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Can we talk about the very extremely annoying pee walk!
ULIBABA66
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Hello, so yeah who at Maxis thought this was the best ever idea to introduce this stupid pee walk that makes it take FOREVER for Sims to walk to the destination they are supposed to arrive at or whatever you command them to do? Everything takes forever and the game keeps lagging even harder. Please consider removing this super childish pee walk, Maxis! I have only ONE Sim and she has a farm on a tiny living lot and she is also studying at university, and I keep downloading the moodlet solver potions from Gallery, I do not care if anyone calls that cheating, but for me it is NOT, as this is unacceptable and very annoying that my Sim cannot do anything. Please please PLEASE do something about this annoying idle animation @EA_Cade 
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They better NOT include this ridiculously childlish animation in Project Rene or I will riot.
I just sometimes feel that they're so out of touch with what actually makes a Sims game engaging and fun.
Another example is the wants and fears update that came with completely overpowered and thus meaningless fears plus the inability to smash whims that were broken or unfitting.
Infants are great, but they do come with restraints, too, because the game tries to keep them happy by intervening with the player's control.
I think it's a problem only if you don't play it as a time management game. Which is totally fine! I don't either. But that is the way the game was designed, and one purpose of mods to change the game design. Keep in mind some people want these game elements there. So you either have to mod the game or take care of the needs on a schedule. For example, try sending your Sim to pee when they first wake up. If they come home and the green is getting low, send them again. I never see the pee walk, and I have some households with 7 or 8 Sims.
Edited to say: You can also "cheat" the needs up in various ways. Like you're already doing. Using cheats is not cheating if you have more fun that way. I have UI Cheats installed. I try not to use it for needs, but sometimes you do get tired of constantly having Sims in the bathroom.
Ok but is that supposed to be an excuse for the slow pee walk animation or what?
Well for me it is NOT cheating if I have to use the Testingcheats true to make my household happy if my Sim has a big family with many infants and toddlers, as well as a farm to be taken care of, like cows, chickens, llamas, insects (Eco Living) and bees (Seasons), and garden too.
Oh yess, I think I could try that (sending my Sim to the bathroom when they first wake up) or even getting the reward trait so that my Sims no longer need to pee
It's why we love to hate them. It's why we mod them. But it should have been reserved for particular traits. Would a genius hold their pee Maxis until they couldn't walk? This iteration has hardly made any sense since day one. Maybe if there was a line at a restaurant that took hours to get into the bathroom a Sim should walk that way or a little kid who is too busy playing to realize they need to go to the bathroom but not every single adult with different traits. It's going to be very hard OP to get Maxis to drop the bathroom humor. While we are on the subject of annoying things in The Sims, would someone who loves outdoors never go outdoors? and or spend all their time on the phone instead of enjoying the scene or nature? See, it's why we mod this game, because modders think logically.
I wouldn't say that I like it but I don't mind it. 😄 Thanks to UI Cheats I rarely see it.
For me it looks more that the sim in question are about to do "number two" in their pants...
People in real life do walk like that when they have a bad urge to go pee either due to a dropped bladder or other health issues or during pregnancy when the baby is pushing on the bladder or even if the person is an elder.
No, you're not the only one who likes it. The first time that I saw my sim doing that after waking up in the morning, I had to laugh as I thought it was too funny and too close to real life for some of us. And yes, I know some people who are going through that in real life may not find it funny as it could be quite embarrassing if they have an accident on their way to the bathroom...
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Many RL geniuses absolutely do, particularly while hyperfocused.
Would you prefer it they skipped it altogether and they go straight to next stage and pee themselves? The slow walk gives you chance to save face. You already had your chance to run to the bathroom and didn't.
It might be true for those at the very end of the red zone to slow down irl, but most people do run to the toilet when they got to go. This might have been cute the first few times, like I said I thought it was a glitch, so I wasn't laughing over it. I take that back, my family did create a "Walk like the Sims," Joke inspired by this, so there's that. It's incredibly not in EA's favor, though. Not that type of joke.
It already is. T for toddler.