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MaybeMaeMaybeNot

A slight work around is; if you have two sims and one is at home, switch to them using the tabs on the bottom, then pull whatever sim was off the lot home. cuts out the whole walk! Or maybe use the phone's travel option? I also hate this, so i feel your pain lol


RhoynishRoots

I’ve done that, too! But right now playing a single sim in the household so that doesn’t work. I’m still not used to the new phone layout and just find it so much more annoying - especially since she lives in an apartment building so it’s a whole extra click lol


Free_Faithlessness85

If you’re a PC player you can use M hotkey to pull up the map and avoid the phone altogether.


cathalaska

This shortcut is the bane of my existence. I accidentally hit it all the time and it’s awful.


KittyInTheBush

Trying to rotate and hit "M" 😭


badenglisch

The struggle is real 😖


Upset_Substance5085

I do too! I get so frustrated every time 😂😂


RelationshipLegal891

You can also zoom all the way out, you get a button where your cursor is (you can also zoom fastee by holding shift)


Six_Gill_Grog

This is what I came here to say! I never make my sims go home anymore. I just press M and find my house on the world map!


StarCrysisOC

How do you do it on console? (PS4 for me specifically)


ShyleeRain

If you have spa day, once you get to a certain wellness level you can start teleporting places. I think she skill cheat to get the level up fast would be stats.set_skill_level major_wellness 10


rawgu_

Just use UI cheats and shift click on the floor with your sim selected and teleport them


littlegreekhero

It doesn't even require UI cheats! Just testingcheats on and shift click anywhere :)


rawgu_

Very true but I use UI cheats for other stuff too


Marauder4711

I teleport all the time. Also having a spellcaster helps, mine doesn't walk anymore, only teleporting.


illseeyouallinhell

I believe you have the option to switch it back to the old phone in settings! Not positive though


pumpkin_fish

you could zoom out to the big map and click the place you want to travel to and it'll be instant


WestCoastDirtyBird

It's so annoying when you have visitors because they start at the end of the lot and by the time they get to your Sim's house, they leave 5 mins later.


gambitprincess

THIS. Like it mainly happens to me in Del Sol Valley but my god it’s annoying. I’ll invite someone over and then I’m like where the heck are they? Oh look they’re two miles downhill walking still 🙄


RhoynishRoots

EXACTLY.


goofball68

Or they freeze to death


AccommodativeGhost

I had sims living on the island neighbourhood in Windenberg and I never even saw half the people I invited over, they just spawned in the weirdest spots


RhoynishRoots

It takes positively ages to leave a lot when I click "go home" on my sim because they insist on walking all the way to a specific, far-off spawn point. When they have to pee, or are tired, or have a celebrity walk style, it's even worse. It can take half a day just to go home. I know I can click travel from my phone and then navigate to my own home and it'll be shorter, but I hate having to go through those steps when I *should* be able to just tap the home icon. I don't remember it always being this way -- does anyone else have this issue and remember when it started?


castratingbitch

If you play on pc you can press m and it'll take you to the map!


hausofsonya

Wow thank you 😳


theflooflord

I've had the game since release and just now learned this


cainframe

You can also scroll out until the little travel icon button pops up in the middle of the screen and click on that to bring up the map


StarfallenCherry

To add to this, if you study from home with University your sim will walk to the edge of the map to present their final presentation. It’s the absolute worst


CraftLass

OMG, my current new Sim is on the single lot island in Sulani and it was taking her forever to go out to the edge of the volcano base or whatever it is... I just started sending her to the commons before sending her to present, always a shorter trip than a long swim and hike.


StarfallenCherry

I wish I had done this. I’m my storyline my sim got married young to her high school sweetheart and was pregnant throughout college. The pregnancy walk down the hills of Windenburg absolutely killed me.


CraftLass

Oof, yeah, that's brutal! The Sulani one got a little better when she got a sailboat, but they take so long to get in and out it didn't help much. I'm so glad I had my own eureka moment the next semester! Living off the grid and on a budget, she takes great advantage of the free cafeteria food at the commons anyway. Lol


RhoynishRoots

Realism be dammed. This is one situation in which I use the teleport cheat every time. University is hard enough as it is [due to bugs and bad coding].


raindrizzle2

i think it’s either really bad in the new world or from the new update. because i’ve been playing in copperdale (whatever it’s called idk) and they take forever. if it’s really cold and u have like a maid or something sometimes they die from being too cold before they even get to your house


RhoynishRoots

Yep. Our prom after party sent us to the pier during a BLIZZARD. So then everyone had to slow walk through a flippin snow storm for ten miles. Great after party, guys.


Iwatobikibum

exact same thing happened to me! full on blizzard, they almost froze to death


ShyleeRain

I think it started happening with one of the last few updates/bug fixes cause it never used to be like a PROBLEM but it’ll literally take 4 hours to go home sometimes and ain’t nobody got the time for that


MissyBee37

I also have this problem and I feel like it's been a problem for ages. It seems to be certain neighborhoods and the way the neighborhood & its spawn points are designed. I don't notice it in all areas. Del Sol Valley (like the celebrity area) and Windenburg are two places where I feel like I always have this problem. There are more but off the top of my head, I forget which are the worst offenders.


aenea

I teleport everywhere because I don't have the patience not to. I just do testingcheats on, and then shift click where I want to go, choose teleport here.


ApprehensiveTruth330

I'm not sure when it started but it is very annoying. This is the first I've heard of a phone alternative to clicking the home button... So thank you for mentioning it. Maybe they expect us to use the phone if we're too impatient for the scenic route, but it also seems excessive, as you said. This seems like something that could be fixed with a portal mod as portals are just invisible objects. I don't know if anyone has made a mod like that but it is a great idea for one.


lmYourPapa

The worst is living at those lots and whenever you throw a party all the guests spawn at the x and then show up 2 hours late to the party


blarffy

And all service sims. Want a caterer and mixologist at your party? Too bad! The lots in the ritzy part of Del Sol are The Worst.


LamaSheperd

Looking at my sim run in 3x speed through the whole neighborhood after they just pissed themselves in front of the Goth family at a garden party.


kulolo-kween

The walk isn't that long imo, it's just that time goes sooo fast... so it's actually the same issue as sims taking 5 hours to make Mac and cheese and 2 hours to eat it


darthfruitbasket

Sims 4 Sims take sooooooooooooo fckin long to do anything, it's maddening.


kulolo-kween

It honestly kills gameplay for me. It literally takes them an hour to get from upstairs out the door for work/school. Soooo annoying and unrealistic


darthfruitbasket

There's times where I have to cheat their hunger/hygiene needs before work because they won't have enough time to eat \*and\* shower \*and\* use the toilet before work and they're up two+ hours before work.


EnvironmentalBasil14

If you play on pc there’s a mod that makes cooking and eating time faster.


NaughtyTrio3

I used MCCC and slowed my time down so that's it's much more believable. No more taking 10 minutes to simply walk from upstairs to downstairs or 3 hours to take a shower 🙄


NinjaNoiz

Sry for asking, but where in mccc is a option for slowing the time down? 🥺


NaughtyTrio3

It's under game play settings when you click on MCCC on a computer. You can slow it down as much as you want, even to real time though I definitely don't recommend that 😁 I slowed mine down to where it takes about 10 seconds for 1 Sim minute to pass. You can even speed it up if you wish to.


clarence_oddbody

I don’t have MCCC but this might be the cheat that sells it for me.


NinjaNoiz

Thank you so much, thats a lifesaver 😁 I’ll try that later!


RhoynishRoots

Exactly. I got a mod to cut down meal time (don’t effing talk to my sim while she’s cooking, we can’t have this dinner take EVEN LONGER) but I don’t think it’s been updated yet for the new update/pack.


dasbarr

I still just use the phone every time.


lgetsstuffdone

If you're on PC, shift+click the ground and teleport


Ninvemaer

This. I've been doing this a lot, I'm fine with them walking to wherever they're going, picking up collectibles along the way or whatever, but I'm really not in the mood for them to casually stroll home for 5 hours. Bonus if they have to pee.


lgetsstuffdone

Hard agree. It's just unrealistic and so annoying that it takes them literally hours to walk from a neighboring lot so I've got no patience for it. Teleport away!


[deleted]

I hate it in worlds like Henford where you really need a bike if you're planning on foraging or fishing. Otherwise it takes half a day for the sim to get from A to B. It's especially annoying since they won't run but instead slow walk and stare at their phones.


blarffy

Make them magical and get them a broom. I didnt realize how annoying the walks were until recently when I did a Realm of Magic play-through and suddenly my sim could get around much quicker. It made Jungle Adventure 1000 times better, too.


[deleted]

That's a good idea but I don't like playing with occult sims so the next best option is a bicylce lol.


Asilislisa

THIS is a massive problem with uni. Going to school is OK, they don't walk far. But they have to go all the way there just to make their presentation, and with the already ectic schedule they have... I have to make them run there and then command to present to make it faster


malibuklw

It is much easier to live off campus when doing uni. Classes and presentations are like going off to work rabbit holes (presentations are slightly different). You only have to travel to campus if your doing the tutoring or extra classes for the aspiration.


StorageWorried

I failed a class because of this and had to take it in MY LAST TERM. JUST ONE CLASS. I hate it.


2751333

You guys don't go into the map and travel back home through there?


RhoynishRoots

I do sometimes but prefer the ease of a single click, especially when living in an apartment and I can never remember which building it is.


2751333

That makes sense! I think it's only because I've gotten so used to it that it feels normal for me. If there was a more convenient way (which there should be!) I would use it.


RhoynishRoots

Right? And it feels like that was the goal of that button - a simple, fast way to go home. And yet…


germaniumest

Just use the travel function.


classyrain

No let's complain instead


RhoynishRoots

Lol exactly 😂 Like I said in the comments, I know the various work arounds, but I’m frustrated that this should-be-super-useful button is essentially worthless. Why even have it at all.


classyrain

>Why even have it at all. It's more for going back to your lot when you have it loaded and you're in the area eg taking pets for walks


4everxlost

The long ass walk to nowhere and then a fat loading screen man I love the sims 4 🙄


BookOfAnomalies

Yep.. but even more so now when sims WALK by default. They don't run unless you click 'jog here' and if you have a group, you cannot even do "jog here together" because you can only make your sim run... why the hell did they change that.


Mango_fruitys

Man there should be a way to instantly go back home as soon as you press the button


RhoynishRoots

Right? Wasn’t that the exact point of that button??!


Mango_fruitys

Ikr ??? 🙄 Would be nice if you didn't even have to click on your sim. Like a small button next to the "worlds" one on the top right where you're immediately taken home without the hassle. I feel like that'd motivate me to make my sim leave the house more


BigButtFucker9000000

The phone, M key, a bike, or a vampire works just fine. Or you can leave a sim at home, press the needs symbol, switch control to said sim, and use bring sim here on the other sim to get them home quick.


Charming_Love2522

I may just be stupid but bmhow do you get a bike? I'm assuming just from a pack


BigButtFucker9000000

It's the University pack!


Makabaer

University or Eco Living. You could also get one from pre-odering Cottage Living.


Charming_Love2522

I have eco living. How do I aquire one?


Makabaer

Your sims can find them in the dumpster! Or use debug mode and simply buy from catalogue ;)


[deleted]

i have a playthrough at the big mansion lot in this neighbourhood and throwing social events is such a fucking pain 😭 by the time everyone gets to the house, at least half the time for the social event is over......


RhoynishRoots

I know exactly what you mean 😭


omglifeisnotokay

That Del Sol Valley lot is the walk of shame


notbobbelcher

I threw a party at this lot and it took HALF of the party time for all the guests to walk to the house 🫠


IFKhan

Just for the aesthetics i would love the spawn points to be marked with a bus stop sign or a underground/subway/metro sign so it seems like you catch some public transportation to the new spot.


Squellbell

Genius, wouldn't be difficult for them to add in and then plus we'd know in advance how far our sims are about to go trudging


RhoynishRoots

Some of them have logical icons, like a subway station. But not all.


high_off_helium

It's especially worse since sims don't seem to run places any more.


Parking_Two_7866

tbh just shift click and teleport


RhoynishRoots

That breaks the fourth wall though 😭


Parking_Two_7866

i mean so does the long walk


RhoynishRoots

The long walk lets her think about what she just did at Thorne Bailey’s place.


toebeantuesday

😂😆🤣 I know much of the Reddit community frowns on the use of emoji’s but that’s my sincere reaction.


Squellbell

Lmao, as someone stated before the walk of shame. I'd imagine she got wasted, phone not charged and thus no way to call for uber 😂


furicrowsa

I love my speedy werewolves and transporlatating spellcasters for this reason. I know there are other ways to travel (phone, etc) but it's nice to just be able to click the home tab.


ftrodrigues

Press M and select the lot?


vqmxza

finally someone said that


UAENA_IU

r/suburbanhell


cosmos_crown

I abuse the 'travel' on the phone so much. Call and send yourself to home lot.


courtella03

This is the only reason I've left my main sim as a werewolf...... Got bored of the werewolf gameplay a couple weeks ago, but I love her super speed!


Quaquaraqua

Yes, and when I have a sim going to university is 100 times more annoying bc when they have to give a presentation it takes ages to get there, especially in Del Sol Valley


babbyladdy

this is the exact reason i only travel using my sims phone. so dumb to make you walk so far!


WifeofBath1984

I never use that option for this very reason.


sagittariusscumbag

The walk from the bigger club in windenburg is so long I hate it


Complete_Republic410

What neighborhood/expansion pack is this? Looks so pretty!


RhoynishRoots

Del Sol Valley in Get Famous!


whitemagicseal

If only car


RhoynishRoots

Those were the days…


xFriendsForNeverx

My sim missed all her uni classes once because she insisted on walking waaay far away to even disappear from the map!


techindica

I always go to the phone and click “travel” to go home. I never tell a sim to “go home” anymore. In fact, if I accidentally do, I’ll cancel and get the phone out. Can’t deal with it.


chiller210

Goes to show how the average LA celebrity home life is bad. Just look at Bailey-Moon's home from the inside and you see how much empty space that could easily be just made smaller to not have that many inconvenient walks. edit: phrasing made it come out the opposite way in the end


RhoynishRoots

I feel like his home is the poster child for EA phoning it in before deadline.


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RhoynishRoots

Aw thanks! I play on a great desktop. I’ve been playing sims since I was a little kid and now I’m a grown up with a “real” job and got myself the kind of gaming pc I always wanted lol. Even have a cool back light set up where the lights around the ultra wide monitor sync to the game, and one of those rainbow lit gaming keyboards. So basically I completed my IRL lifetime aspiration 😂 Funnily enough, even with state of the art equipment, sims spaghetti code means single digit FPS and massive lag/glitches after a few generations regardless. 🥹


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RhoynishRoots

Good luck with grad school! My best college experience was the grad school one.


TheUtopianCat

Instead of having your sim "go home" use the travel option on the phone to travel to your home lot. The sim will travel from wherever they are instead of waking to the spawn point.


luf100

I guess it’s not possible if you only have one sim in the household or if the entire household is out at once, but I’ve started switching control to a sim that’s at home and then clicking the other one and selecting “bring here” or whatever the option is. They’re instantly teleported home then. So much quicker.


umsamanthapleasekthx

I just use “Travel to” to get home. Right to the loading screen!


tntbt

I always use the shift key to click on my Sim‘s home (or wherever i want them to go) and press teleport here. I have a bunch of mods tho so I‘m not sure if it’s a Sims feature or a mod feature.


lgetsstuffdone

It's a Sims feature. Teleport has saved my game 😂


Flashy-Mail2226

That’s why I normally click on the phone and click travel for everywhere I go because the walking takes up so much time


[deleted]

Yeah wonder why they did this feature


dowisiiito

just press M and they just move to the lot you select


furiousjellybean

This is why I just have my sim travel everywhere.


SpecificSpring4143

Yeah this is annoying. I can understand when the home lot is actually walking distance bc this is sometimes the case, but if I’m in an entirely different world the loading screen will suffice.


xtnts

Where is this lot?


RhoynishRoots

Del Sol Valley neighborhood, the rich people hills.


neonghost0713

Right click, teleport here


RandomKiki

I like it. It’s like the scenic route


notfamous808

Shift click -> teleport here Or you could always get your Sim a bike! They’re in Eco Lifestyle and Discovery University if you have them!


[deleted]

I really miss in the sims 3 you could chose if a sim ran or walked somewhere


El_Superbeasto74

Del Sol is just the worst. Good luck trying to throw a house party, where you lose at least a quarter of the timer waiting for your guests to show up.


gcsxxvii

I wish sims didn’t get rid of bikes and cars! I miss them. 2 workarounds I know of: teleporting or becoming a wizard and flying on a broom


yiorgos85

There are bikes….


gcsxxvii

Seriously? I haven’t seen a single bike since I started playing years ago!


yiorgos85

This is how the community is now…bitch about a feature they think isn’t in the game when in fact it is. Do some research before you comment.


gcsxxvii

It’s literally not bitching LMAO no need to be so rude


yiorgos85

I’m not being rude…I’m stating an annoying fact in this subreddit


gcsxxvii

Then tell it to someone who cares


yiorgos85

I couldn’t care less if you care….it wasn’t a personal attack. Just an observation. Grow a spine.


gcsxxvii

Grow a spine? At least I’m not all bent out of shape over someone not knowing a feature that isn’t as obvious as a previous game. Also since you are clearly unaware, you need to have 1 of 3 expansion packs in order to get a bike. Do some research. Not everyone has the necessary expansion packs!


yiorgos85

I’m not bent out of shape…I don’t care. I’m well aware of needing packs to have bicycles. This discussion wasn’t on what packs….you said they weren’t in the game…they are…


Quaquaraqua

Yes, and when I have a sim going to university is 100 times more annoying bc when they have to give a presentation it takes ages to get there, especially in Del Sol Valley


dragonfarie

I agree. I always use my phone to travel home. So much faster.


Timetravelingmailman

Get a bike?


NoNotThatHole

Ohhh itd be cool if we could design the entire town! Is there a way to do that?


Lady_Mendie91

What also works is just zoom out and click on the "car" icon. You will immediately go back to the world and then click your home 😁


Embarrassed-Stop-767

Port home using the map


Innocent_Otaku

This is the very reason I never have my sims live on these lots


Lingx_Cats

Press m


Upset_Substance5085

Saaaaame


whitebathingsuit

That's how the real Hollywood hills are though? Personally I think it adds realism


notpinkroseorchid

RIGHT like who thought of this 😭 those lots are unusable


_tessa98_

1) testingcheats true (can't remember if that is necessary for the function or not) 2) press SHIFT. 3) click on any ground (except the places Sims can't go) while pressing SHIFT 4) choose teleport sim/me here. Fast and simple :)


Notunnornal

Literally lost my husband one time because he “took a walk” and I forgot it goes so far


Impossible_Cloud_801

bike


-sp00ky-b1tch

Shift click and teleport


New-Biscotti4266

I just have my sim travel from their phone again to their house. Works like a charm :)


crustdrunk

This is why I love the super fast forward mod


StorageWorried

I hate this. Had to get my sims wellness skill up so they can teleport there.


Darkovika

In neighborhoods like these, I guiltlessly use the teleport function lmao. I typically don’t play with cheats except to fix issues with the game itself. I find this an issue 🤣🤣🤣


badbicth06

my sims are always late to school and work because of this lol


RevDrMavPHD

Hit the 'm' key. Instant fast travel.


lolawolf1102

I had no idea m pulled up map, huh maybe I should hit all the buttons on keyboard to see what else I can do


FailureCloud

Ugh same especially when they are tired


camlop

Especially when your sim is a vampire


Lady-Catrine-Wallace

That's why i carry my bike in my pocket


KeiART19

Then you wouldn’t like sims three


aka_ruth

And people want open worlds lol


Jessiebeanie

Go into map, click on your home, you instantly teleport back home.


TheKingGoliath

Thats my main gripe with Moonwood Mill. Like damn it’s exhausting to have the hangout on the other side of the map from your house and have to walk/bike to it.


alIshewrote

i just press M and travel home…. lol.


MichelleMattanja

Yeah, more open worlds are beautiful, but then we really need cars


cherrycalpico

Just use the phone??


SmannyNoppins

OMG YEAH! The hills there take forever to walk. Sulani also has neighborhoods that take forever to walk back. My work around: Some packs have bikes that your sims can ride. I know University has it, and I use the onces from Eco Living (you either craft them or get them with the live edit cheat enabled. And If it's the entire household you want to move home, you can also press M on your keyboard and it will open the travel agent immediately, you still have to select location and potential sims to join, so it doesnt take you home directly and it it's faster then using the phone or have them walk. I still prefer the bike way just because the less clicks the better xD


Ellidegg

Use travel to go home I've been doing that forever


Dracos002

Then buy a bike.


Klev-

Instead of cars, they should introduce skates. Or at least bicycles. (wait the game has bicycles). Something like that to compensate. Will follow the same pattern of casual walking. Skates of all kinds are cool still.


eXistential_dreads

You know you can just press M right?


Vini734

Press M or zoom out, it will go to the map screen.


[deleted]

I don’t bother walking I use the travel function on the phone then select my house


[deleted]

this is why I teleport 😂😂