If you use Scumbumbo's great Self-Configurable Autonomy Mod (SCAM) there's a neat trick. If you click on the ground and choose control autonomy, then search all interactions, and do a search for "chat", on page two (in my game, anyway) there is something called idle_chatting_stc. If you disable it, they suddenly stop doing all that useless babbling that does nothing but fill time between the rare actual interactions like jokes, brighten day, etc. I really kind of figured this would cause them to just stop talking quickly, but instead they keep choosing new REAL social interactions, one after the other. I have to try it for a while to see if there is some downside to it, but so far it plays like a whole new game (well, the social part, anyway).
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Indeed, that mod is fantastic to tune Sims to behave logically and meaningfully.
I can’t play without it.
I may give that "Have Some Personality" mod and see how that works out.
I'm not keen on mods but this seems like a necessary evil to make TS4 sims actually enjoyable, I'm going to get it. It's really sad how we have been complaining about the interactions and sim personalities for years and guru's haven't even pulled a single string in order to improve things. And then this mod shows up. Here to modders
Wasn't aware of that mod; but it does do the same thing with the idle chat. I play with so many other mods that I'll stick to amping it with SCAM, though, just because of the extra bells and whistles the personality one has. Could be some conflicts with some of mine.
If you don’t have certain DLC you simply won’t have the edited interactions from that DLC. Otherwise it should be fine.
Yes, it definitely makes things more lively. But I have to say I like it; there is just WAY too much time spent by sims in the game doing absolutely nothing useful.
Agreed. It does continue to fill your sim's social need bar, right? Just no actual impact on their relationship with who their talking to? Makes it tough to manage social gatherings where you're playing a few sims and want them all to be actively increasing friendships with who they're talking to.
does that conflict with McC and can you just install all the files ?
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
It works fine with MCCC. All you have to do is download the main file (the top one in the files list). The other files are for specific tastes/needs. Read the information on the page to see if you want any of those.
I used to use that mod too but not any more because my sims start to be flirty with other sims with this mod even though I have no autonomous flirty, enchant interaction mod. I don't like to see any free will love affair in my game. Other than this, it's great mod. I agree.