EA PLEASE WORK ON THIS
"Check infant" HIJACKS the action queue, jumps AHEAD OF ALL USER QUEUED COMMANDS, and OFTEN causes the action queue to either: a) delete all other actions which had been queued or b) freeze the parent INDEFINITELY while they wait to "check infant" because the infant is technically doing some action ("what's this?" or "fuss" or "try to go night night" etc.) Unless cancelled before the parent starts the "checking animation" the sim will get a follow-up action based on whatever the AI decided the infant needed. OFTEN THE AI DOESN'T CHOOSE CORRECT, OR EVEN REMOTELY USEFUL ACTIONS FOR THIS FOLLOW-UP WHICH IS FORCED ON THEM, AND IT HIJACKS AND OVERWRITES USER DIRECTIONS EVEN WHEN AUTONOMY IS SET COMPLTETELY OFF.
This is EGREGIOUS. It is NOT HELPFUL. It makes the game LESS FUN TO PLAY and makes the AI WORSE. Playing a parent with multiple infants is essentially THE FINAL BOSS of MICROMANAGEMENT HELL -- that is, if you actually want to PLAY the stay-at-home-parent and interact with the infants, play with their milestones, etc.
The way to raise infants with the least micromanagement and frustration is to either: a) age infants up immediately and skip the entire life stage, thus not getting to experience all the gameplay of the entire life stage or b) play the parent off the home lot as much as possible, so the infant is sent to daycare and cared for until the infant's birthday, thus not getting to experience much of the gameplay the infant life stage has to offer.
If you want to avoid the issues caused by "check infant" 100% of the time, your only option is to not have infants, ever. Skip the life stage is the ONLY 100% GUARANTEE the "check infant" interaction won't cause at least one annoying incident for the player during the life stage.
"CHECK INFANT" NEEDS TO CHANGE.
IT'S A TERRORIST HIJAKER FOR THE PARENT AI.
IT'S OFTEN USELESS FOR THE SIM INFANTS.
IT'S A HINDRANCE TO THE SUCCESS OF THE LIFE STAGE AND A BURDEN ON PLAYERS TRYING TO HAVE FUN.
EA really needs to read what others have said in this thread, especially @LadyXelda and @Chebadoo 's replies.
I love family gameplay and I'm currently playing a large household with multiple infants and toddlers. The check infant/toddler interaction is literally the bane of my existence. It's disruptive, unhelpful, and incredibly frustrating.
How much longer until something gets fixed? These infant/toddler issues have been around for years now and nothing changes except new packs keep being released.
I tried a couple of years ago to raise a family and it sucked for almost the exact same reasons. I just tried again for the second time a couple of days ago and it sucks even more than two years ago. Check infant all the time, put baby down all the time, stuck tasks all the time, routing errors, bad autonomy, it goes on and on. I've never had to use reset object on anything outside of sims raising babies.
Frustration and anger are what I get for assuming EA will fix important stuff besides newly released pack bugs.
