Death by Financial Consulting
Liz:
This particular voluntary pastime hasn't *quite* killed one of my sims yet, but damn, they can get really close. One of my sims in particular is practically addicted to doling out Financial Consulting via the computer and, like some others, will sit there clicking away until on the very verge of fainting/starvation/peeing herself. Then her last shred of self-preservation will kick in, she'll flash the red and panicky "NEED FOOD NAO!" bubble... and then resume her Financial Consulting. For about 4 seconds. Then panic, stop, start again... looping several times before she finally cops a clue.
Is this one of those brilliant EA moves like the fun-less piano? Is she being promised fun or some other satisfaction that's not being delivered, motivating her to sit there for hours in the vain hope of her fun/pizza/shower miraculously arriving at long last? Or have my sims finally become suicidal?
aussieone:
I wish there was a fix to this as I'm having the same issues as you, Liz. Even no autonomous computer mods don't seem to stop this annoyance. I'm torn between letting the morons die or putting computers into inventories, which isn't really much of a solution at all. I have decided not to let any future fortune sims unlock this particular aspiration panel from now on.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Liz on 2008 June 25, 16:26:06
Is this one of those brilliant EA moves like the fun-less piano? Is she being promised fun or some other satisfaction that's not being delivered, motivating her to sit there for hours in the vain hope of her fun/pizza/shower miraculously arriving at long last? Or have my sims finally become suicidal?
Well, given that there's no motive for financial consulting, it is almost certainly a case of false advertising, which is why sims respond that way. I will investigate this matter.
JacquiES:
I have actually started to just get rid of computers in my sim's houses because of things like this. I will see that they are giving the financial consulting and leave them to it, just to find them in the red a bit later because God forbid they actually worry about themselves then some stranger. Same with all the musical instruments and the train set. I am sure there are more, I just can't remember. My sims have been very suicidal since FT.
J. M. Pescado:
There do not appear to be any advertisements at all on Financial Consulting, which makes it a mystery why they EVER do it. More research is ongoing.
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