Please make burnout optional
Please make the burnout "feature" something we can toggle on/off in the settings. I hate it. It has drastically damaged my ability to enjoy this game. I don't want realism, I want to have fun playing...
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I agree, and my sims don't only get it from "work hard" but also for example when painting. I do know you can be a freelance painter, but when I mean painting as a relaxing hobby, they still get the fog. I highly agree the game should be fun, and not so much 'realistic'. We get enough realistic stuff in our daily life haha.
@IrisuChan Have you noticed any Burnout with any of the Jungle Adventure tasks? I haven't done any authentication work, etc since I added Growing Together and I'm really hoping it's not affected by Burnout 🤞.
- @simsplayer818 Is it a creative type task, or mental? From what I gather, creative solves burnout, while mental type tasks add to it. I haven't played much with the Jungle Adventure tasks yet so I'm not sure myself (although I did put Lara Croft in my game for this purpose, lol).
@LadyAofPineapplethere are a few elements to the archaeology aspect of the pack. There's the excavation and then the analysis of Omiscan Artifacts. It's physical and mental I suppose, it definitely drains their fun but I hope they don't get burnout too, I've got 2 Jungle Adventure explorers to add soon.
Edit: it does indeed affect the Jungle Adventure pack. It doesn't seem to happen when excavating dig sites but it does affect authentication of Artifacts. So all I'm doing to limit it is to just do the dirt clump stage then stop the process halfway once the artifact is out of the dirt clump and then send the item off for analysis.
Unfortunately it means my Sim can't work from home analysing artifacts through the mail like she used to and she also can't use this method for skill gain either. How disappointing. It's really spoiling the game now. We need a way to mitigate the effects or we're losing important parts of the game. There is no upside to this feature at all.
- @LadyAofPineapple Unfortunately, I think both types exist - too many creative tasks in a row causes creative burnout which is "solved" by mental actions and too many mental tasks creates mental burnout which is "solved" by creative actions. Plus exercise maybe helps with both. I don't mind so much that it makes you need a bit of balance in your Sim's life, but what annoys me is how quickly it triggers and how the actions to "solve" it don't actually help at all as the timer will immediately jump back up to where it was before as soon as the supposedly "helpful" action finishes.
I think you can avoid burnout by turning off Lifestyles in the Game Options. Of course, that means you'll also have to give up the things you might like about Lifestyles, so it's not a simple decision. I haven't seen anyone else mention this, so I thought I should toss it in, just in case it helps someone.
