[ARCHIVED] Routing Issues

Musical Chairs While Eating

I just watched three sims pick up their plates and change their seats at least 8 times while they were sitting at the dining table eating a meal. First one sim picked up his plate and moved next to his sister. Then his sister picked up her plate and moved to sit next to her BFF. Then the BFF picked up his plate and moved to sit next to the brother. This kept repeating. Worse, no one was eating; the were too busy jockeying for position.

My sims have a problem washing dishes. When I moved in the Landgraab house, when told to wash dishes the sims would leave the kitchen with the dish and wash it in another sink, sometimes even going upstairs. There was a sink right by them in the kitchen. It has happened in other houses too.

Sims don't always sit at the table to eat, they walk all over the house, but then leave their dishes all over the house. If I tell a sim to clean up their dish, they walk all over the house picking up dishes, taking forever.

If I have an Urn on an object, like a coffee table or fireplace, and the Urn's ghost haunts the lot the ghost cannot then return to the urn at the appointed time and just hovers in place complaing (about being tired, having to pee, etc.). Once I place the urn on the ground the ghost walks right over to it and dissolves.

The fishing spot next to the picnic area behind the library has had a routing error that has never been fixed since game release.

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Routing issues with cooking & gourmet cooking, but only with recipes that have set amount of servings, such as cakes. I've experienced the issue with two different sims in different households and towns. Both had plenty of kitchen surface space, yet different items/skill levels. Sims will begin the task, but half way through will stop and behave as if blocked. I've tried to move the bowl/cutting board that the sims are using to no avail. (Having experienced my share of issues with The Sims 3, 2, and 1, I'm well aware of saving often; and I tried some other tricks as well. Also, my computer is a gaming system that exceeds the game requirements, and my game is updated without mods or cheats.

Thanks for all you do, Crinrict!
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So my Sims, when they answer the door, will walk outside and (depending on my layout) will walk down nearby stairs or along the decking, away from the visiting Sim in order to greet them. 

I remember this coming up before but I couldn't find it on here, I don't really know what to call this issue!

This is with any Sim I play and is with vanilla Sims with no mods or cc.

Thanks.

Merged with routing issue thread

@Pezmon 

I strongly suspect this has something to do with the one-step ahead prediction and is probably also responsible for the routing issues when preparing food. I believe (but can't positively confirm) that even with autonomy turned off, the game will invisibly queue another action for sims which have been issued commands, and, in order to "intelligently" move to satisfy the issued command and the ghosted command in the shortest possible time, the sim will move towards the ghosted command's target before proceeding with another step in the current command's linked set of actions. A few examples of this are:

1. (this can be verified, and shows there's something a bit wonky with the 1-step ahead prediction) queueing call geological council, then dig first runs the sim up to the dig site, initiates the call, then performs the dig (as opposed to call, run to site, then dig, as would be expected)

2. (this is what I suspect is happening) when doing a food prep, the sim moves towards a distant counter to do part of the food prep; I suspect that there's a ghosted "dance to stereo" to a stereo near the distant counter that's causing the sim to do the chopping at this very distant countertop; unfortunately the prediction isn't smart enough to know that you're going to need to take that food all the way back to the kitchen to keep cooking (and also irritatingly ignores the 'Disable Autonomy' setting in the options)

It's obvious that there *is* one (and exactly one) step ahead prediction, as if you issue a 'greet' command this will halt the sim targeted for greeting if the greet command is the next one in your action queue, but not if you place it further down on the action queue. This kind of prediction could also reasonably account for the whole musical chairs thing as well.

Didnt happen 100% of the time, but, sometimes when going out on a trip with a family member, and if the "main" have to go work while they're still in the public lot, you get sent back home with the other sim, but he cant get inside home, they will display the "cant find path/path blocked" bubble.

and im not sure if this is a pathing issue but sims wont take written books/reward potions that are place on wall shelf even not matter if they're place low/high on the wall.

I have three routing issues that I have noticed only only one of which I have seen above but all 3 have the same issue.

!.  The baby is crying.  Mom is in the room.   I tell her to change its diaper, feed it, whatever.   She waves her arms and says she can't.  I spot 2 kids and a teen heading for the room all wanting to interact with baby.  I have to pause, delete all their queues and quickly tell Mom what to do before unpausing.  And hope I didn't miss someone else in the household who wants to help the baby. (8 person family)

2.  Someone's bladder is in the red.  I send them to the toilet ( or the shower because they are stinky) and they wave their arms and yell .  Oh, my someone else is heading for the same bathroom.  Easier to resolve than #1 since the house has four bathrooms.

#3  Mentioned above. Someone has been skilling for some time and hunger bar is low.  I send her to fridge.   Oh, no, she waves her arms.  3 other hungry sims are also heading for the fridge.  Since their action was autonomous they are actually able to line up and all get their food, since they didn't arrive at the exact same time.  Only the one I directed has to watch

I get sooooo tired of being waved and yelled at. 

oh wait, there is another. #4 A sim, directed or autonomously, started clearing dishes from the table.  I use no sinks, instead use Nano trash. They gather all the dishes from all surfaces, then somewhere before they get to the trashcan they stop and drop the trash.  Then complain about the mess. As does everyone else in the room. I direct them to pick it up.  They take two steps and drop it again. I have had a sim drop the trash 4 times before finally getting it in the trashcan.  I could swear they are smirking the whole time. Or glaring at me.  It can be any age sim doing this.