Annoying Bug: Sex voices don't scale volume with distance!

[sirpip]

This one is driving me crazy!  After spending hours placing invisible "no sex" signs on nearly every lot in every world, I was finally ready to enable sex autonomy.  Unfortunately, public areas that aren't lots still get lots of sex and it doesn't look like WW provides any mechanism for stopping that other than disabling autonomy altogether, which I'm pretty close to doing at this point.

 

Here's why this is a problem for me:  I get a notification that people are having sex somewhere off-lot in the distance.  Then, a few seconds later, I start hearing LOUD sex voices!  And when I say LOUD, I mean LOUD as in it's the same volume you'll hear Sims' voices at if you're right on top of them at maximum zoom!  In other words, no matter how far away they are, it sounds like they're fucking right in my fucking face.

 

This is also annoying because this is a shared house and I don't want people hearing loud sex groans coming from my speakers at all hours, nor do I want to have to keep the volume ridiculously low just to compensate.  I tried headphones but then the loudness of the voices just ends up hurting my ears if I don't turn it way down so it's the same basic problem.

 

At this point, my only solution is to just go back to playing with all WW automation disabled entirely.  Has anybody else noticed this or am I just doing something wrong on my end?  It happens even on base install, latest version, with no other mods, so I'd be surprised if this turned out to just be me.

 

Proposed Fix:  Make it so that WW sex voices behave the same as all other Sim voices with regard to how their volume scales with distance.  If a group of people are having an orgy in the park a block away, their moans shouldn't be overpowering the sound of the stereo system I have in my subbasement.  I mean, come on.

 

[Scorpio]

13 hours ago, sirpip said:

Unfortunately, public areas that aren't lots still get lots of sex and it doesn't look like WW provides any mechanism for stopping that other than disabling autonomy altogether, which I'm pretty close to doing at this point.

Wicked Settings > Sex Settings > Autonomy Settings >Autonomy Specifics > Autonomy Location Styles

Off Lot Location Styles: OFF

 

13 hours ago, sirpip said:

I tried headphones but then the loudness of the voices just ends up hurting my ears if I don't turn it way down so it's the same basic problem.

I use headphones too but you'll have to go into game settings/audio and adjust the volumes down.

Turn down the games music or others so you can hear other things better without needing to overcome all the other sounds.

You'll have to experiment with the different volume settings a bit to get them to your liking.