Bathroom Controller: In Soviet Russia, Bathroom Uses You!
ZephyrZodiac:
Yes, I'm certain, they freeze and stand there, then start to go jittery, and the icon does too. It's usually, though not always, after taking a shower, and it's not a new mesh, although sometimes it's a recolour. It seems to be the cheap shower, haven't tried with the expensive one as so far these sims can't afford it.
J. M. Pescado:
Does this happen every time you queue two people to one bathroom, or is there a specific set of circumstances this happens in?
jsalemi:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 June 08, 11:03:01
What are you having them do at the time? That's definitely not part of any macro.
In most cases, nothing -- i didn't have anything queued up after they got back from class. They would stand around by the portal for a few sim minutes, the BUY icon would pop up, and they'd run to the bathroom, even with almost full bladders. And I saw it happen in some houses, too, when a sim comes home from work and doesn't have anything in the queue. The common thread seems to be an empty queue.
J. M. Pescado:
Well, it's obviously not seek mode, so I'm guessing the sim decided to putz with the bathroom on its own, probably for lack of anything else to do, and promptly fell under the Bathroom Uses You influence for processing. This is thus intended: Sims are not autonomously allowed to use bathroom objects without proper check-in procedures.
jsalemi:
Yea, but this is very recent behavior where it's so dominant its obvious. In the past, sims with nothing in their queue would do other autonomous things like listen to their mp3 players, go eat, or do some skilling task using an object that's closer to them than the bathroom (i.e., telescope, chess board) -- anything but run to the bathroom with nearly full bladders and high hygene scores. I do play with free will on, but I also make sure to turn Power Idle on for every sim so they do something generally useful if I'm tied up elsewhere.
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