Do you play with autonomy on or off?

Nope
Autonomy off
Its nice to see sims doing their own stuff.

It also allows me to fall asleep in my chair.

I play with it on until my households get too large (6 members +) and the autonomy off starts to drive me nuts and they all do actions that I don't want them to do at the same time.

I leave it on, it's nice having sims take care of themselves without me telling them too. Plus it can be entertaining...though occasionally annoying as well.

I generally play with it on all the time unless I am trying to take family pictures. I like having sims walking around that I don't control. Lately though, I just started playing again a few days ago and I notice my sims keep canceling their queue (even when they are in the reds for something I told them to take care of or waking themselves up to go do something like play with a card table or watch tv when they don't need fun only to pass out or pee themselves. I just turned it off yesterday since that got to annoying.

I not only have autonomy off, I also use several mods to nuke the last bits of unwanted autonomy that sneaked in all the time (reaction to bubble blower and going to the toilet when the need was deep red to name just two examples). I'm finally very happy with my game :)

I agree with WildIrishBanshee! I keep mine on so they can take care of themselves and I like to watch their interactions. It would drive me insane
to have to tell them when to eat and pee......etc

@EnkiSchmidt
Do you have a link to the toilet mod?

When my grown daughter introduced me to the Sims2 and taught me how to play, she recommended that I play with autonomy off. I found out in the long run, however, that I just missed too many things that way. So, I now readily play with it slammed on all the way!

Unless I'm recording or taking specific pictures for my blog series etc, I alway have free will on. I hate seeing sims just standing there hanging, LOL. I check it "off" for the active sim though.

I noticed that sims have way too much free will even when it's switched off. While seated and chatting they will still desperately search for another seat, move there, and then search for yet another seat, all while they keep chatting. It seems less important whether they sit down turned away from the one they chat with, as long as they can switch seating. I should have added a LOL here, but not being able to switch off this restless behavior is a pain, pain, PAIN. Some times when it happens during recording or photo sessions, I scream out loud and decide never to play this game ever again. (all forgotten the next day, of course...)

With my main Sim, off. With a large family of sims, on.