I love Likes and Dislikes, I love this game. But the emotion system is really a mess. Happy emotions (like being happy by central heating) still overpowers tense or uncomfortable emotions sometimes. I also want my Sims to stop feeling inspired by the decors in her house every day, I mean she's been living in that house for years already. And other happy emotions should never overpower grieving emotions. Like for example, a Sim is grieving for her father but she still feels Inspired by something. And grieving should not be only for 2 days. When someone very dear to them dies, I feel like it should put some scars in their hearts...or something like that, I dunno.I hope Sims team will keep improving it, especially this emotions system.

I agree. The emotions system seems like a good idea conceptually, but I feel its current execution is lacking. I remember in one of the surveys they did in the past year or so, I specifically pointed out that I actually would rather return to the old personality point system where my sims' actions were actually controlled within that spectrum of points they had, than for all the samey-samey Sims who have emotions that don't really affect their behavior in any concrete way.For example, neat Sims actually got excited and had fun cleaning in past games, whereas sloppy Sims really just did not care or notice if their house was full of garbage. It made for some fun conflict with extremely neat and extremely sloppy Sims living together. Another good example were shy versus outgoing Sims in previous iterations. Having a shy Sim made it even harder than it already was to make and maintain friendships, but it was a fun challenge. And again, some extremes and personalities just did not get along well together unless you really worked at it.In Sims 4, I don't find it all that hard for my Sims to make or keep friends, and there's really not much in the way of actual Sim behavior to indicate shyness when you want to play a shy Sim.Now in all fairness, I think the lifestyles and likes/dislikes have started to try to address this. But I can't help but feel that it's still rather like putting a fresh coat of paint on the shed that's ready to collapse outback. Until there's some structural overhaul to fix the problems, all it's going to do is make the shed *look* pretty, not make it more stable.Tldr; the emotional buffs are poorly designed and don't actually affect Sim behavior enough to make my Sims distinct from one another. Either fix them or give me back my personality points and zodiac, please.

https://i.imgur.com/sGUvQNF.pngIn The Sims 4 Update on 5/27/2021, A Sim gets a fine +1 Sparkling Clean Surroundings (From Being in a Clean area). This is very irritating when I want my Sim to complete the Painting Extraordinaire asperation and it's very difficult to get my Sim to be inspired. The Bust the Dust kit was already busted. Inspired +1 wasn't bad, but Fine +1 really takes the cake. The Sims team is overdoing it with the fine moodlet. Tiny Living and Snowy Escape were more than enough. At least with Fine +10 I can surge emotion. Why can't Sparkling Clean Surroundings be a happy +1 instead?

"Dannakyri1;c-17899208" wrote:OMG your Sim's only grieve 2 days. I feel like my are 4 days at least which is a long time considered the age span of sims. If every day is roughly a year, 2-4 years is a long time to be sad all day every day after a death. I know the death of a loved one hurts real bad and stays with us, but most people do not spend a full 2-3 years actively feeling sad 24/7OMG who said a day is a year in the Sims? WHERE did you read it? what if I play with aging off? I just want it to be a little longer, maybe a week. And I want them to be at least reminded by it, YOU KNOW, to make things more meaningful :) Just a suggestion :)

"chuckjaymoore;c-17899203" wrote:https://i.imgur.com/sGUvQNF.pngIn The Sims 4 Update on 5/27/2021, A Sim gets a fine +1 Sparkling Clean Surroundings (From Being in a Clean area). This is very irritating when I want my Sim to complete the Painting Extraordinaire asperation and it's very difficult to get my Sim to be inspired. The Bust the Dust kit was already busted. Inspired +1 wasn't bad, but Fine +1 really takes the cake. The Sims team is overdoing it with the fine moodlet. Tiny Living and Snowy Escape were more than enough. At least with Fine +10 I can surge emotion. Why can't Sparkling Clean Surroundings be a happy +1 instead? I like it better if it's like that. It feels more realistic and adds a challenge.

I do prefer it at least when the emotion in question is happy. Because while happy can override other emotions, it only enhances them if they are just as strong (happy will feed into inspired, for example, and make a sim more inspired). Fine however is it's own emotion, if you can call it that. It only overrides other emotions. At least if you're happy about the AC, it will make you more inspired, which makes some sense. But they should all be little +1s. I hated the +4 inspired for having a pristine floor. Seriously? Mod, mod, mod..."jpsulsuldagdag;c-17901378" wrote:"Dannakyri1;c-17899208" wrote:OMG your Sim's only grieve 2 days. I feel like my are 4 days at least which is a long time considered the age span of sims. If every day is roughly a year, 2-4 years is a long time to be sad all day every day after a death. I know the death of a loved one hurts real bad and stays with us, but most people do not spend a full 2-3 years actively feeling sad 24/7OMG who said a day is a year in the Sims? WHERE did you read it? what if I play with aging off? I just want it to be a little longer, maybe a week. And I want them to be at least reminded by it, YOU KNOW, to make things more meaningful :) Just a suggestion :) What would be better (and kind of cool) is if they randomly got sad buffs for lost love ones. They get happy buffs for being a happy toddler all the time, for crying out loud. Big events should have a permanent (but not on all the time) impact. Deaths, weddings, divorces, birth of a child, etc should have a memory buff that returns from time to time.PS a day is sort of a year for a sim, at least if you play on normal lifespan. It comes out to about an 80 day life. You just can't really treat it that way, but I think they meant 2-3 days is already like about a 30th of their life.

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MasterSifuSensi
4 years ago
My misplaced emotion is Trapped inside. No walls or roof while reading or playing an instrument around a campfire Traps my outdoorsy sim with board + 2. No walls no roof should trigger my happy outdoor moodlet+1 While doing an actual outdoor activities like Rock climbing or Roasting Marshmallows Meditative walks, even snow activities does not trigger anything. Every time winter rolls in I'm in danger of losing my favorite lifestyle because the lakes freeze and I can't swim or fish.
Dannakyri
4 years ago
OMG your Sim's only grieve 2 days. I feel like my are 4 days at least which is a long time considered the age span of sims. If every day is roughly a year, 2-4 years is a long time to be sad all day every day after a death. I know the death of a loved one hurts real bad and stays with us, but most people do not spend a full 2-3 years actively feeling sad 24/7
Kaali_Durga
4 years ago
"jpsulsuldagdag;d-990271" wrote:
I also want my Sims to stop feeling inspired by the decors in her house every day, I mean she's been living in that house for years already.

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FriendlySimmers
New Traveler
4 years ago
I fully disagree with what is said in this post i fine the emotions perfect as they are and working fine
aoi_SIMS
4 years ago
> @ChadSims2 said:
> Listening to music I hate goes far beyond bored for me tense/annoyed seems like a perfect response though everyone does not react the same

Hi! Thank you for reading my comment.
Indeed, when we have to listen to music we don't want to listen to for a long time, we may start to get a little irritated...
I think it's okay for there to be many different kinds of sims, just like humans, but the current emotional system, at least, doesn't quite fit my mood for things dislike.
If my Sims were selfish celebrities... I might be able to accept that they can't help but get annoyed by furniture they don't like, but my Sims are mostly regular people!
ChampandGirlie
New Spectator
4 years ago
I generally like playing with happier sims and I'll admit that I'm fine with decor moodlets. Having most of my sims be happy a lot is fine with me. That said, I think there should be more ability to determine the basic state of your sims in the game. The other big aspect that I'm in 100% agreement about is that emotions like death or reacting to affairs or other negative events should not be trivialized lie they often are with the emotions system.

Death and grieving needs a re-work with better funerals and reactions across households.
rachaeliscool
4 years ago
"jpsulsuldagdag;d-990271" wrote:
And grieving should not be only for 2 days. When someone very dear to them dies, I feel like it should put some scars in their hearts...or something like that, I dunno.

You'd be surprised what a nightmare 2 days of grieving can be for someone doing the 100 Baby Challenge. :D No baby making when Sims are Sad! Once that first generation of baby daddies begins to die off--to say nothing of the kids...!

But I hear ya. The emotion system is definitely lacking.

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