Is it sad that this is normal now?
So I took some time off from Sims 4 to let some expansions come out. Magic and Eco Life have dropped so I figured I'd fire up my game again. Here is the sad part, my FIRST thought was there were exp...
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"jmac2727;c-17556435" wrote:
Someone asked about the decorations bug, I know it's more then just my game because I've read other forum posts about it, but it may not happen to everyone. What it's doing with me is I can't get a nicely decorated, or highly decorated or any decorated buff at all to work as is intended. Go into your paintings and find the most expensive painting, fill a room up with dozens of them, you SHOULD get a beautifully decorated mood buff while in the room. After the expansion those decorated mood buffs just don't work... I've seen them pop up randomly but then just disappear a moment later with no explanation, even though I hadn't changed rooms. Again, a bug that should have been REALLY easy to spot yet somehow made it into a release version of the expansion . . . smh
@jmac2727 The decorations buffs have been changed due to player complaints, it's not a bug. They now have a countdown so they don't give a constant happy buff, only a temporary one. They used to be extremely annoying because they would constantly keep Sims in the "happy" zone and it would end up overriding other emotions.
They have also added a decorations debuff if your Sim has a poorly decorated environment. I imagine that this was done to add balance.
I personally don't like having decorations influence anything at all, I think they should only be tied to materialistic Sims. But having a countdown timer is a big improvement because it makes more sense to me. I mean, who goes around their house in a happy euphoria, grinning at their decor day after day?
