Sims smile too much

I agree! I actually have mine modded so that fine is the default because that just feels more realistic. Even in RL, happy people do not joker smile 24/7.

Never noticed I work with a lot of happy people that smile a lot and that's saying something I know what we deal with there, maybe play more zoomed out so you don't see it.

I have always found that odd too. I have used a mod which tunes down facial expressions for a long time (bienchen's lessfacialoveraction mod). I think it looks much better, especially with idle animations when they are looking around. Sims smiling and looking left and right looks odd to me.

i fully disagree with this thread i much prefer to see happy and friendly sims and see nothing wrong with this as a player

I strongly disagree! I like having my Sims happy and friendly, since the real world can be so rough sometimes.

Totally agree. You can give a sim 100% bad traits, and they're still as happy and outgoing as one with all good traits

Idk I feel like my current problem is "emotionally mindful" overriding all other moodlets and it especially frustrates me when sim is supposed to be angry or sad or something instead

like grandma is dead but hey I took shower today!

even goes on top of flirty like gosh now my sims can't get in mood for woohooty cause I've been tending to their needs today -_- should I have let them wet their pants or something

I find it helpful to stick the Genius trait on any sims who I absolutely don't want to go around grinning all the time. They can still smile and be happy, but most of them don't do it all the time if they're a genius (real or fake, lol). Edited to add: It's because they very often become focused, which overrides most of the happy-happy look.

I guess Sim is happy because they are not in realistic world we live in, Sim live in almost perfect world, more or less, even chance to get immortal, easy to get rich, easy to get love, easy to get job and quit job, easy to get highest promation of job so go on, in real life, lot of people don't had that chance at all, even all of them, there is no disability sim in that game! That's why Sim is happy! LOL

In Realistic life, it's hard to get rich or impossible to get rich (for most people), impossible/difficult to get high rank career (limited number this world had offer, everyone can't be boss at same time, ect, but in Sim, offer everyone to chance get highest rank career unlimited! Everyone can be own boss!) Difficult to get love one or impossible for some people (In Sims 4, create spouse and spouse's personal out of thin air!), and impossible to get immortal or occult to get superpower, more or less.

There is "Sad" traits but it's only bring random sadness here and there, more or less.

"Fine" is the default mood isn't it?