Don't forget having to clear the land of trees, brush, and boulders.

I would actually much prefer that to most of the stupid stuff they actually do when left alone for half a second.

Imagine how annoying it can be if there are real car accidents. When you send your sim to community lot and they are nowhere and popup says they must deal with police and you need wait couple of sim-hours before they show up walking and you must buy them new car or pay for repair.

I dunno, a lot of these things strike me as things that I'd like to see in the game, just to boost the realism factor up a bit!

[Pop up]: "Your Sim has walked into a hornets nest while trying to catch a beedrill"
[Sim reappears on lot with the 'chased by bees' interaction]

What kind of rules do you have deciding who gets permits?

Imagine if we actually had to design sims' houses around their storage needs. We'd have to make sure there was a tall cupboard for that mop they keep up their butts, and there would have to be a place for the kids to store their stools and pile of phone books (for when they play chess).

Also, imagine how annoying it would be to design buildings to be functionally affordable- so you'd have to take account of where the main soil pipe is plumbed before you could build a spare bathroom.

It's much better that Toddlers are coded not to open cabinets and go down stairs instead of having to baby-proof a house.

It'd be pretty annoying if Sims had separate bladder and bowel motives. Particularly if the bowel filled up rapidly after eating certain foods (the Chinese takeout boxes?)

If periodically, the lights go out and you have to pay a fee to change the lightbulbs.

I bought a lamp from Ikea years ago and when it finally went out a few weeks ago I discovered that you couldn't change the lightbulb. The bulb is built in, you can't replace it, and now I need a whole new lamp. I've been complaining about how no one expects a lamp to last forever, but that's exactly how things work in the sim world!

That made me think of a thirst as a need. On one hand it’d be annoying to make sims drink, but on the other I’d like it. And a thing I’d definitely like related to needs would be splitting hygiene, at least to hands and the rest – it doesn’t make sense that, for example, after using the pottery table for a while they get stinky, it’s their hands that got dirty, not that they produced sweat like while exercising.

If you really need buy all these things what sim use from their mysterious backpack (pots of paint, mop, screwdriver etc.)

Well I'm glad none of that is in the game. It's bad enough having to deal with them in real life and I play games to escape it.

I think they did this in sims 1! I remember calling the repair man and then he'd come and be fiddling with lights on the wall and then charge a few simoleons because they had 'broken' and no longer shed light in the room.

They did! And you could electrocute yourself changing the lightbulb, too! I don't miss that.

Sometimes I make my sims wait till a season when major renovations could be done to remodel. But when twins come at me out of the blue, I'm soooo glad I don't have to!

You had to tell a child three times before they'd do something ... or thirty-three times for a teen!

Yeah I remember that! My Bob Newbie got electrocuted and died while changing a bulb They removed that function in an EP, I don’t remember in which one.
It also reminded me that potted plants in TS1 required watering, but in TS2 they don’t. And I find that good, it they required watering I’d probably use a mod to stop that, like I use perfect plants for gardens.

Actually that "Pokemon GO" idea sounds like a career someone should create (if it hasn't been already). Would probably download/play it as soon as I'm able to play Sims 2 again!

Edit: Oh, wait, that really does exist.

Someone already mentioned if the game had job interviews instead of being able to "accept" any first-level position. So I'll add onto that, imagine the entire process for preparing for said job interview and getting a series of questions (similar to the job chance cards) where you have to pick the right answer (or they're questions where there is no right answer and you have to have high-level charisma and logic to even have half a chance and not even then). Or that process is like the private school 'interview' with the headmaster.

And, to go along with that, Sims had fears of certain jobs, or just wouldn't do some of them, and/or children/teens that didn't like school or were getting poor grades refuse to go.

A few others:

Multiple bills for different services (water, power, heating, phone, TV, etc.) that came on different days for different amounts.

Junk mail and telemarketing calls.

On versions of the game where you can walk to different lots, you have to walk by every single lot on the way there.

You make two sims that are very compatible with each other, they hit 100/100 quickly because they're compatible and get along well, fall in love, etc., and it ends when one tells the other that they can't accept how much they love each other and the game sees to it they don't see/talk to each other again.

OMG Bustin' Out for console...all you DO is change lightbulbs. I don't miss it either.

I would not find this annoying, I'd LOVE it!

Yes, it is like that in CS story mode, and I never liked that in free mode you couldn’t do that any more, it always showed the map. It was possible to choose the lot you’d go to in the story mode of course, but it was just not the same.

Well Gloria got permission because her boyfriend Garry is on the Town Council! I like to think that wasn't the reason, but I'm sure it helps. It's certainly realistic!

The important thing is that the proposed changes don't adversely affect the historic ambience of the town. Gloria built a small extension to her house which allowed her to have a kitchen sink, so she wouldn't always have to carry dirty dishes to the bathroom. It also allowed Andrew to have a double bed in his bedroom above the kitchen. The extension which was small, six or eight tiles in total, was built in the traditional Veronavillesque Tudor style, and matched the original architecture of the house. The only possible objection is that the house has lost some of its original symmetry with an extra gable added to its east wall, but most of the original half-timbered houses in the town arte asymmetrical. It is being cited as an example of the sort of proposal which is likely to receive planning permission.

In general you don't need permission for changes inside your house, unless it contains period features. So Gloria was able to put wallpaper on her plain plastered walls without problems. But the Moltkes have exposed oak beams inside their house, and they are not allowed to remove these or plaster over them.

I foresee a difficulty in the future at Capp Manor when Juliette takes over from Consort. Juliette dislikes all the coarse undressed stonework inside the house. She wants to replace it with high quality plasterwork or panelling, and I agree with her. I have never seen such a feature in an English country house. Even if the Manor has been rebuilt from a medieval castle, I would expect this stonework to have been plastered over centuries ago. I expect Juliette will get her way, as she is a person of considerable influence in Veronaville, and her proposals have aesthetic merit. Indeed there is a proposal to make Veronaville into an independent Grand Duchy with Juliette as Grand Duchess, so she must have a residence commensurate with her position.

My sims get telemarketing calls. People asking them to buy their magazine. Then there are the door to door salespeople (the Hobby instructors).

I'm gonna say menstrual cycle. I envy my sims for not having to put up with monthly crap. It would drive me nuts to deal with changing a pad every few hours and/or mood swings.

I'm also going to say unwanted pregnancy. I like that my sims only have babies when they want them.

Wait..."buy" magazines? I was under the impression those magazines were as free as the newspapers.

They are free. Shame they are not more useful, like being able to stack them. A small stack could be used at the clinic, vets, hair dressers etc.