Indoor/Outdoor Tasks

annettemarc wrote:

neuroheart wrote:
I've noticed this, too. It started with the valentine update, presumably because neighbors needed to tap on characters. I guess they just never got rid of it.

It seems to me that any random outdoor task can show up, so long as it doesn't require some building or item (e.g. Lisa will not appear to be cleaning up randomly, because it requires debris.) If a character has no outdoor task that doesn't require something else, they'll just wander around. Skinner is a good example; he needs a tree to birdwatch and the school for crossing guard. Even if those things are available, he won't use them unless assigned to do so.

You sure? Ive gotten Agnes on her bench instead of indoors taunting old people. Only reason I noticed was that when I did my morning cleanup, she was on the bench with no thumb over her head even though I had assigned her to taunt old people... The bench happens to be outside the retirement home, but I doubt that's a factor. I'll see if I can recreate it tonight.

I've also been trying to get her to go on a date with the comic book guy ... Wonder if that would ever happen.

That sounds like something weird in your own town, rather than how neighbors view your town. In neighboring towns, I always see Agnes cleaning up Springfield, even though she's probably taunting old people or doing silhouette night. I almost never see her feeding birds in a neighboring town, presumably because it's her hour task and very few of my neighbors are going to be doing that often enough for me to see it.