When sims seem human...

[el_flel]

Whilst The Sims is a life simulator and therefore, obviously, should represent real life, there is only so much the game's AI can do. So I am always pleasantly surprised when my sims do things that are really human.

For example, one of my sims rolled the want to fall in love with her ex-husband, with whom she is still friends, whilst on a date with someone else. The ex is gay so they were never getting back together but I just thought it was quite sweet.

Another example, when a loved one dies most of my sims mourn them straight away and then get over it. But occasionally I'll have a sim who will mourn spontaneously, sometimes days after the death.

What human-like things have your sims done?

[julmoo]

My Sims sometimes spontaneously walk up to their spouses and kiss them romantically, especially when one is pregnant.
I don't have ACR so that is surprising.

One of the founding families in my current hood is a farming couple and every time the woman's pregnancy starts showing she walks up to her husband that is pulling weeds among the tomatoes and kisses him romantically. I find it sooooo adorable.
Right now they're expecting their third pair of twins <3

Twins are really difficult to play when you have to take care of a big garden, but with the eldest sons being teens I expect it to be much easier with the next four kids xD
The parents always roll the want AND fear "Have a baby" when the twins are just through the roughest phase.

That's REALLY human to me.
Gosh I love this pair of Sims, I'll be so sad when they die ;_;

[frankokomando]

I like it when the children go out and give their parent a hug after they just got off work. :)

[victory101]

I like the fact that you can take two sims with the exactly same aspiration/personality points and have them develop into completely different people. And the fact that sometimes the way they develop runs completely contrary to what you might expect. I have one sim right now who's very outgoing, so like the others I've had with that sort of arrangement, I anticipated he'd be a social butterfly.

Instead, I've discovered he absolutely hates people; the outgoing side of his personality only comes out with animals. With other sims, he's a total misanthrope. I didn't see that coming at all! But it's little details like that that really make my sims feel alive :)

ETA: Typo XD

[AlexandraSpears]

I directed an active child Sim to join her twin sister (who's lazy) in watching TV. (BTW these are Gilbert Jacquet's twins.) She said something that sounded like "Do I got to!?"

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af292/alexandrasims2/snapshot_7cf1fda7_bcf4c3c5.jpg

[SimMegaptera]

It's when they do things repeatedly that sometimes makes them seem human, as if they actually have some likes or dislikes. Rafael and his roomie Julius were eating dinner when Julius tried to flirt with him by feeding him some food. Rafael hated that. Later on they successfully snuggled on the couch and then kissed. But Julius tried to feed Rafael again and Rafael said nuh-uh. XD It's just that one thing that he hates that Julius does.

[VerDeTerre]

@ Alexandra - That's a great shot! I love it when Sims look up at you as if you are crazy to ask them to do something or, as if to say, "What are you doing?" They've been doing that since Sims 1.

[MattShizzle]

Way, way back I had an adult male sim still at home and he woohoo'd with his girlfriend. The man's mom walked in on it (she never met the woman before) and then had a very negative relation towards her.

[Simsica]

I like the fact that you can take two sims with the exactly same aspiration/personality points and have them develop into completely different people. And the fact that sometimes the way they develop runs completely contrary to what you might expect. I have one sim right now who's very outgoing, so like the others I've had with that sort of arrangement, I anticipated he'd be a social butterfly.

Instead, I've discovered he absolutely hates people; the outgoing side of his personality only comes out with animals. With other sims, he's a total misanthrope. I didn't see that coming at all! But it's little details like that that really make my sims feel alive :)
This once happened with Dustin Broke in one of my Pleasantview games - he is an outgoing Sim, but in that particular game, he hated hanging out with people. I had to force him to interact in any other way than "irritate" interactions.

It's when they do things repeatedly that sometimes makes them seem human, as if they actually have some likes or dislikes.
I only seem to remember the extremes, like Dustin Broke above. Or this one Sim, way back in just the base game, that always and only abused the bar. He lived with 3 roomies and each one of them had other stuff to do with their lives except him. He'd come home from work and park himself next to the bar and drink. He had difficulties making friends so I can only suppose that lonliness has made him turn to drinking.

My Sims sometimes spontaneously walk up to their spouses and kiss them romantically, especially when one is pregnant.
I don't have ACR so that is surprising.

Did you notice how when another potential love interest of their mate is around, they'll line up interactions to stop them from communicating? Their mate will respond to the intruder's attempts at conversation but their spouse or girl/boy-friend will come around and flirt, kiss or do something else romantic so that the intruder knows, without any doubts, that that Sim is already taken. Or so it seems from where i'm standing.

Also, when a Sim is in a bad mood, their spouse or friend or family will attempt to make them feel better. For instance, they'll tell a joke or start a conversation or a game. I've noticed this on multiple occasions. It's so human and responsive.

[MsScribble]

The spontaneous hugs and kisses as mentioned, so sweet!
Also the child sims who rub thier feet on the carpet and walk about with their little finger out - looking for someone to shock. The way some sims will wait for dinner while its being cooked, and reacting to the cooking smells.
Yesterday the townie Sandy Fairchild was walking past my sims house and well, she needed to use the loo. She walked right on in, used the guest bathroom, and walked out again. My sims couldn't engage with her in any way - she just needed to go!

[DigitalSympathies]

My game is just so full of life and realism. I love it.

Once shining example that stands out to me is when my game was in 1970, Keith Meyers would sneak into his daughter's room early in the morning, just before he had to go to work, and tuck her in and kiss her on the forehead before catching his ride to work. Every. Morning. :D

[el_flel]

Oh, that reminds me, I've got a spontaneous drinker too!

Ella and her husband are very wealthy. He's at the top of the journalism career and has written a number of bestselling novels. She used to be at the top of the music career but kept getting demoted and then promoted again until she eventually got fired so is now unemployed. They live in that really expensive Maxis penthouse. They have one son who is grown up and lives with his wife and children. Ella's parents died in a house fire leaving her toddler twin sisters orphaned so Ella adopted them.

I think she's a bored, rich housewife because every chance she gets she slinks off to their home bar and downs drink after drink, and keeps rolling wants to have affairs, even though she isn't a romance sim.

[Peni Griffin]

Mary Gavigan used to try to encourage niceness in her son Ezekial, but if she tried it with anybody but her around, he'd go straight to the person he had the lowest relationship with and try to hug them. When the hug was refused he'd go back to his mom and shrug. "See? I tried. Get off my back." Once he fell in love with Pigeon Hawkins, he started directing his grouchiness at two kinds of people: folks he felt competed with him for her attention, and folks he felt had done one of his friends wrong. He always straightens right up for Pigeon, though.

Family members tend to start dropping by as a due date comes near.

[Gcgb53191]

Family members tend to start dropping by as a due date comes near.

Thats awesome I thought it was weird that both Malcolm V and Meadow stopped by after the baby was born, and Meadow's the stepmom. :D

[el_flel]

Just noticed that another of my sims has family as his primary aspiration with knowledge as the second. He rolls wants to learn the cooking skill more than any other skill, regardless of what he has just been learning.

[jamini94]

I have two married sims, who are now elders, but when they were adults, they had an obsession with video games and got so competitive. They would play whenever they had some spare time (when I wasn't paying attention to them) and I would always crack up because the wife would always win and yell her victory scream. I have never seen two people get so competitive while playing sims.

[rogue_55]

One time I had one of my families on vacation at Twikki Island. I saw that the teen boy was going to interact with his little sister while she was sleeping. I was going to cancel it until I saw that he was going to tuck her in. I thought it was so sweet that I had to allow him to do it. What a good older brother he is. I really wasn't expecting him to do that because he and his sister weren't really that close at the time. That made it even more special.

[poisonapple888]

That reminds me! I was in Veronaville with Antonio and his two kids. The boy, I forgot his name, had a nightmare and woke up. He ran over to his dad's bed and went to sleep in there. I had never seen that before. It was surprising yet cute!

[Y2Jay]

One of my male Sims seemed to be homosexual. Even though they don't generally have a gender-preference, he seemed to only want to be around boys and got his relationships so high with them he automatically did stuff (hug, tickle, flirts) that created crushes.
I had no problem with this but I intended for him to be with a specific female, so after all was said and done they were engaged. Then one day he brings one of his male friends home from work and what do you know, he's having a homosexual affair.

He was either a player (wasn't Romantic aspiration) or was a homosexual. I'm entitled to believe it was the latter.

[mirjamsim2love]

I directed an active child Sim to join her twin sister (who's lazy) in watching TV. (BTW these are Gilbert Jacquet's twins.) She said something that sounded like "Do I got to!?"

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af292/alexandrasims2/snapshot_7cf1fda7_bcf4c3c5.jpg
Aaah, they are adorable!
Where did you get the hair?

And I find this funny too. When you direct them to do something and they make this gesture as if they want to say: 'What are you thinking! You should have known I don't like that stuff' and sometimes they even walk there with their head a bit low and really slow pacing as if they have to do something that is really bad. :lol:

I also find it funny when they come up with something on their own, like making the bed, and then be very happy about that just before they go do it. :D

[AlexandraSpears]

I've found out that Sims with certain personalities are more willing to do certain interactions.

Direct a grouchy Sim to give a backrub and they'll put their hands to their head like they're ready to throw a fit.

Direct a shy Sim to make out, squeeze, or kiss romantically, and they'll point at themselves like, "Who...me?" Whereas an outgoing Sim will give that fist-pump and say "YES!" and go for it.

[lovevslust]

So I had an apartment full of people. Can't remember exactly apartment it was though...it was a bin one.
Anyways, one of the townies that didn't live there at all stayed for like four days. After the second day he started peeing and starving...but NEVER died. On the third day I had a apartment farthest from him when my camera kept forcing itself over to him. He kept staring up at me(literally) and sat there for hours. I couldn't play my family and soon they too started to throw fits.
It was so annoying that i couldn't play and restarted the game. Then he was all like a la poof! Da fcq?!?!!?
It was like he knew....
That still haunts me to this day with sims...if they start staring at me...for hours like that....too creepy....

[Gcgb53191]

I love when my sims say hi to each each other when they wake up if they share rooms :)

[Skittlenut]

I once had a shy sim that i had change her appearance in the mirror, after i'd finished changing her appearance she laughed at herself in the mirror but then did some sort of worry/sigh action that made her look insecure (guessing because she is shy), and she looked like she was thinking "oh, i actually do look terrible" or something. I found this oddly realistic (being shy myself) and i couldn't help but feel sorry for her D:

[RowenaLupin]

I hadn't had anything human-like in quite a while, but I'm playing at University at the moment, and I always send my Sim Alexandria off to fish so she can gather money to extend her Greek House, and she and this uni townie have really good chemistry and they've dated a few times. Well the lake I send her to is really big the one at Academie Le Tour, and I always send her clear over on the other side because of the mascot fighting, my Sim likes to interrupt what she's doing to run and hide from the fighting. Well, I'm not really paying any attention, but when I look back at the screen there's Ashton standing right beside her fishing. I mean he could have gone ANY other side, but he chose her side, and I thought it was really human-like and so cute.

[julmoo]

I directed an active child Sim to join her twin sister (who's lazy) in watching TV. (BTW these are Gilbert Jacquet's twins.) She said something that sounded like "Do I got to!?"

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af292/alexandrasims2/snapshot_7cf1fda7_bcf4c3c5.jpg

Today I repeatedly tried to shoot a townie in Riverblossom Hills for a challenge but she wouldn't die. I have no idea why though. Then when the townie walked off the lot she stared directly at me as if to say: "I know what you just did there..."

I quickly deleted that neighbourhood xD

[Fivey]

Today I repeatedly tried to shoot a townie in Riverblossom Hills for a challenge but she wouldn't die. I have no idea why though. Then when the townie walked off the lot she stared directly at me as if to say: "I know what you just did there..."

I quickly deleted that neighbourhood xD

What challenge? I'd be just as scared. :giggler:

[julmoo]

It was the Homicidal Hermit challenge :D

I have tried several methods but she survived everything o.o

[Fivey]

It was the Homicidal Hermit challenge :D

I have tried several methods but she survived everything o.o

Oh, that definitely sounds familiar! C:

[ella_in_wonderland]

I like the classic one: The children immediately stop what they're doing, run outside and hug their parent who has arrived home from work <3 so sweet

[Johnny_Bravo]

My Sims doing human things? Beside taking a dump sometimes nothing.

[Tullulabell]

I had a sim recently in love with 2 women. One got pregnant so I had him propose to her. As soon as he did he rolled the want to propose to the other girl, and as soon as he got married he had the want to marry the other girl! Needless to say he feels he made a mistake, which is driving the story forward in the way I planned!

[CherryFlight]

So. Nothing new to SimEarth, a kitchen fire broke out. The cook's twin brother rushed from his chess practice to panic at the fire, and try as I might, I couldn't get either of them to extinguish the fire on their own - the Extinguish command kept dropping out of their queues. I did get their housemate to call the fire department, but by that point the brother had caught on fire too. The firemen got there in time to save him - the needs drop saw him immediately head to bed, while his twin took a seat at the dinner table and didn't move a muscle, not even the usual idle leg or hand movements of a seated Sim. It was a tense quiet after the panic of the fire - he could have killed his brother, after all!

The most human thing about all this? The next day, nearly every interaction between the twins was a hug.