Re: [FIXED] Beautifully decorated moddlet broken/ Always poorly decorated

I did more testing on this after reading EverLastling's post. I don't have Strangervile, but I tested building the same saved room on several other maps/lots. The room was 10x10 with 20 Knights, 5 Viva More of La Landscape, and several other decorations; certainly enough that per-update it would have been Beautifully Decorated (+3).

Sometimes the initial moodlet was Nicely Decorated (+2) and sometimes it was Decorated (+1). At first I thought this might be based on the specific lot/neighborhood. But further testing showed that without any build changes the moodlet will either show Nicely Decorated (+2) or Decorated (+1) randomly. There would often be about an hour or two gap where no decorated moodlet was granted.

An interesting side note: The decorated moodlets would vanish immediately upon bulldozing the lot, even with time remaining. The moodlets did not vanish upon leaving the room.

I’m having the same issue. The decorations all  have high environment points. I’ve got one of the paintings that’s environment 10 and the moodlet wasn’t effected. It’s annoying because if any of the other moodlet s dissolve, the mood shifts to, “Fine,” when it should be, “Happy.” I hope they get this fixed. 

This is actually by design, not a bug.

EA replaced the decorative moodlets with the last patch.

Maybe they wanted to implement the feedback of those players who repeatedly stated that the decorative moodlets in this game are far too overwhelming and do easily overpower negative emotions. The way it is described here is exactly the way the new moodlets are programmed. On the other hand, the old decorative moodlets can no longer be found in the tuning files, they have been deleted.

The new moodlets are called

buff_environment_BBGameplayEffects_BadEnvironmentLarge

buff_environment_BBGameplayEffects_BadEnvironmentMedium

buff_environment_BBGameplayEffects_BadEnvironmentSmall

buff_environment_BBGameplayEffects_GoodEnvironmentLarge

buff_environment_BBGameplayEffects_GoodEnvironmentMedium

buff_environment_BBGameplayEffects_GoodEnvironmentSmall

There are also extra moodlets for snobs and slobs.

@83bienchen if that's the case, not saying your wrong, then the Sim team needs to go back into decoration and change all the Environment 10 to Environment 1 or 2, because right now, its to confusing 

I can certainly understand tuning things to make Beautifully Decorated harder to achieve.  My concern is that it now impossible...

I tested again with a room with all the basics and roughly 240 stacked Knights; a ridiculous about of decor costing over 2 million Simoleons.  Could not get above Nicely Decorated.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I realized that MCCC can show me all my active buffs and I reloaded my test sim & test room setup. I noted all buffs in place with game immediately paused on load:

Buff_Trait_HighMetabolism
buff_Sim_Weather_Hidden_Cloudy
buff_Temperature_Hidden_Neutral
Buff_Trait_YoungAdult
Buff_Trait_Creative
Buff_Trait_Active
Buff_Trait_Cheerful
Fine (Always on and hidden by default) - MoodBuff_Hidden_FineDefault

After allowing 2 in-game minutes of time to pass with Sim still outside, checked again and found this buff added:

A pleasing environment can put a Sim in the mood

After walking into the room and having the Decorated moodlet appeared, two more were added:

Currently Happy (should not be seen) MoodBuff_Hidden_Happy
Decorated - Having decorations around makes for happy environs.

I hope this is helpful to sorting this out! 🙂