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Disappointed that sims don't seem to autonomously use the swings.
rosehrtgirl
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I have not seen any sims use the swings autonomously in my game yet. Quite disappointing. Both npcs and played sims seem to ignore the swings. Though I have not seen any npcs skating yet either in my game.
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Might need to get rid of a few things to see if they'll be attracted to it or not. I avoid putting bookcases park lots they all just wanna read like It's the library.
@LadyKyn are you a modder? Can you upload a mod if you changed it? I would love to see many of the interactions to be enabled, to make the game more ralistic.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Because when they are set to true, Sims get obsessed. I had a mod that would increase the autonomy and it was literally me cancelling actions every few seconds.
I had issues where my Sim wanted fun, I cancelled the PC, then instantly the TV came up. Cancelled that out, and my Sim put earbuds on. Took them off, Sim went to the hot tub.
I notice they disable autonomy on objects that provide fun, for the simple fact, when all are enabled they never stop using objects. Too many set to true and it overpowers what we want our Sims to use.
Told my Sim to go fishing, she did for 30 seconds and then ran to play chess.
The issue is all the other needs are simple.
Bladder = Toilet. Hunger = Food. Social = Sims.
But fun is tricky because nearly everything that isn’t a necessity provides fun in The Sims. So it should be up to us how we use that time so that makes sense.
I actually wish they would set the PC to false as well. And mobiles/tablets. Let us choose.
I remember taking my Sims out to Community lots in The Sims 2, and it was almost impossible to keep them all off the swings unless I deleted them. Grown people constantly on Swings is incredibly odd.
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Really? The swings are used autonomously in my game. At least, an NPC got on them while I was at the park.
Park lots maybe have different settings? I’ve seen people use them at the Park too.
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I am guessing that use of swings at the park by npc children is governed by a npc job situation and they are are not doing it autonomously. I have swing set on my sims home lot and it is ignored by visiting npc children.
I would really like to see sims enjoying the swings autonomously, and as to using the swings to much they could control them with bluff cool downs for the npcs and when you click on the npc to communicate to them they will stop swinging. Just bad game design with the swings on there part.
Oh meant to add, I have the swing sets at my home lot. I don't know what it's like in a park setting.
He was an adult, but I get what you're saying. I haven't yet placed a swing set on a home lot.
So it might just be just an attractive problem on my home lot with the swing. Pets are more needy too now ( pet me! pet me! pet me!) and there's the weather.
I checked the modding files after extracting them and the Friendly Social Interactions such as these here are set to Autonomy False, so not sure. Maybe in specific settings, such as parks they use it autonomously. One of the files also was ONLY set to kids, there was no Adults, Teens etc. set for that file. I could not test it on the home lot yet, but in my game nobody used autonomously the swings on my home lot.
These are the files that are all set to Autonomy FALSE
socials_Targeted_Friendly_AlwaysOn_STC_SwingSet_AskToPush
socials_Targeted_Friendly_AlwaysOn_STC_SwingSet_AskToSwingWith
socials_Targeted_Friendly_AlwaysOn_STC_SwingSet_AskToBePushed
swingSet_Immediate_AskToSwingWith
sim_AskToSwing_Chat
OMG same. The amount of effort I have to put into the design of my Sims' home to stop this from happening is unreal. I always make sure the computer is in bedrooms or rooms I can keep guests out of. I lock everything!
On topic, and because of the computer experience, I'm glad going on the swings isn't autonomous. They can get so annoying after a while, no matter what the object is.
No. Stahp.
Step. Away. From. The. Object!
Sims only get obsessed with object interactions that have a higher attraction score than others.
For example, "troll teh forums" interaction has an attraction rate of 1.24 whereas the standard score for other interactions is between 0.5 and 0.75.
I think some interactions should definitely have a higher score than others, but these should be trait based. I've modded my game so only certain traits will autonomously troll forums rather than everyone.
ETA: I think the devs intended to make troll teh forums autonomous for certain traits, but, from memory, there was a line of code missing to fully implement this.
ETA2: Sims running off to do something else after 30 seconds is a bug. Some interactions have timers on them so the Sim should complete the interaction in a certain timeframe or if they have need failure before moving onto something else. I think for some things this is broken, like reading books.
My couple had their meal, paid and then he got a "swings" thought bubble over his head but he didn't go to the swings autonomously.
I'm glad of that having had to get rid of a garden tent which my Sims preferred to sleep in, even in Winter! Autonomy needs to be curbed sometimes.