January 2020
I love Sims and previously played the heck out of Sims 3. Sims 4 is giving me so much aggravation I can barely play it. My game is fully updated but there are so many gameplay issues I think I'm going to just have to quit out of sheer frustration. Let me provide an example: My current Sim has reached the top of her career as Chief of Police, and yet her duties have not changed at all. She has the best bed in the game and yet she cannot get through a whole day without being exhausted. Every single special event she's attended has had problems and she's not able to finish the event quests. Her OWN birthday was a failure because there was not enough time to do everything. Her two dogs keep running away, even in the middle of play time, or bath time, or being fed and so on. I HATE THAT. Why, developers, would you build in dogs running away? WTF? This makes me sad beyond belief. The whole damn game sucks. Also, my sim is continually getting stuck and I have to use the reset console command REGULARLY. I am angry that I spent so much money on a broken POS game. I have expansions and stuff packs, and EA, you so rarely give anything away anymore it's just not worth the time. At least in Sims 3 there were regular giveaways and freebies. I absolutely despise having to buy more and more stuff packs just to get items that look decent in the home of the sim. Thanks for nothing EA.
January 2020
You should consider using the pause button (0) to queue up a few tasks when you get overwhelmed.
January 2020 - last edited January 2020
I haven't played the detective career, so I have no helpful tips directly related to that, and I'm not from EA so I will not address the frustration since it would not be productive for having your voice heard.... but...
In addition to the important suggestion from @jpkarlsen (pause is your friend many a time in Sims) I had a few things I though I'd share that helped in my game.
I hope something here may help a bit.
SheriGR – I don’t work for EA.
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