Fear of Unfulfilled Dreams and Fear of Dead End Job will appear less often and feel appropriate when they do
Fixed in Patch 1.96.365/1.71
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Here's what's happening in my game so far. 2 different saves, 2 different households. Living in different worlds, different careers, one household is aliens and the other is not.
In both saves, the sim who had the career has come home with fear of dead-end job every day they went to work, unless they conquered the fear that day.
The process is as follows. So far, each of these cases is 100% predictable, giving the same result every time.
It seems to me that some of this is by design:
- Having the fear in the traits panel creates intermittent moodlets. A sim with this fear will have related moodlets come and go randomly. Having the fear doesn't equal having the moodlets active all the time. A moodlet fading away doesn't equal curing the fear.
- Regain Passion may be successful or may fail.
- Regain Passion is not always available, you have to wait for the pointy bubble to come up.
These parts have got to be bugs:
- Going to work without the fear active shouldn't cause the fear 100% of the time. There should be some sort of test, either completely random or based on some game variables such as mood, time since last promotion, chance cards from that day, etc.
- Returning from work while the player is with another sim on another lot shouldn't negate a successful Regain Passion.
There IS supposed to be a test, if I am reading the code right. The fear is supposed to trigger if you go three days with a work performance between -30 and 15. What I think is happening is that whenever you get promoted, it resets your work performance back to the beginning, which triggers the fear. See, in the spoiler, the relevant code. Now I could be reading this incorrectly and there could be another cause to this problem but this is the best hypothesis that I have at the moment.
