What is Autonomy?

Because if this work, i will turned off it to stop my sims auto interactions while i'm deciding an interaction on it

There are two options. Autonomy on an off for all played Sims. Or check the box to have it that a selected Sim will go "stupid" with autonomy off so you can play him or her like single-player.

Rather than turn off autonomy, why not just hit the pause button while you set up interactions for the desired Sim? This is how I play, as my grown daughter taught me. (Although, she never had autonomy on. Talk about a control-freak, that one.) It's a very useful tool, said PAUSE button. Not all games come with it. It's ingenious. I recall from Sims2, that if autonomy was shut off the Sim would end up standing, staring at a wall instead of using the toilet they so desperately needed. I haven't checked that out in Sims4.

"ren_sibal123;d-992649" wrote:
What if i turned on or off autonomy? My sims will not do anything until i interact it?

Autonomy on = all played sims in a household will queue up their own interactions and and go about their business without your interaction and you many have to cancel queued actions on the sim you’re actively playing to get them to do an action you chose.

Autonomy off= no sims in a played household will do anything unless you queue up the action for them. They will literally just stand around until you tell them what to do.

Autonomy on (active sim only)= all sims in the household will perform auto-queued actions on their own except the sim you choose to actively play. They will only perform the action you select for them.

I hate autonomy for my sims
and i always have since ts1
played with 0 autonomy

what it does is disable your sims from obsessively wanting to do dumb unneeded stuff like browse internet instead of doing what you asked them to

don't understand how other players cope with their sims acting like rebellious teenager when ur just tryna get them to use toilet before their bladder fails but yeah i much rather go and choose my sims actions without interference

I almost always play with autonamy on, since my Sims finds ways of improving the stories I planned. I love when they suprise me

I have autonomy on for all sims. I do run a tight ship, though, and do what GalacticGal do: use Pause constantly. I always have a finger on the P-button, so that I can catch any wild running sim from Doing Stupid. Like always heading for the nearest stereo to dance. None of them can dance (even with full skill). So I'd rather not watch it. Its also rather useless. And that's why I always give them something more useful to do, by pausing and queuing up stuff.

Autonomy off is not "Sims do nothing at all". I wish it was, but it isn't.

Even with autonomy off sims will:
- Take care of their needs if the motive bar is red
- Choose what to say and do in a conversation (this is based on their current emotion and, yes, it includes woohoo in bed, although it is rare)

- Wash their hands after toilet
- Watch other sims play soccer or with a toddler
- Watch their toddler in the ocean
- Put out fires (iirc they used to just flee, but now they autonomously extinguish fires)
- Drop everything to "check on toddler" what basically means picking the poor thing up and then down again
- Scold toddlers for tossing food in the highchair
- And more that I cannot think about on top of my head

"Sadiesue;c-17950586" wrote:
I turn it on and off throughout the game. Just depends on what I’m trying to have my household accomplish. Like skills or tasks for their careers. (Yes, I know that filling out reports isn’t fun but do it anyway) Also birthdays. It’s very irritating when mom or dad adds the candles and just when junior goes to blow out the candles, they all go off to dance. Celebrate that poor kids birthday! Geez.

I feel that pain! They used to do that in my game too, but then I set all stereos to play classical or talk radio, and they can't dance to those. "Git back here! Ya'll can't dance anyway!" :D For any other autonomous stupidity, I use MCCC's tuner to disable autonomy. I just can't turn off dancing to stereos, because that will totally mess up bars/clubs.

Like others here I just hit the pause button to que up actions. But if you actually take autonomy away, you could miss some really cute actions.