How Random is Sims 4 Really?

"SheriSim57;c-18273167" wrote:
I see some randomness in my game when I’m not micromanaging which I tend to do a lot because I see sims being specific ways for the most part, and control them.. I’ve seen things, like a grandmother sim sitting down on her granddaughter’s bed with her granddaughter and talking to her. I see a grandfather dancing with his grandson after eating. I see someone coming up and slapping my male sim because he kissed his wife in my movie theatre ( the sim had a pink bar with the male sim and slapped him ( the pink bar was not there because I had played the male sim that way.). Sometimes if you change households you will see you sim is at another lot that you didn’t send them to…….I see these as all random events. In fact many people complained because they didn’t like their sims flirting with people and getting a pink bar when they weren’t playing them.

Yes those are sweet little, I mean little, random moments with the grandparents, and relationship-altering events like having a pink bar that shouldn't be there would be bad. But what I mean is well, less unicorns and rainbows and more reality. Life is messy complicated, sims should be too.

A joke I've made before is:

Sim 1: Hi, how are you?
Sim 2: I'm good.
Sim 1: You single?
Sim 2: No, I'm married to Sim 3.
Sim 1: Wanna have a baby?
Sim 2: Yes! Let's go!

In the course of a few Sim hours, you've convinced some rando to have an extramarital affair and baby. It's predictable and rather boring.

It shouldn't be that easy to have an affair.

Of course one random event that happened back when Get to Work first came out was when my male sim (a scientist that worked with his father) was at home with his twin boys and a little girl knocked on the door. I checked her name and they had the same last name. That was odd but oh well.

I later went into the simology of one of the boys and found out that that little girl was his dad's half-sister! My main sim's dad had cheated on his family-oriented wife!

The disturbing thing is that the whole family had just accepted it with no problems; unicorns and rainbows. I mean, I was more upset about this than the family-oriented wife!

Oh! I forgot my point! Lol

Now it seems that any sim you meet has to check in and get your permission before they do anything! Like your sim has become their overlord. No random surprises. Boring.