Sims 4 Likes and Dislikes? Increase activity?
I love the idea of these! but do they actually do anything? or just flavor text when a sim encounters something they like or dislike? If I give a sim 'likes' cooking, will they cook more?
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When it comes to autonomy I've had mixed results. With certain sims they do seem to have an effect while the other ones seem to pay no attention at all and do their best to make themselves miserable.
E.g. Axel (traits: Evil, Cheerful, Music Lover) dislikes mischief and has been consistently rejecting these interactions, almost never doing them himself either. Then again, he didn't exactly do them in the past either so dunno BUT one notable change is that he hardly ever seems to "troll teh forums" anymore. I recall him doing that waaaaaay more before the update. From my understanding it counts as a mischief interaction so maybe the dislikes are actually having an effect here. I mean, I had to buy a computer for Vlad's place for a while and Vlad immediately became addicted to "trolling teh forums". He shares two traits with Axel but Axel's autonomous behavior with a computer is way different and he mostly just blogs Style Guide or something. Doesn't play games either (that's another thing he dislikes). Meanwhile Axel's wife Abigail (traits: Goofball, Clumsy, Geek) dislikes mischief too (she insisted) but she's also a Goofball and does autonomous mischief WAY more often so I guess the trait is partly overriding the dislike (recently she went completely bonkers with it but that was mod influence). For some reason she also insists swimming laps in the pool while disliking fitness. Though I wonder if her possibly being in a energized mood affects that.
Dancing seems to kind of be the worst thing to dislike for everyone still seems to insist doing that regardless of their traits/mood/dislikes/likes. I had a sim (traits: Gloomy, Erratic, Art Lover) who dislikes dancing autonomously dance to a music genre she also dislikes and, in the end, she had managed to work that "having a bad time" moodlet to the red. Amazing.
Maybe I should give one of my vampires the "Dampened Emotions" thing for a while (so that their mood will stay neutral), remove any mods possibly affecting autonomy and then inspect what they do with their likes/dislikes.
Currently it does feel like the system certainly could do with some improvement. I personally really wanted them to affect autonomy but, like stated, have had mixed results which also leave me thinking whether these results actually have anything to do with likes/dislikes and are instead caused by other factors.
E.g. Axel (traits: Evil, Cheerful, Music Lover) dislikes mischief and has been consistently rejecting these interactions, almost never doing them himself either. Then again, he didn't exactly do them in the past either so dunno BUT one notable change is that he hardly ever seems to "troll teh forums" anymore. I recall him doing that waaaaaay more before the update. From my understanding it counts as a mischief interaction so maybe the dislikes are actually having an effect here. I mean, I had to buy a computer for Vlad's place for a while and Vlad immediately became addicted to "trolling teh forums". He shares two traits with Axel but Axel's autonomous behavior with a computer is way different and he mostly just blogs Style Guide or something. Doesn't play games either (that's another thing he dislikes). Meanwhile Axel's wife Abigail (traits: Goofball, Clumsy, Geek) dislikes mischief too (she insisted) but she's also a Goofball and does autonomous mischief WAY more often so I guess the trait is partly overriding the dislike (recently she went completely bonkers with it but that was mod influence). For some reason she also insists swimming laps in the pool while disliking fitness. Though I wonder if her possibly being in a energized mood affects that.
Dancing seems to kind of be the worst thing to dislike for everyone still seems to insist doing that regardless of their traits/mood/dislikes/likes. I had a sim (traits: Gloomy, Erratic, Art Lover) who dislikes dancing autonomously dance to a music genre she also dislikes and, in the end, she had managed to work that "having a bad time" moodlet to the red. Amazing.
Maybe I should give one of my vampires the "Dampened Emotions" thing for a while (so that their mood will stay neutral), remove any mods possibly affecting autonomy and then inspect what they do with their likes/dislikes.
Currently it does feel like the system certainly could do with some improvement. I personally really wanted them to affect autonomy but, like stated, have had mixed results which also leave me thinking whether these results actually have anything to do with likes/dislikes and are instead caused by other factors.
