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They really are dumb as a bag of hammers.
Jalida
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Wow, now that I've put my sim in a large house, they really start to show just how dumb they really are.
My sim got burgled last night, then I noticed he was getting fat. I put him on the treadmill, he works out for a while, gets off the treadmill and goes to the kitchen to eat.
So far so good, all seems intelligent enough.
As he's sitting at the dining room table eating like a hog, he gets the toilet icon come up in the upper left corner of the screen. He finishes eating, puts away his dirty dishes, walks off to one of the farthest rooms in the house to use the toilet. (what?), then gets the shower icon in the upper left corner of the screen. He's sitting on the toilet RIGHT NEXT TO A SHOWER of the same quality as the rest of the showers in the house. SO what does he do? He gets up from the toilet, ignores the shower right in front of him, and walks to the other side of the house and uses the shower over there. Seriously, that's just dumb.
My sim got burgled last night, then I noticed he was getting fat. I put him on the treadmill, he works out for a while, gets off the treadmill and goes to the kitchen to eat.
So far so good, all seems intelligent enough.
As he's sitting at the dining room table eating like a hog, he gets the toilet icon come up in the upper left corner of the screen. He finishes eating, puts away his dirty dishes, walks off to one of the farthest rooms in the house to use the toilet. (what?), then gets the shower icon in the upper left corner of the screen. He's sitting on the toilet RIGHT NEXT TO A SHOWER of the same quality as the rest of the showers in the house. SO what does he do? He gets up from the toilet, ignores the shower right in front of him, and walks to the other side of the house and uses the shower over there. Seriously, that's just dumb.
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Let them do what they want for 5 minutes and who knows what will happen!
One time i sent my Sim off to work, only to find her hours later in the middle of the town insulting someone random AND missing work.
I just stopped playing for the night because my Sims were acting so dumb. xD
And the baby wouldn't stop crying @_@
One would think the walking would do him good but it hasn't done anything so far, after a long time on the treadmill and walking through the house and he's still as pudgy as he was when he woke up this morning. It's time for the drastic closet diet when he gets home from work if he hasn't worked it off at work.
If I wanted a pudgy sim in my world, I'd have created one.
I think they are just too dumb for any real life simulation still.
I believe what would help would be if we could choose which is there bed (in multiple bedroom houses) and which is there bathroom etc.
Then they could always use the other facilities if they needed to, but in general they would sleep in their own beds, and use their own facilities instead of walking around the house from one room to another to use the facilities or turn on stereos then walk out of the rooms, to go watch a poorer quality television set in a room that can only be accessed by walking out the front door of the house and then into another door to get nto the spare room.
Yup, dumb as a sack full of hammers at the moment. Perhaps they can improve it though. I've read that the awseome mod supposedly improves on one aspect like this, but it just locks up the game from starting for me.
I completely understand what you mean, in my case the icon 'read something' pops up and instead on sitting in the most comfortable armchair right next to the bookcase he's going to sit on the bar stool in the completely remote part of the house. :?:
Edit, mgdk89 got it before me!
Not really. Many times the Sims will go longer distances to do things because their other needs are maxed out and this is to absorb time so they don't just stand around in one place.
I've noticed this as I improve living luxuries of my Sims they have more and more time just to stand around and do nothing. Giving them the lifetime rewards of no longer needing to shower, eat, use the toilet as much also gives them a lot more standing around time.
I had hoped EA/programmers would have put in automatic call for a party for the Sims when they have nothing they need to do. It's pretty sad when they are maxed out in needs all they do is stand around or goto the mirror and pick their noses. It's as bad as punch me punch you in TS2.
Once you get all the kewl content (which their isn't much of) there's nothing much else to watch them do. It become repetitive really. Either goto work, go fishing, paint a picture, write a novel or throw a party. blahzae boring. I didn't realize how boring life really was until I played TS3. lol
It's like she wanted that negative moodlet.
No, these were not teh first toilets or showers or televisions put in the house, they were in the middle of the roster of stuff put in the house.
It's something in the coding that makes them decide which toilet to use, or which tv to use, and it's lacking in my opinion.
Alleviate it by allowing me to assign my sim a bed, tv, toilet, shower etc, and then use the other emergency facilities if they are desperately needed and are close enough by that it would alleviate some foul mood or situation. I think that might at least make them appear a bit smarter than a sack of hammers.
For me though, I find it more interesting to give them full autonomy when they are around other Sims rather than alone, especially if they have some interesting negative traits.
On a side note, when I installed AwesomeMod on a friends computer a while back, she ran into that same issue of crashing at startup, but I got around it by doing a couple of the suggested fixes for that over on their site. Have you tried fiddling with some of the stuff they suggest there to get it working?
My other Sim in the same neighborhood is a Vice President in the Business career. You'd think this guy might be smart? Maybe?
No.
I have to make sure I'm playing his house every morning at 6:00 to make sure he eats and uses the bathroom before he goes to work. Then I can switch to my novelist household for a while, but I know that I'd better switch back to the Vice President's house by 3:00 PM when he gets home. Otherwise, he will walk into his house and stare at the wall. That's it. That's all he's capable of doing on his own. If I don't switch back into his house by evening to send him to bed when he's exhausted (from a busy day of staring at the wall), he'll stand there and stare at the wall all bloody night long instead of going to bed.
Just like kids, some Sims just require more supervision than others.