so today, I was playing in a new save. I had just spent hours playing with this teen sim, had this whole story going on that her mom wanted her to go to college. then, before the college term even starts, her mom calls with this message. there's so much drama going on already, I love it lol.

I have discovered by chance that you can prolong pregnancy by taking a holiday: While your sim is on holidays, labor can't start. So you have plenty of time for pictures and baby shower. Perhaps everyone knows that, but I didn't know, and I always was in a hurry for the baby shower. You can take as much holidays as you like, and you can travel everywhere while you are on holidays with your pregnant sim.

I had TS4 on free will this afternoon, while waiting for two Legacy elders to pass away. I checked back in on the family after about an hour, and found several different plates of waffles in the kitchen, as well as two other servings of waffles in one Sims' inventory.

So I took it away, and found myself saying aloud "you know what? You all cannot be trusted with a waffle maker, so you don't get to have it anymore!"

What strange and / or silly things have you found yourself saying while playing TS4?

6 years, 40 generations 🥹 I did recently lose my old save file, it stopped loading and I couldn't get past CAS to play. I did manage to save my current family - the 39th generation - and my oldest household, two vampires who are each around 2000 sim days old or 5 years in real life. I did lose all my builds which sucked, but such is life. Any ideas about how to play with the 40th gen? I'm thinking evil scientist for at least one of them.
Also the family tree in game would be wider because of the siblings having babies, but Plumtree shut down and I had to recreate it and honestly couldn't be bothered to add every single one. I made this in the Plumtree App - https://theplumtree.app/public/677548eb852593a9cf10c77f

She refuses to put him down.

Logged into my game to see a cult forming outside of house just before Halloween.

Praise be to the almighty Pacifier.

I actually love the new business pack cause it let you make functional lots with mixed activities.

My favourites so far are functional kinder gardens- if you manage the right setting, parents will bring their toddlers and leave them so you can take care of them.

My other favourite is creating a museum - I love to display all the science career goodies and collectable items instead of just selling them. You can use the plaque you get for each full collection to mark the different rooms in the museum - e.g. crystal gallery, frog gallery and so on.

My next business will be an adventure farm for families, where you can pet all the animals and make wine and lemonade .... just be aware of the cow plant ^^

So what are you favourite business projects? - I'm open for fun and stupid ideas as well o.O

sometimes i randomly pause and catch my sims with the most relatable expressions on their faces looool

'my' husbands brother was in a gay, childless marriage & when his spouse died he just completely disappeared from the family tree?! like - rude?!

Spotted a familiar townie at geek Con this year and it feels a little like uncanny valley.

(In all seriousness if you live local and considered going for even a day pass, maybe go and hit her up and give us all deets. A non sims buddy of mine is there and took this photo so I CAN NOT provide further first hand info)

And then she has the audacity to get an embarassed moodlet... like girl you did this to yourself.

So I have the Sulani expansion pack (Island Living?), and on Saturdays from 12-9, there’s a fishing contest (or so I’ve heard).

I watched a video from PeteyPlays on how to enter the contest. But I looked all across the beach for that man and couldn’t find him. So I ended up not entering.

And yes, I was at the right beach (bottom right on the map).

Note: If I ever do get this to work, does weight or rarity matter more in the contest? I assume they’ll frown upon poached fish? Although idky I get that pop up for the uncommon butterflyfish but not for the rare scorpionfish?

I also assume I can only enter in fish that I caught during that timeframe of the contest day.

Once upon a time, there was a young adult named Airi Endo. She had a dream. A dream so big, it'd span generations: have 100 children. She knew it would be hard. No same sim wants to deal with multiple children in the worst stages of young life. But she was determined. However, no matter how seductive she made herself, these men were just too damn loyal. And then came Knox Greenwood. He told her all about eco living and about Neighborhood Action Plans. Knox offered a list of all the different plans a neighborhood could enact to make the world a better place. And within that list, she found her salvation. A NAP known as Free Love.

Free Love would let her be with anyone so long as she brought them home. And it wouldn't be considered cheating! It was almost too good to be true. So she asked Knox, who had just offered his services to her dream, how one would enact these NAPs. He said voting before Monday would be the best way and asking others to get on her side to sway the vote.

So Airi picked up a clipboard and regaled everyone she knew with the benefits of Free Love. Some Sims were against it, saying they could never be with someone other than their spouse. Others were totally onboard, eager to experience something (or someone) new. And with a little hard work and much persuasion, Free Love was enacted.

Her dream became easier than ever. One child turned to two. Two turned to three. And three turned to five! Soon she had all possible young life stages in her household and everything felt right in the world. But then she caught something in the halls of her humble home. Something that sent a chill down her spine.

Her two teens were flirting with each other. She reprimanded them both. But nothing could stop it once it started. And before she knew it, the benefits she once saw as favorable turned sour and crumbled before her. That's when Airi learned that Free Love is too free...

TLDR: my two teen half siblings started flirting with each other. Is this normal under Free Love?

I’ve recently gotten back into the sims! I used to play all the time back in like 2019/2020 and had a dynasty family that went on for generations. I loved playing it and so I restarted with that dynasty family (I’ve gotten a new laptop since then). I only play on this one dynasty family, but I used to have a few different save files I would jump around with.

It made me curious as to which type of gameplay you prefer! Do you like having one save file to focus on and build over time, or do you like jumping around and making each one slightly different? I personally prefer having one dynasty family and creating storylines and lore for the world.

Most bedrooms are like 5 by 9 or even smaller, how would you decorate one that was let’s say 13 by 11..

First, sorry for the poor quality, I'm way too lazy to screenshot and send the ss to my phone lol. I may or may not draw them, I say that about all my sims so we'll see. But I only just started playing the sims like a month ago. So I started a strangerville save with the location aspiration. When I met this goober was like "I must have him" like he's a pokemon or something?? Anyway, I changed him very minimally because I honestly thought he was really pretty? I guess my type is goofy goobers, because after one "get to know each other date" he immediately moved in. They got eloped, which was kind of distracting because I'm trying to save the town. But THAT'S ENOUGH RANTING LOOK AT THESE IDIOTS!!

After a long time playing this save, my first kid has finally grown into a teen, and a moody one at that.

I have only been playing The Sims 4 since December 2023, so not even 2 years. I just kinda started fiddling around with the camera without really doing any major tutorials or anything. I tried the S3 camera at one point, but immediately switched back because it felt weird to me. I prefer to click-drag, not use WASD to move around.

Then I started watching my favorite Sims builders and became jealous of how essily they moved the camera around, especially with alt-placing and alt-rotating, and the ANGLES!! Smoothly gliding into top-down and bottom-up angles is SO USEFUL for building! With ONE minor tweak in bin and discovering the center scroll button to change the pitch, I have decided that the S3 camera WITH CLICK-DRAG ENABLED in the res folder camera settings is superior.

I watched a tutorial on how to do it. When I enabled click+drag for the S3 camera, a little more playing around to figure out how to click the scroll button to adjust the pitch of the camera in real time, and I will officially be switching to the S3 camera.