Cats and Dogs VS Time Management
Out of curiosity here, how is everyone making out with managing their sims daily schedules and activites since the addition of the Cats and Dogs EP? Prior to the release of C&D I already found the ...
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"drake_mccarty;c-16162115" wrote:
Well yes the animations have a running time in real world time, but that’s not relevant to the in-game clock. An action can be started at any time, and depending on different factors (like multitasking) can have a duration that isn’t fixed to any specific time frame. That’s why eating a meal with one sim + no multitasking will be a lot faster than a sim who is eating + socializing, or eating + socializing + watch TV.
I am not saying change the animation. In all reality the eating animation takes approx 4-5 seconds in real time. The animation happens multiple times during the ‘eat’ action, and each time it plays the action progresses by a fixed amount. Changing the rate wouldn’t change the real time animation, because that isn’t the problem, it would make the overall action take less time to complete. Multitasking is a roadblock because the game will only progress one action at a time, meaning non-action items that are currently in the cue will be paused until the current action is finished.
I think the issue here is that you are focusing on the animations. Why? It doesn't matter what they are doing, or how long it takes to do it. The only thing that matters is how long the game says it takes.
The animations could be setup to loop for 5 hours of real time. But the game clock itself could be setup to increase only 1 sec per 20 minutes of real time. Or the game clock could be setup to increase 1 hour per 1 second of real time.
It's the game clock we should be talking about. Not the animations. I don't mind staring at the screen for 10 minutes waiting for animations to play through. What I DO mind is that... at the end of those animations.... the game clock says nearly 2 hours have passed.
I'm arguing.... just tweak the game clock so that it says ..... only half that time elapsed.
What do you think the MCCC mod does?
