This is what Sims 4 is lacking

"SimTrippy;c-17422786" wrote:

"LiELF;c-17422733" wrote:

"SimTrippy;c-17422617" wrote:

"LiELF;c-17422551" wrote:

"Scobre;c-17422342" wrote:

"Cynna;c-17422176" wrote:

Sim Guru Lindsay said what? Do you mind sharing a link to this podcast, please? I need to hear this. It could finally be a breakthrough. The first step in correcting a problem is admitting to having one.

Sure. https://twitter.com/SimGuruLyndsay/status/1231040419590361088

She also said Sims 2 was her favorite iteration during the charity Sims stream last year. She worked on a lot of my favorite features from the Sims 2. I wish she could bring a lot of those features back with the Sims 4 like the personal Sims bios and neighborhood designs.

I wish we had a fear emotions too @LiELF. I know Zerbu had a mod in which uncomfortable mood buffed negative emotions and I wish that had been put into the game. The default happy makes the game really dull and really hard to combat it since there are more positive than negative moodlets, emotions, traits, and gameplay in the game than other emotions.

@Scobre Definitely. The thing about the happy buffs is, happy should be equal to all other emotional states. Happy should be something the Sims earn just like all the others and "fine" should be the default. This would change how the entire game plays because the emotions wouldn't be flitting around so much, they could actually lock into a sustained mood without constant happy interference. And they wouldn't be grinning like chimpanzees all the time.

That's why Meaningful Stories has become such an essential mod for me :) but yes, they should put something like it into the game and finally stop drowning our sims in happy and playful buffs.

I keep seeing people talk about Meaningful Stories and I'm going to have to try it out. I've been keeping my modded game off to the side for a long time and playing vanilla because I've been sort of studying how the game runs as I play it, reporting bugs and recording issues (and bad gameplay) for feedback.

But I think I need to take a break and return to my modded game for a little while. I really miss MCC and other mods.

I think Meaningful Stories works best when you don't use a lot of other mods, actually. Especially not script mods, at least that's what another simmer on the forums told me and I think she may be right. But it complements a vanilla game really well since it doesn't do anything but smooth the transition from one emotion to another. So that your sims don't go from depressed to angry to happy and back in a matter of seconds. It creates "lingering emotions" for example, so that a sim who's been tense for the past hour, doesn't just go to happy without seemingly remembering the entire tense morning she's gone through. It's a very nice, simple mod that doesn't seem to cause any major issues at all. Plus it alerts you in-game when an update is available, which I think is very nice and professional. So there's that too. I really love Meaningful Stories, MCC & SoL the most I think :)

That's really good to know! I don't use too many mods at once actually, to avoid incompatibility. My main mods are usually just MCC and UI Cheats and sometimes a tuning mod for something specific that bothers me (like phone use!) But if it works with MCC then I'll totally try it out. SoL is another one I need to throw in there some time.