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6 years ago

Sims Only Ever Autonomously Use the TV for Movies

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.62.67.1020 What ex...

gameplay issue

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Hero

6 years ago

@The_Ratticator I don't think it's bugged, as I have all the packs and as well as movies, my sims tend to autonomously watch the cooking channel. I think I've also seen them tune into the weather channel a lot too.

I don't know if TV preferences are influenced by anything in particular, such as movies being chosen when other sims are around because of the group watching, or in my case it's my chef sims and foodies that are obsessed by the cooking channel all the time, or if there's hot weather that's why they turned on the weather channel.

Or it's just really all random and you just seem to be noticing a period of movies being chosen a lot.

The_Ratticator
5 years ago
I just did some observation work on a new save, and it's still happening. My Sim only EVER watches movies on the TV. They never autonomously turn on a regular TV channel. I have to direct them to watch a regular channel myself if that's what I want them to watch. They sat down on the couch to watch TV with eating, and they started watching a movie. I kept cancelling this action, and every single time, it they turned on a movie! It seems really odd to me that the only thing my Sims ever want to watch is movies. It's even worse when the movie ends up making them bored.
- crinrict
  Hero+
  5 years ago
  @The_Ratticator Did you test if the same happens with another household/save ?