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How are you handeling Individual Intrests with No Open world?
Lorind
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I am so used to sending my Sims to pursue their own interests and leaving them to it while tending to another family member. I am finding it really hard to manage this now that I can only have control on one lot at a time. I found that I could have my Sim tend to his own needs but when I swapped lots I saw that my Sim that was practicing writing at the library ended up standing on the sidewalk when I switched back to her accomplishing nothing. Am I missing something as far as ways to have them set up for an activity and them skilling or must I be watching that Sim at all times? Managing a large family will be hard, I can hardly do 2 with separate goals right now!
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By sending my Sims where they wanted to go & having them do what that wanted to do there.
How else am I supposed to handle it?
I really wish there were better away actions. I don't need to see them do the actions, but for example I like them to go to bed at certain times so they can wake up in time for work. If I have a sim out late, the sims left at home have an awful time the following morning because they stayed up too late too.
"Care for self" doesn't let me force the care actions.
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Exactly. I feel like I'm a hostage on my own lot.
You can't do that. You can't maintain two different action queues in two different zones.
Unfortunately
Way more hostage than it ever was in TS2 because in TS2 at least the lot froze, in TS4 when you leave your house it just becomes a workplace/school style rabbit hole for the rest of your residents you leave behind.
Tue. but you can maintain 2 or more Sims in two different zones.
Pretty easily, in fact.
But every Sim you aren't actively controlling might as well be at a workplace rabbit hole.
I guess it depends on how far you send them & what you have them doing.
Because I rarely have a problem maintaining multiple Sims away from home.
I really do miss the open world because that ability to totally control multiple sims simultaneously on multiple lots throughout the world was great.
You can leave the game running and they will take care of themselves, you just won't have control over what they do off lot anymore than you do at work or school rabbit holes.
So I dunno. Sometimes it seems to work fine and they'll do some things you want them to do. Other times... not so much.
I tried just making them "leave early" after 3 once, but I got the warning that their performance would suffer. This does not happen if I save, exit and reload, then tell them to leave early. My attitude recently is moving more in the direction of, "If I have to save and exit the game anyway, I might as well just stay exited."
I've also sent their child son out a couple of times (to befriend his future wife and work on his Social Butterfly aspiration), leaving the rest of the family at home to do their own thing, and that hasn't been too terrible yet. It does seem like away actions kinda-sorta work.
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Like I said: how far they went & what they're doing.
Plus, I guess, how long it takes for them to do it.
It's what fans back in the TS2 days insisted that they wanted.
Probably not their best idea.
I have no problem at all with it after playing for a few hours. Those first hours though, made me feel a bit of a hostage to my own lot until I learned the system.
Yeah, this is pretty much what I've been doing.