The Potty Situation «12...Next Go

Nindigo

I felt like exploring the issue that I've seen complaints about - that Sims, when directed to potty train a toddler, walk off to do other things shortly after the toddler has sat down on the potty.

Whether it is a bug or not, I don't know. But I do know that I personally fancy toddlers taking up less of their parents' attention which happens to be the result.

I also noticed that the toddler can't call back a Sim to potty train, as was previously the case. It might be a similar case to when kids couldn't grab a quick meal from the fridge.

At this point, I don't care if it is a bug. I'm one of those who gripe about how much attention toddlers are scripted to receive, messing up everyone else's schedule, because TODDLER is present. So, I'm going to enjoy the extra freedom as long as it lasts

So, what is your opinion on this situation? If you have one.

SimmerMars

I like it lol potty training is my least favorite. So if mom can walk alway while potty training her toddler, that’s fine by me.

foxybilly

I usually cheat the potty skill when I age the toddlers up from babies, the potty skill takes so much time and its so much easier to let them go off and do it themselves. As I potty trained my children IRL I dont want to do it in the Sims!!

EnkiSchmidt

I think it is a bug. I play with autonomy off, so my sims cannot just decide to do something else. What happens in my game is they put the toddler on the potty, then after one or two seconds the interaction gets canceled for the adult while the toddler continues doing its thing. Something else drawing my sims' attention cannot be the cause for this.

My only question is, does the toddler still benefit from doubled learning speed from getting helped, since the adult started the interaction? If yes, then I don't mind this bug at all.

nerdfashion

I think I'm with the OP on this one, that sounds wonderful

MaggieMarley

I have observed this in my game too. I found it annoying because I assumed that given that the parent wandered off the toddler no longer counted as being 'taught' and thus would learn the skill less quickly. If that's not the case though then I'd say it's great.

smurfy77

As long as they can at least help initiate it to level 2 so the toddler can go on their own, otherwise I would have to cheat the skill. Still sounds to me like it needs to be fixed. Are other skill training be affected for them? Like blocks? Because I know that unless you give them a tablet for toddlers to use, they still need a little help getting thru some parts to do more options on them, unless you cheat. But I haven t tried one yet, I have a Sim pregnant with Vlads baby now and I'm afraid to play them until its fixed.

Sharonia

I don't like it. The parent is supposed to be teaching the child and should stay till the end to give encouragement when the task is done right. I hope it will be fixed.

Bluebeard45

It all boils down to EA isn't a "Family" player thus the reason we have a baby object and skipped the toddler stage before finally waking up and adding toddlers. When they can not be bothered to put toilets in houses then you know it's rush job.

Rouensims

I experienced this bug last night, and it really bothered me. My toddler looked so lonely, and wound up with a sad moodlet for hours afterward because she had an accident.

SBLove

Since I'm currently working on the 100 Baby Challenge I don't really mind that much since she always has to take care of the other children, the thing I find annoying (Which might just be me but has been happening as long as I can remember) is that it almost ALWAYS takes a couple tries to get her to actually go over and put them on the potty

calaprfy

I personally like watching them poop their nappies. Makes me laugh.

Nindigo

@Rouensims The will cry and get that moodlet even when the parent sticks around. You do know that, right?

I guess some of us are just more into independent toddlers.

KaeChan2089

calaprfy wrote: »

I personally like watching them poop their nappies. Makes me laugh.

dude ... mean xD

Leahmiller2006

Oh it’s amazing, like independent toddlers go to the toilet alone but the non independent ones still need an adult to put them there, love it! I do wish we could get the parents to potty train by command though, like when the toddler is on the potty. You could do this before though, have a parent potty train, cancel the action (as the parent) and the toddler would stay on

Mareah

It might seem weird because i am a family player, but i would also like for them to be more independent. I play big families, i can end up with three toldders sometimes because i like for siblings to be somewhat close in age. Things can get really overwhelming lol.

DaWaterRat

Having a potty accident seems to be completely unrelated to whether or not the parent sticks around to train them. The parents set them on the potty and then they go through the routine whether the parent is there or not. I'm fine with it. Means I can have fewer independent toddlers.

Feisbukaite

This bug was introduced recently, I noticed it and it’s super hard to play toddlers. I loved playing little one’s, now I hate it. One of my family’s have triplets, I’ll go back to them after this bug is fixed.

CharityCodes

It is a bug and it's been there for a couple of months. I would link the EA bug site, but I don't have link permissions at the moment. I find it annoying because the skill gain is so slow. It's still workable though, especially if you use tiny homes.

logion

It's a bug and I am not looking forward to the bad joke that they will write in the patch notes when they will patch it.

GalacticGal

I love the Toddler stage, personally. But, I know what you mean about how much attention they truly crave and take. It would be totally awesome, to provide the tot-in-training to 'read' a book whilst they went about their business. Then if the other Sim be it Mom, Dad, or some other Sim able to provide the training were to walk away, it wouldn't bother me at all.

cornflake88

I don't mind it either and I haven't noticed that the toddlers learn potty skill at a different rate.

CharityCodes

Just in case this lets me post. Here is where you can find the official bug report and add to it if you wish: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-can-t-help-toddlers-to-potty-or-play-blocks/td-p/9169187

SimsLady2000

When raising toddlers, my sims ability to do their own thing at all is cut off by the "autonomy off" disease ... just like real life hehehehe

charmed4life4

I mostly like the toddler life stage. I refused to even buy the game until toddlers were introduced. So parents leaving toddlers to their own devices sort of messes with my game play a bit. I had a story line of helicopter parents that are obsessed with their child and stopped playing it because so many of the interactions are stopped half way through.

smurfy77

I love toddlers, they are so cute, hope they fix it soon