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Re: Sims shower constantly...

@inmyeye 

Ok, First thing, let's make sure you are using the latest version of MCCC.  Should be 7.3.1 for most people.  If you have Legacy, then it should be 6.6.0.  There was a post not too long ago where some oddball issues were caused by not having the latest version. 

Next thing.  If you only have 5 options on a bookshelf, then you must not have all packs.  There is one for butlers (I forget what pack added that) and another couple for ghosts (one of those is for pets) and a donate option that comes from Get Famous.  I have all packs and my bookshelves show 9 things you can turn off.  I only have 4 of them turned off via tuner (2 Read Something and the 2 Browse Books).  I do not have the showering issue.  Obsessive behaviors do seem to vary from household to household in my main save.  Right now, it's talk to plants in the garden for me.  In another it was the treadmill.  So I would suggest you play a different household for awhile to see if it is happening in other households or in just the one.    

The thing with using the MCCC tuner option is that whenever you disable something, the sims will find something else to do that can be more annoying.  So turning off one thing just leads to something else that sims will be obsessive about and you turn that off and they find another.  The list goes on.  I went through that and by the time I was done, I had so much shut off, it might have just been easier to shut off autonomy altogether.  I ended up going back to default and now have only a few things shut off.  And I live with the rest.  

Another thing about tuner, is that it won't shut off everything either.  It was that way all along but especially since EL.  There is a lot of sim behavior that MCCC just can't change.  Things like the hidden thirst motive that keeps sims breaking the queues to get a drink.  Also the EL NAP behaviors don't seem to be controllable by tuner.  And the list goes on.

Since your problem seems to go away for a while after you remove the tuner file but reappears when you turn those options off again, have you tried turning them off one at the time and playing a while before turning off the next one, rinse and repeat.  It might be that only one of the options causes the problem and you just have to leave that one on.

Another thing you can try is this since you use cc and mods.  I have found a lot of problems with my game in the past has been caused by adding and deleting cc, mods, etc.  So what I have found that seems to work for many of those is deleting the localthumbcache.package file, especially if you add or delete a large amount of cc at one time.  The game will generate a new one the next time you play.  Only thing you will notice is that it will take awhile for all the thumbnails to regenerate the next time you go ingame.  Doesn't hurt anything and I have found that a lot of things seem to fix themselves when I do that.  So my advice is if you haven't deleted it since the last pack, give it a go and see if that helps any.

Hope this helps.

7 Replies

  • inmyeye's avatar
    inmyeye
    New Hotshot
    5 years ago

    @CGrant56...Thanks for the response. Yes I have the latest version of MCCC. Everything you mentioned I have done. Like I said above I just wanted to put this out there and see if someone thought of something I didn't. I have solved the problem at least temporarily. I found that if I turn off autonomy for the bookshelf (and I'm only running base game, get together, and get famous) the constant showering issue starts. If I enabled the autonomy for the bookshelf the showering issue stops. How and why it is related to the "bookshelf" remains a mystery. For the time being I guess that is a good as it gets. I do know that it started after the "Eco" patch. Prior to that I never had this issue.(By the way, LittleMsSam has a great gardening mod that will stop the "talk to plant" issue. I also had a sim who wanted to "talk to plant" constantly. I have tested the mod for two weeks with no issues)

  • Wholesome_Goth's avatar
    Wholesome_Goth
    Rising Veteran
    5 years ago

    I don't remember if I saw an increase in showering sims after that update, but I did notice that some of my sims did not want to finish the task of showering, even when I had instructed them to. They got in, and then a second or two later they got out. 

    On A side note:

    Another thing I seemed to notice after the Eco update was an increase in sims walking through walls and a general almost acting like a ghost. By "ghost" I mean it as one moment they are in one spot and the next teleporting (for lack of a better word) to another place before suddenly returning to the original spot. I mean there has always been the occasional sim walking through a wall but this was a different  level of occurrence.

    I don't know if the original poster of this post has encountered the things I mentioned, but thought to mention them anyway since I only noticed them after the same update originally mentioned.

    Edited to add: I use not any mods or cc

  • inmyeye's avatar
    inmyeye
    New Hotshot
    5 years ago

    @Wholesome_Goth 

    Yes even though I do not have Eco, I have noticed my sims "walking" through various objects and quick "teleporting" almost like a bounce and then back. The other thing I noticed is my sims standing in front of the fridge eating again. They block other sims trying to get food and I have to FORCE them to sit down. Also, and maybe it's just me, but my "commands" to the sims to do certain tasks are "dropping" quite often. It seems that issues that had been taken care of are back. Needless to say I'm not to happy with that patch.