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Issues with multi tasking and socializing
Orchid13
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Seems to me like after the last patch many things have broken. When my sims eat sometimes they stop eating to talk to people. Also many actions get cancelled and they simply don't do it. It also bothers me that they have to wave at everyone all the time.
Another problem I've noticed is how fast the social need decreases and with all the problems mentioned before its even worse cause it takes forever to make it increase and it doesnt even fully work and you waste and entiere sim day socializing for them to wake up all sad again for the lack of socializing.
Also Get Together added useless group activities when they play fooseball, throw darts and even the activities we had before like playing chess don't increase the social need is like they cant do both. This game lacks a lot of stuff for this multi tasking system that it is now broken
Am i the only one with this issue?
PS: For whom it may concern, please leave this post in general discussions for a while before moving it to bugs. I'm interested in knowing if other simmers have this issue or if its just me and nobody really looks in that section. So please if you move it, move it once we have established if it is or isnt a common bug.
Another problem I've noticed is how fast the social need decreases and with all the problems mentioned before its even worse cause it takes forever to make it increase and it doesnt even fully work and you waste and entiere sim day socializing for them to wake up all sad again for the lack of socializing.
Also Get Together added useless group activities when they play fooseball, throw darts and even the activities we had before like playing chess don't increase the social need is like they cant do both. This game lacks a lot of stuff for this multi tasking system that it is now broken
Am i the only one with this issue?
PS: For whom it may concern, please leave this post in general discussions for a while before moving it to bugs. I'm interested in knowing if other simmers have this issue or if its just me and nobody really looks in that section. So please if you move it, move it once we have established if it is or isnt a common bug.
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Some days I think developers do this plum (yes I wrote out plum) on purpose but then I think, no they never play the game two minutes (long enough) to realize their coding is screwed.
The waving bit is driving me nuts. And you can't cancel something that's not in the queue, or if it should appear (talk, hug etc.) and try to cancel they aren't going to listen...just keep going and then wave if you did cancel out hug etc.
I'm repeating it, because I had a thread weeks ago (a few months ago) raving about this very 'feature'. When I tell a Sim to stop I expect it to come to an end, there, then, now. Stop!
It's not these Sims are 'smarter' it's more like omg, why can't these people get this right and make cancel work and or why is there nothing in the queue to let me know where they are going. It's not smarter, actually, it's a mess.
Thank you for reminding me. I have the same issue, they do stuff i don't want them to do and when i cancel it , it takes forever for it work. My sim made lunch and i clicked a chair right away so he would sit there and eat , he was already half way out the door to eat outside and the command i sent was just on top of the list till my sim got to the picnic table outside and THEN went to the chair i initially sent them to...
The waving is also annoying cause after the relationship culling destroyed my friendships ive been trying to get them back. I'm still doing that can you believe it? So sometimes i see some of my old friends walking by and i try to make my sim introduce themselves and they go wave at them and then they say "i think its time for me to go bye" and its as if my sim never approsched them, they waved at them but didnt introduce themselves
I noticed this the other day I sent my Sim to a bar I built in WB and had him play darts with one of my other Sims there. Well, they didn't actually, officially meet when playing darts. I had to introduce them afterward. See, this stuff here drives me nuts, because in the course of a game you would expect (in make believe or reality) they would have said hey, my name is such and such and their face appear in the relationship panel as 'met' acquaintance. Annoying.
So your sims can multi task? I mean if you play darts it increases both fun and social needs?
Multitasking means doing two directable activities at the same time; it has nothing to do with which needs are raised or lowered. That's not to say that playing darts *with* someone shouldn't increase both those needs - it's just that that's nothing to do with multitasking.
Not even fun? I mean in mine it does increase fun, but very slowly. Needs decrease faster than they increase unlesd its the tv or computer
Did you even read the original post? My sims can't talk and eat at the same time. They simply stop eating. They don't play darts and talk thats also a problem with multi tasking
The needs its just an additional problem im discussing with Cinebar.
Please read the original post carefully
Its also an issue ive noticed, sometimes the time goes back , but sims stand for hours doing nothing. All these issues are deal breakers
Also if I have multiple sims get food from the fridge at the same time, usually they'll all get clipped in each other and stand in front on the fridge until I tell them to walk away from it.
I feel like we need an emrgency patch for these things. It's really ruining the gameplay
I have the pause thing going on as well. I will queue my sim to do something and he just stands where he is for one or even two sims hours before doing it. It took me 5 sim hours just to get my sim to wash the dishes also my sims won't use the dishwasher anymore I've repaired my game but they just won't use it. I tried removing all the sinks to see if they would use it and the only option they had for dirty dishes was to throw them away. Ugh
I do not like that people barge into your conversation, and it is incredibly tough to keep track of what they are supposed to be talking about and the visuals don't offer enough clues. The animations are so repetitive (like the joke animation, seems like there is one), it ends up looking like a chaotic mess and you cannot even easily "X" people out of a conversation, and i bet even if you could, new people would prob show up anyway and intrude.
My sims also sometimes don't respond for a long time and sometimes it seems like if I FF to get through an action, they stand there and dont complete their actions as fast, which kind of defeats the purpose of fast forwarding.
I want this game to work properly so bad. The social system was awesome in Sims 2, the people they wave to or say a quick hi autonomously it seamlessly works with the rest of the game, and is appropriate. They don't run off to wave at someone who is across the neighborhood.
They look at eachother and don't sit with their backs to eachother or across the room from eachother.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
I haven't erased the cache files in a while, which ones am i suppose to erase?
Also did any guru adress these issues when @Cinebar made a thread about it?
This guide walks you through deleting cache files
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
Thank you!
Do you mean to say that the "eat" task in your sim's multitask bar just disappears? I don't think this happens in my game. Maybe try repairing your game.