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NameGani
Rising Adventurer
5 months ago
Status:
Fixed

[RL] 'Mysterious' & 'Vicious' Dynasty Ideal causes Sims to autonomously watch TV

I have an evil aligned dynasty, because reasons, and had the Dynasty Ideals Devious, Mysterious, Vicious.  Key word HAD.  Every single dynasty member would do nothing but get into fist fights and scream profanities at each other.  I had to remove vicious and now, thanks to mysterious, they keep abandoning whatever they're doing to run to stare at static tv.  They even started a fire because I took my eyes off my sim working on the culinary master chef aspiration who ran to stare at static tv while their food was on the stove.  Trying to paint?  Nope, static TV.  Try to do homework?  Nope, static TV.  When the vicious ideal was active they'd just go into a loop of nothing but mean interactions, I would have to pause the game and just cancel the constant mean interactions that just spammed the queue until I gave up and reset the sim with the debug menu.  BFF?  How about a half dozen fist fights in a row.  Every few hours.  Soul Mates?  Not when they spend more time in a fight animation than the woohoo animations.  With the mysterious ideal taking point I'll cancel the ideal activity until the queue is quiet, and they'll drop whatever I told them to do and go do the ideal activity with an empty queue, so nothing TO cancel.

The only thing I have found that overrides the dynasty ideals is Holding Court and hosting a Grand Ball.

PLEASE can EA make the activity pushes SANE.  It's hard to play when you can't do anything but babysit and micromanage.

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  • NameGani's avatar
    NameGani
    Rising Adventurer
    5 months ago

    Sure seems that way, doesn't it.

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    1 month ago
    Status changed:
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    Fixed

    A top community concern around "Sims performing Mean interactions" was investigated. We found while this was previously happening, these were old bugs that we'd previously addressed in past patches. When we investigated new reports and player saves we found this was being caused by the "Vicious Dynasty Ideal" from Royalty & Legacy and was by design. We wanted to address this feedback however, so Sims with the Vicious Dynasty Ideal will no longer autonomously run Mean interactions. They will still get Prestige Points when a player manually runs Mean socials.

    Fixed in Patch 1.125.59/2.35

    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing issues

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