Do you play with autonomy on or off?

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.

I accidentally pressed no, but I always play with autonomy on.

On when I'm playing a big household, off otherwise

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.

It varies, depends on the save, depends on what I'm doing, depends how many Sims I have in my household.

I've slipped to playing autonomy on again. Some time back I tried autonomy off for selected sim and I really liked it! But it doesn't really work for single sim households and it gets tedious to change the settings. I've never tried autonomy off.

I've always had it on, even though some of the things sims do drive me crazy. But if I turn it off, I don't want them to just stand around like statues.

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.

"MDianaSanders;c-16666805" wrote:
It varies, depends on the save, depends on what I'm doing, depends how many Sims I have in my household.

Ditto for me