Play with Autonomy on or off?

I play with autonomy off for selected Sims. It saves time needed to correct their actions, with full autonomy on my game is running too wild. I used to play with full autonomy before, but I quickly realized that they will never do anything important or achieve anything without my input. I leave autonomy on for Sims I currently not control because I like when sometimes they surprise me with unexpected kiss or prepare coffee in the morning. Autonomy on is also a Pandora box, because it shows how generic and illogical Sims behavior can be (dislikes mischief, still dead set on doing mischief interactions). I play make-believe that they have independent minds and autonomy is my chief enemy here, lol.

I leave it fully on, but micromanage them too. I like some surprises and new ideas, but I also like control. Muahahaha. ?‍♀️

Fully off. I can't stand when sims do things that go against their personality I imagined for them. The only thing I wish is that we could select autonomy for a certain number of sims because I like big households and want some activity in the background but it's like all or nothing. The only way I solve this is my using a roommates mod to add as many roomates as I want. Makes it feel lively while still having my main sims under my control.

Mostly ON. I only recently started to turn it off on occasions but generally like to keep it on. My sims feel more alive when they do things on their own. I only turn it off when I have a toddler in the household and family members are constantly interrupting actions to look after the toddler. The other occasion is when I want to create pictures with pose player. ButI other than those situations I like it on.

currently off. Use to play with it on, I miss sims being able to take care of themselves, But I was greatly annoyed when my characters weren't behaving the way I intended, so It's off. Maybe when they start behaving again I will.

Off only for played sims, and for the rest of the household it's on. I don't want them starving/peeing themselves to death but I don't want to fight them about orders/commands.

I would be bored with most of my families if they all were waiting for my directions. So I play with auto on, but pause the game often to keep track. This works even for 8 sims households, parts of the day I don't even pause them, depending on if they all are home or not. I admit I occasionally cheat their needs, say when entering a new house during the night finding that they are all hungry and cooking/grilling, or if I'm arranging something special to happen and my plans get ruined because of very full bladder etc. It's find taking care of their bladder needs, but I rarely let it stop me from enjoying the more interesting assets of this game :) .

Yeah - free will is off for actively played sim.

On for me. I love playing families some larger than others its nice to know they will somewhat take care of themselves why u am focused on one and do other things

"BlueR0se;c-17951701" wrote:
Off only for played sims, and for the rest of the household it's on. I don't want them starving/peeing themselves to death but I don't want to fight them about orders/commands.

^ this

"SimplyJen;c-17951793" wrote:

"BlueR0se;c-17951701" wrote:
Off only for played sims, and for the rest of the household it's on. I don't want them starving/peeing themselves to death but I don't want to fight them about orders/commands.

^ this

Same, I often turn it off for the sim I am playing and let the rest of the house do what they want. I get tired of fighting auto queued actions on my played sim that make no sense.