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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"Sigzy05;c-16306289" wrote:"LeGardePourpre;c-16304228" wrote:
Compare Loading Screen to Multitask isn't balanced, they don't affect the game the same way in the same proportions.
Why do not ask CAW and Multitask or Open World and Multitask or CASt and Multitask too ?
In these cases Multitask will always loose, so the question is subjective.
Multitask is a minor feature almost invisible when you play, you don't stop to play in order to say "OMG, it's multitask !!!" each time it happens.
Loading Screen gets a major effect because it forces you to take a pause, it's possible you become angry and say "I hate loading screen".
Boy are you tripping?
Multitasking was indeed invisible on TS2 and especially TS3 but never on TS4 when there's a big specific rectangle UI for it right besides the sim image. I didn't even notice sims on TS3 could chat on the phone while holding babies up until this thread. I never noticed sims in TS3 could have three sometimes even four sim conversations until TS4 came out with it's very specific social UI where multiple sims appear.
Multitasking/smarter sims was the most advertised thing on TS4 next to emotions and weirder stories.
In TS4 my sim is sometimes alone next to his house and a random sim appears in the social UI and to my surprise this sim is four blocks away in the edge of the map, my sim will stare at nothingness waiting for this random to come to him and say whatever, it makes no sense.
Yes, multitasking (“multitasking”) in fact annoys me more than loading screens do. Loading screens are there, you know they are, you’re prepared, you just accept you have to wait through them. Multitasking happens at inconvenient moments. Taking their food outside and eat it in front of the mailbox for example because you said “sit down and have dinner, then get the mail for me please”. Or when you tell your son to start doing his homework and mom spontaneously sits down to have a chat with him. Let him do his homework lady, what kind of mother are you! Don’t you know that he isn’t multitasking, that he actually stops doing his homework while you talk?
