Frustrated with Sims just standing in place in droves whining about motives
Motoki:
I've had this problem for some time now where all they do is stand in crowds on various lots and whine about their motives but otherwise take no actions other than maybe occasionally pass out. My game does it with Awesome mod, it does it with Indie Stone, it does it with no mods.
Other people talk about sims doing this that and the other thing in their neighborhoods so is my neighborhood just screwed up or something? I'm really tired of it and nothing I have tried has helped. >:( I tried resetting them and it does no good, I cure them with the moodlet soother and it just temporarily shuts up the whining. I purged all the homeless bums etc. No change.
Should I just pack up my family and move to a new town?
Roflganger:
What do you have Free Will set to? I've never turned it down, so I don't know if that's the answer, but your problem is not anything I've ever seen. They may not be the most exciting, but in my game they talk to each other, read books, have picnics, enter and exit recreational rabbitholes, etc.
Motoki:
It's set to high free will. I just tried turned it off, then running the game for a couple of minutes with it off, then turning it back on again just to see if it jogs anything but I doubt it.
I seem to vaguely recall sims having picnics and what not when I very first started playing the game in Sunset Valley before I switched to Riverview so either a mod borked something up or my neighborhood is just hosed. :-\
Kerryee:
My freewill is Medium, and I've never had a problem. I see Sims jogging, swinging in the park, playing chess, etc. I've even seen a fight downtown in front of the Library. And I have THE minimum system requirements for my game, so I don't know what it could be. :-\
Gastfyr:
My sims do stuff...sometimes. I mean, they play chess, grill endless platters of burned food that they drop everywhere, sit on parkbenches, use the toilet, have a drink at the bar, pass out repeatedly from fear of ghosts at the graveyard, and sometimes do something as interesting as chat with one another, jog, use a computer, or even fish! I have seen way too much standing around whining about motives, but while I have seen one or two pee themselves, I have never witnessed a sim pass out on a com lot (though I did have a sim I was visting pass out on her own living room floor once :o I mean, the bed was like 3 steps away in the next room!).
I wish there was some way to prompt sims to do more interesting stuff more often. Mostly, they do just stand or sit like zombies for hours on end thinking about how much fun they are having or how lovely the park is. Erg. Why can't there be MOAR socalizing? And instead of seeds dissapearing for no reason at all, why can't sims autonomously pick them up? Do they even try to catch beetles or butterflies? Cathing butter/fireflies was all they ever wanted to do in TS2 Seasons...
Hell, I don't want them messing with the Science Facility Omni Plant that I've fed something, but picking a few apples in the park to eat or whatever would make sense if the sim was a Green Thumb, Loves the Outdoors, or just plain hungry at the time. It would be insanely wonderful if sims with gardens would actually harvest thier own stuff sometimes instead of just watering it and then standing there staring into space while my playable picks it all under thier oblivious noses. And if a sim is a Green Thumb and is not set up with a garden, couldn't they aquire something plantable and maybe start their own little garden by themselves? What the hell is the point of a sim having a trait if they refuse to act on it? Couldn't Bookworms autonomously write a book (since random titles are supplied by the game anyway)? Couldn't Genius sims take it uppon themselves to at least play chess in the park even if thier fun was high instead of just standing thier like buffons? If I go to a com lot with an easel, I'd like to see artistic sims painting from time to time. And if I meet a sim at the art gallery who is admiring a statue, and stirke up a conversation about art, I simply find it mind-blowing innane that he freaks out at me because he "can't stand art"...what the hell are you doing at an art gallery then, moron? Overall, it irritates me to no end that some of the most potentially interesting traits have absolutely no effect whatsoever if assigned to a non-playable.
Maybe I'm asking too much with all of that, but mainly I just don't want some random townie whining at ME about some motive they're too stupid to figure out how to deal with on thier own. I know they did this is TS2 as well, but it sucked then too. I am not responsible for you and I can't do anything about your stupid motives! Deal with it or drop dead; just don't freaking whine at me.
edited because my spelling sux.
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