Infant and small children play very buggy
The interactions with infants and small children are very buggy.
There is no one single thing that appears all the time, but multiple that don't work almost all the time.
Just to give few examples:
- I see the kid will be hungry. I select a parent to feed them. The kid starts crying. Their action and other parent action is cancelled and replaced with "check what's going on with the kid" but neither feeds them...
- I want to put a kid into the crib, or a small kid to bed (regular or reading book). very often the interaction just gets cancelled for no reason. There is no obstacle/incorrectly placed object with bb.moveobjects. it just cancels multiple times. I need to pick the option to put them to bed multiple times before it actually happens. effectively spending 1 or 2 sims hours before being successful.
- similar issues with feeding a baby. either with bottle or in the high chair if small kid. the operation cancels multiple times (before they sit, then after they sit and should be given the mail). Again, instead of casual game play you are forced for 1 or 2 sim hours to stick and repeat the simple activity so that it is successful.
- overzealous parents - when the infant starts to cry, all of them throw themselves to the child. but the game doesn't recognise that the baby has been taken care of by another parent and the second one still forces their action. Especially annoying if the activity was to put the kid to bed(after 1 hour with the bug mentioned above) and then the other one immediately takes them out of the cradle and is not able to put them back in. and there we go, another hour lost.
- less often but also happens occasionaly when diaper needs changing
- just a quick mention about not recognising life steps as there are separate threads about it
- action to wash kid in the bathub also cancels itself at least two or three times before successful.
Basically sims keep cancelling the activity related to basic needs of infant or child care is frustrating and repeating. There is no queued activity by me for the child (and certainly not for the infant :) ) that can block the actions.
One simple action like bathing or feeding cannot be queued so yo can play as another sim. You have 99% that is not going to happen if you do this. You need to focus on this particular action and play sometimes several sims hours just repeating same steps till they are finally successful.
I like playing as a family but this successfuly discourages me from having more than one baby and any legacy challenge.