Okay so I've been playing TS3 for a week or two now and I'm noticing a lack of autonomy with regards to sims interacting with each other. I have the settings with full autonomy on so it's not my settings. Is this just how it's meant to be in TS3? I didn't play the game much when it was the current sims game due to not having a powerful enough PC so I don't really have much experience with it.
I'm playing a small family. Both parents will autonomously take care of their toddler but when it comes to interacting with each other there doesn't seem to be much of it at all. They always choose to do other things when I leave them to their own devices such as painting, playing on the computer, watching tv.
I've been playing TS4 for a while and the sims are always interacting with each other. I kind of miss it when I play TS3. Is this normal or is something weird with my game?
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(Oops hit post to soon.) Loner sims will stay to themselves. Friendly sims will be friendly. A lot of it depends on character traits too. Sims in sims 3 stay true to their character.
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Oh that's might explain it. One of my sims does have the loner trait. I never even thought about that. Ty so much.
Generally I like to initiate games or activities that I can invite other sims to do (pool, gnubb, dancing, hanging out in a hot tub, dominos, etc.) to make it a little less boring. Then again I'm mostly in this for the screenshots.
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My loners or shy sims don't tend to initiate any interactions, though they will respond if another sim approaches them. I also use auto romance mods like Zumi, because I like my sims to just get on with it, rather than me having to direct every second of their lives.
ZeeGee is right, TS3 sims do stay true to their traits. Such as party animal sims being the ones you will find quite often at clubs or bars, or Inappropriate + hot headed picking fights in the park etc.
Apart from the Dislikes Children trait. I've known some of my sims with that trait who quite happily have children, and it isn't really until the babies get to childhood age, that the parent begins to shoo them away.
I mostly like negative traits, I don't like perfect sunshine and rainbow games, but that one makes me feel a little bad for the kiddie sims, so if I notice a sim I like has grown up with it, I will sometimes change it.
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I did a asylum challenge (you play with 8 insane/erratic sims, only controling one) once, in Sims 3 and Sims 4, trying to make them as similar as possible (traits and looks). The Sims 3 Sims usually ran off doing things based on their traits, interacting only when their social was low. The Sims 4 Sims always hung together chatting all the time, doing little else.
If you want your Sims 3 Sims to interact more, it helps, if there is not much to do for them - meaning, no pc, no television or other fun stuff. They will do a lot more with each other.
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My family is kind of new. I made the female sim and had her build a romantic relationship with one of the random sims that lives in the same world as her. The got married and had a child. I guess by now their relationship is a good level. Maybe it's just the loner trait affecting things.
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It's funny that you mention the Frio's...
Connor is the one that I had my sim marry. He still rarely ever talks to his wife autonomously but the kids get a lot of attention from him just like you mention above. It doesn't bother me anymore though as I just think it's his personality. He would rather spend his leisure time reading books or doing some other activity and that's fine. They still have a great relationship and that's all I really want for them.
Edit to add: LOL I just remembered how much Connor likes to read!
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its normal for sims 3 thats one of the reasons I like sims 4 but sims 3 also has a lot of fun stuff 4 doesn't have
I just can’t deal with all the issues in the Sims 4 anymore. It looks pretty but game play quality is just not there. I find that the Sims in the Sims 3 function a lot better over all and I prefer it for that reason.