

Trying to get two sims to flirt quickly? Make them both take steamy showers! Trying to get a sim to do something he's too tired for? A Brisk shower will make them Energized! I think the other type makes them confident, but I don't remember. The shower is powerful now: You can take multiple types of showers to influence your mood. It drops faster when you're working out and being active.

Your sim will get fat if you feed them quick meals all the time. A salad will be better for them than cake, even though both fill hunger. Keep in mind that lower quality foods are fattier than higher quality foods, and foods do have different health values for your sim. Use them to top hunger off, not to fill it. Quick Meals from the fridge are a little faster to eat and don't require cooking, but they do not fill your hunger anymore (In Sims 3, they were a normal meal with no downsides.). If you leave it out, it spoils a lot faster than in the fridge. So make good food! You can save food in the fridge so you don't have to cook for every meal, and hovering over food tells you how long until it spoils now. Hunger is filled a little bit faster by higher quality food (think of it as your sim eating it more enthusiastically because they like it more, whereas that mac and cheese came out a bit gross and they kinda pick around it). I don't think sims eat at work anymore, but if they do, it's a small snack. You eat breakfast, but your sim will come home from work hungry.

Hunger drops pretty steadily throughout the day. Motives drop a bit faster than in Sims 4, and raise a bit differently. But in Sims 1 and 2, this was not so- there was actual difficulty! Here in Sims 4, it returns! Here's where, and how, and how to play with it. It's not hard, it just takes a lot of time. Here's the thing: Sims 3 is the black sheep. If you're coming from years of Sims 3 or have never even played earlier titles, you're probably a little overwhelmed.
