User blog:Order of the Command Block/Sims 4 Trial Experiences

This is just a little blog post I'd like to put to tell some of you guys about what my group of Sims encountered during my two day trial for the Sims 4 before I soon get it on Christmas.

After spending about one hour carefully messing with my very first real Sims, I entered the game. My household consisted of eight people. Five children, three adults.

Jesse- Child female with cheerful trait. (Whiz kid)

Axel- Child male with kleptomaniac trait. (Rambuncious scamp)

Petra- Child female with hot-headed trait. (Rambuncious scamp)

Lukas- Child male with creative trait. (Social butterfly)

Olivia- Child female with genius trait. (Whiz kid)

Harper- Young adult female with genius, loner, and perfectionist trait. (Nerd Brain)

Soren- Young adult male with genius, loves outdoors, and bookworm. (Writer aspiration)

Ivor- Young adult male with genius, goofball, and bookworm. (Nerd Brain)

I build a relatively large house with little regard for money, but soon realized that the normal Sims 4 gameplay with 8 Sims was too difficult for someone who had never played any Sims games before, so I used cheats to just get on with the fun stuff.

To deal with Axe;'s kleptomaniac trait, I often took the children (No adults XD) to random households and have Axel steal something in there and get out. One day, I visited a household with a grill. While I was surveying the house to see if a certain item I could nab was interesting. Out of nowhere, the game tells me a fire has started on the lot. Now, I flipped out and sent all five kids outside at once, screaming at the top of my lungs. It turns out that one of the adult Sims had used the grill in the back and it caught fire. I left before seeing the fire extinguished, though.

Once my children grew into teens, I started having them work on their skills more than as children, often sending Axel and Petra to the workout machines, Jesse to a musical instrument, Lukas to his easel, Ivor to work on his logic skill, Harper to her hacking and viruses, and Soren to his books. Though sometimes I'd get distracted about one Sim and forget about the others.

Soren had just finished a new book, so I sent him to the mailbox to publish it while I watched him to make sure he did what I told. And then out of nowhere my fire alarm goes off! I see Petra in the kitchen and switch control to her to get her away of there so she would not die when I see that she had been making MACORONI AND CHEESE. Petra nearly burned down my house and burned my 14,000 dollar stove and expensive counters with MACORONI AND CHEESE.

Not to mention that even before my Sims get the "take safety route" action and take it, Ivor and Harper run into the kitchen faster than I thought possible and put out the fire in less than three seconds and save everyone in the house. And I hadn't even TOLD them to do it! They just DID it!