Delayed Actions

I think these behaviours are built in game play, like the slow eating. It doesn't help with sims constantly walking past the house and repeatedly knocking on the door (sometimes the same one- 5 times a day!). All this causes lag even on my computer which is more than able to run this game. The social interactions are so strangely set up they seem to bring a lot of behaviours to a standstill or dropping them completely. For example in the Sims 2 if a Sim was on the way to using the toilet and the need changed from stand to sit it would happen without me even knowing about it. In this game they just stand there. It is totally frustrating when the player has set these things up so they are not late for work and when we return to them to find them standing doing nothing. The emotional states that change (confidant/energised et al) also do this. Emotions are tricky things for humans to understand trying to build them into AI that cant figure out what a door is is somewhat ambitious.