Smarten up TS4
The Sims 4 has boasted about having smarter sims with wacky stories. So far, the stories are lack luster because of limited game play options and the sims are as smart as rocks. Here's just 1 exampl...
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"Miki;c-16482756" wrote:
One of my "favorites" is a whim for one sim to "get engaged" to another.. to whom they are already married.
I like the game as well, especially CAS, but there are abundant examples of "disconnects" like mentioned in earlier posts.
I learned a while back that even in a group conversation, the sim who one is playing only relates to the one selected for a social interaction such as 'ask about career" or "ask if single", etc. The others in the group do not really "hear" what's going on.
Alas I don't think they will add any depth to the sims or what they can remember (one can ask the same sim about his or her career multiple times with the same result. When I mention this elsewhere I simply refer to it as a lack of depth to these characters.
I don't expect there to be any kind of memories either.
TS4 is the polar opposite of TS2. TS2's memory and detail are unmatched. However, because of that, it was very difficult to, say, add a placeholder Sim and then delete them. IIRC, if that character met anyone and subsequently was deleted, it could totally mess up an entire save. I think that it's because the remaining Sims had memories related to another that no longer existed.
In TS4, the game has been built so that Sims can appear and disappear willy nilly. That can't happen if they are tied to the world with memories. It would probably take a lot of clean up to keep the saves from becoming totally bogged down. That's why in TS4 memories are manufactured with the screenshot manager.
Initially, the screenshot manager system was fantastic. It didn't give the Sims a memory, but a facsimile could be created for the player's sake and to manipulate the Sims with. Now, that system is broken and useless.
If TS4 Sims were ever given genuine memories of events, I think that the Manage World feature would cease to exist. To my knowledge, there's no other way to split and merge families. So, I think that proper memories will never happen.
