Sentiments that make absolutely no sense.
A couple of examples from my game recently: Married couple, maxed out romance level, sharing a meal and conversation with their daughter when one of them becomes enraged and gets a long term bitter...
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So far I've had two problems with sentiments.
1) A friend of a vampire suddenly got a "bitter grudge" sentiment toward her with no obvious trigger while having a "pleasant conversation", and with their relationship bar quite high in the positive direction. No idea why.
2) I think the developers forgot about the "player" trait when they created the sentiment system. If a sim's partner has the "player" trait they are not supposed to get upset about their partner flirting, kissing or even woohooing with someone else. I use this trait to create open or polyamorous relationships of various types. Unfortunately, sentiments has kind of broken it. Now sims will get a bitter or hurt sentiment when their partner (with the player trait) does these things. Even though they still don't react with a negative moodlet immediately when the action happens, the sentiment will cause them to periodically get upset.
I've used the cheat to remove these weird and unwanted sentiments, but its such a cumbersome and long cheat code, it's kind of annoying to use.
Most of the rest of the time, I've liked the sentiments and they've made sense. I actually do think they add some depth to the game. But I wish that a toggle to turn them off had been included like it was included for lifestyles. Especially considering that sentiments came in a patch update that cannot be avoided. Players couldn't even choose not to have sentiments by not buying a pack. The sentiment system was forced on everyone whether they wanted it or not. So it really should have come with a "turn off" option.
1) A friend of a vampire suddenly got a "bitter grudge" sentiment toward her with no obvious trigger while having a "pleasant conversation", and with their relationship bar quite high in the positive direction. No idea why.
2) I think the developers forgot about the "player" trait when they created the sentiment system. If a sim's partner has the "player" trait they are not supposed to get upset about their partner flirting, kissing or even woohooing with someone else. I use this trait to create open or polyamorous relationships of various types. Unfortunately, sentiments has kind of broken it. Now sims will get a bitter or hurt sentiment when their partner (with the player trait) does these things. Even though they still don't react with a negative moodlet immediately when the action happens, the sentiment will cause them to periodically get upset.
I've used the cheat to remove these weird and unwanted sentiments, but its such a cumbersome and long cheat code, it's kind of annoying to use.
Most of the rest of the time, I've liked the sentiments and they've made sense. I actually do think they add some depth to the game. But I wish that a toggle to turn them off had been included like it was included for lifestyles. Especially considering that sentiments came in a patch update that cannot be avoided. Players couldn't even choose not to have sentiments by not buying a pack. The sentiment system was forced on everyone whether they wanted it or not. So it really should have come with a "turn off" option.
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