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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I think she needs her own kids to resolve this. Right now, it sounds like all of the kids are her husband's but none of them are hers.
@Sketch793, that is a possibility!🙂 It is worth a try, but the house is full right now , so until some of the kids grow up and move out, we can't know for certain. 🤔
Also, there is still the possibility that this wouldn't make any difference. I've had Family Oriented Sims get sad when their own children went to school, or even if they just went outside. My family oriented gardeners even get sad when they garden if the children and/or spouse isn't outdoors with them! 🤨😃
- @Sketch793 maybe, but I had her adopt each one as a care dependant so shouldn't they count as hers now?
@TygerNight, I could be wrong, but I don't think that becoming the main caregiver would make the children hers .🤔 Children can become care dependent with their teen siblings. That doesn't make them their parents. It is just the person who they are supposed to be more likely to go to for most of their care needs.❤️ I've also had a scientist (Get to Work) who had a family, but at his work he had to make some clones of himself. I moved the clones in with the family and both of the clones of the father can be chosen to be the Caregiver of the scientists children! 🤨 Genetically, these clones are like uncles to the children. They wouldn't become the children's parents … it is more like a legal or practical designation. 😉
However, it can't hurt to try! 😇
I don't think being the children's caretaker counts the same as being their parent. I'm not certain this is the problem but I think it's very likely to be.
Well she just gave birth to twins (that Caleb...) and I'm still seeing that ridiculous sad moodlet. She was painting not 5' from the twins and there it was. I had her bounce each baby and it's still there.
This is just overkill, seriously. If they can't fix it they should just delete that particular moodlet from the game. Along with the unpleasant surroundings moodlet. That one is a permanent fixture on my Sims' bars and I'm sick of seeing it. Maid, butler, dishwasher, 3 robo vacuums and still I have to get chastised by a stupid buggy moodlet.
@TygerNight How did she get pregnant if you already had a full house? Oh, man, I am family oriented and I would have a sad moodlet most of the time if I was caring for 4 sets of toddler/baby twins! :eahigh_file:
In console can you get debug items to add to the lot and activate? If not hunt some down... You can add career reward items and other moodlet items to another lot, move dad out temporary and have him buy the lot and add the items to his personal inventory then sell the lot and move back in with his wife. Gems and other items that are possible to add to personal inventory would work for this. Then he can add them all around the lot and activate the moodlets to set off moodlets continually and override the sad one. If you were on PC/Mac you could cheat to add the parent relationship with all of the children, and that may help, but you are on console, so cheats are not an option, correct?
You can also do this trick (adding moodlet items) in a room and upload that room to your library then download the room to your lot and get the items from the room.
Do you know you can drag dirty dishes to the trash yourself in live mode?
Also... as a heads up:
I've had issues occasionally with toddlers leaving the dishes in random places also (and high shelves), but also inside walls, and in mid-air. Yup, how fun is that? I found the inside-the-walls ones either by noticing the plate edge on the wall, the green fumes, or by having the walls down and seeing it hanging in mid-air. So, you could check for some of these possibilities. 🤔@TygerNight, you were given some great options to counte act the sadness moodlet that Family Oriented Sims get by @SheriGR , as well as what I said in my first post. However, I think you are more upset about the fact that this moodlet even exists!
My theory on why it exists is that it makes it more realistic and helps balance out all the positive moodlets that your Sims would get if there were no drawbacks. Most, if not all personalities have drawbacks. Sims with the Athletic trait get upset if they can't exercise, Kleptomaniacs get tense if they haven't' stolen something in a while, but sometimes feel guilty when they do steal something, etc.
But I have another theory with the Family Oriented trait... it isn't just loneliness for a family member because that would be satisfied by any family member being present. My guess is that Sims with this trait want all of the family close by them! 🤨 So it wouldn't matter if one or two children of your Sim was present... they might all have to be present to satisfy this moodlet! ❤️
So, try to see if having all of the household in the same room helps at all... Check to see if the moodlet had arrows pointing downward to indicate that the time on this moodlet is becoming lesser at a much faster rate. Also, I haven't tested this yet, but the moodlet might go away instantly. It's worth a try! And if it doesn't' work, try the fixing your sad moodlet or overriding it with positive moodlets with the suggestions that @SheriGR and I gave you! 😇
