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CapitanTony's avatar
2 years ago

Burnout seems so broken

It happens too often to start with. Once a week at least, after only two days of work. Who are these lazy sims, anyway? But trying to get rid of it is worse. I had the mental fog buff with 24 hours, and spent about 5 hours singing and meditating. Got it down to zero minutes while my sim was singing, but it wouldn't end. So I clicked singing off, and the fog jumped all the way back up to 9 hours. Seriously? Why is it so hard to get these lifestyles, fears, eco NAPS, etc, balanced right? I have pretty much every single one of them either turned off or totally modded, because they all throw gameplay way out of whack. Which is really annoying, because they could make gameplay so much more interesting and varied instead.
  • My sims start getting mental fog and burn outs almost immediately. Hoping modders do something to balance it. One thing that works if you play rotationally is to bounce to another house for a few, but not everyone does multiple families in the same save.
  • "SelinaKyles;c-18268269" wrote:
    Are you making your sims work hard while at work? My sims were getting it often with that on, set it to normal and haven’t gotten it since


    Yeah, I often do, and wouldn't mind them getting burned out after 5-10 days of that. But this "Whine, I'm so overworked" after two days is ridiculous.
    As is having 5 hours of mediation not getting rid of it.
  • My sim, currently in the law career, works hard every day and hasn't gotten it. Why do these things happen to everyone else? ?

    I do have her work at home a couple days each week. She completes her daily tasks and spends the rest of the having fun with family and friends.
  • "simgirl1010;c-18268274" wrote:
    My sim, currently in the law career, works hard every day and hasn't gotten it. Why do these things happen to everyone else? ?

    I do have her work at home a couple days each week. She completes her daily tasks and spends the rest of the having fun with family and friends.


    Does she have traits that tend towards mental? My sim has loves music (a bit creative) but is toiling in Salaried Person, so it may be the opposite of what he wants.
  • 83bienchen's avatar
    83bienchen
    Seasoned Novice
    I do have a mod that tunes it down a bit: burnouttweaks
    https://www.seebee.de/sims4me/index.php?list=34

    It does help to use a different work tone for a bit. It does not have to be the whole work day. Also, raising the opposite skill (creative for mental fog) helps a lot more than doing wellness activities.
  • My sims get brain fog just working normally, they don't even have to work hard to get it. I agree that it is beyond frustrating to play with. The only official fix I expect is to get a toggle to turn it off. You know, like they do with every other feature that doesn't work right.
  • CobbleWoods's avatar
    CobbleWoods
    Seasoned Newcomer

    Mine gets it every day at work as well, so that I'm now having to take a vacation day every other day. I just finished a vacation day wherein I did nothing but creative and relaxing things, and I verified that the brain fog was gone when going to bed. The next morning my sim got up, harvested about a dozen planets, grabbed some breakfast out of the fridge and listened to some music... and the brain fog is back! It's looking like I now need to take a second day of vacation to recover from a single day of work in which I basically just made one invention (scientist career). This is becoming unworkable. Is there any way to turn burnout off entirely?

    • CobbleWoods's avatar
      CobbleWoods
      Seasoned Newcomer

      Aha! I just realized something I missed before! Even when I go home at the end of the day, apparently the game thinks I am Working Hard! It would explain why my fun goes down so fast and I have Brain Fog all the time, but I can't figure out how to turn it off. It doesn't give me any options to even adjust it to another work style, much less turn it off. Picture below shows that I don't work until 10am, it's currently 7am, I'm at home, but I'm Working Hard.

       

  • Are you making your sims work hard while at work? My sims were getting it often with that on, set it to normal and haven’t gotten it since