Please, stop sims from obsessively doing specific actions.

I'm almost tempted to take the active trait out of my gameplay....they gotta be doing push-ups or on some kind of gym equipment constantly.  I have to delete punching bags in game because they can't stay away. 

After awhile I feel bad and buy them another punching bag..it's an endless road circling around the trait.

True I would not mind that being tuned down a bit though at least when it comes from one specific trait it's a bit easier to remedy. 

There's one active sim in this household of eight, I made him this serious buff military guy so for him it does kind of fit to do those actions. But I did not give that trait to the party guy in the same house because of it, I envision him as this guy who just wants the non stop party. 

The entire household I copied from a group of Sims 2 sims I went through university with, to see how well I could remake them, and if any would get more or less interesting. Both did have full activity in Sims 2. They did not obsess over any particular object, never was any snow though because they where in the desert university and I put the season to always be summer there. 

The goth girl is thriving in sims 4 and doing the best out of all of them for sure, the only one I could truly say is a vast improvement over her sims 2 counterpart. When she is not shovelling snow or obsessively using the computer. Before she attended university she had no computer in her room and it was fine. Only thing I miss for her was the spiky hairstyle she had, though the mohawk looks good on her too. Traits also support her personality well. She had the romance aspiration in Sims 2 and was kind of mean, now she is a romantic macabre grouch with the villanous valentine aspiration and it fits her well. 

The friendly slacker guy who does like cooking is most out of character though. Why the heck would he ever shovel snow? No sim would the lazy trait should ever do anything like that on their own. I don't think he has trolled the forums much on his own, for him mainly watching tv and playing video games is in character though, and getting the wants to take naps, cook stuff, order pizza or not leave the house for 8 hours works fine. Does not help either that he looks the least like his sims 2 self. I miss baggy pants and wide shirts, and the skater kind of hairstyle he had in sims 2. His entire wardrobe is just kind of meh and unfitting. 

Me not being able to just send them to university straight after creation is a whole other problem though, and them having to attend it from home to be able to play them all at once too. 

But back on topic, I feel like the need to shovel snow should be mainly for active and neat sims. I don't think any other sims should be shovelling snow on their own or if they do, they should not try to go right back to it after you tell them not to and send them inside. 

Trolling the forums I'd associate mainly with the cringe, mean, erratic, goofball and childish traits. I'd figure evil sims would be more ambitious, geek sims would prefer playing games and well anyone not having those five traits should know better than to waste their time with that. And still, sims with any of those five traits should have plenty of other things they'd also do on their own.

Wanting to constantly play video games on the computer should be mainly for the geek and lazy sims, or those that have video games in their likes. Sadly, if you put it on dislikes sims will still do it just as much. Just as they will go out of their way to hate dance to music they dislike. I stopped giving my sims disliked music because of that.

God, yes, I hate it when they randomly pick the same actions over and over again. I have one Sim who constantly picks chatting, sometimes even abandons specific tasks because she wants to chat. I always have to abort that. I don't mind a mischievous or evil Sim trolling in forums because it fits their personality, but pretty much all of the others do that, too. I seriously consider locking their own computers for them unless they really have to do some work on the **bleep** things.

I also don't get why some Sims pick up hobbies they absolutely hate. If they do it long enough, I'll get the popup saying "The Sim has discovered they actually like this hobby. Accept change?" - I more often than not click "no" on that if it doesn't fit the Sim at all or contradicts the settings I chose for them in CaS. I don't want all my Sims to love videogaming when they're not even a geek.

It's especially annoying when they start doing random stuff during social gatherings, like a wedding. I had a Sim do situps and pushups during a wedding reception but then, weddings are still pretty buggy. I also hate when they start cooking or baking at another Sim's house, and most of the time they make that awful white cake. Same with nannies. 

I don't mind my Sims doing stuff on their own becaause very often, they end up doing hilarious things, and I've had very funny interactions between two or more Sims. At the same time it can get really annoying if they do the same three things over and over again, especially since almost all of them end up choosing computer-related activities. 

I haven't had much funny interactions between my sims in Sims 4 I'm afraid, they do talk though, I don't mind them doing that. And I do like that Sims 4 is probably the first one where they can take care of their needs well enough and go to work without paying attention to them. 

Sims 3 seemed to have been the peak for me when it came to unexpected sim interactions, one was a full on masochist. He kept trying to flirt with the evil mean woman in the same house, and always she would slap him or beat him up as a response. One time he even flirted with her AFTER she just beat him in a fight. I never told him to do that, or told her to respond that way. They just did. He never made a pass at the good woman in the same house.  Which did fit with his rockstar personality. Sims 3 only got bothersome with some interactions added by social clubs through university. Anyone with a point of nerd cred would keep trying to berate everyone for their ignorance.

But back on topic, I think it could help a lot if sims just never did anything they dislike unless their life depends on it. Then you'd just have to set them to dislike mischief and video games to mostly leave computers alone. As it is I honestly don't see why they even bothered adding the whole like/dislike system if it only provides a small positive or negative moodlet when sims do it instead of affecting their behaviour at all of how much they would do it on their own.