work at the station in my town and all of them are either over weight or tooth picks... I mean, I wouldn't mind if they were actually buff and fit to do the job, but c'mon X-PThat can actually be arranged. I suppose I could limit the dragoonage to sims that are appropriately buff. Because what good are scrawny, feeble firefighters, anyway?

[hotaru801]

~It might have to do with my graphics card, but I hate when I am building and then the wall appear to turn into paper thin lines and it gets hard to work with them...

[J. M. Pescado]

~ I hate that I can't choose a day to just send my sim to their profession and not have to stare at them all day. Yeah some of the quest are fun, but I often have other things to do.If you have AwesomeMod's Supreme Commander, you sort of can: Set the sim to "Work" mode and they will automatically do most things if you just leave them be, and don't need to handhold them through things.

~ I hate that my flirty sims are whores.You know that's the entire point of that trait, yes? It used to be apparently known as "Wanton".

~ I hate that one of my sims loves his car more than he loves his wife and kids just because he is a vehicle enthusiast.That sounds entirely realistic.

~ I hate when vegetarian sims are stupid enough to eat meat with out me effing up.Oh? How'd that happen? What'd they do?

[Laisanae]

I hate when I marry two sims who I don't play, but they are related to my sim family, and they have a baby finally... then the next thing I read in the newspaper is that the baby died from electrocution.
What...?

[Rawra]

I hate it when story progression puts stupid senseless names for my sims!

[brillo_pad]

I hate that all - yes ALL of the townies and NPCs have the same face!!! you can't fool me with you different coloured skin tones, levels of fitness and that poo coloured hair - you all have the same momma, don't you!?

[Laisanae]

I hate it when story progression puts stupid senseless names for my sims!

Oh they are just horrible... :wtf:

[LoonehWannabe]

I hate how the ghosts on residential lots and the Graveyard come out of their grave, walk to the road, and drive away.

[brillo_pad]

"your sim is too tired to do that now" on the pie menu options. :(

[Nightlight]

Well I hate it when patch or ep broke something.

I created a basement with the basement tool in an house already in game.
After that I can't seem to place any stairs going up the floor above.
I'm not using a foundation.

It's a bug... a but that I (We) have since Ambitions..

[J. M. Pescado]

I hate that all - yes ALL of the townies and NPCs have the same face!!! you can't fool me with you different coloured skin tones, levels of fitness and that poo coloured hair - you all have the same momma, don't you!?Generic Pudding Syndrome. Get AwesomeMod to avoid a neighborhood of Generic Pudding. Every single sim "spawned" by the game without parents has no slider settings and is a "Generic Pudding" otherwise.

[Firelira78]

I hate all these types of messages: "ABC thinks XYZ is okay."
I wish I could find out what my sims are thinking by observing their emotions/animations rather than reading these dumb messages.

In TS2 whenever a sim ever poked somebody out of the blue, I loved to see him getting poked and slapped in return and it was hillarious to see the whole thing turn into a public brawl. But in TS3, a sim upon getting poked will just avoid the perpetrator and we get a message: "XYZ things ABC is being extremely rude." All TS3 sims are so lifeless!

Also I hate that ALL the children and toddlers have sad, grumpy faces.

TS2 sims were funny and stupid, TS3 sims are emotionless, lifeless robots with a lot of stuff to learn. I have never seen a TS3 sim smile and wave at a family member. Even when they eat in a group they eat like drugged zombies with speech bubbles above their heads. I wish their meals were real family dinners with every member talking animatedly like in TS2.

[brillo_pad]

Generic Pudding Syndrome. Get AwesomeMod to avoid a neighborhood of Generic Pudding. Every single sim "spawned" by the game without parents has no slider settings and is a "Generic Pudding" otherwise.

I would but My computer is too lame for awesome mod :(
It blows it's mind.

[J. M. Pescado]

That sounds like a personal problem to me, soldier.

[brillo_pad]

Yes, Sir! :(

[cchrist1000]

I hate that every time i go on a sims binge (a few weeks every 2 months or so) there's just been a new patch released and i can't try out any mods because they're incompatible :(

[CinderEmma]

I loathe when I can't tell if CC is for Sims 2 or Sims 3, and THEY DON'T TELL YOU! *screams*
I also don't like it when the butler decides to vanish, and I don't know until I want to leave the house and I have to call the dumb babysitter!

[J. M. Pescado]

I loathe when I can't tell if CC is for Sims 2 or Sims 3, and THEY DON'T TELL YOU! *screams*I see this as a good thing for those TS3-haters: if you can't tell the difference, clearly TS3's appearance is improving.

I also don't like it when the butler decides to vanish, and I don't knowYeah, well, that happens in real life, too. Although in real life, they'll continue to draw their paycheck until you notice they haven't actually showed up. Honestly, if you don't notice their absence, they probably weren't doing anything useful and you shouldn't have bothered hiring them.

until I want to leave the house and I have to call the dumb babysitter!AwesomeMod has an option to fix that, too.

[TheLB]

I hate how my sim's husband's police beeper always seems to go off at the most inopportune moments. Twice now he was about to consummate his marriage but instead, he has to go to the police station RIGHT NOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW to investigate evidence, leaving his wife cold and bootyless.

Really? I may not work for the police, but I'm pretty sure the evidence will be there in an hour.

[hotaru801]

~ I hate when I am practicing routing inside of a home and the sim gets stuck because they do some extra random crap, not because it is un-routable.
~ I hate when moveobjects won't allow me to move my sim off of the bed or chair so I can take one shot that looks like there are actually floor options.
~ I hate while testing the fog emitter and making sure the effects are just right, that time still passes and it becomes nighttime.
~ I hate that I have so many problems with this game but I can still look up and realize that I have wasted an entire day playing it.
~ I hate that beyond alcohol poisoning, my sims have no illnesses but there is a hospital.
~ I hate that sim hair is cemented into place with 50's gel.
~ I still hate pools.
~ I hate that without mods the tvs don't make sense. In what world can you only watch the Food Network when you learn how to cook? Not when you are bored, lazy, and hungry?

[crocobaura]

~ I hate that beyond alcohol poisoning, my sims have no illnesses but there is a hospital.

There's no alcohol in the game, how can they get alcohol poisoning?


~ I hate that without mods the tvs don't make sense. In what world can you only watch the Food Network when you learn how to cook? Not when you are bored, lazy, and hungry?

Really? I never noticed that. But my sims don't watch that much TV anyway.

[hotaru801]

There's no alcohol in the game, how can they get alcohol poisoning?

When sims drink too much at a bar there is a possibility that they will get sick and then they run around everywhere throwing up randomly. The equivalent to alcohol poisoning...

[simbalena]

~ I hate that sim hair is cemented into place with 50's gel.


Yes, and still after all the patches and store crap the hair is still so fake. How hard could it be to make sim hair look like real hair?

Underpants gnomes seem to be smarter than TS3 developers... hair that looks real = profit!

[SuicidiaParasidia]

about ghost sims, specifically, i hate:

* how hungry ghosts continually raid my fridge EVERY TIME they pop up. some of them end up visiting very often, and my sims dont always have the time to keep making enough food for themselves and the ghosts.

especially when said ghosts tend to open the fridge, take out 1 piece of food, walk over to the table, set it down AT THE WRONG SPOT and/or sit down somewhere else, do the "OMG ITS NOT HERE" flail, then get up, take out more food...etc etc. meanwhile my sims sleep/work/whatever, and either i have to manually drag the food back into the fridge to keep it from spoiling, or they end up with a half empty fridge by morning.

* how fire sims hog my fscking showers all the time. ALL THE TIME. and theyll run in there even when my sim is trying to take a dump, which results in negative moodlets all around.

* how old ghost sims seem utterly determined to molest my families' babies after they just finally fell asleep (and need to be up around the same time as ma and pa/sis/bro to get their potty training/walking/talking finished before they age up and get some pointless trait that doesnt fit with any of their other traits or are just plain boring) unless i literally stow their grave in someones inventory to prevent it.

* how they still, as ghosts, take up enough room apparently to block someone from going somewhere they they need to go.

* how ghosts seem to always go for the computer/tv in my sims' bedrooms while they sleep and wake them up. theres also really no "gtfo" option.

[SuicidiaParasidia]

i also hate it when i call for a maid/babysitter and all they do is stare with a dumb look on their face.


makes me wish there was a " GET TO WORK " option for the hiring sim...

[CamiiMania]

I hate it when sims stand around for three game hours before finally changing their outfit. This never happened before LN.

[hotaru801]

~ I hate that my teen sim can be on the way home just after curfew and still get busted.
~ I hate that I can teleport my teen sim home after curfew and they will run back to the scene of the crime to get picked up by the cops.
~ I hate that the cops have nothing else to do other than look for my teen sim.
~ I hate that my teen sims don't have the option to try and escape the cops.
~ I hate that my criminal sims can get arrested on the way to work. They haven't even done anything yet! And why can't they try to escape?
~ I hate that my sims will lecture their baby because it pissed itself.
~ I hate that reaper babies are so glitchy.
~ I hate when I make a sim with big boobs and it clips their long hair.
~ I hate the routing requirements for dining chairs attached to things...

[goteampink]

I hate it when, the sims version of my REAL husband is working out at the Fire Hall (his place of work) and he gets killed by a meteor because one of his
co-workers was using the work bench. :( PS- I told him about it and the next day he told me that he was looking out for a meteor all day, lol!

[Rawra]

I hate it when sims stand around for three game hours before finally changing their outfit. This never happened before LN.

Oh, yes it did. :p

I hate it when they don't tell each other that their signs are compatible.

[CamiiMania]

Oh, yes it did. :p

I hate it when they don't tell each other that their signs are compatible.

Well, I never seemed to notice it until the day I installed LN, or it never happened in my game until then. xP

[suzetter]

Yeah, Sims have been having occassional brain farts and prenant pauses since day 1. In one of the Ambition trailers an EA producer wasdemonstrating new game play and sent a fireman off to stop a fire. The fireman just stood there and the producer was " Wait...what happened? Oh?..." but the fireman changed and went off to the fire. I use to get them sometimes but not lately.


I like that the zodiac has been bought back and really has an affect on relationships. Carl's Sims has a good compatability chart. You can find it here: http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/latenight/zodiaccompatibility.php

[jay_envy]

Yeah, Sims have been having occassional brain farts and prenant pauses since day 1. In one of the Ambition trailers an EA producer wasdemonstrating new game play and sent a fireman off to stop a fire. The fireman just stood there and the producer was " Wait...what happened? Oh?..." but the fireman changed and went off to the fire. I use to get them sometimes but not lately.

I still get that shit to this day. My sim will be running late as it is and I try to hurry them to the carpool, and they just stand there for a good 2 hours doing nothing. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to reach into my computer screen and shake them.

[lewisb40]

I get them too, but not as often. At first I thought it was a processing problem on my old computer, but with the new computer, it happened when I directed a sim to jog from work to the gym. I decided that would keep him busy while I work on another sim wishes of finding seeds. After a while I noticed the marker for the first sim was still at work and a couple of hours had passed. After clicking on that sim and the camera being directed to his spot, he then promptly changed into his workout clothes and proceeded to jog. I am thinking, do I have to watch them before they change clothes to do a specific action? Are my actives as bad as the NPCs? WTH!

[CamiiMania]

I really hate how Sims don't take their own cars when they move from an apartment, but leave them on the lot for the next occupant. My Sim payed for that Prius. D<

Time to roll a klepto roommate again...

[hotaru801]

I hate it when sims stand around for three game hours before finally changing their outfit. This never happened before LN.
It did... You were just lucky... I hate when they stand around trying to change their outfit for so long that the carpool leaves...

[lewisb40]

I really hate how Sims don't take their own cars when they move from an apartment, but leave them on the lot for the next occupant. My Sim payed for that Prius. D<

Time to roll a klepto roommate again...

Put them in the inventory. They take the car with them. Don't get the pay back when selling the furniture, but heck with it, I don't like leaving the items my sim paid for behind. :p

[J. M. Pescado]

I really hate how Sims don't take their own cars when they move from an apartment, but leave them on the lot for the next occupant. My Sim payed for that Prius. D<No object on the lot is taken when you move. If you want an object to be taken with you, stuff it into your inventory first. Otherwise it is refunded for cash value instead, and you can buy another one.

I hate when they stand around trying to change their outfit for so long that the carpool leaves...This is caused by "asynchronous" outfit loading. Instead of forcing the entire game to a halt to load the outfit, the game continues running and allows the loading process to continue in the background...but at the same time, game time is being burned while this happens. To avoid this, pause your game for a bit to allow the loading process to finish without burning off game time.

[insane_in_charlie_shirt]

This is caused by "asynchronous" outfit loading. Instead of forcing the entire game to a halt to load the outfit, the game continues running and allows the loading process to continue in the background...but at the same time, game time is being burned while this happens. To avoid this, pause your game for a bit to allow the loading process to finish without burning off game time.

Oooh, I may just try that! It's a problem I've been having in my game for ages... took him over 4 sim hours to change once!

[insane_in_charlie_shirt]

I really hate when you leave the game running in the background - so you don't have to faff about with it whilst the sim is doing something which will take ages like writing or painting - and when you return it turns out that the second you stopped watching the screen you got a damn oportunity which stopped the game to wait for you to decline it

Shouldn't you have to pick up your phone to get them?

[vhanster]

I hate in when, in clubs/ lounges/ bars, everyone tries to get into the elevator at the same time, that no-one can get in at all. And that, when this happens, you can't interact with anyone because everyone else (probably) have this "go to level" action on their queue

[ani_]

When you decline a party invitation, but still get a phone call after it's over about how they missed me in the party. I wouldn't mind the phone call if I would have accepted the invitation then not show up, but if I never wanted to go, and I decline it, I shouldn't be missed.

[GnatGoSplat]

I hate it when the queue gets stomped for "Be asked for autograph" or "Have photo taken".
I hate it when I'm in the middle of digging through the pie menu options, and somehow the pie menu dismisses itself. Might be my mouse is glitchy, I don't know.

[calisims]

I hate it when Sims drop their queues when they see a ghost. I know, ghosts are supposed to be scary, but when you've lived all your life in a house haunted by your ancestors, you'd think it would stop being a big deal to see great-grandma's ghost watching TV.
I also hate it when two ghosts encountering each other have the 'eww, ghost!' reaction. I mean, really.
I also really hate when a Sim I'm romancing initiates a non-romantic social and thus drops the interaction from 'alluring' to 'okay'.

[ani_]

I hate it when I'm in the middle of digging through the pie menu options, and somehow the pie menu dismisses itself. Might be my mouse is glitchy, I don't know.

I think that comes from the menu resetting itself. For example if your sim is relaxing on the bed, and while you are clicking on the menus, and the sim decides to stand up. The menu for a relaxing Sim and a standing sim is different, so it gets reseted. I've noticed that too, and so far I have noticed it happening only when sims go from one stage to another, like from sleeping to waking up. I might of course be wrong with my conclusion, but this is how I have noticed it.

[heartbreak]

I don't understand actions/queue's at all.

My sim is an investigator. He gets a task where he has to speak to someone, so I click the button for him to go speak to that person. He gets there, stands face to face with the target, yet the action/queue is dropped.

Me= FUUUUUUU DX

[GnatGoSplat]

I think that comes from the menu resetting itself. For example if your sim is relaxing on the bed, and while you are clicking on the menus, and the sim decides to stand up. The menu for a relaxing Sim and a standing sim is different, so it gets reseted. I've noticed that too, and so far I have noticed it happening only when sims go from one stage to another, like from sleeping to waking up. I might of course be wrong with my conclusion, but this is how I have noticed it.

I think you're right that it does dismiss itself when the sim changes from one stage to another, but last night I noticed the pie menu dismissed itself when my sim was just standing there doing nothing. I clicked on an omni plant to have her feed it, and at the very instant I was about to click on Feed, it dismissed itself.

[TheGuySim]

Me: "Okay there's a fire in the house next door, better get my Jack the fireman there fast.... Okay click on house, handle the emergency, okay get ready quick Jack.......... Jack............ Jack......" *10 minutes later* "Well done, thanks to you standing there and not responding, five sims have died because of you......"

Or

Sim: "Lalalala, Oh I'm starving, time to make some food before I... SIMBOT!!!!!!" *drops all action queues*

Thank god there is a mod for not reacting to Simbots, ghosts etc.

[Laisanae]

Thank god there is a mod for not reacting to Simbots, ghosts etc.


Reeeally? :o Where is it? I had to move out my cyborg because my sim's house almost burned down while:

Me: PUT THE FIRE OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Sims: Okay okay! Wait... OMG A CYBORG.

[retrolina]

I hate that I can't go to Champ Les Sims with my current sim, because everytime she goes, she is suddenly married and has a child! I've tried quitting and playing again, but everytime she visits CLS, she is married to a Jules (that she doesn't know) and has a girl called Amelie. It's so frustrating!!!

[calisims]

I hate it when Sims put a toddler who isn't tired in a crib. You can't leave grown ups alone in a nursery for a second or they'll put a toddler in a crib. I know it's midnight, but if the toddler isn't tired, putting it in a crib isn't going to make it sleep.
Also, I hate that when you have multiple cribs, they never put the baby they are holding back in the crib they picked it up from.

[vhanster]

I hate it when Downloaded objects becomes invisible/doesn't load with the rest of the furnitures and becomes temporarily unusable

[DenimXV]

I hate it most, that every time I build a nice-looking house, sims get floating in mid air, sink into the floor, walk around the whole lot just to sit on a chair next to them, or simply disappear in the 9th dimension.

[cmcallister]

I hate it when your sims are path blocked by something they can walk right the other way around -_-