The maker of Sims made our characters stupidly stupid

Summary

The Sims made it difficult to keep our characters alive intentionally, so we would not just lean back and let the AI do the work.
The AI was originally too smart, which means that it was more optimal not to play the game.
This was changed and more ways for our Sims to harm themselves were added.

Sometimes our Sims can make a number of truly bewildering decisions. This was never more true than in the first game, where our creations would not even bring themselves to the bathroom without our guidance, so that almost constant microm management was needed to keep their needs (or fulfilled as you can, think how difficult the Sims are ).

Now it appears that this was all because of design and done to ensure that it was always more optimal to actually pay attention. Original Simsmaker Will Wright has just revealed this in an interview with The New York Times (thanks, PC Gamer), which explains that an original build of the game accidentally made the Sims too smart, so that the developers have rejected this – – a lot of.

You are not alone, our Sims are intentionally stupid

The AI in the first Sims game leads them to make some very questionable decisions

Cook the Sims 1 goths in another Sims kitchen.

“In early versions of the game, the autonomy was too good,” says Wright, recalling the development of the first Sims game. “Almost everything the player did was worse than the Sims that were performed on the stara machine.”

To fight this, he started to make the game more chaotic. Now Sims can die on different, often self -imposed ways. As writing the New York Times, Wright did not want us to feel that gods controlled ants, he wanted us to feel that “ants that occurred like gods”.

In addition to the AI who could not keep our Sims alive and well, they were surrounded by danger in the form of the furniture that we bought for them. In fact, Wright refers to all the assets that we can give our Sims to make them happy as “hidden time bombs”, because devices would inevitably break – or catch fire. Combine that with the stupid AI, and now … just don’t get too attached to your Sims in the first game.

If you want to see this for yourself, the Sims is now on steam via the Legacy collection. However, it is currently on mixed reviews due to the performance problems that some have experienced.