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New Adventurer

2 years ago

Practice Makes Perfect buffs too powerful

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.107
What 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 while
What happens when the bug occurs? Constant +7 Focused from two buffs
What 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? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Whichever one added the Practice Makes Perfect trait

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Okay, 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.

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sim-scifiguy
Rising Adventurer
2 months ago
The issue isn't so much the strength of the buff, its that it is always a focus moodlet even when it says you are focused on creativity (or whatever I don't recall the exact text but it does say what you are focused on). My suggestions:
It should give you the inspired/active/playful/etc moodlet that matches the activity you are doing. I can even see a new menu choice of "practice until perfect" so you choose the single task the sim will be doing for the duration, the benefit builds up a charge, and changing tasks before it is at 100% makes you start over. In other words, it should be an active trait, not something that simply happens.
If possible I would support it giving you a negative score to other moods emphasizing that your sim is only ready for mental (for example) tasks right now and everything else will be harder.
Once generated, have the moodlets be sticky, fading out over time or adding a debuff cooldown period. Alternatively, you can actively use the tea brewer, a bath soak, etc. to remove it. The idea here is identical to how they become too exhausted/sore for another go on the weight machine until the next day, but if they get a massage that debuff goes away.
To keep it from being too overpowered, add a cooldown that cannot be bypassed so you can't ramp it up again for 48 hours or something like that.