Why don't dislikes prevent Sims from doing certain things?

"thesimmer14;c-18234073" wrote:
Could a SimGuru give us some insight as to whether this is being worked on..?

yes who could we tag? I don't know the gurus by heart.

its a bug

Autonomous fitness by sims who dislike fitness was supposedly fixed in Sept 2021
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Sims-autonomously-doing-activities-they-dislike/m-p/10380214
@Mariefoxprice83 you might consider creating a new bug report since you still have the issue (unless you haven't updated since then)

There are now separate bug threads for each disliked activity-- here are the existing ones
Dancing https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/GT-Sims-that-Dislike-Dancing-Still-Autonomously-Dancing-to-Music/m-p/11487596
Mischief https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Sims-who-Dislike-Mischief-Autonomously-do-Mischief/td-p/10925323
@filipomel @JustinB113 you might consider creating bug reports for your disliked activities

I tried using the likes/dislikes when they first came out. I had a sim who likes fitness, as I wanted him to level up faster. It was bedtime and he was exhausted. He fell asleep for only a short time, then got up and went to exercise some more! I was getting his wife ready for bedtime and didn't notice until she went to bed and he wasn't there. Caught him just in time to prevent his death! First thing I did was put him back into CAS and remove the Like! If we get likes/dislikes similar to Sims 2 with liking/disliking certain jobs, hair/eye color, wearing glasses, I may try using those likes for the purpose of attraction. But only if I am happy with the results.

Yeah, the likes and dislikes are affecting my Sims also. One of my Sims took a sudden dislike to the toilet paper holder in his bathroom, a base game object that is pretty generic, and would cancel everything in his queue just to go into the bathroom and have a fit because he thought it was hideous. I've been playing this Sim for weeks and this quirk just came out of nowhere. Then he began doing the same thing with his furniture. He'd drop everything to go and stand by the object then either applaud himself for having good taste or pitch a hissy fit because he hated it. I finally grew tired of trying to work with him on this by changing things, but nothing I did was ever good enough to suit him. So, I took away all his decor likes and that solved the problem. At the moment, that is the only category in the likes and dislikes that causes a reaction in my Sims. But it is amusing he disliked a simple toilet paper holder he had been using for weeks without reacting to it before now. :/

"bandit5;c-18233757" wrote:
It should be like in sims 2 if a sim is a slob, they refuse to take out the trash or clean and will complain about it.

Or break that fourth wall to give the player a really dirty look. LOL I was upset in Sims3, that our Sims had color preferences, yet they got nothing out of it. I made a point to decorate their bedrooms using their favorite color in some manner, yet they never even got so much as a happy moodlet for being in the room. Face/palm. EA, you're such a tease.

When I saw the colors in the likes and dislikes choices, I hoped colors would finally elicit a reaction from our Sims. But, alas, it doesn't matter to them in any way. I don't bother choosing a color preference for my Sims because if they don't care about the color of things, why should I? Why not save that 'like' for something that does matter?

"Nate_Whiplash1;c-18233724" wrote:

It really comes down to lazy programming. The devs simply plugged in the equation "music = dancing reaction" without taking anything else into consideration.

I would say lack of testing. There are many examples of this, like early high school graduates can no longer go to prom, but their bf/gf gets a negative sentiment if they don't take them but they literally can't go anymore.

"Arzekial;c-18235635" wrote:

"Nate_Whiplash1;c-18233724" wrote:

It really comes down to lazy programming. The devs simply plugged in the equation "music = dancing reaction" without taking anything else into consideration.

I would say lack of testing. There are many examples of this, like early high school graduates can no longer go to prom, but their bf/gf gets a negative sentiment if they don't take them but they literally can't go anymore.

That's very possible. They might be in such a rush to put it out there that they don't take the time to test things

is true that the players that buy the expansions and other dlc are the ones who are the main bug testers.