We Need Real Multitasking

Great idea. It would be interesting to know why it doesn’t happen this way.

I dunno, I find the coffee maker one pretty realistic! B)

Maybe the devs want to avoid burned meals. In TS2 sims generally do other things while cooking is in progress, and sometimes wind up with burned food if they get too involved with that alternate activity. Still, I wholly agree with the OP.

I usually tidy up my kitchen while waiting for my kettle to boil, and I get lost on the internet while waiting for food to cook.


The attempted multi tasking that the game contains totally fails. It shouldn't take longer to eat/chat/check phone than to do just one of these things alone... maybe tone down on the arm waving while chatting? Irl, when you're eating with other people, you're usually putting food in your mouth/chewing while someone else speaks.

Yes, like I’m real life. I’ll tell my sim to watch the romance channel and flirt with her boyfriend and she’ll turn off the tv just to flirt once before she turns it on again.

I am with the multitasking deal but it sounds like an AI system issue in which the question may be is the AI system is advanced enough to handle such tasks as AI may not be at the point where it can perform perfectly 100% accurately all the time.

"Oldeseadogge;c-16905821" wrote:
Maybe the devs want to avoid burned meals. In TS2 sims generally do other things while cooking is in progress, and sometimes wind up with burned food if they get too involved with that alternate activity. Still, I wholly agree with the OP.

IIRC, we had semi-autonomy in previous games, in which a Sim would do something autonomously if you didn't give them something else to do within a few seconds. (Am I wrong, or did we really have this?)

Anyway, we had a horrid problem with Sims cooking - they'd get distracted, and leave food in the oven or food processor, and then try to cook something new, but had to cancel because there was food in the oven. So, they'd leave the food in the processor, and try to cook something else, but there was no place to prepare it, so it would end up on the floor. Leave them alone long enough, and they'd be on the verge of starvation. They'd call the pizza line, but never answered the door, so they didn't get their pizza, either. I had an entire family starve to death amidst a sea of food more than once.

"Oldeseadogge;c-16905821" wrote:
Maybe the devs want to avoid burned meals. In TS2 sims generally do other things while cooking is in progress, and sometimes wind up with burned food if they get too involved with that alternate activity. Still, I wholly agree with the OP.

I loved that though. You sim would get distracted or just start doing other things, and then forget about dinner. For me it added a small touch of realism. I would like that back. Like now, if your sim stops cooking for watching something in the oven, nothing really happens. :/

But I've felt the same way about the coffee and tea pots. I know when I'm making a cup or pot, I walk away, maybe make a bagel or something, then come back to get a cup once it's finished brewing.

Side note: I hate when your sim is making dinner, or just a group meal, or they just served a meal. Other sims will ignore that and either make a single serving of something, or grab leftovers from the fridge.

"Oldeseadogge;c-16905821" wrote:
Maybe the devs want to avoid burned meals. In TS2 sims generally do other things while cooking is in progress, and sometimes wind up with burned food if they get too involved with that alternate activity. Still, I wholly agree with the OP.

That should be up to us to remember. There could also be a 'timer' item that automatically beeps to let you know that the food is ready. The washer beeps. A notification could pop up, too.

I'd love to burn my food if I leave it there too long. I just hate how in the mornings while I'm trying to get everyone ready they waste so much time waiting. And no, I don't always want stuff prepared beforehand. I just want multitasking.

"Mindsimscreate;c-16905829" wrote:
Yes, like I’m real life. I’ll tell my sim to watch the romance channel and flirt with her boyfriend and she’ll turn off the tv just to flirt once before she turns it on again.

Oh yeah, I HATE that they do this with the TV. I like to have the TV's on almost always since it's nice background noise, but they just turn them off all the time. They can't even leave it on while going to the bathroom.

What I do is reset a sim while they're watching the tv, that makes it so the tv stays playing while the sim is not watching it. It's nice for community lots.