Quantum Sims

[LlamaMama]

Quantum physics has shown that a behavior changes due to the act of being observed. I've been thinking about this regarding my sims, and especially since I accidentally came across this unfortunate accident. It made me wonder what other wondrous things were happening in SV when I wasn't looking.

I've been tempted to set up a single town with all my various sims residing there as starting characters to see what they all end up doing autonomously, but in order to observe them the game requires an active household. So I'm wondering if a sim's behavior is different when it's "active", even if you don't direct them, from what it would be if, say, you had a different active household.

If left on its own, would a CAS-made sim work toward achieving the LTW, or would it live an endless life of sprinklers and tv?

Any thoughts?

[TollingBells]

I'm pretty certain that if you don't set your sims up with their dream job, they'll remain unemployed, especially if it's something like a painter or writer. I had one writer sim put with his family into a town, because there was only 6 other families left (I wish I was kidding.   Apparently Riverview sucks.). After about 5 sim days, I was playing my P.I., who had a case with said man, and when I checked his relationship status, it said 'unemployed'.  

[Leto85]

Well, they will go to bed on time, that's for sure. I was making a timelapse scene once and then I noticed that around 21:00 pm the lights goes out in any house that I don't control.

Besides that, sims also like to quit their jobs the first day they grow up to be an elder. They eat at normal times too, so I suppose the sims out of your control will have sort of an internal clock according to ours.
Or they are just faking it.

But what does this all have to do with quantum physics?

[NancyJ]

Schroedinger's Cat

I have observed, in houses with large windows that the occupants just stand around and do nothing a lot of the time, although I have noticed since Ambitions that no-one ever seems to be home! If Jamie Jolina isn't at work, she's off jogging somewhere - I have no idea where Agnes Crumplebottom goes all day (sometimes if you look at their house it tells you where they are like at the pool or park but most of the time it just says they aren't home)

[sydney511]

I noticed that too, Nancy! Like in the family with the kid named Sam in SV (forgot the name), when I peeked in the window they just stood there. Creepy. 

[LlamaMama]

But you folks are talking about npcs, not player-made characters, which are what I'm thinking of.

[Schipperke]

I've had sims that I got bored with and then brought another sim that I created in to the neighbourhood.  When I eventually went back to check on the original sim, their lifestyle had always taken a turn for the worse.  Examples:  (1)my 5-star chef was working at level 5 or 6 in the culinary track - how did that happen?  (2) gardens left overgrown, weedy and untended.  (3) one of my sims - my pride and joy, I did everything with her - had developed a romantic interest - Beau Andrews, of all people!  I don't normally talk to my sims, but I couldn't help myself:  "HIM?  You chose him?  Couldn't you do any better than that?"

I don't think our sims do very well without us.  They NEED us. 

[Saltypaws]

On the other side of the track, I have had sims that were children of my CAS sims that got their LTW, got married, had kids.  I thought that was kinda neat, of course they didn't get their happiness points, bummer, but I had a renowned surgeon, top gun, astronaut and leader of the free world and all on their own.  On the other hand, I have had happen exactly what everyone else has said, standing around, retiring or working somewhere else, after I had gotten them to the top of their career.  These guys are busy little sims.  For the most part they stand around alot and when I do go into the household, their energy is way down, but everything else is green.  I am thinking, "go to bed then silly". lol.  I have not really seen too many sims go to bed on their own if I was not controlling them.  I did see something kind of neat though. I had a sim at the park and I was facing the school and there was a crowd of kids and a couple of teens all standing outside the door.  They were taking turns going in the door to go to class, it was around 8:30 am, but the funny part was, they all rode their bikes, not the bus.  They all finally got into the school, but I had never seen that.