Sentiments and Rotational Play

My game can't even remember my sims' phone and umbrella colours, and one of my most played sims once forgot about everybody she ever met, including family members within her own household, so I have no hope for this sentiment system to be of any use in saves with more than just a few small households...

"babajayne;c-17714308" wrote:
I really hope the sentiments only decay while we are playing the household.

But wouldn't that be frustrating if you had played family A, and they got a grudge against someone from family B, then you changed to family B and spent days making friends only to find when you swapped back to A that the feud was still on, even though the guy from family A had been acting all nice while you played family B. I think they have to all decay on the same time-zone really.

"IngeJones;c-17718424" wrote:

"babajayne;c-17714308" wrote:
I really hope the sentiments only decay while we are playing the household.

But wouldn't that be frustrating if you had played family A, and they got a grudge against someone from family B, then you changed to family B and spent days making friends only to find when you swapped back to A that the feud was still on, even though the guy from family A had been acting all nice while you played family B. I think they have to all decay on the same time-zone really.

No it shouldn’t work that way. Let’s hope not.
With rotation play that kind of thing wouldn’t happen anyway, their relationships are mutual. I just don’t want to develop a sentiment between family 1 and family 10, play 9 families in between and find that it has decayed by the time I play family 10.

ETA: To clarify, a sentiment is mutual. So when you are playing either family A or B in your scenario, the decay would make sense.

"crocobaura;c-17713795" wrote:

"Sharonia;c-17713778" wrote:
I’m a bit sad to hear that the sentiments just fade away. I was rather hoping they would be more like memories and have longer impacts on the Sims lives. I also play rotationally and I’m wondering about this too.

I think it was Graham who said that sentiments last for varying lengths of time and they fade away, but you can also prolong the sentiment by repeating the action that caused it. Frankly I wouldn't want my sims stuck with strong sentiments their whole life, I think it's normal that they fade away after a while. Now we need to see how long certain sentiments last by default, for some sims they may last longer depending maybe on their traits. I imagine it will be possible to mod them if you want certain sentiments to last longer.

I really wish they'd consider traits for things like this. Like melancholic sims should hold on to sentiments longer than cheerful ones, jealous sims should hold a grudge about cheating for the rest of their lives, child-hating sims should develop grudges against children far more quickly and easily than family-oriented sims and they should last longer etc.

I'm sure it doesn't work like that but it would actually be a really nice way to make the traits we pick more impactful as well.

"SimTrippy;c-17718461" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17713795" wrote:

"Sharonia;c-17713778" wrote:
I’m a bit sad to hear that the sentiments just fade away. I was rather hoping they would be more like memories and have longer impacts on the Sims lives. I also play rotationally and I’m wondering about this too.

I think it was Graham who said that sentiments last for varying lengths of time and they fade away, but you can also prolong the sentiment by repeating the action that caused it. Frankly I wouldn't want my sims stuck with strong sentiments their whole life, I think it's normal that they fade away after a while. Now we need to see how long certain sentiments last by default, for some sims they may last longer depending maybe on their traits. I imagine it will be possible to mod them if you want certain sentiments to last longer.

I really wish they'd consider traits for things like this. Like melancholic sims should hold on to sentiments longer than cheerful ones, jealous sims should hold a grudge about cheating for the rest of their lives, child-hating sims should develop grudges against children far more quickly and easily than family-oriented sims and they should last longer etc.

I'm sure it doesn't work like that but it would actually be a really nice way to make the traits we pick more impactful as well.

That's actually an awesome idea. I wish they'd have done that.

I think it would be cool to have some strong sentiments added in the mix that actually can last for the rest of a sims lifetime. Like sometimes in real life a person can hold a grudge against somebody that never goes away.

Just what is going to happen if a sim has a "loves outdoors" trait and an "indoorsy" lifestyle? What sentiment will he get from standing on his doorstep?

They hardly ever think about rotational players so I expect the sentiments to be gone when I rotate back.

I am staying offline but I will be following this thread closely after the patch hits :)

I think sentiments are going to slow down my rotational play quite a bit. Actually having lasting consequences for cheating on a spouse is something this game has needed for 6 years. I do hope sentiments will tend to be remain statice while I'm off at other houses but considering the way Sims 4 lays the townie makeover smackdown on my sims when I leave them unattended, i'm not holding my breath. Like, I said - just glad that sentiments will help support some situational things that shouldn't just go away with a moodlet. Much more potential than Lifestyles honestly.