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Seasoned Rookie

6 years ago

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[BY DESIGN] [IL] Hygiene for Mermaids drop double the speed

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Mac 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? 1.61.12.1220 Wha...

gameplay issue

SimGuruNick
6 years ago
As far as I know this is the intended design for mermaids and has always worked this way. Hydration is supposed to decrease relatively fast when mermaids aren't in water.

crinrict

Hero+

6 years ago

@maeve3107 Ok, few more questions for you.

To be clear: We're talking about hydration. You do have a hydration bar for your mermaids and not hygiene ?

What do you mean by double the speed ? Double compared to hygiene on non-mermaids or double compared to what it was before ? Do you mean they have two arrows for hydration going down ?

maeve3107

Seasoned Rookie

6 years ago

@crinrict yes sorry its hydration, I forgot it was different for mermaids for a minute but it's definitely hydration.

They have the two arrows and it decreases at double the speed then any other need bar does.

maeve3107
Seasoned Rookie
6 years ago
As an add on the mermaid child also seems to have the same issues except for the fact that it is the hygiene bar going doing double time (two arrows).
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@maeve3107 And that was different before ? Might not be a bug at all
maeve3107
Seasoned Rookie
6 years ago
@crinrict I have no idea, but if it's not then it's just an annoying detail in the game as they are constantly taking showers and baths every 20 minutes.
SimGuruNick
EA Staff (Retired)
6 years ago
As far as I know this is the intended design for mermaids and has always worked this way. Hydration is supposed to decrease relatively fast when mermaids aren't in water.
jsophiak
Seasoned Adventurer
3 years ago
Not sure if this is related, but my child sim mermaids have their hygiene go down with 3 red arrows (ridiculously fast). At first I thought: "well maybe it's because they're a mermaid and the hydration is represented by the hygiene" EXCEPT their hygiene goes down even faster when they are swimming in either the pool or the ocean which is counterintuitive and leads me to believe that this was not intended.