Another Way to Play

@PixelKidX2170 You can already only control one sim, just only make one sim in CAS and don't worry about adding other sims. You most certainly can control other people in your house, you just switch between them by mouse clicking, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by more 'realistic', um I think maybe you mean controlling more than one sims may be too 'cluttered' for you, and I can see why some might only want to control just one sim. It doesn't bother me I'm use to 2 to 3 or 6, 8 can be a bit much to control, but I guess I'm just used to it by now.

@sailornaru what I mean is being able to only control one sim in a household full of others and not being able to switch between them. more realistic being that in real life we can only control ourselves and not the people around us.

@PixelKidX2170 oh ok, you mean you just want complete control over one and just other family or roomie NPC's to be completely autonomous, well I'm not sure I'd like that for myself, because I couldn't make up my own stories, at that point, but I could see where maybe adding a toggle to people who just want to focus on one might be helpful. But this will probably be ignored. Um, if I'm not mistaken, way back during the was it game cube or Wii days, there was that one sim game, I forgot about it, but you could literally only control one sim, and everyone else were just filler NPC you interacted with, so I think that game (forgot what it was called) might be more your speed. And in the old playstation 2 game, they had a Sims Busting Out game where you mostly controlled one sim and completed goals, and the only time you added more was in free play but the main campaign was goaled and limited to one sim. There was also a game before that just called basically Sims that was again similar. Another person posted about that old tablet game called Castaways (though I have not played it or even seen youtube videos of that, so I think that was like a stand alone sim story, which you might like if you just want to control one sim only and have just interactions with game sims. The Sims Medieval I think was you controlling one monarch (I did own a copy of that one but didn't get the sequel, so it was a little limiting but it had a few things I liked about it, build mode was almost non-existant and you could only change around furniture, but it was kinda a good game. I wish I would have gotten that pirate sequel, but I had an actual game copy, and I'd probably have to re buy it again on steam just to try out the sequel in more likely, but I probably won't do it. I still have my original copy. You might enjoy that too, there was another game for WII called "My Sims" I didn't own that but it looked kinda fun.

@PixelKidX2170 oh like a double-feature, that's a good idea, but I don't know if that would take two separate codings or if it would make a conflict to have one 'story' mode and 'one more freeplay', I think console versions are more capable of this. True we have the 'scenarios' but while it's a goaled event, it doesn't allow any toggle this'. I like the added scenario thing most of the time, there are some bugs I have run into, but they mostly work, and if a new scenario is put up every month or every two months maybe this does keep the content engaging. I usually play it with a save I already have, if you start a new one, everything will be like base sims (I guess this may be for people who want to keep saves seperat). But, I kinda like your idea for making a hybrid toggle, or switching it over.

@sailornaru as an added note, but I forgot you were mostly asking about just toggling one person, and I guess what you'd like is having a toggle for people in your house and you not having to directly control them. I'm not sure I'd completely like this, as it would sorta interfere with my own personal story-telling that I already do, but maybe having a toggle for this would be nice.

@PixelKidX2170 If antonmy is on you can control just one sim the other sims will go on just fine without you that is what the new ai programing is meant for. Anyways I hope that helps.

@Sid1701d9 obviously I keep autonomy off on mine, I just don't trust my sims not to cook on the stove with no skill and start a fire, or argue with someone and get hated, or any other of the crazy things that often happens when we aren't in watcher mode lol.