Okay, so I thought I just had to have my Sim "Regain Passion" at any point before he went to work the next day, right? Wrong. I guess I have to have him "Regain Passion" less than six hours before going to work, so he still has the positive moodlet when he goes to work. In addition to the fact that there's only a ridiculous 50-50 chance that regaining his passion will even work...He has to sleep in between the time he comes home from work and the time he goes to work again. When he wakes up, the Want to "Go to Work After Regaining Passion" is gone, and I can't Regain Passion! And if I do it before he sleeps, the moodlet will be gone by the time he goes to work!Wants and Fears have been part of this game for a while now. This is getting impossible to deal with. I don't mind having challenges in my game, but this goes beyond "challenging" and it happens way too frequently to be any fun.I really hope somebody is working on fixing this. Has anyone else had an issue with this fear? I'm near tears at this point.

I love the fact that we have wants and fears in the game but I too hate any fear relating to sims' jobs and the progress of their aspirations.

I tried, really tried to like wants and fears, but the "fear of dead-end job" and "fear of unwanted dreams" were just so repetitive that I gave up recently and disabled fears with a mod, because we can't even turn them off because of a bug.From what I can tell, "fear of dead-end job" seems to be just a timer, doesn't matter if they get promoted, doesn't matter if you don't play them at all, they seem to get this fear all the time, you can cure the fear on one household, play another household for a week or so, return to the first household and they will get the "fear-of dead end job" again."fear of unwanted dreams" makes it impossible to play one sim in a household with multiple sims, the sims that you are not playing will get the fear and get annoyed, just because you wanted to focus on one sim. It doesn't help either that the wants that they want you to do sometimes makes no sense, like breaking up with someone they have been together with for several years.

I loved the idea of them adding wants and fears, but I had to turn them off.. way, way, way under developed. Which is a shame, but also seems to be a running theme unfortunately.

Dealt with it by purchasing the Carefree trait. He'll still be sad when he comes home from work, but hopefully this means that "Regain Passion" won't make him tense if it fails.UPDATE: So, an update to the Carefree trait solution--because the cooldown for "Regain Passion" is connected to the Tense moodlet, if he fails (you can tell by the animation and the lack of a Focused or Inspired moodlet), you can try again as many times as you need! Ha! Carefree is more useful than ever.

I turned off wants and fears for this same reason. Fears being nearly impossible to deal with and wants being completely unrealistic (like two male sims that can't get pregnant, one wants to try for baby). Now I have just added a bunch of extra holidays to my calendar (each season is 28 days) so they get all their satisfaction points from those. If I'm playing with cheats, I'll give them some satisfaction points after they max out a skill. Honestly, the old system of whims worked much better and at least you didn't have to waste points to refresh the list or get rid of fears that make no sense. The wants and fears system is about as useless as the Lifestyles and equally annoying. Now, if they could just fix the toggle to turn it off...

This "Go to Work After Regaining Passion" thing is ridiculous and impossible.

mmdawson31810
2 years ago
I love the concept of the fears but they need to make sense! Such as, if a Sim's traits fall in line with a certain career, that they will love their job. On the other hand, if their traits don't fall on line with a career, then they will grow to hate it.

I have a sim who is a goofball and likes comedy and mischief, but will constantly get the fears of a dead end job, and passionless job, being a comedian. This makes no sense!

Also, my sims are constantly getting the break up whims when I get them into a relationship, even with their "soul mates". Wth lol. They'll want to flirt with some nobody sim that they barely know. If sims want actual relationships, then they should gravitate towards sims that they have things in common with and just the ability to explore how different sims relationships can evolve.

And if sims want to just play the field and date around, make it to where a solid foundation isn't required for those relationships.

It would be awesome if the whims, personality traits, like and dislikes, actually held some merit and mattered. Right now, they're just shallow checklists.

I'm not expecting anything extremely complex, not on the current gen at least, but come on. Seems like there is much more potential and focusing on these issues could really make this game.
83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
2 years ago
My whimoverhaul comes with a special standalone module for fears for those who would like to just tune them down and not have them be gone alltogether.
PandoraTO
Seasoned Vanguard
2 years ago
"83bienchen;c-18303265" wrote:
My whimoverhaul comes with a special standalone module for fears for those who would like to just tune them down and not have them be gone alltogether.

Whimoverhaul is one of my core mods that I won’t play without. I’d rather wait weeks for a mod update after a patch than play with the broken fear system or the repetitive, basic wants. I also have lumpinou’s re-roll wants cheat so that I can refresh them whenever I want. I totally forget how wants/fears work for everyone else until I see a thread like this one. Playing wants/fears without mods has to be so frustrating.

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