Kind of annoyed at the scared emotion

"Nikkih;c-17798432" wrote:

"Daephene;c-17798407" wrote:
Are there cheats to give you more aspiration points? My only complaint is that the brave trait, like the storm chaser trait, is rather expensive and makes it impossible to create in CAS a vampire who isn't scared of ghosts or a mermaid who isn't afraid of the storms she summons. If there's a way to cheat those points so I can get those traits easily when creating those types of characters, that would take away pretty much all of my complaints. The emotion itself hasn't done anything in my game yet because it is always overpowered (my paranoid sim has it overpowered by his joy at being in a basement, which seems right actually as he's supposed to feel safer there).
Oh, and while I'm asking about cheats, is there a way to cheat out the fear of the ocean? I have one sim for whom it is completely inappropriate and it's driving me nuts. The scared emotion isn't going to improve that.

Yes type sims.give_satisfaction_points then type the number of the amount you need, only use a space before typing the numbers of amount, for example sims.give_satisfaction_points 8000 @Daephene

I automatically used this cheat and gave several sims the brave trait who I didn't want scared of everything. I love it. Helps make sims a bit more distinguished that way too.

Anyone else notice fear taking a toll on their Sims' bladders? :D

"Sharonia;c-17798240" wrote:
I actually barely noticed the emotion existed until I started playing in a haunted residential. :#

Same here it’s only when my sim used a seance table I finally got the scared moodlet in my game.

so far the only thing that scared my sims is the scarecrow. i put him in game for the first time. my firsst generation legacy couple almost peed themselves. i guuess the scarecrow is more terrifying than raising 7 kids.

Haunted houses are super OP :lol: (i mean that in a good way, don't even think about nerfing them, Maxis!)

My poor sims were constantly in a cycle of Scared and Terrified and I enjoyed every moment of it. Kinda interested to see how they expand this new emotion with DLCs moving forward.

Though outside of haunted houses, I barely notice the emotion.

The only thing that really makes a Sim scared is thunderstorms. Oh, there's a few other things, but they burn off within an hour or two. This shows how much effort they really put into 'Fear' in base-game.

Now the only thing that I want is the "Scare" Mischief interaction to be actually scary hahaha

"Tantalus;c-17798365" wrote:

"Vik;d-986791" wrote:
Anyone else isn't crazy about the new scared emotion? If you don't play the new stuff pack, the sims just get scares for dumb reasons and start screaming at others. I rather have them go back to being tense in some cases.

I still need to experiment the fear emotion. Annoying? pff, as i said, since the update, nothing for me. I dont think people is going to go crazy for something that barely exists in the game unless you force it.

I don't force them to be scared of thunder, so nah

"MeowchaFrappe;c-17798344" wrote:

"Vik;c-17798315" wrote:

"bella_goth;c-17798262" wrote:
outside the stuff pack my sims barely get scared

Lucky you, my sims get scares of swimming, get scared of lighting, get scared of monsters under the bed and just end up running around an screaming at everyone else in the household. I would like the emotion more if they didn't do that because of some lighting strikes.

What traits do the sims you're talking about have? Like is it every sim you play with, or only certain ones?

I haven't played the game in a little while since I've been busy adding builds from the gallery in a new save file, so I can't speak from experience. But, to be fair, I find a lot of these fears realistic personally. I'm very afraid of lightning in real life and terrified of the dark too.

I'm pretty sure that all sims are scared of thunder (minus the ones that have the the special storm chaser trait). Some sims are scared of water, others aren't. I dunno what exactly determines that.

I love the scare emotion. We really can use some challenge in ts4.