No, standing by it does not trigger the energizing aura. I've had sims in two different households that have this stereo stand by it, listen to music, listen deeply, change stations and even dance. In short, I've had a sim do every possible action I can with a stereo. Nothing causes the aura to trigger. I've left the aura enabled for several days in case it was just slow to emit but that didn't work either.
In the pic showing the text, the stereo is the only object in the room that is supposed to be capable of enabling an aura so I don't have any other object enabled that could be interfering. In my game, I don't think it is just that the text is off. If you get a chance to try the object in a game @crinrict and you can make the aura trigger, plmk how you did it. The only other thing I could think of to try that might work is to have a materialistic sim "admire new possession" but I don't have a sim with that trait in either household.
I'll give it a try but it does sound like a bit of an oversight
I have found another career reward object that doesn't give off an emotional aura, even though it is supposed to do so. It is the Umber Sink from the culinary career.
Yet again, it appears it isn't coded correctly by EA. As seen in the pic, when hovering over disable it shows the object needs to be viewed to trigger the aura. There isn't an option to "view" a sink.
Certainly doesn't make much sense for the game to award career reward objects to help obtain the aura needed for a career when they don't work.
@greenxen, thank you so much for linking to that thread. I wasn't playing TS4 then and had not seen it. It was definitely worth the read.
Well, that's just great. Not only do the objects not work to emit the auras, the text to give you a clue as to why they may not work is incorrect, too. This turns into "bugged" objects with "bugged" text, lol.
