Sentiments are driving me mad

Sentiments could use a slight tweaking (NOT NERFING) but they definitely bring more good than bad to the game. Sims do behave differently despite what some say. (At least in my experience) and I love it. Just like @calaprfy I had similar experiences. And my brothers adore eachother just as I had imagined them before sentiments came along. I think it's a bit unreasonable for them act super dramatic over events. Like constantly fighting an enemy or something. Then it would turn into spammy NAP. You may have a grudge against your neighbor but that doesn't mean you're going to give them a beat down everytime you see them ?? I hope not.

As I always say The only thing I think this system needs is more sentiments! (Especially special ones for twins and siblings hehe)
And overhauled emotions as well as a fear emotion. Sims personalities would really be great then. The emotions system still kinda hold back it's potential and I do still wish traits were more complex and we had more basic ones in cas to choose.

And lastly it is a bit annoying not knowing why some sims developed certain sentiments. I'm like what happened? I don't know if we are suppose to fill in the gaps with our imagination but I do.
I love the suggestion of being able to talk with a sim to find out.

Sentiments are a nice addition...when they work! Lifestyles is the thing that is annoying me at the moment. If you send your sim to work, after about 2 weeks, they get the workaholic lifestyle...what a pain in the gluteus maximus that is! If your sim is on a day off, they get tense because they haven't been to work recently...and a tense sim has a load of interactions that can no longer be used whilst they are in this state. Who wants a sim that goes to work all the time? Mirroring real life isn't always a fun thing to do.

"notasmokealarm09;c-17767042" wrote:
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?

I had to laugh. :D Well, it's a sign that she lives in a toxic partnership with him, narcissistic partners only care for themselves. Time to dump him and find a better partner. :p

my biggest issue is that without memories I have literally no idea what happened to create a sentiment. I am cool with the fact that my Sim's are currently mad at each other but I would like to know why and I don't always see what happened.

@Dannakyri1 I wish we had memories and reputations like in TS3, I agree that would make sentiments so much more meaningful. I was sad to find that wasn’t a feature in TS4. I miss just corny little scrapbook that gave my sim a tangible history