This issue is related to the Island Living pack:
Mermaids can replenish their Energy need by sleeping in a pool.
But normal sims can't sleep in a pool so they back float instead.
Same for the Hygiene need: Mermaids can replenish their Hydration need by drinking.
Normal sims can't replenish their Hygiene need that way.
That makes so much sense. Auto-solving these things for normal sims does have a chance of my sim going straight to the pool despite that resulting in decreasing hygiene and or sleep need further. I would say it happens like 1/10 times when I select auto solve.
I see this a lot without the auto-solve button, with regular autonomy. I have to watch my Sims like a hawk if there's a pool on lot because 90% of the time instead of sleeping in a bed they go to back float. I fear I use very foul and harsh language with them when they do and tell them to get their stupid selves into a bed before they die. I haven't tested to see if they'll actually die, but I was assuming yes.
If there's NOT a pool on the lot, 90% of the time my Sims will choose to curl up on a park-style bench outdoors in the rain like a hobo. This is particularly annoying/hilarious when they have nightclothes like Nancy Landgraab's. Yes, I'm going to pop on this bustier and garter belt and then curl up on a bench facing the street on my teen son's balcony.....
Apparently beds are passe and to be avoided at all costs!
Yup, just had a bunch of my household die from drowning. I play a large household and took them all to that karaoke lounge, (Stargazer I think it's called?) I was focused on one or two of my sims and saw a message that asked if one of the other housemates disliked fitness. I didn't think much of it, I thought maybe she went off to do sit ups or something. Then the next thing I know, one sim after the other started dying. I didn't see that the karaoke bar had a big pool in it and my tired sims apparently all went to back float in it and drowned. I did have a sense of humor about it because I thought it was pretty funny, but none of these housemates are mermaids. I didn't try to autosolve it either. They went to backfloat on their own. I wasn't paying attention to what the others were doing and all I can say is Grim had a busy shift that night. The sim who "dislikes fitness" was the only one with the sense to get out of the pool and not drown.
