Good to hear that answer about the relationship between EA and Maxis where it seems that it's not as bad as many people might think. They seem to be in kinda the same situation like BioWare, where they might struggle with getting everything together sometimes... but employees seem to be happy to work there and they are allowed to do most things that they want within budget limits and the producers are doing a good job.
A lot of questions about the sink problem, the problem is probably distance, littlemssam has made a great mod (ImprovedAutoChooseObjects) which pretty much solves the sink issue where the mod lowers the allowed distance so sims prioritize the closest sink.
I think the AI in the sims4 is pretty good overall, it feels like they prioritize some things wrong sometimes but I think that's because some objects or actions are having more weight in the game so sims are drawn to them. I think someone here on the forums claimed that sims can be better at taking care of their needs by being "trained", I would have liked to ask them if that's the case because that could have explained why some sims seems much better at taking care of their needs than others.
Interesting read, thanks for sharing.
