[ARCHIVED] [DU] [CD] Pets/TV/Basketball/ .. distracting from work stations

This seems to be the same as https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-TV-interrupts-several-interactions/td-p/8479593/ . Can you click "Me Too" there?

@kriggin1 

I just did some testing in my household with robotics stations in the same room. (Across from each other.) I tested with two of the sims in the household - one (the man) has max skills in robotics, the other (the woman) had no skills in robotics. I ran this test through two cycles of 'tinkering' at the workstation for both of them, then with one cycle of the man tinkering alone.

I have all packs and play on Mac. No Mods or CC

Several observations:

• In both tests they both finished the full cycle of the task to tinker.
• They both had 2-3 times that they paused and just stood there for several sims minutes, then continued.
• There is a TV in the room (which was off the entire time). Neither ever stopped and turned it on.
• In the first test they began chatting a bit about 3/4 through the task, but continued the task (tinkering) until the task cycle ended.
• In the second test neither talked to the other until the woman finished her tinkering task a brief time before the man was done and began to talk to him. He briefly responded and went back to tinkering until the tinkering task time had completed, then they chatted.
• I tried again with just the man at the workstation and with the tinkering task and with 'watch TV' in his queue (the TV was off). He did not do the TV watching until the tinkering task had completed.

So I was unable to reproduce your issue. Are there factors that you think were different that may produce it in my game? What are the traits and skills of your sim? Do you have one of those super nice TVs with very high fun ratings? Anything with a super high fun rating is super distracting... a lot. Did you try removing the TV from the room?

Did your sim get dazed? They will stop if they get dazed working at the computer station... as they need to recover. If they work at it while dazed they can get electrocuted. If you have them make a robotic arm this will happen much less ( with the robotic arm on.)

Tinkering and a view of the room layout. TV is viewable from the stations, as I have had them watch from there before to multi-task:

Woman chatting when she finished her tinkering cycle first:

There's some great information about the workstation and robotics at this link: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/skills/discoveruniversity/robotics/

I am currently having this problem on xbox one