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Controlling multiple Sims at a time
mika
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I'm not very good at explaining game mechanics, but I wish we could select more than one member of the household (or select the entire household) to get them to do the same activity at once. That way when I'm trying to get them all to watch a movie, eat dinner together, or go to sleep at the same time, etc without having to select one individual at a time and risk another finishing before the other or deciding to do something else while I'm controlling one sim. No, I'm not talking about the Grouping system from Get Together, that's only when they go out and it doesn't work that well anyways. There should be a way to control the actions of multiple sims in your household without it.
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are you sure?? I use grouping all the time on my home lot and it works fine for me.. the only thing I cant really do with it is make them sleep at the same time but thats not something ive ever wanted to do given that everyone is usually on their own schedule.
It's never worked well for me.
That's a pretty good idea, actually. It's a wonder that no one else ever thought of it.
Imagine, clicking on the television and a little menu pops up so that you can automatically pick everyone present that you want to watch.
Click on a table and everyone sits for dinner. Woot!
Brilliant idea, OP.
Not sure if you're trolling, but I know how to form groups. Did you even read my post?
Dinners are fairly easy, I pick 'Grab Together' and it's good (although 'Call for meal' usually works fine as well). I don't have problems with sitting at table either, just pick 'Sit Together' on one of the chairs and rest of the group will take their places on the chairs nearby. Similar with watching tv. I believe it's even easier if you have Movie Hangout Stuff Pack, then you can choose 'Watch a movie with...' and select specific Sims.
No, I am not trolling. You asked a question and I tried to help. That won't ever happen again. But since I'm here, you said the CLUB system from GT didn't work. You said nothing about the group system. But, if you can take one more solution from this old Troll, try turning off their free will in the option section. Happy simming.
The thing is, I never asked a question. I suggested an idea I want inplemented which is what this discussion thread is for and got an obnoxious response about using a system I've already expressed is inconvenient/not good enough to me. I didn't ask anyone for advice. And I'm used to seeing your antagonistic and/or smug posts so even if I had asked a question, I wouldn't have expected anything helpful from you. Ciao.
Honestly looks like the other simmer was just trying to be helpful by giving you an alternative way to do it until the feature you'd prefer gets implemented
Anyway, it's weird the group feature doesn't work well for you. It should allow you to make sims do most things together easily. Has it never worked properly? If it did you might try repairing the game? Or remove mods / cc if you have any to see if that might be tampering with it in any way.
For trying to get them watch a movie or have a meal together, that should always work well by using "watch movie with..." then selecting the sims & "call to meal" respectively. Maybe those things will work a little better?
The other simmer is a notorious jerk so I have no interest in his help.
Thank you for the suggestions.