It seems the Zois autonomously always do the same things like cleaning or sweeping or “tidying up appearance” that starts to get a little repetitive and lacks the personality feel. It would be cool to have Zoi’s doing interesting things on their own without having to do much storytelling ourselves. So here’s a list of ideas that I think would be cool to see our Zoi’s doing autonomously:
- Phone Calling: them being able to make phone calls instead of only text. I’d like to see Zoi’s autonomously decide to call another Zoi in an actual phone conversation where they may walk around while on the phone animating different animations of them walking and talking on the phone.
- Invite Over Other Zoi’s Autonomously: maybe they decide to invite someone over on their own through a phone call and depending on the intent of the visitation (confront about an issue with friendship, to have a gossip session, announce pregnancy or engagements, talk about rumors “I saw so and so on a date with so and so”) I’d like to see my Zoi’s deciding to do these things autonomously.
- Throwing Parties: I’d like to see my Zoi throwing their own parties and invite over whoever they want and maybe even deciding to purposely invite an enemy to confront at the party and it’s a whole “party fight”
- Setting up dates by themself: I’d like to see my Zoi deciding to autonomously set up a date with someone through a phone call with maybe someone they have a crush on and maybe if that crush isn’t reciprocated the phone call doesn’t go well and it ends in the Zoi feeling “rejected” and sad about it after mustering up the courage to ask their crush on a date!
So these are just some ideas I’ve thought about so maybe if others see this they can tag on more little things they’d like to see their Zoi doing autonomously. I’d just like some variety in what our Zoi chooses to do autonomously that only happens in the household being played (of course generating all of these for every single NPC/ unplayed household would slow down pc’s with information overload) but yea even if it’s just small little unique things added or a wider range of autonomous actions that are specifically tied to each personality type would be awesome!
EDIT!!: There’s definitely a HUGE emphasis I’d like to make on the need for these “autonomous” interactions to be based on personality/ situational and conversational context!! Like I wouldn’t expect an introverted Zoi to autonomously do any of these nearly as often as an extroverted Zoi. The need for these actions to not be “randomized” will make or break this sort of system as the whole point of it is to make the Zoi have more personality and doing more things on their own tied to their circumstances that we as the player do not always have to set up by ourselves!!
Bonus points: An updated “preferences” system that includes “party styles”. We choose the types of parties they like to attend and throw, casual vs formal, weddings, birthdays, sleepovers in order to better navigate what our Zoi’s choose to do on their own to keep the “random” feeling out of it!! I think the preferences system needs to be expanded anyway so having a different more interesting approach on this than “Likes/ Dislikes” in Sims series for example, it could be huge!