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babajayne's avatar
4 years ago

Sentiments Fade in Rotational Play

Many of us play several households on rotation. When I came back around to the first household who got sentiments, I’m sad to see their sentiments have faded even though they were strong when I last left them.

I can see if they fade for sims who we are interacting with, for example, Jordan and Joey get a mutual sentiment about feeling closer to one another while I’m playing Joe. Then I play Jordan and the sentiments continue to decay because I’m playing one of the sims involved. That kind of decay makes sense to me.

But if Jordan and Joey are in the same household with the sentiments, and I go play another house for several days and come back, it would be nice to pick things up where I left off and keep their sentiments.

I hope Maxis can improve this feature for rotational players, in the meantime does anyone know of a mod that helps? I don’t use mods but I would consider getting a simple one that only addresses this issue.
  • Simburian's avatar
    Simburian
    Seasoned Rookie
    You could try asking on Twitter

    https://twitter.com/lumpinou if it is possible. She was mentioned on Simscommunity.


    https://simscommunity.info/2020/11/28/custom-sentiments-proven-as-possible-for-the-sims-4/
  • "Chazzzy;c-17740444" wrote:
    Are you saying you have noticed from your own gameplay that they fade when you switch households or are you asking if it’s possible that they could fade when you switch households?

    They fade away when I‘ve switched households and returned. I want them to remain there.
  • Do you have aging on? Were you playing another household in the same neighborhood?

    I also play rotationally, it would be nice if they were still as I left them.
  • "Auroraskies;c-17740448" wrote:
    Do you have aging on? Were you playing another household in the same neighborhood?

    Aging is on for my Active Household Only for played sims.
    Sometimes the same neighborhood, but usually a different one. I spend about 10 days at each house and I have 12 households spread across 8 worlds.
  • "Auroraskies;c-17740467" wrote:
    Thank you. When you switched household from the sims that got the sentiments; did you continue playing in the same neighborhood, or was the household you switched to in a different neighborhood in the same world, or in completely different world?

    Both. Sometimes I have 2 households in the same neighborhood back to back, but then I move onto a different world. It doesn’t seem to matter which neighborhood I am playing in because the sentiments fade as time passes no matter who I am playing.
  • Thank you. When you switched household from the sims that got the sentiments; did you continue playing in the same neighborhood, or was the household you switched to in a different neighborhood in the same world, or in completely different world?