Do you play with autonomy on or off?

I keep it off because I like controlling everything that my sims do.

I play with it off for the selected sim. On for everyone else. I don't see that option, though.

Ah, my apologies @So_Money perhaps I should specify for played sims.

"So_Money;c-16666182" wrote:
I play with it off for the selected sim. On for everyone else. I don't see that option, though.

Same. I need to be able to control my sims myself, but if I can't get to them immediately I don't want them standing around just wasting time.

The weird stuff they do on their own accord can be very entertaining.

I’ve never thought about just turning it off. What do they do when you aren’t telling them to do something? Just stand there? That’s creepy. I let them move around, I like to think my game play is like “spirit guide” haha. They are doing what they want, but I’m guiding their life with suggestions.

I find the game far less frustrating with it turned off for the selected sim.
Years ago, before the addiction to drinking water and all that stuff existed, I didn't mind having it on.

Off all the way, I'm a control freak and can't stand my Sims doing weird stuff I don't tell them to do.

I used to play with it off but now I have a irl toddler. She asks me to play with her a lot. One day she asked me to play so I did (I always do). Then we went outside to see the duckys, then we made a bowl of fruit, then we played legos... I made it back to my computer just in time to see the dying moments of my last remaining sim in the household. I forgot to hit pause. I felt super guilty for the whole household dying so now I play with it on so they have free will to survive if I screw up.

It’s super annoying tho, like if I want them to meet up in a room downstairs, one of them will start a long animation that can’t be canceled like walking back up the steps.

It’s annoying but it’s better than the feeling of causing their deaths by stripping them of free will.

I play with autonomy off for selected sim and on for everyone else. I think this poll should have 3 options.
I really enjoyed finding out I could play this way. I think I'd played for nearly two years with full autonomy on before I tried it. I tend to micromanage my played sim and hate for the game to keep trying to make them do things I don't want them to do so... I tried it and no more fighting with my played sim for the most part. The only trouble I have really is with the sims I'm not playing trying to engage my played sim when I don't want them too but at least that's manageable for me... and has gotten better overall.