my sim likes knitting, so why are they always bored of it after an hour?

[kat211123]

what is the point of even having the knitting pack if my sim, who has the "likes knitting" buff, gets bored of it after like one sim hour? none of the other things my sim likes work like that. are they worried we'll move through it too fast and realize how much money we wasted or do they just want us to hate this pack?

furthermore, I can't even sell knitted clothing at a sales table. i'm told other knitted items can be sold this way, but selling clothes doesn't seem like a terribly hard thing to make work.

I have no idea why I downloaded this pack because I can't knit items in an efficient way at all to make money, and I can't sell them at a sales table anyway. I can sell them on "plopsy", but that's horribly boring and doesn't mesh with my historical scenario at all. 

I wish EA would try harder. It feels like they're designing packs with built in frustration to disguise how thin and extortionate they are. Like literally if you make an item-crafting pack, make it possible to SELL THOSE ITEMS in the same way you sell other crafted items and DON'T make it so even enthusiastic crafters get bored and unmotivated in an appallingly short amount of time. dear god. we just want to play your game, so why are you putting up barriers where no one asked for them if it's not to hide the pack's shallow gameplay and lack of value?

[simsplayer818]

@kat211123 Yes it's an annoying fact that you can't sell all of the knitted items in a store. I do sell the knitted toys and decor in a children's store and in a gift shop. But my Sims get the bored moodlet when I want them to get busy stocking their retail lot. I also spent days knitting all of the hanging pot holders...only to find that for some daft reason you can't sell them in a store either! So I'd wasted my time.
The next time I did it though, I used my Wiccan. So if you have Realm of Magic you can use the Copypasto spell to save time by copying your creations to stock a store when the Bored moodlet starts. She just stops knitting and starts zapping. You can also use the cloning machine. It does mean you can't automatically restock them though (you get an ash pile) so you have to nip back and manually replace sold items, but I don't mind that.
As for selling on Plopsy, I find that rarely works anyway. Stuff of high quality sits there in the inventory for days unsold.
With selling any clothing there's an added problem of Mannequins. They were fixing the crashing linked to Mannequins recently but my stores still freeze if I use more than about 2, so I don't touch them.
So the combined issues with knitting and retail can really get in your way.

[GiardiniDiMarzo]

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@kat211123 wrote:

what is the point of even having the knitting pack if my sim, who has the "likes knitting" buff, gets bored of it after like one sim hour?

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Does your Sim have the Adventurous trait perhaps?

[simsplayer818]

My Sims with hand made crafting based stores have the traits Cheerful, Creative and another trait from Animal Enthusiast, Good, Goofball, or Maker. The one exception, Belle has the Loves the Outdoors trait but Belle crafts outside in the garden anyway while sitting with her llamas. So from those I don't think they should be getting bored. But I have a problem with incorrect moodlets, so I wonder if it's linked to that, in my game anyway.