Autonomy

[emilylime]

Hello! I'm new here, and TS2 BBS is lagging, so I joined here to get my questions heard.

Anyway, I was at work, thinking about the sims (like any of us do at work) and I was thinking about that situation we've all been in...

Picture this...

You have a fireplace, and if you're anything like me, you never use it. On a whim you decide, eh what the  hell, light that thing up. BUT...you forgot to install a fire alarm! Soon, the globe next to the fireplace (and, strangely, the fishtank) catch on fire, your sim is running around wildly and shouting, and your other sim is frantically dialing the fire department. And while you have to wait precious moments until the fire department arrives, you are stuck shouting and waving your arms frantically.

Now...picture this happening while you're playing a different house. Suddenly your other family dies off before you even know what happens.

While seamless neighborhoods and simultaneous Sim living seems nice, there are many aspects of it that seem not-so-nice. It seems like the autonomy will mess up a lot of my things, and it will be difficult to write stories. Luckily (I think) we can turn that off, right?

But just think about your sims dying or getting married or having kids (what if they don't know when to STOP having kids!) I don't know...it'll take me a while to get used to the autonomy, and I hope it isn't SO autonomous that it royally messes up some of my elaborate and delicate family structures!

I'm rambling...but I'm just wondering if anyone is thinking about the full possibilities of full autonomy and what that can mean for some of your families??

AHH! So many questions!!