Sims need to insert their OWN personality. Alongside player manipulation.

It's nice to have this but I will want a toggle to turn off autonomous personalities.

I agree to an extent but not the extent of wanting to be with somebody else on their own excetra because that would make it more of a guided game and less of a creative game which is what I like. I like to create stories based on stories that I have written and my Sims are the characters from them. If I was trying to create a certain storyline and my Sims kept going against it on their own I would probably just quit the game haha. Things like being sad from cooking if they don't like cooking makes sense to me though and I do agree with it just as long as you could give your sim to not liking cooking trait. I think that what you choose for them should affect how they behave, but if you're trying to make a Sim who absolutely loves the food business and wants to be a chef and your Sim on their own decides to hate cooking it really ruins it for the player and again just takes the interest away from the game because, why bother?

You're free to disagree. But one of the main complaints from people who dislike sims 4 is that the sims dont have personality. These are my own ideas about how sims can have their own personality @SimAlexandria @DreamCytcher And personally, the fact that sims dont have their own desires is what makes me feel like they are just clones. And not successful simulations of humans :)

I would agree in Sims having preferences, however I would rather be in control of those preferences. I hate it when the game works against me. Plus sims don't have, Their own personality to insert I have to program it.

What might be better, is having my sim choose between his Romance and his Bromance at a certain moment would be interesting.

Like in CAS, I would choose Favorites for my sims
Hobbies, Food, Drink, Color, Music, Season/Weather, Animal etc.
and those choices I made for that specific sim would influence their behavior in game play

When Mason is Bored/Sad/Tense He would autominously go "Sketch, Play Soccer, Explore the neighborhood/City, Hang out with "Best Friends," play video games, to fulfill the Fun gauge, or seek Happiness. If they do something that's not a Favorite they might look at it as a chore, or something.
Even the little things like when it comes to his favorite Food/Drink, if it's made poorly, he would get Sad/Angry.

That's how I would hope they would go about it.

I am not disagreeing they need better personalities, just with the implementation. One of my kids is a declared enemy of her sisters best friend but when they see each other they immediately start playing together on the swings. My unflirty sim gets into a flirty mood because the right painting is on the wall. They def need a personality overhaul.

I just personally wouldn't want it to be in the form of developing preferences that we don't give them ourselves as that takes away from the creative aspect of playing this game. The main thing I like about this game is that we have complete ability to create our own stories with our Sims. I think adding dislikes /likes that actually mean something would help a lot and so would a moodlet overhaul. (why does my sim mourn the exact same amount of time when her husband died as she did when the bartender she once ordered a drink from died?). I just think the likes /dislikes need to be chosen by the player so we can still create our desired stories with our sims.

That's fine. And I also disagree. Because to me , if everything is based off of the player then its like playing dollhouse, but on a computer @SimAlexandria But I can agree to disagree with respect

sims already go interact with objects autonomously. im not talking about that. im talking deeper than just performing an action. but to each their own @MasonGamer

"EnjoyfulSimmer;c-17089582" wrote:
That's fine. And I also disagree. Because to me , if everything is based off of the player then its like playing dollhouse, but on a computer @SimAlexandria But I can agree to disagree with respect

That is a great analogy haha. I think the dollhouse style of open game play is exactly what I love about it. Well one of the things anyways haha.

I'm not really disagreeing with you. I just think that sometimes too much autonomy will ruin a storytelling gameplay. For example, my sim is supposed to cheat with somebody else in my story but he insisted to be loyal with his partner, so I have no way to force romantic interactions with another sim but follow my sim's choice all the time.

My point is, instead of forcing Sims to have random autonomous personalities, it's better to have a toggle on/off for different types of players, just like how we are able turn on/off autonomy in the game now.

"DreamCytcher;c-17089640" wrote:
I'm not really disagreeing with you. I just think that sometimes too much autonomy will ruin a storytelling gameplay. For example, my sim is supposed to cheat with somebody else in my story but he insisted to be loyal with his partner, so I have no way to force romantic interactions with another sim but follow my sim's choice all the time.

My point is, instead of forcing Sims to have random autonomous personalities, it's better to have a toggle on/off for different types of players, just like how we are able turn on/off autonomy in the game now.

I like this idea. I wish we could talk a lot of other main features as well like celebrities or vampires. I think they would sell more packs if we could. I don't really want vampires in my game, but I would at least buy the vampires pack on sale for some of the build mode and Cas items if I could toggle them off.