Since 0.4, toddlers request to be changed and wiped down when their needs don’t require it. They used to request it when they’d lose about 1/3 of the total need bar. But now its constant, my zoi’s can’t sleep if the toddler is up because they want something. I notice as well that toddlers are more needy in general, they were very docile and unneedy before. I get that they were too easy to play with since real toddlers would be more needy, but mine is keeping my zoi’s awake all night now with the interactions, and a good number of those interactions are changing them for a third time for no reason
Agreed! Even though I know there’s some realism to it, my adult zois will stop WHATEVER they’re doing to tend to the toddlers now. My zoi mom’s sleep meter was completely drained and she would not stay in bed because the toddler kept crying out…and the toddler’s needs weren’t even that low. I had to put her back to bed at least 3-4 times lol. Realistic? Yea kinda, lol but kind of annoying too
i don’t want to go to far off my own topic but i think how toddlers request attention should be addressed as well. right now i think they request any zoi on the lot and its random, which is leading to my zoi whose trying to sleep to be woken up multiple times in a row. meanwhile there are 2 other zoi’s awake that could care for them. it should consider a zoi whose not awake first unless in the case of like the toddler is in the room with the person sleeping and they start throwing a tantrum - thats reasonable to wake up the sleeping zoi.
distance should also play a part in how zois respond. the closest or least busy should get the request, not one clear across the lot on a different floor that wouldn’t even hear them due to distance (good reason for the baby radios too!).
i was going to append ‘inb4 someone says this is how real toddlers are’ to the op cause i know its coming lol. but its clearly unintentional when the actions they request aren’t even needed such as a diaper change.
“Thank you, O Creators, for your chatter about toddlers in our world! Till yesterday our preferred romantic chat was all about suggesting having children, we even admired the baby emoticons that kept popping up on each other’s heads. But you have opened our eyes! We are now indefinitely postponing our plans to have babies in our small home. Thank you for interrupting our karma with this gracious bolt of lightning.”
This!!! I posted this on Kjun discussions in discord and I was like “Am I crazy?? I don’t remember chiildcare being this erratic”.
I actually don’t mind toddlers being more needy (esp if it coincides with their personality), but what I don’t like is it interrupting whatever i told my adult Zois to do, and they drop everything to take care of the baby. Now, what I initially thought was happening was the mother’s value was Love, so she wanted to take care of the baby’s every need. The stepdad didn’t budge, so I thought that was it. And I was okay with it. But when the mom left and stepdad Zoi stayed, I realized it is ANY adult Zoi it chooses, regardless of personality. I think if they made it so, depending on personality, a zoi WILL drop everything to take care of the baby. But if it doesn’t coincide with their personality/trait, or if I as the player simply want them to neglect the child, then that should be an option as well.
I very dislike the drop everything mechanic, unless it were somehow warranted like you said via personality (or like i mentioned about a toddler throwing a tantrum in the same room as someone sleeping). That makes sense to me. It happens in my sims 3 games too, toddler needs something and several adults drop whatever they’re doing to head toward the toddler. Then its annoying because 3 adults arrive and only 1 was needed so 2 of them canceled actions and moved for no reason. At least inzoi only bugs 1 of my characters!
I hope they can refine the mechanic to be do something more than select a random zoi. Base it on distance, their actual need. Toddlers being toddlers they should be able to throw a fit and have no one react if they don’t actually need anything, or the zoi’s are busy etc.
I’m having this same issue, my adult zois been changing the toddler’s diaper more than 3 times in less than 10 mins in inzoi time and feed them with baby formula 2-3 times in less than 5mins when they’re not even hungry. It’s becoming annoying rather than cute. Pics as reference:
