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(Apartments) Walking is loud noise?
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Is there a list of actions that count as creating loud noise in apartments?
I'm asking because I was doing some testing that required my sims to sit and stand still and do nothing. They sat for hours in the kitchen, that was okay with the neighbors apparently. But then, shortly before midnight, they walked a few steps and proceed to stand still in the floor, next thing I knew was the apartment neighbor hammering at my door and berating my sims for being inconsiderate.
Does the game check if my sims actually lie in bed? I got into trouble before for my simchild flushing the toilet in the night (as well as a few deserved cases where I simply forgot to check the clock before bringing out the instrument, my bad).
I also suspect that relationship plays a role, because neutral neighbors are far more inclined to complain than friendly ones. But that my be confirmation bias on my part.
I'm asking because I was doing some testing that required my sims to sit and stand still and do nothing. They sat for hours in the kitchen, that was okay with the neighbors apparently. But then, shortly before midnight, they walked a few steps and proceed to stand still in the floor, next thing I knew was the apartment neighbor hammering at my door and berating my sims for being inconsiderate.
Does the game check if my sims actually lie in bed? I got into trouble before for my simchild flushing the toilet in the night (as well as a few deserved cases where I simply forgot to check the clock before bringing out the instrument, my bad).
I also suspect that relationship plays a role, because neutral neighbors are far more inclined to complain than friendly ones. But that my be confirmation bias on my part.
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This: I have never had my neighbours complain. I'm usually the one banging on their doors for noisy music/woohoo.
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I did have an apartment landing that was turnt into a war zone but then everybody hated each other. Even the kids got in on it.
Now I haven't played in San Myshuno for a while and not since the new patch and I don't have Eco living so maybe things have changed, either a bug or some new 'feature'.
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Walking can be loud, if the person is wearing high heels and walking on tiles or hard wood floors. Do neighbors complain if you have a barking dog?
Some will, some won't, people have different tolerances for noise. That's why I was asking specifically for the sensibilities of the sims in this game. I don't want to debate realism, I want to make a list of actions that are allowed/disallowed. Does the game take into account my sims' footwear? The type of flooring? Wheter my sims run or walk? I doubt it's that complex, but what do I know. It very well might. Maybe it's checking broad categoties like the light still being on.
San Myshuno and not just since Eco Living. I have that happen now and then, not often enough to be annoying, but to be noticeable.
Yes, this may be the key here. I also noticed that keeping relationships friendly helps a lot. So it may very well be that it's not my sims' actions at all that trigger the complaining, but that the game is coded to play neighbors who are merely "acquaintainces" as more likely to complain. Case in point: The neighbor who berated my family for just standing in the floor and doing nothing was new. Argh, I wish I knew exactly and wouldn't have to play a guessing game here.
I thought the different floors made specific noises when sims walked on them, didn't they?
I also checked the tuning files, but honestly have no idea what I am reading. But there were several files that dealt with child noise. Several of the occurences I cannot explain indeed involved kids, so maybe my game is glitching a little and interprets every child action as loud play? Although that doesn't explain why the adult vampire mentioned in this thread was yelled at.
Don't know how the game is programmed to react to neighbours' noise. In real life some noises appear louder at night because everything else is quiet. Some sounds don't have to be particularly loud to be heard, but it does depend on the neighbours' tolerance to sounds, I guess.
The relationship might also play a big part in when neighbors complain because he was already on not great terms with the neighbor.