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AI Autonomy
Mariefoxprice83
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Has the AI been changed to make sims do less whilst autonomy is switched on? I've been experimenting with playing just one or two sims in a played household and I've noticed the others not really doing much. To be fair my house is basic at the moment for story reasons and doesn't have a computer or a TV, which sims tend to gravitate towards, but it still feels to me like they spend an awful lot of time just standing there rather than interacting with other objects.
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EA, this game is run on OUR Personal Computers, and your gameplay is NOT more important than ours.
In the last week I have even tried playing with all autonomy turned off, to no avail at all, in fact it seems to stall and lag even worse.
EA coders, whatever you fixed, UNfix our game please.
Sometimes you see all the cogs and gears working and it's magic. You'll see Sims run or walk to class. Ride a bike by. Have a conversation in the background or Sims at a restaurant just having a good time together while your Sims are doing their own things. It's lovely and lively and it's immersive.
Sometimes though it's like the hamster wheel is jammed but the hamster keeps trying to run. Sims stand around and do a weird acknowledgement motion that seems as they are just agreeing to things. They stand around waiting to start something or they have massive delays between actions. It's kind of a bummer.
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Do other users of other EA titles have this problem I wonder?
I don't understand why this game has this problem but the previous ones didn't....could it be the multitasking?
Also, Sims are constantly trying to chat with her, even Sims that are not currently even anywhere near her. They are usually not even in the same building. I'll see their avy appear above the queue and cancel it, but it doesn't cancel. That Sim will still diligently make their way to mine to chat. Once they arrive, the avy drops into the queue as active and they'll blather away at my Sim, even after I cancel it again. This happens over and over again, ad infinitum.
After a few seconds, they'll stop talking to my Sim while she continues to do whatever I had her doing and go away. But sometimes, they'll sit down and chat with another nearby Sim and then both of them will try again to chat with my Sim and I have to go through the entire process again. It's frustrating.
Also, if I do have my Sim initiate chat with another Sim or want her talk to the Sim that initiated the chat, if there isn't another chat action queued up by myself for her to do, she'll pick something on her own to chat about and it's not always appropriate or what I want her to say. As stated, this is all happening on a Sim with no autonomy. She shouldn't be able to do that, only what I tell her to do. This has actually been going on for quite awhile. The nearest I can surmise is around the time I loaded ROM to my game.
I play a completely vanilla game with no CC, no Mods ever on a gaming desktop that's only a year old. So, I don't believe (at least in my case) this could be some kind of simulation lag caused by my computer in relation to canceling actions.
In summary, I just want other Sims to leave my Sim alone unless I want her to chat with them, I DON'T want her doing actions on her own if I have autonomy off and lastly, if I cancel an action it should cancel immediately! I enjoy playing this game and it's not game breaking for me in the least. It's just very frustrating and time consuming when it happens over and over again. I've resorted to locking her dorm room door to everyone, including her so she'll stay put in there and do what I tell her to do and I shouldn't have to do that.
I'm kind of on the fence. I usually don't want my Sim interrupted by other Sims - if I need to have my Sim talk to another Sim for some reason, I'll initiate the conversation. I sort of like the way they'll continue to chat without the player needing to keep the converation going, but as they sometimes say inappropriate things, it's not always a good thing. What really annoys me is that I might want my Sims to have one interaction (say, to fulfill a whim), but they both have to sit down somewhere and continue the chat. They can never just stand and chat.
Yeah, I don't mind autonomy, but I do get what you're saying. One of my main characters, Rohber Calhouni, has the mean trait. So when I'm trying to get him to be friendly with someone, I fill up the "friendly" chat. Then I go do other stuff in the household while that's going on. But I come back and he's saying mean things now! Heh heh! He was a bad toddler too.
> Mine have gone from just standing around to constantly getting glasses of water. I thought we were past this glitch? :s
Man, my Sims do that all the time too. I've considered removing the sinks xD
There are some things I still wish they'd change. Cleaning, shoveling snow and playing in the rain at public venues. Just stop already! No one does this!
"Singing in the rain, Singing in the rain!"
Seriously, why do all sims need to play in the rain? It's just silly.