Obsessive Diary-Writing

[jolrei]

I know we don't take requests here at MATY but this is just too important and it's ruining the fun of the game. Hats off again to EAxis screwing it up once more . PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF AWSOMENESS!!! Could somebody tell me if this obsessive diary writing will be taken care of before I nuke my Sims into space. I just can't wait for the next patch to arrive (I am so impatient lol). This is one of those things I have never understood why it was put into the game in the first place . If it was something useful then it would make some sense. I am just getting sick and tired of my adult Sims acting like fourteen year old girls.

Gamblor's melodramatic histrionics - let him show you them.

It's a bunch of pixel people sitting down and writing in a book, not the end of civilization as we know it.  A sense of perspective is so important.

[gynarchy]

I am just getting sick and tired of my adult Sims acting like fourteen twelve year old girls.

There is no 14, only 12. Fixed.

[Assmitten]

I know we don't take requests here at MATY but this is just too important and it's ruining the fun of the game. Hats off again to EAxis screwing it up once more . PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF AWSOMENESS!!! Could somebody tell me if this obsessive diary writing will be taken care of before I nuke my Sims into space. I just can't wait for the next patch to arrive (I am so impatient lol). This is one of those things I have never understood why it was put into the game in the first place . If it was something useful then it would make some sense. I am just getting sick and tired of my adult Sims acting like fourteen year old girls.

Gamblor's melodramatic histrionics - let him show you them.

It's a bunch of pixel people sitting down and writing in a book, not the end of civilization as we know it.  A sense of perspective is so important.

I wouldn't mind a bookshelf without diaries at all, though.

[Gamblor]

A sense of perspective is so important.

A sense of illogical importance the way I see it. I just looking for a no autonomous hack for it.

[Liz]

Liz: Don't tell people not to fight with me; where am I going to get my lulz?

I am SO going to write about this in my diary.

Nice one, Rohina 

The main problem I have about the diary thing (okay, aside from the way some idjit sim will whip it out in the middle of the dorm, then spend the next half hour gasping and smooshing it into their boobs because, "Oh, noes! Mah sekrits!") is that it's so pointless. The motives boost is nominal at best, and they all write the same bloody thing. BBQ grill, teddy bear, random person I spoke to once 3 seasons ago, lawn gnone. Repeat ad nauseam. If they at least wrote about people they actually *know* or were attracted to, or tidbits they'd heard through gossip, it might be vaguely point-ful, but it's the same thing every time.

[Zazazu]

Ever looked at the "diary"? I repeat my poking of one of my more insane sims, Charisma. "It's an encyclopedia, you freak!"

[jsalemi]

I guess he's still lurking here, because TJ posted a 'no autonomous diary' hack over on the inteen site about 3 hours ago.

[Gamblor]

Thank you TJ.

[witch]

I still think TJ's awesome, even though he got brynnesided.

[Assmitten]

SIGH

There is only One True sims site.

Read: I am lazy.

[ladycoelura]

I had the diary and computer problem before FT came out. I actually have been trying to make non autonomous files that would stop some of the more annoying behaviors, ie writing in the diary or just reading and also with the computers the play, chat and i think a few others. Unfortunatly the computer on just isnt working. I also did the same thing to fridges and tubs and bars. Pretty much anything that would get on my nerves that i couldnt find a hack to fix.

[J. M. Pescado]

Anti-autonomy is practically an exercise in futility, like an ongoing whack-a-mole. I suggest the allegedly-portable fist approach to things.

[Sivany]

I had the diary and computer problem before FT came out. I actually have been trying to make non autonomous files that would stop some of the more annoying behaviors, ie writing in the diary or just reading and also with the computers the play, chat and i think a few others. Unfortunatly the computer on just isnt working. I also did the same thing to fridges and tubs and bars. Pretty much anything that would get on my nerves that i couldnt find a hack to fix.

Dizzy has a no playing on the computer hack which I use and it seems to work fine, can't remember where it's posted now but I followed a link from this site to find it so a search would probably bring it up.

The problem with no autonomy hacks is that as you squish each action the sims fall back on the next one and that one becomes annoying requiring it to be squished as well so the sims fall back on another and the cycle continues until you might as well just turn free will off. Currently my sims are obsessed with looking at paintings/sculptures/kitchen cabinets etc. to the point where they will do it even if they are about to piss themselves.

[doren]

The problem with no autonomy hacks is that as you squish each action the sims fall back on the next one and that one becomes annoying requiring it to be squished as well so the sims fall back on another and the cycle continues until you might as well just turn free will off. Currently my sims are obsessed with looking at paintings/sculptures/kitchen cabinets etc. to the point where they will do it even if they are about to piss themselves.

They even do that without any anti autonomoy hacks. I noticed the same thing. I had only one sim trying to write his diary in the last few days, while several others suddenly became art critics.

Well, mostly I had a sex-crazed suicidal Servo, but that's a different story.