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Re: Whilst at University, Sims are ignoring the Autonomy Setting

I got this bug when I started a semester for my sim. Every time I made my sim do homework, coursework or anything at all, he would stop and do pushups or practice programming. Even after graduating and moved back home. Good thing I had a save right before my sim enrolled. So I did some trial and error.

After multiple attempts, I found out that the bug only occurs when my sim lives at the university AND when I had the Neighborhood Action plans "Rock you body" and "Tech Support" active before enrolling. So I think, but not 100% sure, that if your sim stays home or if you petition to remove the said action plans before enrolling, you won't get the autonomy bug.

It's a temporary solution before the devs fix it. Hope this helps someone before they play Discover University. Or if they have a save before they enrolled their sim.

I'm playing on the July 23, 2020 update, BTW.

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PugLove888
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
@conFus10n, you bring up an excellent point!🙌 The funny thing is when this thread was first started, I hadn't seen any of the crazy NAP behavior overriding everything, and neither had several of my friends who play the Sims, so I never thought of that 🤭 . But now a month later, when reading this the first thing I thought was an overactive NAP policy! 😃

@Ascawienand @lizandnick6410 , if you haven't already, you can do what @conFus10n suggested and repeal the current NAPs (it cost 10 in fluence points to start the petition), or you can turn off the NAP voting for NPCs in your Game Options. 😇