"PenguinFoop;c-18151758" wrote:
"ignominiusrex;c-18151740" wrote:
"PenguinFoop;c-18150037" wrote:
I usually just make everyone sit down when dinner is almost ready. Then after calling to meal, they get up and sit back down with their food, usually.
As far as school, kids don't always sit with particular friends. Sometimes, they like to separate unless they have a problem with low ego. Then, they would be very attached to those friends that feed their deficiency.
That's just my assessment.
In the US at least, sitting with one's own particular friends is not any sort of deficiency ot ego problem. It's quite natural and understandable, as lunch is one of the few times during the school day that friends het to socialize at all
They can't do it during class, provided they even have any classes together. When you have gone to school together for years already as is the case in small places with only one scho district, friends may only get to see each other at lunch in high school if they happen not to have any classes together. Conversely, in larger places where kids come to one larger high school from an assortment of smaller middle schools, they will undoubtedly have to make new friends, but again, lunch is the only time they can be sure of being able to talk, and then, it is generally for as little as 15 minutes, sometimes even less, soinchtime as social time face to face, sitting with whom you choose, is very important.
Yes, I know. I'm a U.S. citizen so I understand that. I've also seen enough to know that there definitely ego issues. Lol Not all, but many cases.
But yeah, during lunch makes sense in a lot of cases but during lunch, there aren't assigned seats; except in the military where you have no choice during boot camp but to sit with your company, shower with them, drill with them, go to class with them, drill with them some more and then sleep with them.
"DaniRose2143;c-18151745" wrote:
"PenguinFoop;c-18151705" wrote:
"DaniRose2143;c-18151704" wrote:
I'd be satisfied if I ask them to sit together and they all stayed put for longer than 0.001 seconds. Everytime I try to have 3 or more sims sit together and have a conversation as soon as the last sim's butt hits their chair the first sim that sat down gets up and wanders off.?
This is definitely a problem even with autonomy turned off, they still get up.
Oh don't I know it. There have been the odd moments where I've wanted the option to glue butts to chairs. But they'd probably waddle off with chair the stuck to their backside.
One thing I've noticed is that if I have them sit together and talk, they tend to stay until the conversation is over or the meal is called. So maybe try keeping the conversation going is the solution?
The problem is the worst when I want my sims to be together for a conversation so that I can get screenshots for storytelling purposes. If I get lucky I can get in and get a friendly or funny interaction queued in time to get a good conversation going before that last sim arrives. That's not always successful, because when that last sim arrives and joins in, someone else will exit the conversation. Lately what I've been doing when I want to work on scene for my UTTS story, I will temporarily move all the sims involved into one household so I can have control over everybody. It works but it's a bit fiddly because there are some gatherings that pull sims from 4 different households. I have to move them in, then back out to their respective homes again. It gets boring having to endlessly do that, because the friend group in that story loves to hang out a lot.
