sims don't sleep when one is away
it's always frustrated me that when one sim is out of the house, the sims still at home don't sleep. like??? why?? they'll be on the "care for self" setting, so why don't they sleep to fill their ener...
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Sims left at home do not do anything at home when you are on a different lot with a member of the household.
The only thing that happens it that the game checks each Sim for their lowest motive and starts to fill this motive. This will (expect for the motive fun) go on until the motive is completely filled. As it is a very slow process (expect for Bladder which goes up rather fast), your Sim will probably have several motives in the red before the first motive is at 100 %.
On top of that, the game will sometimes "forget" to chose a new motive to fill once the first one is filled, resulting in all motives decaying and none of them getting fix.
The problem can be decreased by clicking on care for self every once in a while, esp. when you notice that another motive is going in the red.
Worst of it is the situation when you leave your homelot while other Sims are at work or school. This will (a bug since the release of the game that has never been fixed) lead to those Sims not taking care for any of their needs at all, except you choose an action that fills a certain motive (like meet friends at school which will lower the social need or working lazy that will increase fun). The point is that in such a situation, neither the default away actions nor the default at work actions work, so Sims will not eat or pee at work/school which they normally do.
You can decrease that problem by making sure that all motives except fun and social are green when your Sims leave for work/school.
This is actually one of my biggest complaints concerning TS4. I don't even expect my Sims doing stuff while I'm not controlling them but I expect EA to at least choose a sensible way/order to fill their needs.
The only thing that happens it that the game checks each Sim for their lowest motive and starts to fill this motive. This will (expect for the motive fun) go on until the motive is completely filled. As it is a very slow process (expect for Bladder which goes up rather fast), your Sim will probably have several motives in the red before the first motive is at 100 %.
On top of that, the game will sometimes "forget" to chose a new motive to fill once the first one is filled, resulting in all motives decaying and none of them getting fix.
The problem can be decreased by clicking on care for self every once in a while, esp. when you notice that another motive is going in the red.
Worst of it is the situation when you leave your homelot while other Sims are at work or school. This will (a bug since the release of the game that has never been fixed) lead to those Sims not taking care for any of their needs at all, except you choose an action that fills a certain motive (like meet friends at school which will lower the social need or working lazy that will increase fun). The point is that in such a situation, neither the default away actions nor the default at work actions work, so Sims will not eat or pee at work/school which they normally do.
You can decrease that problem by making sure that all motives except fun and social are green when your Sims leave for work/school.
This is actually one of my biggest complaints concerning TS4. I don't even expect my Sims doing stuff while I'm not controlling them but I expect EA to at least choose a sensible way/order to fill their needs.
