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flauschtrud
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago

Some confusion about burnouts and midlife crisis

First, I want to say I quite like the burnout and midlife crisis features since I like some more challenges and it actually makes having a lounge chair or going on vacation meaningful :D But I was also confused when I first encountered them...

Burnout:

My Sim that was painting a lot and working on stuff for the entertainer career got a pre-creative-burnout moodlet. I made her relax and do some mental things and these activities made the remaining duration of the moodlet go down (as expected) but after the activities ended the time went up again...

Finally she did not experience burnout after the moodlet ended so my preventive actions must have been effective but the moodlet was quite confusing. Is this a bug or do I just  not understand how it works? :D

Midlife crisis:

The same Sim got a warning moodlet about an approaching midlife crisis. During this time she started a new job, travelled and got into a new hobby, so I kind of hoped that she would avoid the midlife crisis, but it happened anyway. Aren't you supposed to somehow prevent the midlife crisis by having your Sim do something exciting?

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  • EeveeTinn's avatar
    EeveeTinn
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @flauschtrudFor burnout that is how it is supposed to work I believe. I just stopped my Sim from working hard (she is ambitious and automatically works hard at work) and did some chess and exercise and the purple moodlet disappeared. Thus, burnout is prevented.

    For midlife crisis I wonder myself. I have a second Sim in midlife crisis now, but I am not sure what to do to prevent it. I also did different things like quit the job, changed the career, went to Sulani for vacation etc. Still not sure if it is just not avoidable. I cannot find much online. It only says if you ignore it you will get the midlife crisis, but no where did I yet find where it says how to prevent it.

    Edit: I had this moodlet pop up, but I did not see the Tense moodlet being affected (yet). So I will keep trying 🤣 (He went snorkeling).

  • flauschtrud's avatar
    flauschtrud
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    The tense moodlet from the midlife crisis should be affected (time going down) when you complete tasks from the midlife crisis "aspiration". At least this worked for me.

    What I meant about the burnout moodlet: it's weird that the time is ticking down and suddenly going up again (like starting at 20h, going down to 14h with relaxing and then being 18h later). That seems buggy and I haven't seen this on any time-ticking down moodlet.

  • shinjitenoyami's avatar
    shinjitenoyami
    3 years ago
    I think the way the time on the burnout moodlet works is "this is how much time burnout lasts if your sim keeps doing what they are currently doing." So going down to 14h while relaxing but going back up to 18h later = they need to be actively relaxing for 14h. If they aren't relaxing it takes longer to go away.
  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    3 years ago

    I'm not sure why anyone added more negative emotions to the game to be honest. I've got one household having a miserable experience with them since I added Growing Together. I'm trying to get one of them to meet the goals on the midlife crisis panel but they're not going away even when he's completed them several times.

    I think there were enough negative emotions and moodlets in the game already. I wish this could be turned off like Wants and Fears which also made my Sims miserable. They're both walking around dazed with burnout at the same time as his midlife crisis, honestly it's incredibly frustrating.

    Burnout producing a Dazed moodlet makes no sense either. Feeling burned out from work is far more likely to make someone tired, I'd get drained from deadlines, etc never dazed. Fatigued yes, stressed yes but not walking around like they do after a poison dart in the jungle!

    Again I'm just shaking my head and it and thinking why?

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