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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> @JoAnne65 said:
> rune1973 wrote: »
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> with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
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> No, that’s rotational play ;) Multitasking means you give your sim two instructions and they start doing them in turns automatically.
> @BeJaWa said:
> rune1973 wrote: »
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> with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
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> Neither.
> Multitasking is when someone is doing two actions at the same time (ie eating and talking to a friend or playing the computer and drinking coffee etc.) It's a term frequently used out of games irl and doesn't correlate specifically to the game. Like swimming, Sims can swim in game but swimming it's self isn't specific to the game.
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> A sim taking care of itself when not being played is autonomy.
> You can't control two families at the same time but alternating between different families is often called rotational play.
> Sims walking down the street are just random NPCS the game picked at that moment to fill the world.
> @ApparentlyAwesome said:
> rune1973 wrote: »
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> with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
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> Your sims being able to do two or more things at once like drinking while reading a book or mixing a drink while having a conversation or talking while holding a baby.
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> Although some people question if it's really multitasking if some of what falls under "multitasking" for TS4 is just your sim pausing one task to do another then pausing in that task to continue doing the first one and repeating the back and forth until both tasks are done.
> @Erpe said:
> rune1973 wrote: »
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> with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
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> Multitasking in the Sims 4 is about your sims doing different things at the same time. So it is mainly about the sims chatting or watching TV too while you have told them to eat or cook.
thanks for the info i am not really good at these things lol never have been but thanks for the info.
> rune1973 wrote: »
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> with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
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> No, that’s rotational play ;) Multitasking means you give your sim two instructions and they start doing them in turns automatically.
> @BeJaWa said:
> rune1973 wrote: »
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> with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
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> Neither.
> Multitasking is when someone is doing two actions at the same time (ie eating and talking to a friend or playing the computer and drinking coffee etc.) It's a term frequently used out of games irl and doesn't correlate specifically to the game. Like swimming, Sims can swim in game but swimming it's self isn't specific to the game.
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> A sim taking care of itself when not being played is autonomy.
> You can't control two families at the same time but alternating between different families is often called rotational play.
> Sims walking down the street are just random NPCS the game picked at that moment to fill the world.
> @ApparentlyAwesome said:
> rune1973 wrote: »
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> with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
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> Your sims being able to do two or more things at once like drinking while reading a book or mixing a drink while having a conversation or talking while holding a baby.
>
> Although some people question if it's really multitasking if some of what falls under "multitasking" for TS4 is just your sim pausing one task to do another then pausing in that task to continue doing the first one and repeating the back and forth until both tasks are done.
> @Erpe said:
> rune1973 wrote: »
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> with multitasking do you mean like controlling 2 family's at one time or when you arnt controlling 1 it looks after itself and you can see another member of one of you other family's walking by your house in the streat.
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> Multitasking in the Sims 4 is about your sims doing different things at the same time. So it is mainly about the sims chatting or watching TV too while you have told them to eat or cook.
thanks for the info i am not really good at these things lol never have been but thanks for the info.
