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Braxien
Seasoned Hotshot
6 years ago
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[FIXED] Repetitive Behavior: Ah-ha! Moments

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.63.134.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Just play the Sims
What happens when the bug occurs? Post Eco-Living roll out, all the Sims in my played household repeatedly and obsessively have "Ah-ha!" moments. That is they have the animation where they stick their finger in the air in a "Eureka!" moment as if having the best idea ever. They never did this before unless they were scientists having a discovery. It happens at all ages and all of Sims do it (none of them are scientists). It happens, on average, about every few minutes.
What do you expect to see? Only having this animation when they have an idea.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. After installation of Eco-Living.

It's slightly blocked by the male Sim, but in this screenshot you can see the female Sim doing it.

Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    4 years ago

    Noticed some Sims doing more of the “A-ha!” or “Eureka!” animations while not being in a Scientist Career? With this update, the “A-ha!” moment doesn’t happen as frequently if your Sims are not in the Scientist Career (they will still do it due to Environment Score, but not as frequently). Though, in all honesty, if a Sim has an epiphany of some kind, shouldn’t they exclaim: “Eureka!”? Discuss.

    Fixed in Patch 1.82.99/1.50

    If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

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  • As others in this thread have mentioned, I've noticed an excess of emotive animations, not just the "ah ha" moments.  Almost every time I give my sims a command, they'll briefly move then stop, sigh, mutter something and then perform the action.  Every time they travel to a new lot, they have some kind of pensive / emotive moment.  Quite often they will stop in the middle of doing something, like studying or cooking, to sigh and emote.  When initiating conversation with friends and family, sims will almost always hug first.  This is especially annoying when they're all eating together.  They will get up, grab their plates, walk over to each other and hug before continuing their conversation.  I usually have to command my active sims to sit down again.  An occasional moment to ponder the mystery of life is okay but they already take at least a sim hour to do the simplest of tasks, so adding in these pensive / emotive moments takes away even more precious sim time.  Thanks to everyone for sharing and thanks to those working on a resolution.  I appreciate your time and consideration. 

    Update: One thing I forgot to mention but was reminded of just now while playing.  Sims emote a lot while eating.  They smell the food a number of times and ponder about some other awesome thing a few times.  Speaking of the smelling of foods, I've noticed that I can't leave any food out (not even the empty plates), because the sims will emphatically smell it every few sim minutes.  It's incredibly annoying.

  • Braxien's avatar
    Braxien
    Seasoned Hotshot
    4 years ago

    It disappeared for me but now seems to be back post-patch. So. Annoying.

  • xochiquetzl_xkvn's avatar
    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    I'd noticed this, too, but wasn't annoyed enough to check the bug report forum.  I'm glad to see it on the laundry list, though!

    Me: Go to bed.

    Sim:  AH-HA!

    Me:  Yes, ah-ha, go to bed.

    Sim:  *trudges exhaustedly to bed, then pauses by the side of the bed* AH-HA!

    Me: Yes, that's your bed, you found it! good job! get in it and sleep already, sheesh!

  • daikoyu's avatar
    daikoyu
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    I just hope we don’t need to start a new save game as it was with the bored idle. I hope this fix is retro-active. Generally, I don’t understand why we have so much idle. It was meant as filler if your sims nothing have to do, but since season(I think thermostat started all this nonsense) IDLE plays with moodlets. This cost time and is annoying if you ask me.

  • xochiquetzl_xkvn's avatar
    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    Yeah, my understanding was that idles were for if they had nothing to do, or if what they had to do involved another Sim and they were waiting for the other Sim to do something. If my Sim is alone in the house with sleeping toddlers and cats, she probably shouldn't "AH-HA!" twice when I've asked her to do something (before walking to the bed, and after walking to the bed but before actually getting into it, to use my above example).

    Like, it's mildly infuriating when they do an idle animation right after you tell them to do something but I do understand the "they're waiting for someone else to do something and are playing an idle animation while waiting" thing, no matter how irritating it might be to me (NO "AH-HA!" OBEY ME!). I just feel like I see this when there's no reason for her to be waiting for someone else because she's alone in the house with sleeping pets or whatever.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    Noticed some Sims doing more of the “A-ha!” or “Eureka!” animations while not being in a Scientist Career? With this update, the “A-ha!” moment doesn’t happen as frequently if your Sims are not in the Scientist Career (they will still do it due to Environment Score, but not as frequently). Though, in all honesty, if a Sim has an epiphany of some kind, shouldn’t they exclaim: “Eureka!”? Discuss.

    Fixed in Patch 1.82.99/1.50

    If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

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