Is it really by design that the Nurse working in the hospital just stands in front of one patient all day, blocking you from interacting with or treating them? This has always happened since GTW was released. It's absurdly obnoxious and badly design. It blocks your Doctor sim from doing their job on at least one patient.Why can't they go and admit patients to beds? Why can't they just move at all? At least the receptionist, which doesn't do anything either, stays out of the way and has an answering phones animation. The nurse just doesn't do anything but get in your way and cause route fails.

"VilyaEleni;892239" wrote:Is it really by design that the Nurse working in the hospital just stands in front of one patient all day, blocking you from interacting with or treating them? This has always happened since GTW was released. It's absurdly obnoxious and badly design. It blocks your Doctor sim from doing their job on at least one patient.Why can't they go and admit patients to beds? Why can't they just move at all? At least the receptionist, which doesn't do anything either, stays out of the way and has an answering phones animation. The nurse just doesn't do anything but get in your way and cause route fails.I agree. There should be more interaction. They should be able to do things that your sim did at the job stage. Like when My sim has to diagnose patients and examine them with the X-ray etc, She doesn't have time to admit patients to their beds. Or sometimes doesnt have time to get to all the patients and it would be helpful if the nurses could treat a diagnosed patient or atleast run tests. But they are just there...

I wouldn't even care if he were just a decorative illusion as long as he'd move and stop blocking my job. ;)

"Sk8rblaze;14955698" wrote:The nurses and other NPCs are just there for illusion. Virtually, the entire game is centered around that kind of thing, where everything that happens is just to give you the fake impression that this is a lively world, when it is not. I would have liked to see legitimate, actual reasons to communicate and work with those other NPCs in the hospital, but the only use they have is completing a checklist in the corner of your screen. That's mobile-like gameplay; no depth whatsoever.You're absolutely right :/

That bugged me too! I think if the center screen was not in the room that your Sim would be able to go around the nurse and interact with the patient. It also bothered me that when you try to put the patient back in bed after a test, that 75% of the time my Sim would pick a bed already occupied. Really annoying.

Here is a fun thing to do: acquire a simray gun that has been upgraded and then use at work to make coworkers do stuff. Bwahahahahahwho said scientists should have all the fun? bwahahahahahah!

Please, make GTW hospital nurses MOVE and do something!

Briana2526
New Traveler
9 years ago
That and also the cops at the station
VilyaEleni
9 years ago
"JoAnne65;14963191" wrote:
"VilyaEleni;14956049" wrote:
I wouldn't even care if he were just a decorative illusion as long as he'd move and stop blocking my job. ;)

I don't understand why they don't just step aside when you want them to. In Sims 3 (sorry but it's true and when it was possible back then it must be possible now, no excuses) you can order any non active character to quit doing something. And when they're just standing in the way doing nothing, they'll step aside when your sim needs to be where they are standing.

Yeah, best I've found is the "Go Away" under the Mean interactions...
MsPigglyPooh
9 years ago
"Marley V;14963414" wrote:
Last time I went to work with my "doctor" (lev. 5), the nurse cleaned the beds, mopped puddles and checked in a few patients.
I was pleasantly surprised!

What! Checking patients in! I would of died and gone to heaven. Maybe the nurses and orderly are just lazy in my game lol the most the orderly have done is make the bed. And thats even a rarity.
SimsLovinLycan
9 years ago
Here, here! That darn nurse just sidles up to one patient and starts yacking, and does that for the whole freakin' shift! I mean, can't the nurse autonomously mop up some puddles or go eat in the break room or something? Anything! Just quit with the Chatty Kathy act already.

...Or, in the words of the great Markiplier, "SHUT UP, NURSE!"
Hermai
9 years ago
I conceptually like GTW but I notice coworkers are just there to stand and do nothing. It really takes the fun away, the illusion o lively working place is destroyed.
Cabelle1863
9 years ago
This is one of my main disappointments with GTW. The hospital staff is mainly useless. Seems like they do nothing but take selfies and socialize.
Cinebar
9 years ago
"Briana2425;14964415" wrote:
That and also the cops at the station

Yes, the only time they move is if you let a prisoner out, then several come over to stand too close to the cell (in the way) like to say oh, hey, were we supposed to fingerprint that guy? Or hey, why are you letting them out? We better stand here and see what you are doing.
bernhardvdijk
9 years ago
I think it's not a bug but as designed! Maybe @SimGuruNick or @SimGuruEugi can clarify this? :)

But yeah this career need some tweaking!
PlumbBobbi
9 years ago
"VilyaEleni;14956049" wrote:
I wouldn't even care if he were just a decorative illusion as long as he'd move and stop blocking my job. ;)

You've just described half of my real life coworkers.
thesims1depot
New Novice
9 years ago
"Sk8rblaze;14981386" wrote:
I like the concept of following my Sims at work, but EA has proven that they are unable to execute such a concept sufficiently. They were able to provide only THREE instances of following our Sims at work...

...and the ability for sims to run and own businesses and run a photo studio. Yes?