Kind of annoyed at the scared emotion

"KLAlexis;c-17808538" wrote:
I do get annoyed with the scared emotion. But, only bc of how much it makes most of my sims scared of the same things, and it even does it for sims that shouldn't be scared of it. Even before the scared emotion my sims were already getting tense at the thunder. But, I love realism so why would I turn thunderstorms off? I also like randomness so I don't mind a few things my sim likes/dislikes without my choosing. Some people like it. Some people don't.

I don't want my sims to all be the same, and I shouldn't have to always buy reward traits to fix something. That's just silly. If the Whims were fun to do or I didn't play with multiple sims then maybe I wouldn't mind. But, Everytime, every family? If we have to use whims so much then EA needs to make them more appealing (imo). I would like for them to improve the scared emotion. It is nice to have it and I like it, but an option for balance and a little bit of control over who or what scares my sims is all I'm asking for.

Likewise, it doesn't need to be traits, toggles or a reward, but what if the system was similar to Seasons where you could "declare" a love or hate for certain things when talking to other sims? Or, perhaps doing/causing certain activities causes an outcome where the sim hates/loves it. This would give us flexibiliy to change it without having to cheat in case our sims (or we want them to) move closer towards not being afraid of/liking w.e it is as much. Likewise: a sim doesn't have to be afraid of water for the rest of their life, or maybe a water loving sim ends up hating water due to almost dying one time. This could be a good opportunity to bring back favorites and fears.

I can agree with this. I feel that phobias should be a player choice and we could use a system that allows us to either select what our Sims fear (maybe choose up to two or three) or randomize if we want or have none.