Constant Sad Mood

lots of people get sad on cold days, you should've took your sims to sulani

Yep last night while I was playing my Sims were sad a lot. Sad from being bad at winter sports. I think the issue is shared sadness. One sim got sad and it spread through my family like wildfire cause they were all sharing in the sadness. I would say this sentiment is a little over powered at the moment.

I like the shared sadness, but this is probably going to be an unpopular opinion. As the old saying goes, "If mama's not happy, ain't nobody happy." When a member of my family irl is upset, generally the mood of the house is somber. There's no one smiling and going about life like everything is fine.

Now for my constructive criticism: I wish moodlets like this mentioned WHO in the family is the root cause of it. Instead, I have to go on a hunting expedition to find out how every single family member is feeling. Was it grandma who got sad reminiscing in her rocking chair? Is it the teen about to pee his pants? As a player of big families.... I kinda need more to go on.

The sadness is really starting to be depressing. I’m playing for the second day and sims are sad everywhere. Even the townies look sad.

Yes - my poor sims are miserable on their vacation. Comes from them not being good at skiing, snow boarding, rock climbing right away and the shared sadness sentiment. That was bad enough, but then the child in the family decides he has to be a bear so he is constantly sad because he can't wear his bear costume because he has to have winter wear on and that spreads to everyone through the shared sadness - sigh.

My Sim is living in a dorm, and everyone living there is crying all the time. It’s causing my Sim to do poorly, since she’s always “too sad to do that now” :|

I’m convinced that the shared sadness sentiment is getting them all in an endless loop of sadness. As long as a sim is around another sim that is sad then the sadness spreads and since they all get sad at different times it just keeps going though all the sims in close proximity to each other.

I just think it's a little weird, that they get sad from not being good at skiing/snowboarding.

Same here. My sims get sad over absolutely anything and nothing. If the fall when skiing, if they see somebody else sad or if the eat bad food. Say something and they get sad. Even their cats and dogs are sad all the time. Think it has to do with the new sentiments? I hope we get a fix for this soon enough.

I think ideally players could be able to indicate somehow if they want their sims to generally be happier or to experience more negative moods. There are players who play very differently, I think.