Please get rid of the artificial needs depletion that enforce a 8am-10pm lifestyle for our Zois.

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I forget when it was added, I want to say in 0.4.0 but I’m no longer sure.

Basically I’ve been playing InZOI since April, and I have never. ever. had any problem with my Zois (plural) routine. At least those in the families I managed (mostly my own, but I checked others every now and then).
That includes the time back when every zoi were hungry, sleep deprived, and had toilets needs that rivals the feeling of exiting a theater after a 3.5 hour movie.

Thing is, these needs bar used to deplete at the same stable rate over time, eating a fulfilling meal at 7am would easily last you until 5-6pm (as far as I remember).
Zois weren’t trying to wake up every 30-60min before 11pm and after 8am and so on. They acted on their slowly depleting needs bar and that was it.

Sure, that meant you had some zoi with a messed-up cycle… but that’s fine as we have these people in real life too. I am an night owl (well almost).
My sleep schedule is 4am-Noon and has been since I was 16-ish years old. Let them be. It adds to the game that not every zoi is part of that perfect society where everyone wakes up at 6-7am, have breakfast, then diner, then supper, then go to bed around 9-to-11pm.

There was a recent post made by fellow players about the night club closing too early, I mean if every zoi have hardcoded in their bones that they must go home to sleep at midnight, then there’s no point to have the night clubs open to 3am now is there ? And this enforcement of the artificial life style came up.

Now I’m being very diplomatic here, but I am NOT happy about that change, and I’ll not elaborate more (and believe me, I could).

Please consider to either make it an option in the menu (call it idealistic lifestyles) which we can toggle on or off, or simply revert the change so we have zois of all hours and nightclubs and maybe other night activities that aren’t all on the 9-18 daytime cycles.

Thank you.

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I completely agree with you. I personally find it strange that my character wakes up at 7 a.m. even on his day off from work. I tried to put him to bed again and again, but he wakes up. It’s incredibly annoying.:frowning:

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I really hope they will. I have a lot of fun playing night owl zois because I’m also a night owl. Plus, I like it when my family zois are up half the night taking care of the babies and need extra sleep in the morning. They should be able to take shifts.

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From another thread where a lot of players (not just me) complained of their Zois eating/washing/bathroom even if they did not need to :

We’ve reviewed this report and the behavior is part of the morning routine system — certain actions are scheduled to occur at specific times, which is why the Zoi performed the action even though the need was already full.

That said, we understand that it may feel a bit unnatural, and we plan to improve this behavior in the future.

Since this is not a bug, I’ll go ahead and close this thread for now.
If you have any suggestions for how this could be improved, please feel free to share them in the Wishlist category.

Thanks for your feedback! :thankyou:

So it would appear this “Morning Routine”, and probably the other routines are to blame for thee enforcement of the artificial many things. Another good reason to remove that.

Please restore gameplay to what it was, remove these routines or make them optional in the menu.
Let us play with zois of different internal clocks like it was before, it was far more fun and beside the occasional dead tired/hungry zoi, it worked really well and felt far more natural. Thank you.

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