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vyvexthorne
Seasoned Ace
9 months ago
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Do grief traits go away or are we just stuck with them?

The instant I installed the pack my sim had the Blues Grief Trait.. They were not in mourning, and nobody had died recently.  I thought it was just something my sim would have to deal with when someo...
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    vyvexthorne
    9 months ago
    @kittkatann114 Ok, so the one thing we had in common was that both sims had it for 2 in game weeks. Maybe it just takes that amount of time to go away? Guess we'll have to wait until our sims get another grief trait and see if it also takes two weeks to go away.
    That's an incredibly long time to have to deal with something like that if it's true.
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vyvexthorne
Seasoned Ace
9 months ago
@kittkatann114 Ok, so the one thing we had in common was that both sims had it for 2 in game weeks. Maybe it just takes that amount of time to go away? Guess we'll have to wait until our sims get another grief trait and see if it also takes two weeks to go away.
That's an incredibly long time to have to deal with something like that if it's true.
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kittkatann114
9 months ago

@vyvexthorne I’ve also been dealing with Holding It Together and most recently Anger Grief. They too seem to linger for about two in-game weeks which feels relentless and makes me wish there was a toggle switch for grief because people are constantly dying. I’d say with 80% accuracy that when someone my sim knows dies, one of these grief traits pops up again if it isn’t already in place. Which is aggravating if you just got rid of it. I thought maybe having the Perspective on Death trait would help with this, but no—not really. It doesn’t feel like it changes much of anything except to say that sometimes it seems like grief traits maybe (high emphasis on that maybe) linger for a week instead of two weeks. 

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    vyvexthorne
    Seasoned Ace
    9 months ago
    @kittkatann114 I've decided to try using mods to keep it at bay. Vicky Sims has a mod called Absent Emotions which allows you to purchase traits that can block emotion moodlets. I'll see if blocking sadness keeps the grief trait from popping up.

    You have to think that at a certain point, immortal social butterfly sims would just stop being overly affected by the passing of another sim. So if it does work, at least there's a gameplay reason I can use for my sim not ever getting a sad moodlet.

    On another point, even though my sim is in constant mourning, they've never been "sad." If being sad is part of the solution to grief, then that's the problem. A measly +3 Sad moodlet from mourning isn't enough to override any other emotion ever. I've always got at least 10 happy moodlets boosting whatever other positive emotion is happening.

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