Autonomy: Who uses it and what are your thoughts on it?

I switch between them. Indeed, I dearly, dearly wish the autonomy settings weren't buried in the game options. Be brilliant to have the autonomy options mapped to hot keys.

Mines always on. I enjoy letting my sims think for themselves and do what they want to do I get more enjoyment out of that. I just guide them here and there... sometimes there are things I want to them to do and I have them do it but normally I just let them do their own thing. The only problem is the AI isn't that great and outside of your own personal lot nothing else evolves or progresses... sims 4 forces you to do everything pretty much, which kills the immersion of the game when you want to just be a passenger and enjoy the ride.

Yup, I mostly use full autonomy. Thoughts? I usually micromanage my sims anyway, because they're too stupid to do anything right :D

"luimistelija;15519951" wrote:
After two years of playing I changed my autonomy setting from full autonomy to full autonomy + disable autonomy for selected sim. I never thought I would like it, but it works. It's not a huge difference, but there's now less chasing after sims, less cancelling actions, less idle play while I wait them to do finish tasks I wanted them to do but the game queued for them first and more of my decisions about what happens next. I can still enjoy autonomous actions of the sims I'm not currently controlling. I'm really surprised, because I've always sworn in the name of full autonomy.

It was the simguru in the toddler livestream who inspired me to explore the autonomy options. The one who said they play without autonomy (I was a bit shocked that someone would do that).

I've always played with full autonomy on in every sims game including this one; I pretty much control what they do but I don't mind watching what they get up to on their own from time to time, it adds a fun unexpected element. But I think this particular game was meant to play itself to some extent and that might be why I don't like it as well. I expect sims to react to my commands, not go off to do their own thing all the time. It makes me feel like an observer and I end up not feeling very attached to my sims.

I might have to try turning autonomy off the next time I start up this game to see if I like that better.

What annoys me the most in the autonomy is when one sim is messing what the other sim just did. Specially with toddlers. The mom puts the toddler in the high chair and the dad goes and take it out right away and that annoys me a lot. I always have the autonomy on because without it its boring but at same time I wish I could have a 50% autonomy, because off is 0% and on is 100% it would be good to have a middle. I also hate when my sims are going to eat when I have one cooking the meal for the family, I like to make my sims eating together as family and annoys me when they eat separately.

I hate micromanaging so use Autonomy all the time. I just keep the needs panel open and click along the family oics. one by one to deal with them, giving them about 3 or 4 things to do in a queue. Better still give them all jobs and a butler (after I've trained him up a bit).

They manage to look after themselves with a bit of prompting from time to time.

The sim AI isn't that good. Even with MCCC installed, they still go off and do things that are counterproductive, out of character, or downright wasteful. And not even in a fun, interesting way, like TS2. No, it's more like the story progression of TS3, where you would leave a household for a couple of sim days to set another sim up, and you come back and that first sim has some butt-ugly townie moved in as their girlfriend that you now must break up with and kick out to make way for the roomie you intended for your sim whom you've just spent the last few sim days setting up (Can you tell I hate TS3's story progression?). Therefore, I just turn autonomy off...if only to keep Mom and Dad from going into Timmy's room to play Blickblock on the kid's computer for absolutely no reason...which will still happen if I leave the lot with one sim and come back a little while later (Yeah, the away system is complete hot garbage too.).

If the AI had some kind of way of using sims' traits and a history of player commands to generate each individual sim's automated behavior, I'd use it more. But it doesn't. It's just pure, mindless id. So, I avoid it now. Which makes me sad.

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