Make spellcasters actually exist in the game?

"AngeliqueAdelaide;c-17770610" wrote:
To be honest, after seeing what a disaster autonomous spellcasting was in Sims 3, where they would constantly cast random spells for absolutely no reason or context, I am extremely thankful that it's not autonomous in Sims 4, because they can't program sims AI to save their lives

Sims can create a lot of other random disasters and do useless things autonomously without magic.
That's like saying Sims shouldn't interact autonomously at all, they should just stand around until the player commands them.

That's why there is an autonomy option in the settings. It wasn't the Developer's call to make. Some people live for the chaos,
Spell Casting Autonomy should have been a check box in the Settings.

Allow the player to have another Human Sim ask for a spell from the Spell caster. If they're afraid the spell caster will run off starting fires, growing plants, stealing, and making food appear everywhere, handing out potion samples. but if that's what the player wants, why should one player have to suffer because another player is afraid of the possibility.

Now what am I to do? My Sim is an Evil Tyrannical King who gave a Powerful Spellcaster a Position as his ArchMage. He stands at his Right hand side to Fire, Freeze, Strike his subjects/enemies with lightning as long as it pleases the King. the King is an ambitious man, and the young Archmage shares his ambitions, Often they are suppose to discuss Magic, and how they can use magic to better the Kingdom, and talk certain spells potions, and hexes... Now they can't because They nerfed Spellcasters the wrong way. Now my Archmage just roams the corridors of the Castle doing the mundane things all the other Lords and Ladies do, when he has a lot Magical business to attend to.. It would be nice to see him Practicing magic in His tower, reading his spell book, at his desk, but he doesn't because Spellcasting autonomy is permanently disabled and I can't do anything about it.

It's like when Vampires came, I created a Vampire I wouldn't mind breaking into my house, and may want to seduce, or take advantage of my sim. and now they reduced the chances of vampire break ins.
My Archmage, has a group of Vampires & Ghosts working under him, lurking in the shadows, and He has sent them to Feed on and Haunt people who break deals with him.

If only there was a way for sims to act the way the player intended. they way we built the character. that way they will behave the way the player wanted without fear of doing something out of character, and I wouldn't have to micromanage everything, but I do because I know the AI doesn't exist. I would like to see my sim take care of their needs themselves again.

The thing is a lot of people say "The randomness is the whimsical charm of the Sims" uh no, It's good randomness I can tolerate. there are random moments my sim has that take me by surprise, because the thing my sim did is totally something his character would do, and I didn't give any effort tell him to do it. that's the beauty of it.