Sentiments are driving me mad

Don't even get me started! The first time I went to the Festival of Youth in Mt Komorebi I took my child sim along with her father because I wanted her mother to remain at home with her toddler brother, after the festival said child was angry with EVERYONE in her household for not giving her the blessing of "youth" at the festival because somehow missed the interaction in the interactions menu.
But she was angry with all of her family members for weeks, it only faded the next time the festival came around and I was able to find the blessing in the interaction menu.
However, this time, she was angry with her toddler brother for not giving her "the blessing of Youth" like excuse me what? Your brother can't even give you the blessing of youth because he's younger than you, you fool. Who on earth programmed the way these sentiments work/activate? They're so wonky and all over the place. Not to mention lifestyles are bugged to Hell and back as well.

The sister was going through a mean streak and she said one mean thing to her brother and he got a festering grudge. Sometimes if a sim just says hello they can get a closer from memories sentiment. It makes no sense sometimes.

There's a mod for toddler having an enternal grugde against their caretakers.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/bg-no-hurt-and-45131063

Yeah, I had a child who was mad at her entire family all through childhood and the grudge carried over into her teens.

The cause was I took the family to one of the festivals. The rest of the family took off to the bar to use the restroom, and I let them do their thing while focusing on the child trying to find some hidden thing that was the focus of the festival, or so I thought.

Finally, I brought the entire family together for ice cream, and then everyone went home. A nice outing, or so I thought. Soon after, the daughter, who had a great relationship with her family, started being upset over something from the festival that I was unaware her family was supposed to do. Kid was mad forever. I changed to a different household and know to NEVER take a child to that festival again.

Seriously, everything in Sims 4 is too much or too little. I really wish they tested more before releasing new packs.

"halloweenchild;c-17766689" wrote:
Don't even get me started! The first time I went to the Festival of Youth in Mt Komorebi I took my child sim along with her father because I wanted her mother to remain at home with her toddler brother, after the festival said child was angry with EVERYONE in her household for not giving her the blessing of "youth" at the festival because somehow missed the interaction in the interactions menu.
But she was angry with all of her family members for weeks, it only faded the next time the festival came around and I was able to find the blessing in the interaction menu.
However, this time, she was angry with her toddler brother for not giving her "the blessing of Youth" like excuse me what? Your brother can't even give you the blessing of youth because he's younger than you, you fool. Who on earth programmed the way these sentiments work/activate? They're so wonky and all over the place. Not to mention lifestyles are bugged to Hell and back as well.

Ah, I read this after my post. This is same thing that happened to me. So crazy making ?

Some of the sentiments don't make sense at all. I've mentioned this before. The adoring sentiment from a parent to a child or sibling to sibling should not fade away easily. It should take a lot of effort and a very bad relationship for this sentiment to fade away. Yet it's gone again within a week or two of obtaining it.

Toddlers should not hold festering grudges towards anybody. Their minds just don't work like that. I actually downloaded a mod from Zero for this issue a few days ago.

I like the sentiments but I feel like they need a lot of improvements.

The first negative sentiment that came up in my game was a Toddler feeling sad when near the Sim that hurt him. That Sim was his mother! :open_mouth: I don't have any kind of mods that create violence in my game. Spanking doesn't occur as part of the interactions with Parenthood. (Too bad; spare the rod, spoil the child.) All I can realize is, perhaps, she told the little brat "No." And he got offended. I call him a brat because he is one. He thinks he rules the roost — and he's the Charmer. Yeah, so very charming of you, Andrew. He is a Toddler, after all. But, I do agree that if a player wants to get these things overridden, you have to have the Sims involved work toward better memories together. In this respect, it's an awful lot like real life. I'm waiting for them to place a Psychiatrist back into the game. LOL

Fortunately I am not having that particular reaction, most of my sims have deep personal relations, yada yada. I am really enjoying that part, but I'm about to start my third generation in some of my saves so I haven't had the "pleasure" of raising kids since these last few patches. Never say never, lol. I feel for those who are. What it sounds like to me is there are an awfully lot of spoiled brats. :D

I like sentiments and I think they are one of the best additions to the game in a long while. With that said, I do wish that there were ways to resolve negative sentiments that were more apparent to the player. If my Sim hurts someone that I didn't want to hurt, I want a clear path to resolve that. The fact that you can actually hurt someone and have a way to deal with it is fun, emergent gameplay but only when I have some guidance on what to do.

Otherwise, I'm just poking around in the dark about what to do or waiting for it to go away.

I have a love/hate relationship with them. Some of them are so sweet!

But then there's the dumb stuff. Like I sent one of my couples on a hike since the weather was nice. They stopped to enjoy the scenery, and while they were stopped, the girlfriend was attacked by hornets. Her boyfriend then became angry with her for being attacked, and had negative thoughts about her because it ruined his hike. I was floored. Instead of being concerned for her wellbeing he was angry AT HER that she got attacked...where is the logic here?