So i turned on the sims 4 for the first time in years last night to finally try to complete one of the GTW careers. (I chose doctor) I quickly remembered why I had stopped playing in the first place. First off I noticed that if I didn't fill up my sims queue immediately, they would wander off and do something I didn't want them to do instead of taking care of their needs. I had to cancel so many actions it was like trying to reel in a rambunctious toddler. Also the amount of actions I told them to do that they then just ignored in favor of something else was maddening. I had to tell them to do something three times minimum before they would do it. I couldn't keep my sim off her phone or trying to get a cup of coffee the entire time she was at work. Half the time she wasn't even tired or hungry so I don't know why she kept going to get coffee. I have never been so close to turning off free will and this from someone who never plays without it in the sims 3. Another thing I noticed is that unless you tell another sim to "care for self" while the other sim is at work, they do nothing to help themselves. I would come home with one sim only to find the other still in pjs on the computer with low bars on everything. WTH? Anyway I got so frustrated after awhile that I turned it off. Don't think i'll be playing it again anytime soon.
Edit: Also noticed the game would unpause itself a lot. I would pause the game to get my bearings and it would unpause itself and I would have to pause it again, sometimes more than once.
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I think I'm having that coffee issue too! I noticed the other night when I was playing that my Sims were annoyingly obsessed with going to make coffee instead of just going to bed. I deleted the darn thing. First the endless water thirst and now coffee too? I wish I could just block drinking altogether. Well, except for the Vampires and their plasma preferences. That I like.
But there has been a few bugs recently that are expected to be solved in the upcoming patch so hopefully it shouldn't take too long to sort itself out.
It's especially frustrating when you have toddlers. I command my sim to bathe the toddler. Here we go:
-He grabs the toddler
-puts him back on the floor because.. i don't know..
-picks the toddler up again
-puts the kid in highchair
-sits somewhere near
-stands up, because it's not close enough
-sits somewhere else
-asks toddler if she wants to take a bathe
-toddler refuses
-my sim gets frustrated and reacts
-meanwhile the 2nd parent comes and picks up the kid from the highchair
-puts him down
-picks him up
-puts him down again
-the 1st parent who was trying to bathe the kid, walks away to do something random, like dancing.
-6 sim hours pass
-toddler is now exausted and hungry, angry and passes out
-now the priority is to feed the kid because otherwise he will be taken away
-I tell the 2nd parent to feed the kid
-she comes and picks up the kid
-puts her in highchair
-goes to grab some chicken nuggets and puts them in microwave
-brings the food to the kid
-suddenly first parent comes in, picks up the kid from highchair before she can eat
-he puts the kid down
-1st parent picks the kid up, takes her to bed
-toddler can't sleep because she is way too hungry, and stinky
-then I have enough and shift-click and fill her needs up instantly
I only wanted to bathe the effin' kid!
This is how AI works in this game. Don't get me started about sims standing and thinking for minutes before starting an action that you command.
Still, I play TS4. We all do. LOL
Well, coffee is addicting … But, I do get quite annoyed when I queue up things for my Sim to do and one of them likes to just stand there. Okay, so he's very close to being a Global Superstar, but he still lives in his parents' home and he should do what he's told to do.
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I love the GTW pack, but I don't play it anymore. Got tired of all the staff being ghost, where they should have been retired before dying, and replaced with new staff.
Never had the game unpause itself, but I haven't played in a while either.
I am excited/nervous for this pack to fix some of these numerous bugs. I'm nervous because I went a bit mod crazy and downloaded tons of bug fix mods to the point my game is almost running smoothly now, so now I get to figure out what will need to stay and what can go. The only problems that I've noticed I still have is the cat counter scold, teleporting while doing a task, and sims just forgetting what in the heck they were doing....the "Severe Amnesia Epidemic" is what I've called it.
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I had this issue prestrangerville, the dropped needs resulted in a toddler being taken away soon as I loaded the home lot cause his needs were too low before SV came out
The "Cooler Sicknesses" mod has really enhanced the illnesses in game. It's changed my doctor career too for the better. Highly recommend: modthesims.info/d/605259/cooler-sicknesses-mod-v-2-2-0.html
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