I miss when sims made some decisions on their own. Especially with social interactions. I feel like their free will is broken. Especially with the latest update. I miss in past iterations when they had more of a mind of their own. I feel like this can be fixed. Especially if enough players feel this way. Im wondering how many do or don't. I just want their to be more of a balance between the interactions they do on their own and the things we decide for them. For me part of the fun is the things that are unexpected that happen in the game. I know with every thing they fix in the game im sure they could add more free will as an option.
Should Sims have More Free will as an option? 82 votes
I like controlling every aspect of my sims life including all their social interactions I don't want more free will to be an option in the game.
I want my sims to have more free will and do more things on their own including their interactions with other sims. More free will should be an option in the game.
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This is a bug.
Agreed
Whenever I play with autonomy on, I usually switch it back off after a simday.
But I would be totally fine with an option for more free will for the players that do use it.
My kids go to school in night clothes, my enemies become friends, they get addicted to the pc. Too many things they do drive me crazy.
My vegetarian sim ate meat various times, sometimes it was food he made himself even.
But sims really should do mean things and flirt with other sims. In previous games, I ALWAYS let sims pick their own partner. I don't like forcing that, I want to see who they pick and if that works. At most I very rarely get to see that they want to talk or hug someone, and they only get desires to flirt or kiss someone once together with them but still won't do it on their own.
If sims 3 graphics and performance weren't so bad I'd be tempted to stick with that one because it's sims are actual people. Here we just have boring robots who all like the same things and do the same things even if it goes against their traits.
Sorry, just bored and the thread title made me think of my philosophy classes
To answer the question a little differently; yes, I'd like smarter AI. I like the AI to control my sims as much as I can stand. There are only a few times I actually get involved (well, maybe more than a few) in sim actions. "Introduce yourself", "Use bathroom", "eat" and sometimes when conversations die out (which happens a lot more than I'd like), I usually try to get it going again with conversation starters like "Discuss Interests".
Other than that I like (I'd like) the AI to run the sim 100% of the time. However the game is just too buggy for that to actually happen. I think I'm being a bit generous actually. Usually when a sim visits my sim is when the sim ADD kicks in. suddenly they have to read a book, or run around in the rain or run a mile down the street to make a snow angel. They act like crazy people most the time. I just do what I can to keep them on track. Which, sometimes is a lot.
Is this real or just perception?
It is frustrating and disappointing that most of the time, most Sims will not give me a clue as to who they would like to flirt with, by initiating themselves. And I have discovered that relationships aren't all made equal. Some are just a lot of work, because the Sims involved will not do one thing beyond what I force them to, whereas with others, they are obviously mutually interested and keep the conversation and interest level high even if I just sit and watch.
And some Sims just seem unlucky in love. Not sure if the Love Guru is random in predictions or whether it actually gives a real reflection of that Sim's love tendencies or destiny, but so far, it has been deadly accurate in foretelling complications in love ("doom" as they put it when the Sim gets all depressed after hearing not so good news) because that's what has happened each time I have had a Sim who was especially unlucky in attempts at romance, as the Romance Guru. So is the Guru actually useful for insight, or more like a random 8-ball?
All things to wonder about.
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
And while the 'no' option is stated in a very biased, hyperbolic way (IMO), I do prefer in general to have more control over my Sims than less. I don't really want a lot of autonomous romance or the like. I have my own ideas of what stories I want to tell. That said, an interesting autonomous action now and then can liven things up, but there are definitely limits, IMO.
I love this. Its very insightful and I have wondered a lot about the same things at times.
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