Buffs or Moodlets

they're moodlets because they let me know their mood

I voted Moodlet but to be honest I shouldn't have voted for either. Some of them only add emotion and I would refer to those as moodlets, whereas others add not only emotion but also give extra effects (like skill gain boosts and whatnot) and those I would call buffs. I wasn't aware this was heavily debated.

I think referring to them all as buffs is silly though, because some of them add negative effects and in every video game I've ever played, a buff is something positive.

I call them moodlets because that's what they were officially called in The Sims 3, which I played first.

Moodlets.. but they stack or are buffed up by other moodlets, surroundings ect..

Both, but mostly moodlets

I have a tendency to refer to them as buffs and debuffs because that's the language used to describe similar icons in other games I play. When you get a good thing, it's a buff. When something bad happens to you, it's a debuff.

"Cupid;c-16771069" wrote:
I voted Moodlet but to be honest I shouldn't have voted for either. Some of them only add emotion and I would refer to those as moodlets, whereas others add not only emotion but also give extra effects (like skill gain boosts and whatnot) and those I would call buffs. I wasn't aware this was heavily debated.

I think referring to them all as buffs is silly though, because some of them add negative effects and in every video game I've ever played, a buff is something positive.

Much debated between me and friends, hence why I asked the forums what ya'll thought.



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I call them both, but I know they are buff's by EA's standard (hence the cheats are "remove_all_buffs" etc) but I played Sims 3 and am used to calling them moodlets, too. And the moodlet solver in the rewards is not titled buff solver LOL :D

Plus, I think of some as buffs, like the base ones. Sad from missing a birthday, or inspired from taking a shower, or confident from brushing teeth, etc and I think of the boosting ones as moodlets, though I'm sure that's not the "correct" way of looking at it, it's just how I call them.

I just think it's interesting to see what everyone calls them. To be honest, I don't think either is wrong. It's our game, we can call them what we want.

I voted buffs but in truth, they are both. If they were moodlets, in my mind they wouldn't be removable except by the sim. But they deal with the moods and how they are handled/interpreted. I say buffs because the cheat to remove them is "sims.remove_all_buffs" which isn't actually working right now so maybe they ARE moodlets :P

I thought the lil' icons are buffs and then the emotion the sim gets from all of those buffs together is a moodlet...

I think they're called buffs in cheat codes aren't they ?

In any case, I call them buffs because 1) the word is used in french ("moodlet" is not) and 2) it's quicker to say than "état émotionnel".