I usually play with just 1 sim. When that sim goes to a festival, it does not do anything autonomously until the festival is over, and then it starts doing things autonomously again. In all other situations, autonomy works.
New step taken: I deleted cached files, no change.
This all includes when the sim has orange hunger or other serious low needs, which normally cause a sim to do something: It will stand motionless instead of trying to buy food.
Hello and thanks again for the responses--so far I have seen this problem on three different playthroughs (3 different save games and different sims).
Could you post in the bug forum: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs
There's a template you need to fill out. Once you've created a new report I will merge this thread into that.
