r/HighSodiumSims

I thought some of the insider accounts in this article were pretty compelling. I feel for the employees dealing with all of this uncertainty and ethical concerns right now, especially considering the industry-wide hiring freezes. I'm nervous about the future of EA just as someone who plays The Sims, I can't imagine how stressful it is as an employee.

For starters, I wish they would have put more thought into these packs. I really wish they weren't so damn greedy too because realistically Parenthood, Growing together, and High school years could have been one pack, hell, even Adventure awaits could have been in this pack with the summer camp and stuff. A lot of packs could have been combined into one.

I always felt that when games make "sequels" that the sequel should have everything the previous game had and more. Sims 4 should have had most of what sims 2 and 3 had from the beginning instead Sims 4 felt like bare bones which is sad considering how old sims 2 is and how much more life sims 2 had.

More story driven packs! I liked strangerville just fine but I don't tend to replay it because it gets tedious. High school years, University, Royalty and Legacy, Enchanted by nature, realm of magic, Vampires, Werewolves, all could have been story driven and they easily could have put story driven elements in games like Get to Work, business and hobbies and For rent.

Speaking of.... get to work, business and hobbies, dream home decorator and for rent all could have been one pack. Also, why did they give us the option to be a police officer but not firefighter?

A long standing "beef" i've had with all sims games i've played is why don't they make every in-game job an actual job? Like why can I hire a nanny, maid, butler, order delivery, call the fire department, repairman, vendor, curio shop owner, etc. but my sims can't have those jobs? I can be the freaking grim reaper but i can't be the pizza delivery guy?!

High school years and University should have had more correlation. Why does University have soccer and E-Sports and High school years has Football, chess, cheer, etc.? Why wouldn't they have added those options to university after high school years was made? Why didn't high school years have cliques? Why didn't university have sororities and fraternities?

That's everything thats been bugging me lately.... feel free to add to the list of grievances lol

Full disclosure: I have OCD 😬

I know it’s their game, their insta, their rules. It’s just that, I see some wonderful creators post “here is how you elevate your entryway”, proceeds to overlap a bunch of assets, and TADA heres a new custom something without CC, when I know for a fact that the in game lighting will NEVER make that specific combo look good. Or “let’s make a cozy cottage” and its cozy lighting for the most part. Or “did you know you could combine this shelf and this table and create custom furniture” and proceeds to scale them using a mod.

I have deep respect for content creators who work around the limitations of the game and come up with combinations that actually look good in game without reshade or the T.O.O.L mod. THAT’s a no-cc build.

Mild rant camouflaged as personal opinion over.

Imagine you are excited about going on vacation. Work has been stressful and you need a break.
A hotel with nice amenities is reserved. You looked at all the info and planned fun places to visit and unique experiences.
It is all paid for.

You arrive and check in at the hotel. The lobby is missing some things. Oh well, small thing. You are are HERE!! Let's have fun.

One of the exciting things about this hotel is the room can be customized. You go to the Customize Gallery and try a few things then the screen goes blank. Nothing you do helps. Guess you have the default room for now. Sad, you were looking forward to the fancy designer room.

Time to get cleaned up for a nice dinner. Halfway thru your shower with shampoo in your hair, the water goes ice cold. Aaaaaugh! You are frozen. That's when you notice your partner is frozen in place, unmoving. What?? So weird.

Both of you shake off the lag, whatever that was. The shower is warm again, somehow. You get the shampoo out of your hair.

On the way to dinner you stop at the front desk to report these problems. The staff says:

"We are waiting for a few more reports from other customers before repairing the Gallery and the weird freezing."

How long have these things been waiting? you ask.

"Hmm. A year? 9 months, maybe. Oh, the weight rack has never worked since it arrived."

"By the way, the hotel cancelled your entertainment selections.
There is a computer in the lobby where you can troll the internet instead.
Welcome to the Autonomy Hotel!"

That's how it feels to play Sims 4 right now.

My new normal is workarounds and ignoring weird bugs.

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Almost every time I download a family from Sims 4 Gallery I have to remove some stupid slippers they have with their sleepwear. Why people even feel it's right for their Sims to sleep with slippers (or any footwear other than socks, though even those may be odd to some)? If Sims could remove these slippers before going to bed, then that would be different for me. But that's not the case and Sims are keeping their footwear in bed. So, why it is fine for so many Simmers to see their Sims with slippers in bed? I just don't get that. Can someone explain the thought train of Simmers who put slippers to sleepwear? Because for me that's hard to understand.

Im having this problem in the sims where I select a body preset or adjust the sim's body with sliders and for some reason when I get into the game, it doesn't match what I edited in the CAS menu at all, can someone help me understand why?

I did try to do that the first time around, but I couldn't get mine to move. Every time I click close to the head, either the sims turns around o I screw up their facial features. I know there is a way to make all hats conform to the slider, but Blender is to complicated to learn.

I do wish that EA would put in a hat slider so that even the Crowns can fit on every sims head.

Are there ways around this issue? Please let me know.

All these free content updates are nice and all, and maybe this is kind off a ”conspiracy”, but I can totally see EA giving this stuff for free so they can later on implement a subscription model where you pay a monthly fee for monthly new content.

There likely isn’t going to be new DLC, the marketplace doesn’t seem to succeed like they hoped, so the next (imo obvious) paid content model they could try is an optional subscription where you’re guaranteed x amount of stuff monthly.

So my theory is they are giving free ”packs of content” now to get people exited and hooked and used to getting regular new content and then they’ll paywall it.

That’s all :D

Exactly what says in the tin. If you're boycotting EA because of the buyout, do you think the creators who are still in the network should also be boycotted by extension?

Because I take a very hard stand against the EA buyout, and once the deal closed, I pretty much unfollowed all the creators I knew were still in the Network 😅 I do not feel comfortable giving my time to any people that are now receiving what is basically blood money from EA.

I just wanted to ask what's y'all's opinion on this, for one part, to see if anyone is in the same boat as I am - but also to be proven wrong, because I honestly don't know if I'm making the right move.

What are your thoughts? Do you agree/disagree?

Edit: I’m talking about subcategories btw! The regular romance, friendly, and mean are essential lol.

I started playing sims 4 again after a year hiatus and I am just sooooo beyond frustrated of that dumpster fire of a social pie menu. No other sims have had to put social interactions behind categories. Why did they decide to do that with 4? Fucking beats me.

When I throw parties I like check off goals because some aspirations require that, but I always have to pause to check off social goals because I have to sift through every single category when interacting with guests. Even when trying to become friends with other sims I always have to pause just to sift through and find the correct dialogue. Like dawg, I just spent 20 real life minutes barely making friends at the bar. 😂

I remember they gave us an option to turn it off, but that didn’t even work! I checked the game menu again to see if maybe they fixed it, but they got rid of that option altogether. It’s so aggro to have to pause the game every time I want to interact with a sim just so the other sim doesn’t run away.

Sorry for the rant, but had to get it off my chest.

I know that this is going to be controversial, but if you have been on the Scarlet's Realm website and wondered why some of your favorite mods have not been updated mist recently, you might have to read the notes as to why: The Creator used AI.

Now, I don't want to get into the whole debate about AI. As a writer who uses it, it's not that great. But this is a way for me to edit my own writing to sound less robotic.

But I want to hear from your thoughts on this?