Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.107What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? This isn't a BUG bug, just a strong recommendation, so the expansions don't really matter and I don't feel like listing them.Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Make a Sim with the Practice Makes Perfect trait Do basically anything involved with raising skills for a whileWhat happens when the bug occurs? Constant +7 Focused from two buffsWhat do you expect to see? +2, maybe?Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? YesPlease describe the patch or change you made. Whichever one added the Practice Makes Perfect traitOkay, this isn't a BUG bug per se, but seriously, +7??!! And a +5 on a buff that lasts 24 hours?! I decided to try out the Practice Makes Perfect trait. After a few days of gameply, my Sim has the Momentum and Dedication buffs constantly, which wouldn't be so much of a problem if Momentum wasn't +2 Focused and Dedication wasn't +5. My Sim has lost the ability to realistically have any emotion besides Focused, because +7 is just too ridiculously high.

@HeroicJay you can get rid of the Focused Buff by taking a Soothing Shower. It clears the Focus altogether for my Sims.

@HeroicJay Moving this to feedback and suggestions as this is (as you say) not a bug.I do agree with you that the constant focus is overwhelming though.

Hey @JnhoKaddia , by any chance does your sim have the childhood trait Headstrong? That could explain if your sim is constantly focused (see this thread here). edit: By the way, I merged your message in this similar thread to avoid duplicates!

My mistake; I've filed a bunch of bugs, but I don't think I've ever touched this forum.

@HeroicJayNo it definitely doesn't reinforce it. It clears it completely. Perhaps that's why it was added along with the trait to give an option to get rid of the focus.I get my Sim with that trait to do anything that builds skills (because that sets off the 24hr Focus) in the evening, then go to bed. When they get up in the morning they have around 18 hours Focus left if I don't want the Focused Buff I get them to take a Soothing Shower and it's immediately gone until they next practice a skill or carry out an interaction which gains skills.Perhaps the ultimate option is to buy a Retraiting Potion for 5000 reward points I suppose and clear the trait altogether.

Practice Makes Perfect buffs too powerful

20 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
10 months ago
@HeroicJay Moving this to feedback and suggestions as this is (as you say) not a bug.

I do agree with you that the constant focus is overwhelming though.
HeroicJay
Seasoned Scout
10 months ago
My mistake; I've filed a bunch of bugs, but I don't think I've ever touched this forum.
simsplayer818
Hero
10 months ago
@HeroicJay you can get rid of the Focused Buff by taking a Soothing Shower. It clears the Focus altogether for my Sims.
HeroicJay
Seasoned Scout
10 months ago
The wording is ambiguous - I was under the impression that this would reinforce the Focused buffs. Either way, is that really my best solution? Have my Sim take a shower every time he gets hyperfocused (which is often)?
simsplayer818
Hero
10 months ago
@HeroicJayNo it definitely doesn't reinforce it. It clears it completely. Perhaps that's why it was added along with the trait to give an option to get rid of the focus.
I get my Sim with that trait to do anything that builds skills (because that sets off the 24hr Focus) in the evening, then go to bed. When they get up in the morning they have around 18 hours Focus left if I don't want the Focused Buff I get them to take a Soothing Shower and it's immediately gone until they next practice a skill or carry out an interaction which gains skills.

Perhaps the ultimate option is to buy a Retraiting Potion for 5000 reward points I suppose and clear the trait altogether.
HeroicJay
Seasoned Scout
9 months ago
Sorry, but I just had my sim take a Soothing Shower while Dedication was active. It's still active. In fact, it's got 23 hours on its timer - I wasn't paying attention to how much time was on the timer before the shower started, but at least that shows that it didn't reduce the timer any significant amount.
EDIT: Tried again. It now reads 22 hours remaining - probably only due to the shower animation's time.
simsplayer818
Hero
9 months ago
@HeroicJay I'm not sure that should be happening, have you tried testing it without mods? Testing on my Sim, she stops being focused and becomes Inspired instead, until she does something to achieve skill points. So for example if she starts cooking/gourmet cooking. Once they start working towards a skill again it begins.
Here's the Sims Wiki Guide definition:
".... Sims can take a Soothing Shower, which will give them the +2 "Clear Mind" inspired moodlet...."
I'm on Xbox Series X so no mods/cheats. I first discovered it while testing for another thread where we were trying to obtain maximum long lasting focus and I wasn't at all happy the shower washed it all away!
Perhaps the Retraiting Potion is the answer after all if your Sim achieves the 5000 points required. There is a cheat for that which I haven't tested (I'm on console and we lose our trophies) I found it on Carl's Sims Guide but you may have used it before. So with Control + Shift + C testingcheats on.
"Gives a Sim x amount of satisfaction points with which you can buy rewards. Sims.give_satisfaction_points 5000"
That's if you want to free your Sim from it altogether anyway now you've tried out the new trait if it's not for you. Particularly if this is a legacy Sim for you.
zevvez
9 months ago
My sim is so focused all the time I can’t get playful or flirty enough to complete acting prep tasks ☹️
zevvez
9 months ago
This got so frustrating to me that I used a cheat (very rare for me) to give me satisfaction points so I could buy the re-traiting portion and get rid of practice makes perfect
simsplayer818
Hero
9 months ago
@zevvez The description of the new trait says it's meant to be a challenging trait and it seems like it's certainly living up to that!
I did find though that it was really useful for helping my lawyer Sim get promoted at work really quickly. That's the fastest I've got to the top of a career ladder. She was uber focused all the time. I'm not sure I'd choose this trait a lot though in the future.