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peewee5278
Seasoned Vanguard
1 month ago
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[RL] Sims drop interactions to read books with Scholarly Ideal

Dynasty glitch: sims walking away from player directed actions to read books with Scholarly Ideal activated

Hello, no mods or CC, windows 11 PC here. I downloaded the new expansion pack this morning and tried to play with the dynasty mechanics in a 4 person family I created previous to the game being released. However, I had to quit without saving because my sims would quit doing any action I directed them to do and go read books instead. I had books EVERYWHERE because they would quit partially through. leave it out, and go read a different one.

I had one sim create the dynasty. For the dynasty ideals I chose mysterious, artistic, and scholarly. The scholarly ideal is the one that had them wanting to read books. I had one sim who needed to make drinks to advance her career, and one sim who needed to paint to advance her career. I directed each of them to do their career task (make a drink, paint on easel) and both kept quitting autonomously to go read a book. I would cancel that interaction and send them back to their tasks. They would quit autonomously and go choose another book. I had to cancel and send them back six times before they completed their job tasks.

It was a complete nightmare. I don't play with autonomy off and never have. I have never had issues with this family before the new pack. I believe the issue is DIRECTLY related to the dynasty dynamic, because when I quit without saving, I went back in and there was no dynasty created and I had no problems getting them to do what I told them to do (make drinks, finish paintings). They were in no way trying to read every book in the bookcase instead of doing what I told them to do. They weren't even interested in reading the books in the bookcase.

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29 Comments

  • nmcpie's avatar
    nmcpie
    Seasoned Traveler
    1 month ago

    I have two married sims living together with a bookend in their house. They will not stop reading constantly. This wouldn't be a big issue if 1) they put away their books and 2) they would stop canceling actions to read. Their toddler really needs a bath but the sim bathing her keeps canceling the bath to go and read a book. And I have literally not seen them put away any books.

  • I'm having the same issue, or alternately, my dynasty has artistic as well, and she'll stop making breakfast to go make art.

    I'm thinking that all the Dynasty ideals need to be dialed back a little

  • haydienne76's avatar
    haydienne76
    Seasoned Newcomer
    1 month ago

    I’m having the same issue, I’m on Xbox so no mods. I didn’t start a dynasty until yesterday and the game had played fine on the new update prior to the dynasty. After starting a dynasty and adding the Sholarly Ideal, my Sims are obsessed with reading. I’ve removed the Ideal and they’ve gone back to normal.

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