Let's Find Those Trait Improvements
According to the patch notes, the following traits have been updated: Bookworm, Cheerful, Clumsy, Genius, Gloomy, Glutton, Good, Goofball, Hates Children, Hot-Headed, Jealous, Mean, Neat, Noncommitta...
Forum Discussion
"EnkiSchmidt;c-17843380" wrote:"CelSims;c-17843329" wrote:"EgonVM;c-17843117" wrote:
New discovery!
When cheerful sims are currently in a negative emotional state, they have a new self-interaction called "Look at the Brightside".
This interaction will reduce the time remaining of their negative moodlets (by about 3 hours) and you will need to wait for some time before you can make your sim do that again.
This is very nice. Some thing unique to a certain trait, yet not autonomous so those whose story would be disrupted by a shorter negative state can simply not use it.
It's not about getting annoyed by a negative state, storyplayers want fail states as much as you.
Our (my) problem with autonomy is it breaking character by either pushing the sims to do something they wouldn't according to our image of them (in canon Sims 4 sims are pretty stereotypical) or something extremely nonsensical that a person irl would not do (granny throwing herself down between my two toddlers to do push ups). It's less "oh, something bad happened, my utopia is tarnished" and more "something incredibly unbelievable happened and jolted me out of my interactive novel".
If you don't want sims to do things not approved by you then there is an option called free will off.
A story is not fun, nor is it interesting if everything always goes the way you want it.
