Family Oriented Trait trouble
I made a Sim with the FOT to marry my stay-at-home Dad Caleb. He had 2 sets of twins at the time and was shortly abducted by aliens and now there are 3 sets of twins. Full house. I got Caleb a job an...
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@TygerNight, I don't play on a console, but we get the same thing on PC so that's why I'm answering.🙂 I do play a lot of Family Oriented Sims. I agree that this moodlet is sometimes nonsensical … in real life an adult Sim shouldn't miss their spouse or children that much knowing they are at school or work and will be home in a few hours. 🤨😃 I also get that moodlet sometimes If my Sim goes outside to garden and is still on the lot but his or her family is inside, or vice versa. 😃 I think that this moodlet is just an exaggeration to make Family Oriented Sims more unique. It also balances them out somewhat for gameplay.... They are usually happy and have good moodlets when all Sims in the family are present. This is nice, but offers no gameplay chanllenges. So, I think the sad moodlet was created to balance them out. Otherwise, I would have every Sim be FO just for the good moodlets! This way there is a bit of a challenge!:eahigh_file:
If the sad moodlet gets too annoying, then just override it with postitive moodlets. It will still be present, but it won't effect your too much that way. (You might have to do multiple of these, but some are easy to do). So, I might have them take a bubble bath to get a playful moodlet to counteract the sad one; or I might eat some produce to get a little happy moodlet. If you have Seasons, eating honey can give your Sims great moodlets (and can save them from temperature extremes as well! :eahigh_file: ) . And of course, depending on their other personality traits, you can have them do activities that satisfy those other aspects of their personality to counter act the negative one from missing family. There are more ways to add to your Sim's good mood than I can even list here! Also, if this sad moodlet is overriding any other moodlets, or you have more than one sad moodlet at any time as to be the predominant mood , you can always call the Sadness Hotline on your phone to alleviate your Sims' sad mood! ❤️ So, hopefully that will be of some help to you! 😇
It's actually not a huge deal in this case because she's Caleb's new wife and I've been building him for weeks. So I have all the emotion trees from the jungle and have her harvest them every day, plus he's got all his needed traits bought (I skipped the cheaper ones like Seldom Hungry and got Always Full, etc) and I got a plethora of the emotion and need potions to give her.
It's just that... It shouldn't happen. It makes no sense. Plus I'm one of those players who scan the moodlet bar constantly and I'm always disheartened to see that dark blue strip. 😟
I already see it way too much with Sims unhappy with dirty environments and there is literally nothing dirty in evidence. I've got a dishwasher, 2 robot vacuums and even hired a maid but still they'll have that dark blue dirty bar. No children right now and no shelves high on the walls where they love to put dirty dishes and then can't reach them when I tell them to clean up. 😳
@TygerNight, yes! Those dishes that end up on high shelves make no sense!😞 If you are tall enough to put them up there, then you are tall enough to pick them up! 😠🤒 And thank you for mentioning the emotion berries from the trees in Jungle Adventure! :eahigh_file: I forgot to mention them! 🤭
