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halloweenchild13
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago

[OPEN] NPC Sims drop everything to shovel snow piles

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? Recent update Wha...
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MzMelonz
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

This seems to still be an issue. At least, Sims seem obsessed with shoveling snow. Snow in the yard as well as everywhere else. They will ignore indoor activities to go out in the freezing cold to shovel snow…. constantly. Only one has the neat trait. If they live in a snowy area they are outside for sure, shoveling snow. No matter what. ☃️❄️🌨

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siirysiir
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

This is bad enough at home but it gets infuriating on community lots when NPCs keep running off to shovel snow somewhere down the street. It would be best if this was just removed as an autonomous activity altogether. I don't really mind the small snow piles, mostly I'd just leave them be but it's cool to have the option to shovel them in case they're in the middle of your front yard.

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    halloweenchild13
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @siirysiir I think the problem is due to the lack of things for sims to do and the way their AI is programed, they are programmed to look for every interactable object in the neighbourhood and from a score of 0-10 will decide how "important" it is and will there for pick a number based on that which determines if they'll perform the interaction. It's why sims will randomly strike up conversations w/o being introduced, because the AI interprets other sims as objects, rather than sims.
    • siirysiir's avatar
      siirysiir
      Seasoned Ace
      2 years ago
      @halloweenchild13 Especially then it'd help to just remove it as an autonomous activity. I'll rather have NPCs trying to strike up a conversation instead of running off to shovel snow when I was actually trying to talk to them.
    • MzMelonz's avatar
      MzMelonz
      Seasoned Ace
      2 years ago
      @halloweenchild13 I have lots of things for them to do! They would even be hungry or have to use the bathroom and will still choose to shovel.
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    MzMelonz
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @siirysiir Yes that's a great idea! "removed as an autonomous activity altogether"

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