Kind of annoyed at the scared emotion

"calaprfy;c-17798296" wrote:
Here we go, another nerf incoming.

I hear ya. People complain that there aren't enough debuff effects in the game, and that the effects are not powerful enough. But then when we're given new debuffs people complain that they're ruining the perfect lives of their perfect supermodel families. It's frustrating.

I had a weird moment when I had cheated away the "Child of the ocean" traits on my Sims (I had planned to make them mermaids then chose not to so I made them Active instead) while for abut two or three Sim days after that they were terrified of being close to the ocean. Probably a coincidence, but a very fitting one :)

I love TS4. But I think many would agree that one of its biggest flaws is the fact that too much emphasis has been put on emotions and most traits have no real impact on how a Sim acts and reacts in game. A big trait overhaul would be great, but I don't know how realistic that is at this point. That's why I was and am still excited about the addition of the scared/terrified emotion. It really impacts your gameplay in a way that cannot as easily be overpowered by a a couple of nice paintings and a potted plant in your Sims' vicinity. As an example, yesterday I was playing a Paranormal Investigator and she had an Expert gig at the house of the Roswell family. I switched to another household (living in a penthouse in San Myshuno) the next day and it happened that one of the Sims in the household was friends with Meredith Roswell. As is the case with penthouses, she had friends showing up all day and Meredith was the 3rd one to stop by. Since Meredith was still in recovery from the events of the night, she arrived at the house terrified and started screaming at everyone. I could go into more detail, but at some point I just had 5 Sims taking turns running around like headless chickens and cowering in fear. It was unexpected, completely interrupted what I had planned for that day ... and it was entertaining and awesome. These events you can't schedule and can't plan for make the game more interesting and lifelike to me. So after playing several saves and households since this emotion was introduced I can decidedly say that I don't want them to change anything about it.

By the way, you can place the 'Defender Wall Light' close to your Sim childrens' bed and they won't be disturbed by the monster under the bed. Just in case this is news to anyone.

Its realistic at the fact that kids get scared of the monster under their bed instead of just tense ? and vampires getting scared of daylight when they dont have the sun resistance power maxed out, my vampire sim can go out in daylight but one of her vampire friends ran in her house terrified lol, this might stop vampires burning to death in daylight spontaneously, if they are actually running in doors now because they are scared

Edit: her vampire friend just ran terrified right pass her while my sim was walking in the hall to greet her ??

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.

"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

Thanks @Nikkih ! That's a big help!

I love the new 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