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Saihyou
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago

[NEEEDS SAVES] (Any Pack) Autonomy becomes more out of control by the month

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? 1.72.28.1030 What...
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babajayne
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago

Yeah. I think the main issue is that autonomous actions are automatically cancelled if anything else gets in the queue. If my sim autonomously decides to use the toilet and I want them to take a shower afterwards, they will abandon the toilet idea even if they’ve already started going, and go straight for the shower. In past sims games, even autonomous actions would play out with something else in queue, and if we wanted to cancel it, we’d simply click on it to cancel it. I would like it to work that way again. If we try to give our sims any autonomy at all we have to wait till they’re done to queue anything else up, which makes it more tedious to play. 

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Saihyou
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago
@babajayne I personally don't mind player commands breaking an autonomous action. It can be annoying to plan, and sometimes they will finish it while other times they won't. In previous Sims games (or at least Sims 3), cancellations were responsive. In Sims 4, I can click to cancel something and one of three things happens:

1) It cancels within a few seconds. This happens very, very rarely.
2) It takes longer than 10 seconds to cancel but eventually does. This happens sometimes.
3) The most common occurrence: It takes so long to cancel, they go through with the task or finish it before it even considers cancelling. Often, it'll instead cancel the cancellation. Welcome to the Sims 4, where having control is synonymous with taking candy from a baby.

I can at least somewhat plan around all this. The issue is, for a while now, and with increasing frequency, the autonomy breaks player issued commands too. I'll order a Sim to do something then switch to another, and within 5 seconds they have to go play BlicBlok for the ten thousandth time with a full fun need.

Even playing last night, I gave a Sim a task and didn't switch from them and it blatantly overrode the "Disable autonomy on selected sim" option being enabled. It didn't even take longer than a few seconds, nor was it any of the usual culprits. Ugh.
  • SimGuruKuxiku's avatar
    SimGuruKuxiku
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    5 years ago

    Sul sul everyone!

    First, thanks so much for bringing this to our attention. 🙂

    The team is investigating this issue but as the report remains overall relatively general, we are looking for save files and videos of the particular situations where you see this happening.

    This will help our team to determine if those different situations are different problems or the same core issue.

    Here's a link to the instructions on how to send save files and video files to our team.

    Thanks all and Happy Simming!

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