Was Multitasking worth the loading screens?
Back when The Sims 4 came out, one of the Guru’s gave us some insight as to why they can’t have more than one lot active in The Sims 4, with one of the reasons being Multitasking. According to t...
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I really like the multitasking, it feels more realistic to me. I find it too limiting to have a family at the dinner table, hungry and say, have low fun or social, then not be able to fulfil those needs. For example, when I have sims sitting in front of the TV chatting, it feels like a real family and I get 2 or 3 needs up at once. However, I dislike the fact that socializing can result in the tasks taking a lot longer than they should. It's almost as though they add up the time for all the tasks they're doing and just stretch it all out. If it was more efficient, it would be a lot better. Perhaps they can take the time for the longest task and just make sure it takes no longer than that. I'm sure it can be programmed in so that it ignores the other durations and only takes the longest one. Then it would be perfect. This bothers me the most with food really, since they need to eat and get out the house!
One weird place there's no multitasking, where I would really like it, is when one sim is in the bath and another is standing next to them. You can't talk to them. I get why you can't do this in the shower, I mean in real life that's noisy, but it's quite simple if say, your spouse is having a bath and you're washing your hands/brushing your teeth or whatever, for you to have a conversation with them.
Slightly related, is how long it takes sims to complete certain tasks. For example, when you count in sim minutes how long it takes to wash their hands, it's completely unreasonable in real-life. I wish some of the times would be tweaked for some tasks, but I might start a thread for that and the emotion system, because I think it could work really well, it's just a matter of the values assigned to them being fixed.
One weird place there's no multitasking, where I would really like it, is when one sim is in the bath and another is standing next to them. You can't talk to them. I get why you can't do this in the shower, I mean in real life that's noisy, but it's quite simple if say, your spouse is having a bath and you're washing your hands/brushing your teeth or whatever, for you to have a conversation with them.
Slightly related, is how long it takes sims to complete certain tasks. For example, when you count in sim minutes how long it takes to wash their hands, it's completely unreasonable in real-life. I wish some of the times would be tweaked for some tasks, but I might start a thread for that and the emotion system, because I think it could work really well, it's just a matter of the values assigned to them being fixed.
