Re: Things You Didn't Know!

Simmers probably already know this but sometimes after lightning strikes, there will be crystals in their garden. 

Quick fun fact for today.

Teens have different animations for gossiping, flirting, yelling etc, but High School Years adds new teen-exclusive animations (friendly introduction for example.)

It is great that teens have their own particular animations for various things @EgonVM 🙂 Just like in real life, sometimes different age groups may greet each other or chat in  different ways.

Walking your dog without a leash.

It is helpful to know that by sims teaching their dog the heel command,they don’t need a leash @simgirl1010 🙂 It is great that they will then follow the sim wherever they go! 

Today I have dug up how the start of a mid-life crisis works.

It turns out that when your sim is an adult, being in the following emotions will help to trigger it (the ones with + have a higher chance of triggering it):

• Angry + (the chance isn't increased when it's due to Werebies)
• Sad +
• Tense + (the chance isn't increased when it's due to Werebies)
• Uncomfortable
• Embarrassed

In addition, sim not being part of the household and sim already having had a mid-life crisis (aka having this trait: trait_Hidden_MidlifeCrisis_HadACrisis) will also prevent mid-life crisis from starting.

At first, I thought that witnessing death helps mid-life crisis to come about faster. Well, it was just a coincidence as witnessing death gives your sim a strong Sad moodlet, which in turn has a higher chance of starting it. And yup, there is a file called loot_MidlifeCrisis_SimDeath, but it's for removing all the mid-life crisis stuff once the sim having it dies.

It is good to know what emotions can be triggers for adults to start having a mid life crisis @EgonVM It can help in knowing what emotions to try to avoid, or to know why it has occurred at a particular time in their life or day. 

Last Mid-Life crisis fact. I'll move on to other topics for now, but I'll get back to mid-life crisis when the new forums open up.

Anyway, there are 4 desires your sim could have once the early part is over:

• Desire for Adventure (slower energy decay)
• Desire for Creativity (higher quality craftables)
• Desire for Relationships (higher relationship gain)
• Desire for Success (higher career performance gain)

While sims have equal chance of getting one of these desires, certain traits can also cause certain desire to appear less:

Remember, having a certain trait doesn't prevent certain desire from appearing. It simply is rarer than other desires (or equally common if your sim has traits from all of these categories).

Though it seems like The Sims Wiki has info on all of that for now...

Thanks for posting the helpful information about the desires that come with having a midlife crisis @EgonVM It is helpful to know which traits may decrease the chance of certain desires to appear. 

On how good Growing Together is in my opinion, here's another fun fact on one of its features!

Today's topic: Work Rivals.

There's a chance for your sim to get one after a workday. Traits do affect the chance:

In addition, there is a rare chance for sim having 2 workplace rivals. There can't be more than 2 though.

In addition, just getting a job or promotion or just recovering from a burn out will prevent your sim from getting a work rival. There's also a cooldown in getting a work rival.

I like my sims having the cheerful trait @EgonVM so it is good to know that it will help to decrease the chance of them getting a workplace rival 🙂 Also I don’t have sims with the other traits that increase the chances of it so that is good! 

Thanks for letting us know about work rivals. 

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That is so sweet! @simgirl1010 🙂

Today's list: how to get detention in high school!

Your sim has to do the following in the high school or Career Day:

• Being rude to the staff member
• Pranking
• Not being at class
• Not being at any classes during the day and still showing up in school afterwards
• Randomly from chance cards

Getting detention will get your sim closer to being expelled. Your sim can convince the principal to get out of detention, which is more successful if they are friends with them or have Trusting sentiment and less successful when your sim has low relationship with them or have Suspicious sentiment.

If your sim has earned at least one scout badge as a child, then when they are a teen or older they can cook scout cookies 🙂

Ooh, I never knew that. My main cook is my sim Julianna. All three of her daughters earned all the scout badges. But they never cook. 😄 Will definitely bake some scout cookies next gameplay session.

Did you know that traits affect what temperaments a werewolf gets? Only a few temperaments have traits that prevent it from coming.

Here's a list on this:

So yeah, some sims tend to get a certain temperament more than other sims. I'm guessing if your sim doesn't have any of these traits, every temperament has an equal chance of appearing.

It is great to know what traits increase the chance of the temperament that a werewolf has @EgonVM  It helps simmers to see how the trait can affect the werewolf or why it has the temperament. 

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It is great to learn that barstools can be slotted onto the foodstands! @simgirl1010 🙂 It is very helpful! It looks good also.

Today I confirmed the fact I suspected.

In an extreme emotion (Enraged, Hysterical, Mortified), every time sim does that special emotion idle animation, they have a chance to die. So yeah, if you get them to do something that doesn't allow idle animations (no ideas here for now), you can just help your sim to weather this emotion.

In addition, the following things also save your sims:

• Being teen (emotional deaths have been disabled for teens since Parenthood)
• Being pregnant (duh)
• Being a Vampire or Servo
• Being Cringe (prevents Laughter only)
• Having the anger be caused by Emotion Bomb quirk (prevents Anger only)
• Being a Werewolf or having Werebies (prevents Anger only)

In addition, Supreme Authority reward trait from Journey to Batuu only reduces the chance of death by anger.

I wouldn’t want my sim to die from an extreme emotion! @EgonVM It wouldn’t be very nice. Thanks for telling us about what you found out about emotional deaths.

Today, I'll share info about Kodama in Snowy Escape.

These are these things your sim can encounter when hiking:

There are three things that can happen when encountering a Kodama:

• If your sim has a harvestable in their inventory (from Gardening or seed packets etc), they'll always get Spiritual Blessing (+3 Happy moodlet) alongside with a random harvestable in their inventory.
• If your sim does not have a harvestable in their inventory, one of these two things can happen:
  • Your sim gets Spiritual Awe, which causes their Energy need to go down slower. This outcome is more likely to happen to sims with Good or Childish traits.
  • Your sim gets Spiritual Misfortune, which causes one of the needs (Energy/Vampire Energy, Bladder/Water, Hunger/Thirst, Fun, Hygiene, or Social) to go down faster. This outcome is more likely to happen to sims with Mean or Evil traits.

So yeah, if you want to be safe and avoid a misfortune, always carry a fruit or seed with you (apple for example).

Additional fun fact: The Forest Spirits you can make a wish to or collect are codenamed Onibi.