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5 years ago

New to TS4... my sims appear to have zero attention span... is this normal?

I have played TS1 - 3, but I am new to TS4 (have only been playing for about a week). My sims just seem to have zero attention span and short-term memory loss. For example, I will tell my sim to put his/her toddler in the highchair and feed him. They will put him in the high chair, stand there for a minute, and then take him out again. There are a ton of these sorts of situations. I may even have to ask them to do something many times before they actually do it. They will often stand there for a while thinking about doing the action but then cancel it on their own.

Yesterday Santa came and I had to click "ask for present" multiple times before he did.

This sort of stuff happens a lot when they eat as well. They will take a meal out from the fridge to eat, but then cancel the action on their own and just place it down on the counter.

They also usually stand around a lot before performing an action I tell them to.

I'm wonder, is this just how the game is or is it a bug in my game? I have a great computer and otherwise the game runs fine. Absolutely zero lag even on the highest graphics settings. Load screens are like 5 seconds.

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  • Unfortunately, yes. Especially when it comes to toddlers as their actions seem to get prioritised over everything else. Basically when you want an adult to do something with a toddler and its not happening or gets cancelled you have to check that the toddler doesn't have any other actions queued up and also check every other sim in the house fore actions with the toddler and cancel them if there are any

    And a quick tip. When you get a toddler up to 4 or 3 movement it can open the fridge themselves and you can drag leftovers out onto the floor. Otherwise you have to get an adult to do that. They can grab stuff off counters and tables at movement 1. They cant use the get leftovers interaction though, The quickest way to boost movement seems to be the "play with them" interaction that also boosts attention and fun IIRC. I'll have to check if it boosts imagination, but I think it does. Its also fun to watch. Having the toddler click "whats this" on everything in the house (including their baby brother) boosts movement and the thinking skill but is slooow.
  • Welcome to my world. This is how it works actually.
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  • It feels like this has gotten worse in the past week though. I have a sim in the freelancer career, IT branch, and getting them to complete a job has been a nightmare. I click on, for example ‘complete report’, they work for 10 secs and then walk away. I’ve had to repeat this about 5 times just to complete which never happened previously. The same is happening with the practice programming interaction too. It used to be that they’d carry on programming until I cancelled the interaction, now they just wander off to watch tv!

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