I'm experiencing an annoying bug in ts4, my sim, who is a conservationist, had the dazed moodlet from the "mental fog" despite not being at work or doing anything specifically mentally taxing. He was at home, suddenly the moodlet appeared, and the time left jumps between 24 hours (if he wasn't actively lowering the moodlet ie walking to an activity or just standing) or 16 hours (if he was actively lowering the moodlet by back floating in a pool etc. it didn't disappear, and even though it still said 16 hours it jumped straight to burnout. Now he can't get a raise, or do anything but take time off of work really. The time left in this new tense burnout moodlet is the exact same, oscillating between 24 and 16 hours, and nothing is changing it. I quite the game and restarted and it made no difference. The other sim in this same household is unaffected, and I repaired the whole game just before this glitch started. I also run zero mods.
Oh man. I've never had to deal with the burn out thing last time I played, but I got the expansion pack recently. So I don't know the difference. I thought the reversion to 24 hours was normal. What I'm having to do is spam activities that reduce it until it goes away. It seems like every time I go to start a new calming activity, it reverts back to the lower number I earned during the last one.
So like,
-- take a bath with soaks
--do some painting
--run on tread mill, lift weights
-- write a book on computer, etc.
-- craft objects on crafting table
I have the Spa xpac, so they have massage tables in their house. When everyone has burn out, they invite friends over and all ask for massages. I rotate through those sorts of activities until the moodlet goes away.
It's quite an interference to my current gaming project as the thing I'm working on right now is to get 7 Sims at a time through the Cooking Aspiration so I don't have to do it 1 at a time when I go to play a specific Sim. Everyone goes to work together then comes home together. It's pretty hilarious. I built a big ol house with 7 of almost everything. Bars, beds, showers, toilets, computers, etc etc etc. Cracks me up. Anyway. I want to get the achievement over with efficiently. The burn out is kinda getting in my way. But it'll be fine when I go to play them through stories later. >,<
P.S., as far as I can tell so far, sleeping helps too!
I’ve noticed the same ever since the new update, but only one of my Sims is experiencing it and he doesn’t even work… He just randomly gets the Mental Fog moodlet and it won’t go away until it turns into a full burnout and only then I’m able to make my Sim relax and effectively make it go away. I make him meditate and it helps, but as soon as he’s done meditating - with ~15h left on the moodlet - the latter goes back to 22/23h left. I hate it
