Sim's going Ah-ha! and raising their hands a lot! (pic)

[Takata5]

So yeah, this is happening a lot now. All too often to the point where its becoming annoying! It happens anytime to, like when they start eating, finished washing dishes, playing chess, just coming inside the house, anytime! Is this happening to anyone else? Also that sulking to happens a lot! Started happening only after that patch. If they could get rid of it, or at least make it happen a lot less..

[crinrict · Accepted solution]

@Takata5 There's a bug report here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Repetitive-Behavior-Ah-ha-Moments/td-p/9185286

Best to get as many me toos as possible

[Tiarella4]

@Takata5   I don't have the June patch yet (waiting for them to debug it), but two seconds after I started playing the next household in my rotation, my scientist-sim, who hadn't had a new breakthrough in forever, suddenly had a 'Eureka' moment that looked just like the one in your pic.  Is your sim a scientist?

I updated my game at the start of the month, just before the June patch, and am wondering now if they re-tuned the scientists' breakthrough-rate sometime before the June patch.

If your sim isn't a scientist, then I have no idea! 

edited because I forgot to tag ya, Takata5!

[RavenLure]

My sims do the same thing and she is not working. She does this at random times. There is nothing in notifications as to why and no modlets to cue me to what is happening.   It is rather odd.. 

[RandomBuzziness]

@Takata5 As I understand it this idle animation is a reaction to an area with positive Eco environment score (or maybe a combination of Eco environment and regular decorations). If it's an area with a negative Eco environmental score they'll do a "bored" <sighs> idle animation. It never seems to match their actual moods. My Sims do both of these animations several times per day and I think maybe that's a little too much. I also hope they'll perhaps tone it down a bit in the next game patch.

There is an open Bug Report on this issue, though it seems like this happening by design and is not an actual bug.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-Random-Bored-Idle-when-not-Bored-or-in-Boring/m-p/91...

[RavenLure]

I just Me too-ed that bug report and will add  what I said here to the report as well,. thanks for the link Random.

[crinrict · Accepted solution]

@Takata5 There's a bug report here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Repetitive-Behavior-Ah-ha-Moments/td-p/9185286

Best to get as many me toos as possible

[RandomBuzziness]

Thank you for that link @crinrict . I clicked the Me Too for that bug report. 

[Psychotps]

@Takata5 At least that one's quick. The only one that bugs me to no end is the one that causes them to stop and look around every time they enter a doorway to a new room. And it's not a room with a high environment score either. The interactions and automated stuff needs a lot of tweaking.

Someone will come and knock on the door, I'll tell my sim to "Invite In".
They walk out side and stop (look around at entering a new room - outside)
They walk up to the sim to greet the new sim and stop (have to run the animation to hug)
They hug and both then greet (again).They walk to the doorway to enter the house and stop. (have to run the animation to wonder at the new room they just entered)
They finally walk into the house.

With all these automated things going on, it's taking far too long to do anything. If a sim is outside and I tell them to go to the bathroom, it's like, walk to the entryway, stop, wonder, walk into the house, stop, wonder, walk to the bathroom, stop, wonder... geez, this is YOUR house, I know I designed it and it's fabulous, but can you PLEASE stop wondering about your own house for a second?

[EA_Lanna]

Thanks for joining the active bug report on this. To help keep all information in the same space for this, I'll close this out here. If you've not yet joined the other bug report, please click the link in Crinrict's post above. Thanks.