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Hero (Retired)

7 years ago

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[BY DESIGN] [LDSP] Sims Keep Becoming Hysterical From Laundry

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Sony Playstation 4
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.15
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Seasons, Cats and Dogs, City Living, Get to Work, Jungle Adventure, Parenthood, Vampires, Dine Out, Toddler Stuff, Spooky Stuff, Cool Kitchen Stuff, Kids Stuff, Laundry Day Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a decorated house, get married/have a baby/finish an excellent holiday. Anything that gives a strong happy moodlet, then put on warm clothes from the dryer. The sims will become "Very Playful" and frequently "Hysterical" depending on the buffs.
What happens when the bug occurs? My sims are constantly getting hysterical from dry and warm laundry. It's almost a death sentence to have a new marriage or baby, or excellent holiday and put on warm laundry. If you have a new baby/marriage and then have an excellent holiday on top of it, it's guaranteed hysterics from warm laundry.
What do you expect to see? My sim be able to have a decorated house, complete life events like marriage and baby and holiday's and not go into hysterics because they took a bath (happy buff) or had a good workout and put on warm and dry clothing.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure

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I spend way to much time in front of the mirror calming down sims because of warm laundry. This sim doesn't even have the playful trait. The other sim in the house does have the playful trait and it's even worse with him because he is constantly getting hysterical from being playful, happy and then taking a bath or exercising and putting on warm laundry. It's too much.

The sim in the image was just hysterical previous to the screenshot. He took a bath, then became hysterical.

gameplay issue

SimGuruNick
7 years ago
This is an intended feature. We already tuned down the strength of the playful buff shortly after the pack's release. We could potentially consider tuning it down some more if there were a lot of people having issues, but the general idea of receiving of a playful buff is by design.

26 Replies

Saihyou
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago
The fact the playful buff from it is weak doesn't really have anything to do with it if you keep a happy sim. It's asinine that a Sim is in mortal peril from being well taken care of with warm laundry. Tuning it down won't help at all because it's still an emotional state that can lead to death. Why not just make it a happiness moodlet? I feel happy when laundry is toasty. I don't start pranking people or laughing myself to asphyxiation when I wear warm laundry. Maybe I should be happy that wet laundry results in tension instead of anger when an appliance breaks so there's not two ways to die from laundry!
SherwoodSpirit
New Adventurer
4 years ago
Ok, so here it is February of 2022. I am sick to death (ar ar) of my sims tipping from happy into ABOUT TO DIE because someone put the laundry away. Maybe this was toned down in the past, but clearly not enough, and even so, it's BACK. I'm in some big Facebook sims groups and I see people posting daily about losing their sims to Hysteria just because they got married or took a bath. It's too much.

Just recently, I've had to constantly save my sims from Hysteria from just living their lives normally. I have zero playful objects in their houses, I NEVER allow them to take bubble baths or eat gummy bear pancakes or god forbid, tell a joke or watch comedy. BECAUSE IT'S FATAL.
But now the damned laundry is doing it to them. STAHP. PLEASE. For the love of all that's holy, it's TOO MUCH. Dial this down. A LOT. Please, I'm begging. On behalf of all the confused simmers I try to help on my groups every day. Warm dry laundry should not be a death sentence. Taking a bath should not be a death sentence. Getting married should not be a death sentence. Please. Make it stop.
Strangelovekraf
4 years ago
I have struggled with sims becoming hysterical more since I purchased Snowy escape. A nice vacation alone seems to be risky, and while I kind of love laundry gameplay and adding laundromat-style lots into my worlds, I've had to keep that as far away from Mt. Komorebi as possible.
bbyhighnessmw
3 years ago
2022 and this is still annoying. It's basically like a punishment for keeping your sims too happy, lol. Better make them miserable all the time, if you want to have a dryer in the house. I've resorted to using the rack at this point, but if the house is small and you have season on top of that, it's a problem.
PipMenace
Hero
3 years ago
I would definitely appreciate this being tuned down - either by switching it to a happy buff, or limiting the types of happy buffs that boost other emotions rather than just overriding them. I agree, it’s ridiculous that a well-cared for or recently engaged Sim is immediately given extreme emotions, especially when it’s just putting on clean clothes that makes you hysterical. It lasts so long too - if you need to be inspired for an aspiration but have laundry on the lot it’s so hard to get rid of the playful which overrides any inspired I manage to get.
Or at least just make it optional - instead of assuming a Sim’s entire wardrobe is warm after doing a single load of laundry, maybe just ask if I want “warm clothes fresh from the dryer” or to just pull something out of the closet.
gooochyeee
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
The hysterical sim buff is way too much I already barely take care of my sims needs let alone deal with death by emotions form LAUNDRY