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 example that recently happen to me in game.How is it that in a 3 person (Sims A, B &C) conversation, sim A asks sim B about his career and only sim A knows and sim C still hasn't a clue. Even thou in the box above it shows all sims are involved in the convo. There are so many missed opportunities in this game it drives me mad. Why are mischievous sims with criminal careers not the ones in the jail cells in the police station? Instead the game spawns more townies I have to delete. I could go on and on but I wonder what everyone else thinks.

I concur. These Sims aren't smart at all, they're arguably dumber than they were in the Sims 3. A Genius Sim isn't any different than a Focused Sim. There's nothing that makes the genius a genius. Side note: Your sig confuses me. If your message is to make the Sims 4 great again, that implies it was once great before, which I completely disagree with. I'd say it was bad to "meh" to "some improvement, but it isn't there yet". Since I've no interest in derailing the thread, you can reply, but I won't. Just wanted to comment on that.

Thanks for your comment @AHolyToilet (great name btw) I sincerely thought The Sims 2 was a great game. That's the reason for my sig Make The Sims Great Again

"SarahsShady;c-16477711" wrote:Thanks for your comment @AHolyToilet (great name btw) I sincerely thought The Sims 2 was a great game. That's the reason for my sig Make The Sims Great Again Oh, you meant the series. Your sig says "Sims 4", so I got confused. Alright.

The townie generation in Sims infuriates me. I hate randomised townies, I always have. They seem to have given us the ability to create Sims, but those Sims can't take advantage of any npc opportunity even while unplayed without going back and forth deleting the townies again and again. I like the game and I can work around it, but that certainly doesn't mean I want to waste my time doing that.I don't feel that the Sims have ever been autonomously smart in any game, potentially TS3 but I haven't played enough of it to know since I only played about 4-5 hours of base game + World Adventures. Smarter Sims who can't even figure out when their parent had died in the room next door.. It's not a big request, I still have faith that things will be changed though.

I agree.Why when my sim moved his girlfriend in he knew all her traits, has the option to joke about old times and the relationship marker of sweethearts but he didn't know her career? Why does he still have the option to ask her to stay the night when she now lives there?Why do sims send each other messages congratulating them on making friends with their own children? Why does my married sim send a message to the guy who his wife is cheating on him with children congratulating them on a new girlfriend and wishing they will be happy together? If sims are so smart why do they by pass the kitchen sink and go to the bathroom to wash the dishes? Why serve a meal and ignore the kitchen table, living room couch and traipse up a flight of stairs to eat on the bed of the toddler who is sleeping in it?Smarter sims? Ha ha ha ha

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ploppo2
7 years ago
ie to smarten AI, you don't necessarily have to add AI - you can block it at certain points and it will appear to become smarter.

No effort required, other than to figuring out the joys of blocking it, when you might want to and why that might be so great.
BrittanyChick22
7 years ago
They pretty much false advertised sims 4 sims as smarter sims but quickly drop it when it became evident that they weren't. If they are so smart, they wouldn't be doing pushups in the middle of the street/sidewalk.
Loanet
Rising Scout
7 years ago
I wouldn't say I have ever considered any Sims in any of their games all that smart.
Sigzy_29
New Spectator
7 years ago
I wish they would rework their interaction ai system for this game. It's a total mess. Sims don't interact at all as they should according to their traits and relationships. There's obvious AI programming problems with this game compared to previous games.
astridentanja
7 years ago
"Loanet;c-16502627" wrote:
I wouldn't say I have ever considered any Sims in any of their games all that smart.

One can wonder if a Sims game is better of with sims that are really smart, in a way that they’d take care of themselves completely and make important decisions. I wouldn’t want that personally because that would soon become too scripted for a game. I think however in this case people rather mean sims reacting to each other and remembering events. At least for a while. The other games did have that.
ShaddBoi1
7 years ago
Love all the points being made on this thread. So true!

I love the Sims 4 and have had lots of fun with it, but I have definitely noticed inconsistencies. It's always awesome when when one sim calls another to hang out, and, during that interaction, the option of "exchange numbers" shows up. Always make me laugh. Guess one of the sims was creepin on the Internet to get the others number?!

The other thing that's oddly funny is how quickly they can go from extreme foes to frenemies to good friends. Next time I find someone who doesn't like me, I'm going to tell a joke about monkeys, brighten their day, debate existence of vampires, and then polish it all off with a knock knock joke. Instant besties :smiley:
SarahsShady77
7 years ago
Tried playing again last night but got frustrated.. 2 sims that are enemies shouldn't be able to joke around with each other over ice cream or play on the slip & slide together like bffs. There needs to be more distinction between 'nice' &'mean' sims. All my stories are pretty much the same because of how alike all my sims are. It makes for a very redundant game.
IMO there is a general over kill of Happy go lucky, everything's ducky in the game and it should be toned down a bit to make room for more drama and better stories.
Sims need to remember deaths, who they are related to. They should love their friends & hate their enemies. A single red bar showing my sim is upset just isn't enough, I want to see a real reaction.
manakochi
7 years ago
There are times I just think to myself why do I bother? TS3 was more fun to play than TS4. Now the gameplay is FAR too easy, there is no real consequence if something goes wrong like when a sim proposed in TS3 both sims had to be in a good mood to say yes or they would say no and mood would take a hit but now it doesn't matter the sim will always say yes.

It seems they are focusing more on the ability to build then real gameplay, just look at the flatness that is Winter in TS4 Seasons! It is no different than white paint! They say how far technology has come to allow all this to happen but it seems they only want to focus on one thing more than the other. Most of us are asking for open neighborhoods instead of open world but I don't think that will happen anytime soon but it would make a huge difference (for me at least as I hate the loading screen when my house is right next door!).

I don't know if is just me but it really feels like we get such a little amount of objects and gameplay in TS4 compared to TS3 or TS2 and it is such a shame! All the things they could have done for the game but just don't seem to be happening. I seem to be playing TS3 more now and I find it so much better and more enjoyable.

I could go on about the things I miss from the other TS games and understand about wanting this game to be a little different compared to the others but I think they are missing so much. I wish they would focus a little bit on gameplay for now then come back to building again later.
LiliBones
7 years ago
Sims 4 is a lie this is why a lot of people are disappointed.

Adverts : ~~Play with Life~~ / Reality : Play their Life
Adverts: ~~Emotions makes the Sims 4 smarter than the previous generations~~ / Reality : Emotions makes the Sims 4 plummer than the previous generations.

The game is still playable but the heart doesn't beat anymore.
SarahsShady77
7 years ago
@ManakoHime Ohh Please don't get me started on the white paint snow. How lazy does that look!?