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ask for bedtime story, no autonomous

Posted: September 23rd, 2019, 1:47 pm
by JohnL83
If someone would please, I would like to know where the option in Retuner is located to turn this autonomous action off. I don't mind having the option, but I'd rather do it myself. It can be difficult when you have a lot of children, it's like a zombie attack once they all get tired.

I've searched the site and only found Littlelamby's post about finding the menu option in order to read a child to sleep by command. I looked under several topics as to what type of action this is, but I'm not having any luck. It doesn't seem to be in Retuner>situations, or actors, nor bookshelf, nor any of the other 3 places I looked.

Yes Igazor, I already hear you sir, I do send them to bed manually most of the time, but I'd rather they do that on their own when I am busy minding other Sims. Plus if you have 5-6 children it can take a second to get them each headed that way and they interrupt others who I have doing something else. Once I had triplet children, all three! walk in on Mom/Dad making woohoo. LOL Terrible situation, been there myself as a kid! It's not something you forget no matter how hard you try. :-o

ask for bedtime story, no autonomous

Posted: September 24th, 2019, 12:05 pm
by MissPatTS3
JohnL83 wrote:
September 23rd, 2019, 1:47 pm
Iwhen you have a lot of children, it's like a zombie attack once they all get tired.

I love this line.

ask for bedtime story, no autonomous

Posted: September 24th, 2019, 12:34 pm
by igazor
No, I'm not going to tell the OP how to send their kids to bed but I do have another suggestion. Most parents with small children, or anyone really could be pets or the elder in-laws for that matter, have locks on their bedroom doors meant to be used in such situations. Err, on the parents' bedroom door I mean, not that of the children or elder in-laws. :)

ask for bedtime story, no autonomous

Posted: September 24th, 2019, 4:16 pm
by JohnL83
igazor wrote:
September 24th, 2019, 12:34 pm
No, I'm not going to tell the OP how to send their kids to bed but I do have another suggestion. Most parents with small children, or anyone really could be pets or the elder in-laws for that matter, have locks on their bedroom doors meant to be used in such situations. Err, on the parents' bedroom door I mean, not that of the children or elder in-laws. :)
Yes, I keep forgetting this. For some reason they don't seem to stick though. I know I've set them to lock, but perhaps they go away if I reset the lot or town??

As for the Retuner setting, I'm assuming I'm not blind and it just isn't there? Oh well, part of having kids I suppose, being interrupted.

I never had my own, but you wouldn't know it by how often I've taken in or cared for others' from my relatives to my godchildren. LOL I'm "Uncle John" to a dozen or so brats.. ahem....kids...hmmmm more like, millennial know-it-alls. I don't exist when they are here except the rare occasions they look up from their phones. (my lack of social media presence is perplexing to them...how dare I like actual eye-contact) Unless they need something the parents won't give them of course. I like to torture them by having them talk to me with their phones in the other room before I "give in". :evil: The youngest just graduated high school this year! So far no I have no "greats"....
OMG that is next isn't it? Great Uncle?.....nooooooooo I'm not old, I'm not old, I'm not old. :cry:

ask for bedtime story, no autonomous

Posted: September 24th, 2019, 5:02 pm
by igazor
I guess it depends on whether we are talking about the simple door locks provided by the game itself vs. the more complex ones provided by the GoHere mod. But I don't have either dissolving on me that I can recall by way of MC Resets. Maybe the EA ones do, but really it's not difficult to check the lock before woohoo...is it? I mean, that's the digital equivalent of jiggling the doorknob before things get hot and heavy. An alternative might be to send your adult sims on a vacation whenever they want private moments, but that seems a bit extreme.

Don't know about the Retuner setting, perhaps someone else here will come forward with a combo that works for them.

ask for bedtime story, no autonomous

Posted: October 18th, 2019, 2:11 pm
by indignantgirl
I've always had to turn off auto bedtime story, due to large families. It IS like a zombie attack. The setting is "Ask for Bedtime Story" under Social Interactions in Retuner. You've probably already found this, but I wanted to post here in case anybody else is looking for this info.