Why can't Sims take care of themselves?

KayeStar

I tend to micromanage, but I'm trying to be more hands-off because micromanaging makes some challenges (like legacies) boring when you're just waiting for something to happen. Sometimes, I'll let the game run without my interference while I do something else and just check on it every so often.

I swear my sims are never not on the brink of death. Needs always in the yellow and red, don't always go to school or work, cook a lot of terrible food. I'm surprised one of them hasn't set the kitchen on fire.

I have this in both 3 and 4 (and in 3, one of my sims will also attack the peashooter; why??), but I thought the AI was improved. I'm not expecting all needs to stay high in the green, but can they not be 24 sim hours away from starving to death?

DragonCat159

I too experience that. It's a bug, since not everybody's game had encountered it.

SiliClone

The need must be in yellow before they decide to take care of it. And even then, they make a very bad job at it (nap instead of sleep and bathe instead of shower)

Morkovka

It's strange. My Sims are doing just fine all by themselves with full free will on. I once fell asleep and left them simming on their own - four hours later a lot of things in the house were broken but everyone (2 adults, 2 kids, one toddler) were alive and well %)