wut EPs are teh bestest?
Grugly:
Figures. You train the pets to piss in a box, and you train the Sims to piss in a toilet... the pets remember, the Sims forget. I guess it's kind of telling that Sims display the exact same urinary behaviour whether or not they get the 'training.'
Then again, since you don't control the animals, it's not so irritating that they rush off to the box without your input... if the Sims exhibited similar behaviour I'm not sure I'd be impressed. They're obsessed with their pee enough as it is.
Their AI really is atrocious though... without Awesomeware, they can get caught in energy/hunger failure loops where they slam their faces into their dinner over and over until they die of a brain hemorrhage. The hidden ninth motive is the strongest of all - the need to complain endlessly in order to waste time that could be better spent correcting the problem.
[edited to remove myself from the recursive "which is funny" loop]
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Grugly on 2009 April 03, 12:32:09
Then again, since you don't control the animals, it's not so irritating that they rush off to the box without your input... if the Sims exhibited similar behaviour I'm not sure I'd be impressed. They're obsessed with their pee enough as it is.
Maybe YOU don't. It's not as if EAxis didn't provide us with the opportunity to do so, and most of us do. The thing is, I don't HAVE to control the animals. If I don't spend every moment of my time directing the cats to do something, they don't self-destruct or do stupid shit. Sims, however, will quickly find something obnoxious, purposeless, and disruptive to be doing. Pets can be trained not to do those things. Sims can't, they never learn. The pets are smarter than the sims are.
Grugly:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 April 03, 12:50:24
Maybe YOU don't. It's not as if EAxis didn't provide us with the opportunity to do so, and most of us do.
Yeah, I figured you'd bring that up. The insanity of toddlers and pets is probably the only dark spot I've left in my game after all the cheats and FFS hacks. Screaming babies and pets eating couches serve to remind me of how lucky I am to not have Sims obsessing over turning off their loved ones' computers, bawling about route failures, getting creepy phone calls when they watch television or serve dinner, and waking up at two in the morning to stare out the window at the rain. A little chaos I can live with, but only when it's chaos the idiots who programmed the game intended; the chaos resulting from their ineptitude, the chaos of a game that isn't working correctly, that's not something I'm okay with. Thankfully you've fixed pretty much every dealbreaking example of that already.
It certainly is bizarre that the pets have their shit together when the Sims do not. Like you said, you can train the pets not to do their disruptive behaviours, but the disruptive behaviour of Sims is probably an unintentional side-effect of lousy/lazy programmers. When pets scratch the couch, it's because they haven't been trained not to; when Sims turn on the television in someone's bedroom while they're sleeping or scream at you when they can't autonomously cook a single plate of food because you've directed someone to cook for the entire family, it's because they have no spatial awareness and their code doesn't allow for any sort of self-sufficient undisruptive SENTIENT existence.
Inge:
What happened to the grammar police? It should be "betterer" not "bestest"
jolrei:
Quote from: Inge on 2009 April 03, 14:05:44
What happened to the grammar police? It should be "betterer" not "bestest"
No, it should not. "Betterer" suggests a kompartiv, as in betterer in komparsun to wut. "Bestest" implies which EPs are the stand alone faivrits measured by kwalitti and overall enjoi mint.
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