The Pause that Annoys
friendlyquark:
Is anyone else irritated by the long pause Sims have before they enter the shower? They stand there for like fifteen to 20 Sim minutes staring at the shower wasting time when I want them to get ready for work/school whatever. Not to mention how long it takes for them to shit, shower and shave before they can go downstairs for breakfast. It does not take me 2 hours to get ready for the day! Are the EAxis guys just that slow and lazy? I have taken to getting them showered the night before so I can get them up in the morning, but just cooking breakfast can take an hour! Making waffles takes an hour? Have you no Eggos in this world? I find the time lengths for activities in the Sims3 are still just as annoying as they were in the last two versions. I do not grok the logic here.
I have searched the internet looking for a fix for this without luck. Aside from speeding up studying times, or lengthening the time it takes to eat a meal, temporal issues seems unaddressed. As an illiterate in coding, is this a difficult fix? Could I destroy my game quite nicely by trying to figure out how to do that, or is it something even I could manage without creating a BFBVFS?
sewinglady:
Apparently the coders are all like my hubby who gets up an extra hour early so he can read the paper and dink on the interwebs before he goes off to work...
I have whoever is the primary 'chef' in the house prepare breakfast meals the previous day to cut down on food prep time in the morning. Showers and baths night before helps, too. In large households, I also try to get their pixelated tushies out of bed 3 hours before they must leave for work or school. Reason for this is the odd queue crap that happens while they head for the fridge - too many queued for the fridge and some will drop the action. So large households require an awful lot of micro-managing in the mornings.
I have similar 'stalling' in my game - while cooking, showering, etc. and have been told it's my game...as others don't seem to have this. I've tried a lot of things to get rid of it. I've been able to minimize it for the most part. I notice that it is at it's worst when the mail delivery person enters the lot. Again, it's probably just my borkenated game.
El Adamo:
In some cases this could be accurate. For example, I'm supposed to be to work in 40 minutes, which means I should be showering right now, but instead I'm sitting in front of the computer reading these posts.
What would be cool would be a "hooker-bath" addon, so a sim could achieve at least partial cleanliness right out of the sink if they're in the hurry.
Sparks:
My Sims pause constantly. While just walking through their house, they often freeze for a second or two (mid-walk), but I figured this was because of graphical lighting and shadows needing to be drawn. Same with any time they need to change clothing. I always though it was the game being retarded and having to cycle through all of my Sims clothing, and choosing which clothing they'll wear after they shower. They're always late to the carpool because they stand there for 45 minutes switching into career clothing. I've changed my settings around a lot and this one issue is one that I cannot resolve.
J. M. Pescado:
This is an issue with the game choosing to preserve real-time behavior over atomic behavior. If your sims have frozen during a uniform change, it is because their uniform has to be loaded into the game and, rather than preserving game-behavior atomicity, it chooses to keep the gameflow smooth, so instead of halting the game to perform the loading, the game just keeps running while one sim is stalled. To avoid this, pause the game when you notice it happening so that the game can finish loading without burning gametime.
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