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Please: Remove the "Idle Chat"!
emere
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The "Idle chat" is when a NPC starts a chat with any sims (your played sims or another NPC). I know many simmers know what I'm talking about. Many of them use this definition: Idle Chat. I do not like this feature, it was added at some point. I was waiting for EA-Maxis team to fix it or remove it! But nothing. I'm tired of it and with DU I really had enough. Here are some of the issues with this Idle Chat:
1. The idle chat is useless, your sims do not make acquataince of the sims who start this empty chat, it will not fill your social needs.
2. Worst: the idle chat breaks your action queu. If you are at a huge map (Sulani, Windenburg, Uni maps) and your sim is target for a idle chat, well, go and make you a cup of coffee because even if you cancel the action it will take some sims minutes to be actually canceled. Usually the chating sim is at the most distant point from your sim.
3. At huge maps the idle chat is the culprit of some lag issues and weird glitches (Sulani, wink, wink!)
4. At University idle chat is a culprit for your sims going late to their classes. Worst: if your sims try to do their work a roommate is ready to start the idle chat! (OMG even the librarians are doing this).
5. At Foxbury (DU) idle chat is a culprit for the glitchy stairs!
6. Are your sims on a date! Forget about it, the idle chat will ruin the event.
7. Idle chat is an infamous net at bars and nightclubs: I saw up to 10 sims trapped in this idle chat in front of the DJ or the barman. This sims do not do anything but bla bla bla chat, they do not dance, listen to music, drink their beverages or use any other stuff that is at the lot. Worst: if the barman or any sim needs to go out, bam! all the trapped sims are reset (T shape), they throw their drinks or look like they are lost. As I'm playing Sims 4 since day one I know this lots were really fun before, and sims always, ALWAYS, used all the stuff before the idle chat feature.
All of these are some examples, they are many features that are interrupted because of the idle chat. I want to believe this feature was implemented to give "more life" to the game. It is not working! This feature is killing the gameplay.
Please, Ea-Maxis, anyone, fix it, lower it down, but if this is not possible just remove the Idle Chat from Sims 4.
Thanks.
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I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
Ha'aheo, e hoʻomau i kō kāua aloha, kau a kau.
Thanks!
I completely agree on the issue where sims want to idle chat with you from a mile away though... if closing the conversation by clicking on it in the lower left does not work, then if you play with testingcheats on, you can try shift-clicking your sim and click reset, that will solve most issues where the game locks your sim from doing anything.
I don't mind regular idle chatter in a public space where it would be normal, as I find that pretty natural and immersive. I'm not a control freak. It's just a few specific situations that bother me.
A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear
Time enjoyed is never time wasted
Other times I'm trying to set up poses for my storyline. Idle chat idle chat.
I don't think they should take it away entirely but tone it down. That's why I feel like townies have no life. They just want to chat which dominates everything else. It just needs balance. I might download that mod but I try to keep mods and cc to a minimum to avoid problems and last exceptions. So that's annoying 😔
And I've had the group T-pose reset a few times in my dorm as well. The idle chatting just escalates until it's out of control.
Sure, it might be good to add new random animations for them. That might make the game feel a bit fresher. I don't mind some chat though.
Same here, and I combine it with roBurky’s meaningful stories which has a major effect on making moodlets more realistic and my sims feel more real to me now.
Same and I have Slice of Life as well. All these mods make the game feel more realistic and the sims much more interesting to watch.
I also use SOL, and I love it!
A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear
Time enjoyed is never time wasted
Not me. I love the randomness of autonomy in the game. I can't imagine playing without it.
Not entirely. What I want is for npcs and sims I'm not playing to have a life. I want to see them doing activites,playing together,just doing things in the background according to where you are. What I get is sims barely doing much of anything except walking around and trying to chat in my ear constantly. To the point of annoyance. It can't be just me right?
Actually the More Personality mod stops the idle chatter which is replaced by more autonomous action, so sims actually do more stuff of their own accord and so you end up with more random quirkiness in your game. It’s great!
It's hard. I want that livelihood happening. But I want it to be different than it is.