@Saihyou"Sims have the attention span of a squirrel hopped up on speed."
I've never had any mods or CC, and my Sims do seem to prioritize player-assigned tasks over the ones they get autonomously, but, yeah, in an eight Sim household, it is a bit like herding kittens... or juvenile "squirrels hopped up on speed."
Thank you so much for that description of it.
Edited to add: For some reason, whenever a new pack is added, the pack action is tuned to happen way too often. I recall people complaining about knitting being an obsession when that pack first came out. The Bust the Dust kit is probably the same thing all over again. So glad I didn't buy that, and I really don't want cutesy/creepy dust bunnies or sparkles on my floors.
@stjmkThe priority of player assigned tasks used to be higher, but as time goes on the past months it just gets worse and worse. And yeah, the whole dust kit... it's even worse with children. When the floor sparkles, they're often inspired, and for some reason being inspired makes them exponentially more prone to "making a mess" because it's their "art"? I mean... we have like 300 recolors of the children's drawing table, but no, inspiration only makes them misbehave I guess?
He's actually entirely ignored the drawing table since the kit! I've seen one make a mess, stop to do something else for 4 seconds, make a mess... it just continues on until I intervene or they sleep! Parenting discipline does no good, but I'm not surprised there. Oh yeah, he does use the doll house, but he uses it to force "Play dolls with" interactions on other Sims all the time, even more robbery of control and interruptions of tasks! I have a feeling some of this wasn't very well thought out... just a hunch.
I’ve noticed it particularly with cooking. I’ll instruct a sim to cook and they will get the ingredients out and will then stop cooking as soon as they get distracted. One sim put the ingredients on the coffee table and started to watch tv. Most of them start, but then wander away to talk to a plant or play on the computer (which is on they have to climb the stairs to get too).
@stjmk I downloaded a mod from Bienchen to make them stop making messes.
Across my saves, I have a lot of Sims in creative fields who get reward items that produce an inspired aura, and I've noticed that children autonomously make messes when inspired. I had one that I made the mistake of giving the creative trait and I was at my wit's end with him. As I joked to a friend:
Parenting -> Discipline Recent Behavior -> Over It -> Put Up For Adoption
At the same time, I worried that perhaps his relationship with his parents would be damaged because he was SO PERSISTENT in making messes that basically the only times an adult interacted with him it was either "help with homework or school project" or progressively stricter discipline for all those messes. Seriously:
Kid: makes mess
Parent: Parenting -> Discipline recent behavior -> calm -> ask not to make a mess
Kid: immediately makes more mess
Parent: Parenting -> Discipline recent behavior -> firm -> express disappointment for making a mess
Kid: immediately makes more mess
Parent: Parenting -> Discipline recent behavior -> strict -> give time out for making a mess
Kid: goes into timeout with a snit, then immediately makes more mess
Me: You little (#)@*#@&#& WILL YOU STOP!
Parent: Parenting -> Discipline recent behavior -> punish -> ground for making a mess
Kid: little orange tense sliver at the end of a mass of inspired moodlets, so immediately makes more mess
Me: Is there a "put child up for adoption" option on the computer?
Parent: Parenting -> Discipline recent behavior -> punish -> double ground for making a mess
Kid: immediately makes more mess
Me: I will not delete a child. I will not delete a child. I will not delete a child. I will not....
Parent: Parenting -> Discipline recent behavior -> punish -> triple ground for making a mess
Ad nauseum. Eventually I got the bug where all options were "stealthily," like "steathily use toilet, stealthily get leftovers, stealthily do homework, and then stealthily go to bed." LOL, except that he hemorrhaged responsibility, argh!
Really, guys, I don't know what's up with the tuning on "make a mess," but the parents do make a living with their creative objects and I can't just delete them all.
