Veterinarians Playing in the Snow [ Edited ]

[crinrict]

@Ar5ynal OK. Could you make a new thread then ?

I'll move your posts over afterwards so you don't need to re-write every detail. As this is about NPCs and yours are households Sims, it's better to have your own thread.

New thread is needed because of the template.

[lupusdragon]

I've just noticed this as well.  I have a played sim with the neat trait who shovels all of the snow, but I also saw a bunch of townies shoveling snow at one of the festivals in the Snowy Escape world.  I couldn't get my sims to build a snowman because townies kept shoveling the snow piles.  (Even with the neat trait, however, sims shouldn't be going out in blizzards to shovel snow that's on terrain.)

[LauraKl10]

ALL of the sims in my household KEEP SHOVELING SNOW

[MzMelonz]

This seems to still be an issue. At least, Sims seem obsessed with shoveling snow. Snow in the yard as well as everywhere else. They will ignore indoor activities to go out in the freezing cold to shovel snow…. constantly. Only one has the neat trait. If they live in a snowy area they are outside for sure, shoveling snow. No matter what. ☃️❄️🌨

[siirysiir]

This is bad enough at home but it gets infuriating on community lots when NPCs keep running off to shovel snow somewhere down the street. It would be best if this was just removed as an autonomous activity altogether. I don't really mind the small snow piles, mostly I'd just leave them be but it's cool to have the option to shovel them in case they're in the middle of your front yard.

[halloweenchild13]

@siirysiir I think the problem is due to the lack of things for sims to do and the way their AI is programed, they are programmed to look for every interactable object in the neighbourhood and from a score of 0-10 will decide how "important" it is and will there for pick a number based on that which determines if they'll perform the interaction. It's why sims will randomly strike up conversations w/o being introduced, because the AI interprets other sims as objects, rather than sims.

[siirysiir]

@halloweenchild13 Especially then it'd help to just remove it as an autonomous activity. I'll rather have NPCs trying to strike up a conversation instead of running off to shovel snow when I was actually trying to talk to them.

[Bearpal64]

@MzMelonz I recently played through winter with autonomy turned on full and it was like every other action was shoveling snow and most of the time they would also drop what they were doing to shovel snow.

[TheSimsDirect]

Hello @MzMelonz, @halloweenchild13, @siirysiir, @Bearpal64,

If any of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?

If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.

Instructions here: http://x.ea.com/74420

Thanks!

[MzMelonz]

@halloweenchild13 I have lots of things for them to do! They would even be hungry or have to use the bathroom and will still choose to shovel.