Controlling multiple Sims at a time

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I'm not very good at explaining game mechanics, but I wish we could select more than one member of the household (or select the entire household) to get them to do the same activity at once. That way when I'm trying to get them all to watch a movie, eat dinner together,  or go to sleep at the same time, etc without having to select one individual at a time and risk another finishing before the other or deciding to do something else while I'm controlling one sim. No, I'm not talking about the Grouping system from Get Together,  that's only when they go out and it doesn't work that well anyways. There should be a way to control the actions of multiple sims in your household without it.

reksoh · Answer

"mika;d-941068" wrote:. No, I'm not talking about the Grouping system from Get Together,  that's only when they go out and it doesn't work that well anyways.  are you sure?? I use grouping all the time on my home lot and it works fine for me.. the only thing I cant really do with it is make them sleep at the same time but thats not something ive ever wanted to do given that everyone is usually on their own schedule.

janitajasmin · Answer

I mean it would be a nice thing to add to the game and I feel like the group option fails sometimes

cynna1065 · Answer

"mika;d-941068" wrote:I'm not very good at explaining game mechanics, but I wish we could select more than one member of the household (or select the entire household) to get them to do the same activity at once. That way when I'm trying to get them all to watch a movie, eat dinner together,  or go to sleep at the same time, etc without having to select one individual at a time and risk another finishing before the other or deciding to do something else while I'm controlling one sim. No, I'm not talking about the Grouping system from Get Together,  that's only when they go out and it doesn't work that well anyways. There should be a way to control the actions of multiple sims in your household without it. That's a pretty good idea, actually.  It's a wonder that no one else ever thought of it.Imagine, clicking on the television and a little menu pops up so that you can automatically pick everyone present that you want to watch.  Click on a table and everyone sits for dinner.  Woot!Brilliant idea, OP.  :)

joanne_snow · Answer

"mika;c-16519294" wrote:"Dannydanbo;c-16517216" wrote:"mika;c-16516922" wrote:"Dannydanbo;c-16516207" wrote:You can form a temporary group to do things together by clicking a sim and choose FORM GROUP. Then you are prompted to pick who will be in the group. You should see the little blue plumbobs above the heads of the group members. When you're done, click your sim and choose DISBAND GROUP.Not sure if you're trolling, but I know how to form groups. Did you even read my post? No, I am not trolling. You asked a question and I tried to help. That won't ever happen again. But since I'm here, you said the CLUB system from GT didn't work. You said nothing about the group system. But, if you can take one more solution from this old Troll, try turning off their free will in the option section. Happy simming.The thing is, I never asked a question. I suggested an idea I want inplemented which is what this discussion thread is for and got an obnoxious response about using a system I've already expressed is inconvenient/not good enough to me. I didn't ask anyone for advice. And I'm used to seeing your antagonistic and/or smug posts so even if I had asked a question, I wouldn't have expected anything helpful from you. Ciao. Honestly looks like the other simmer was just trying to be helpful by giving you an alternative way to do it until the feature you'd prefer gets implemented :/Anyway, it's weird the group feature doesn't work well for you. It should allow you to make sims do most things together easily. Has it never worked properly? If it did you might try repairing the game? Or remove mods / cc if you have any to see if that might be tampering with it in any way.For trying to get them watch a movie or have a meal together, that should always work well by using "watch movie with..." then selecting the sims &amp; "call to meal" respectively. Maybe those things will work a little better?

joanne_snow · Answer

Oh sorry, didn't want to meddle with any of that. But you're welcome! And I do understand you wanting your sims to do things together :) the one thing I don't always like about the watch movie together thing is that sometimes one sim will go right away because he has no actions queued while the other might still be washing the dog or cleaning up, often arriving when the movie's halfway over xD so perhaps that's also what you mean with it not always working well? The only way I avoid that is by never selecting the option till everyone's free to join right in :)

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