When is the emotion system going to be refreshed/fixed? It's so unbalanced :(
Please, it needs some tuning/refresh or fix or something. I don't really use mods so I'm relying on updates/patches or something.
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Bust the Dust and the neutral buff from clean floors help a lot in a vanilla game. If they now tune down the sniffing, it would be great. Vampires are too great if your skill Dampened Emotions (not all Ranks only 1 or 2) and Snowy Escape and emotionally/controlled Mindful/emotions.
Generally, more neutral buffs and stronger bad buffs would help a lot in a vanilla game. I like it if my sims are happy but only if something meaningful happen in their game as born a child, make a new friend. Buffs from food and drinks should be removed or the duration should be shortened same with the deco buffs.
I tried Meaningful stories in my modded game, but I personally don’t like it. Now we have Carls Difficult mod which make emotional better, and I personally like his way more how he handle this things.
I'm on console so no mods. I feel like recent packs I've added since cottage living have made my Sims emotions all over the place. I think Eco Living might have aggravated it too. I was already having problems with random sad moodlets getting stuck when Sims shouldn't be sad. So I had animal enthusiast Sims sad as they "were missing furry friends" while they were interacting with an animal. I make my Sims Cheerful too. I get random sad moodlets for being around evil, when they are interacting with a baby.
I've got a Sim at the moment who Loves the Outdoors and is Adventurous. He's living out of a tent right now, camping around the world fishing and collecting, etc, and going to vacation worlds for weeks at a time. But he has a permanent Homesick moodlet stuck next the the Happy moodlet for being outdoors. Every now and then he starts trudging slowly round and snuffling. I'm yelling at him "Dude, you live in a tent and you brought the tent with you!" When he arrives on his home lot, the homesick moodlet stays for 3 hours and he's still in despair.
Even the emotions tree fruit or purchased reward remedies don't work. They add a Happy moodlet next to the sad one and their mood is like a seesaw.
Anything bug related, I've reported but I think it all might need a bit of a shake up.
Yeah, the sad homesick buff from being in Granite Falls longer than X days is really... unfortunate. My tent-dwelling Sim ended up changing gears and moving to a farm over it, but I'm missing her travel!
Does he have the points for a moodlet solver from the reward store? That might help.
- @xochiquetzl_xkvn I've tried the reward potions to no effect and the emotion berries too but I just found that the one thing that does work is the hand made remedies from the Outdoor Retreat pack. The sadness alleviation lotion seems to be the only thing that helps and has to be applied at least once a day. It's daftness when he's got the cheerful and adventurous traits and has the moodlets for enjoying the adventure and loving the outdoors while he's moping through the jungle!
