A few of my sims are loners. Sandra Matthews is one, but she is very controlling of her surroundings and enviorment, she doesn't do anything that isn't already culculated before hand. For example as a teenager on her own, Sandra's life goal is to have a child and complete her own personal goals in life. She can be an extraordinarily good parent but she won't ever choose to chase men down willingly, not unless she is really in the mood for woowho and fits into her timetable, which is usually half way through adulthood. Aside from that Sandra always keeps to herself 100% of the time no matter who comes knocking.
Jacob Brantson is another, when he is playing part of the "oddball friends" household, the man is and loner, socially awkward and a 🐸🐸🐸🐸. He spends his night watching Laurel come out of her room in her smalls when she gets a drink or food and gets off on watching her move her body around. He thinks hes been subtle about his gawking and enjoyment through the door window, but Laurel has known for some time and she reviles Jacob in the worst way because he is a creep. Unlike Chris Addison who is far more open, friendly and a great guy who respects others, Jacob doesn't understand or know where the line is or how he crossed it with Laurel.
He never travels except for work and even then he keeps to himself and when he is home, he has a completely self reliant room, so he has no need to leave his room save for work. Lastly Laurel is likely to move out as fast as possible as soon as she finds someone, so when that happens Jacob will likely become stressed not to see a woman in the house he can gawk at, or in Laurel's case a teenager.
Neither of them will ever leave what is most familiar to them if it can be helped.
My sims are out and about often. Some of the families with little kids stay home more, but for the most part my sims are at one of the many venue types. Loading screens are pretty quick, even in my big rotational save so I move around alot.
I like taking my sims out of the house often. Of course, single sims travel much more than families but I really love taking families to the park. I have edited my parks to have toddler areas in them so everyone can go. I love sending them to the bowling alley, to the bar to throw some darts and have a beer, um, nectar, whatever. I have edited most of the community lots in Windenberg and just switch them out from save to save.
I have a mod, a must have for me, weerbrus' UI Extension. If someone is back at home, this mod allows me to switch to another sim in household and pull up their needs bars. It's a cheat but saves a lot of annoyance.
In my house, dog hair sticks to everything but the dog.
My Sims do go out occasionally. But it's also true that I converted a house from the shortest walls to the tallest walls so the house could accommodate a pirate ship jungle gym on the second floor.
My sims are mostly home during the week. They go to work and school and the evenings are spent on homework, dinner prep, family time, career requirements, skill building, pet care, etc. Weekends are a different story. They could be managing one of their five businesses, visiting relatives in another town, taking a weekend vacation, visiting the beach in Sulani, having brunch with friends, dinner out at one of my many restaurants. Sometimes I focus on the entire family, sometimes just one family member. It's not unusual for one sim to spend the entire day going from one lot to another on the weekend or spending part of the day managing one business and the remainder of the day managing another. Although what I liked best about open world was being able to manage multiple sims I have no problem returning home to find them just as I left them. I make it work. (Watching Project Runway. ) I adjust their needs accordingly and they're good to go.
I also have some objects and most of the skill objects available only on community lots which requires my sims to go out. Spa objects only available at the spa. The archaeology bench can only be used at a museum. The flower arranging station is available only at my florist shop. The pumpkin carving station is available at the Art Center.
Many people here mentioned that Sims left behind at home can't take care of themselves?
Is it because of free will/autonomy settings?
With full free will they are doing just fine for me.
When it comes to filling their need bars it appears as if they do a good job at taking care of themselves. However the problem I have with sims taking care of themselves badly is a different issue. If I take one sim out for an evening at a night club when I return home in the middle of the night at lets say 3am all the sims that were left behind at home including children will have full needs. I don't want this. I don't want to return home to find children up and about full of energy at 3am in the morning, I want them tucked up in bed where they should be. My sim just came home from a night of hard partying, they're exhausted and they don't want to deal with kids. Kids have school in the morning and will tire half way through the day due to being awake so early. It's more a case of sims not doing the desired behaviors at the desired times if I leave them to themselves that bothers me.
Many people here mentioned that Sims left behind at home can't take care of themselves?
Is it because of free will/autonomy settings?
With full free will they are doing just fine for me.
When it comes to filling their need bars it appears as if they do a good job at taking care of themselves. However the problem I have with sims taking care of themselves badly is a different issue. If I take one sim out for an evening at a night club when I return home in the middle of the night at lets say 3am all the sims that were left behind at home including children will have full needs. I don't want this. I don't want to return home to find children up and about full of energy at 3am in the morning, I want them tucked up in bed where they should be. My sim just came home from a night of hard partying, they're exhausted and they don't want to deal with kids. Kids have school in the morning and will tire half way through the day due to being awake so early. It's more a case of sims not doing the desired behaviors at the desired times if I leave them to themselves that bothers me.
Yes, that's exactly the problem. I always have autonomy off - I don't want my Sims to do anything I haven't previously approved. If my Sim absolutely must travel elsewhere (to achieve an aspiration or collect something), the whole family has to go. (I tried taking the mother and grandmother to Sixam in the middle of the night, assuming that they could do what they needed to do and the kid would remain in bed. Nope - kid was up and raiding the fridge at 3 am.)
I suspect that for many of us, our playstyles reflect our personalities. I hate socialising in real life (my perfect holiday weekend is one in which I see no one but my cats), and I hate social activities in the game. I'm very happy with rabbit holes - that way, my Sim can go to work or volunteer or make a nature documentary, and I can still control the rest of the family. (I also hate the endless texting and phone calls, and the only way to avoid them is to never allow your Sims to interact with other Sims.)
have you ever used the Explorer Mod? It’s quite useful I feel. A lot of the time I don’t tend to sends my sims out to lots and instead I have them go do things through the explorer mod. So it sends them off to do whatever you’ve chosen to do and honestly the choices are endless (cinema, classes, gym, pick up takeout etc) obviously some of these things cost you but there is so much to choose from.
another mod I use like this is the Social Activities mod which is quite like the explorer mod.
have you ever used the Explorer Mod? It’s quite useful I feel. A lot of the time I don’t tend to sends my sims out to lots and instead I have them go do things through the explorer mod. So it sends them off to do whatever you’ve chosen to do and honestly the choices are endless (cinema, classes, gym, pick up takeout etc) obviously some of these things cost you but there is so much to choose from.
another mod I use like this is the Social Activities mod which is quite like the explorer mod.
Yea but I prefer the Social Activies mod personally because of how it works with the holiday calendar.
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Jacob Brantson is another, when he is playing part of the "oddball friends" household, the man is and loner, socially awkward and a 🐸🐸🐸🐸. He spends his night watching Laurel come out of her room in her smalls when she gets a drink or food and gets off on watching her move her body around. He thinks hes been subtle about his gawking and enjoyment through the door window, but Laurel has known for some time and she reviles Jacob in the worst way because he is a creep. Unlike Chris Addison who is far more open, friendly and a great guy who respects others, Jacob doesn't understand or know where the line is or how he crossed it with Laurel.
He never travels except for work and even then he keeps to himself and when he is home, he has a completely self reliant room, so he has no need to leave his room save for work. Lastly Laurel is likely to move out as fast as possible as soon as she finds someone, so when that happens Jacob will likely become stressed not to see a woman in the house he can gawk at, or in Laurel's case a teenager.
Neither of them will ever leave what is most familiar to them if it can be helped.
I have a mod, a must have for me, weerbrus' UI Extension. If someone is back at home, this mod allows me to switch to another sim in household and pull up their needs bars. It's a cheat but saves a lot of annoyance.
I also have some objects and most of the skill objects available only on community lots which requires my sims to go out. Spa objects only available at the spa. The archaeology bench can only be used at a museum. The flower arranging station is available only at my florist shop. The pumpkin carving station is available at the Art Center.
When it comes to filling their need bars it appears as if they do a good job at taking care of themselves. However the problem I have with sims taking care of themselves badly is a different issue. If I take one sim out for an evening at a night club when I return home in the middle of the night at lets say 3am all the sims that were left behind at home including children will have full needs. I don't want this. I don't want to return home to find children up and about full of energy at 3am in the morning, I want them tucked up in bed where they should be. My sim just came home from a night of hard partying, they're exhausted and they don't want to deal with kids. Kids have school in the morning and will tire half way through the day due to being awake so early. It's more a case of sims not doing the desired behaviors at the desired times if I leave them to themselves that bothers me.
Yes, that's exactly the problem. I always have autonomy off - I don't want my Sims to do anything I haven't previously approved. If my Sim absolutely must travel elsewhere (to achieve an aspiration or collect something), the whole family has to go. (I tried taking the mother and grandmother to Sixam in the middle of the night, assuming that they could do what they needed to do and the kid would remain in bed. Nope - kid was up and raiding the fridge at 3 am.)
I suspect that for many of us, our playstyles reflect our personalities. I hate socialising in real life (my perfect holiday weekend is one in which I see no one but my cats), and I hate social activities in the game. I'm very happy with rabbit holes - that way, my Sim can go to work or volunteer or make a nature documentary, and I can still control the rest of the family. (I also hate the endless texting and phone calls, and the only way to avoid them is to never allow your Sims to interact with other Sims.)
another mod I use like this is the Social Activities mod which is quite like the explorer mod.
Yea but I prefer the Social Activies mod personally because of how it works with the holiday calendar.