[EBN] Balance system reacts way to extreme

I'm sad to see that this issue has immediately been moved to feedback, although extreme tuning like that severely impacts gameplay.

I don't think that the problem I had is a matter of preference, but something that does not work as the feature is described.

Let me cite the EP's store page: "Prolonged negative emotions cause imbalance, and imbalance can lead to Ailments with strange effects."

My Sim skipped the imbalanced state and jumped right to very imbalanced just because he had some fun at his birthday party...

It is very frustrating when they move our topics we meant to be in another category. It is a bit patronizing and upsetting to be passively aggressively told (in action) "it's not the game sweety—it's you".

I mean only recently (like last week?) Lovestrucks' overly sensitive romantic satisfaction dropping was put on the devs' laundry list. How many people where dismissed for the past year+ as "it's not the game sweety—it's you" : /

I finally have gotten some gameplay in since the EP (before I was mostly in CAS and Build/Buy mode). And basically in 24hrs (Sim hours) both my Sims have gotten an aliment despite being both balanced and good/ordinary luck X /

From what I heard you can also catch an Ailment from using a public toilet for example. Which I like in theory if it isn't too extreme...

Maybe you can find out where they got it from if you check their moodlets?

My Sim got the ailment the second he turned imbalanced with absolutely no chance to do something preventing that.

His potential girlfriend also showed up with one. Maybe he infected her (not sure since it was a different ailment), but if so it was also really fast. 

I'm also not sure if the moodlet timer works as intended. My Sims are poor and can't afford the naturopath and I wanted to wait it out. First it has a timer of 3 days. After one day his ailment got replaced with another (no idea why), and I still haven't seen it go below 3 days...

I had to turn the Balance and Luck systems off in my game because I got tired of my Sims catching on fire or being sick all the time. All. The. Time. I don't want to spend all my gameplay dealing with the Fear of Fire - which all by itself is a nuisance - or trying to cure some ailment.

The features of one pack should not overwhelm all other gameplay.

They probably moved it to Feedback, because it's intended, not a bug. Feedback is not a lesser than, they need feedback.

And! They most certainly need feed back on the Balance and Luck systems, because they're way too intrusive. I like the ideas, but the systems need to be toned down. 

My nice retired Sim should not be spending her golden years extinguishing herself.

I have been playing a new household with a fairy and a witch for one sim-week. Both have the apothecary skill, and the fairy can cure ailments. During this ONE in-game week, the witch hadn't had negative moodlets, (though she did have bad luck a few days), yet still swung to imbalanced and ended up with ailments six different times. Twice, she got a different ailment RIGHT after having been cured of one (one time via fairy cure, one time via apothecary cure). 

The fairy ended up with the gnome ailment on the first friday of the new save, so i had the witch make a cure, and looked away for a moment while she was walking across the house to deliver it to him... only to look back and find my game paused on the death screen, with no idea what had happened. There was no notification to indicate how he died (the last two notifs were about him getting repair parts from playing with the stereo, and info about his cheerful trait), though my witch did suddenly have the burning passion ailment along with the widower and grieving debuffs. 

I don't think I can keep playing if the ailments are gonna be this instantly destructive and constant. They really need to turn that wildness down.

EDIT: This may be a symptom of having too many packs (because EVERYTHING and its mother gives a buff of some sort), since my sims are consistently at high emotional states (though positive ones). Historically speaking, the sims team does seem to think that we should not play with all the packs at once, and cross-pack compatibility does tend to be lacking.

EDIT2: he died of laughter. that death type ruins most of my legacy attempts, to the extent that i'm about to just start making everyone cringe.

Yeah, six ailments in one week sounds a little extreme... 

I have no idea about the sudden fairy death, but I assume the death of a spouse let the balance drop, which then triggered an ailment. Theoretically that sounds fine, if only we had the time to do something about that as players (have the Sim grieve and get back in a better mood to prevent imbalance and ailments). 

I don't understand why they talk about "prolonged negative emotions causing imbalance" when in reality it's a matter of seconds.

I'm not sure.

When they say the balance drops by "prolonged negative emotions" then experiencing an extreme positive mood for one second should not cause such an extreme drop and feels very much like a bug. 

And even if it's intended like that and they miscommunicated it: if it forces players to deactivate the feature to be able to play, then I would also consider it a bug. And I'm saying that as someone who likes challenges and difficulties in the game. But they have to make sense. 

And to be honest, I don't have the impression that anyone at EA is paying a closer look at the feedback forum...

Ah! My spellcasters were at HQ in the Magic Realm. Public toilet they'd of course use while there. To me that is a bit extreme especially since some of the Sims were neat/perfectionists (which at least in Sims 3 meant they washed their hands). And that I know of my Sims do wash their hands after the toilet. If they didn't wash their hands I'd understand more.