Adult sims and doll houses.

CelSims

My sims have neither the creative nor the childish trait. Yet they try to drop their queue to go play with the doll house constantly. This is annoying. It's worse with the introduction of being permanently inspired from having a clean floor.
Please for the love of llamas reconsider having this autonomy for none creative none childish sims. And consider in general more carefully before adding yet more environmental emotional buffs to the game.

Lazzial

I don't think this is trait related. I've been having this issue quite a bit lately as well. My sims will stop in the middle of painting, cooking, yoga, and writing to do something else. There just seems to be something really wrong with the game right now.

Bluelle

If you have toddlers and a dollhouse in your household, the toddler will autonomously ask the adult sim to play with the dollhouse with them. Like, the adult will go to the dollhouse because the toddler has sort of forced a 'play with the dollhouse with...' <the adult sim> action. That might be it. If you don't have a toddler on your lot then it's a whole lot more weirder

Monet11

It happens a lot in my games. Adults play with the dollhouse even though there are no toddlers in the game. I have started removing the dollhouse in all the builds I have downloaded. It is super annoying.

inkyviolet

Yessss my sims, even if they are not maternal/paternal/childish at all, are lured by the dollhouse. Frustrated with constantly making them do other stuff. At least I know where to find them

talongirl6

I haven't seen too many adults in my game use the dollhouse. They mostly do it for me when they have the Childish trait. I remember a few times where a Sim would just stop what they were doing though and use the dollhouse without that trait. Lately, all my Sims have been smashing the dollhouses, which is very annoying to deal with sometimes. Like, every Sim just decides to smash it, and it always makes my Childish Sims or the few Child Sims I do use in my games very upset.

CelSims

I forgot about the dollhouse smashing every time they're in a bad mood, that's annoying too!

I put my doll houses in a small room accessed by a pet door as the toddlers can get in but no one else can. This is really a less than ideal solution.

drakharis

CelSims wrote: »

My sims have neither the creative nor the childish trait. Yet they try to drop their queue to go play with the doll house constantly. This is annoying. It's worse with the introduction of being permanently inspired from having a clean floor.
Please for the love of llamas reconsider having this autonomy for none creative none childish sims. And consider in general more carefully before adding yet more environmental emotional buffs to the game.

It bothers me when I have sims who are NOT related to the child in any way or not playing dolls with the children in the household when they lack the childish, family-oriented or creative traits, For example, my sim is friends with a Sage. They come to visit and play with my sim's kid that doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother me because even though neither of them has those traits because they are playing with the child. However, it bothers me when a sim is somebody like Malcolm Landgraab who is friends with my teen sim and he plays with the little sister because he is an evil sim and doesn't have either of the traits where it would make sense for him to play with dolls with a child. I hate it when you have sims who hate children playing dolls with a child when they hate kids.

Yes, I am annoyed with some sims playing with dolls when it doesn't make any sense for them to do so.

kwanzaabot

CelSims wrote: »

I forgot about the dollhouse smashing every time they're in a bad mood, that's annoying too!

I put my doll houses in a small room accessed by a pet door as the toddlers can get in but no one else can. This is really a less than ideal solution.

I really think smashing dollhouses, kicking gnomes, trash cans, etc should really be something that Sims only autonomously do if they have the Hot-Headed or Uncontrolled Emotions traits, or if they have poor Emotional Control.

It doesn't make sense that every Sim in a bad mood gets violent.

Kironide

I have experienced a similar obsessiveness in my games with modelling clay. It's enormously frustrating, so I can sympathise.

Cangwen

It bugs me that toddler and children can make adults go play with them without saying a world. It would be nice if the toddler/child would ask first. Last I checked, communication was a thing.

ncisGibbs02

Monet11 wrote: »

It happens a lot in my games. Adults play with the dollhouse even though there are no toddlers in the game. I have started removing the dollhouse in all the builds I have downloaded. It is super annoying.

I found removing the dollhouse helped. I always made a kids room ready for expanding but the adults wouldn’t stop randomly going over and playing.
Now my Sims stand about for ages before doing anything I ask. It’s like ‘what do I do now the dollhouse is gone?’. So annoying!

inkyviolet

Kironide wrote: »

I have experienced a similar obsessiveness in my games with modelling clay. It's enormously frustrating, so I can sympathise.

Yessss .... the clay obsession drives me nuts!!!!

Never notice teens going near the dollhouses. Maybe they have their hands full with clay

Kironide

inkyviolet wrote: »

Kironide wrote: »

I have experienced a similar obsessiveness in my games with modelling clay. It's enormously frustrating, so I can sympathise.

Yessss .... the clay obsession drives me nuts!!!!

Never notice teens going near the dollhouses. Maybe they have their hands full with clay

Thanks for the chuckle