I have to say that I cannot understand anyone playing with freewill off. Where are the surprises in your game?
Usually, on community lots, where I don't have to deal with it wasting my time. The fact of the matter is that even if I did bother to leave it on, my sims would never be released from their Power Idle lock anyway, since otherwise they wouldn't do their business properly, and by properly, I mean NOW. Free Will has a MINIMUM granularity of about 15 minutes or so before a sim will even consider doing something, and that is just not acceptable. MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!
Do you ever wet yourself laughing at the stuff that happens?
No, but apparently I have better bladder control than you.
I have been in tears more than once at some of the hilarious goings-on in my game, none of which would have occurred if I'd been micro-managing their every move.
As far as I can tell, they end up always either doing the wrong thing, or not doing anything at all. Then they're not in good shape and just bitch and moan at me when I tell them it's time to do something useful. Which, in any case, is right now.
* J. M. Pescado crack whip.