tense need vacation day moodlet

aktex

My two sims are in the gardening career (one in the botanist and one in the florist branch). Every day they both come home from work with the tense ´need vacation day´ moodlet. That moodlet still appears after taking PTO as well as after going on vacation to Granite Falls. Does anybody else have this issue?

rosemow

Hello
If you have cc/mods in your game, move your whole mods folder to the desktop. Then start the game and see if the issues are still there

Repairing the game may help. To do that, go to games library in Origin, right click on the sims 4 picture and click repair

Try deleting the cache files and see if that helps
https://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/delete-cache-files/

aktex

Thank you very much @rosemow. Repairing the game helped. Don't know why I didn't think of that.

rosemow

You’re welcome

aktex

Unfortunately the problem came back after a few simdays. Clearing cachees and removing mods and cc did not help either.

rosemow

Hello
It may be related to traits that they have now, or traits that they did have but are now removed. What are their traits?

aktex

One sim is creative, neat and foodie and the other one is family oriented, childish and loves outdoors. Both have the responsible trait from parenthood.

rosemow

When sims that have the loves the outdoors trait are indoors for a while, they can become tense. Also when coming home from work, Sims can have the tense moodlet as a result of being stressed at work.
The carefree reward trait can be bought which stops sims from getting tense.
The moodlet though shouldn’t appear on the same day that they take PTO, after taking the day off,

aktex

After their vacation at Granite Falls they even had the "relaxed from vacation" and "need vacation" moodlets at the same time. I am not talking about the "stressful workday" or "locked insight" moodlets. I don't want to buy the never tense reward as I like them to become tense for a decent reason. But thanks a lot for your help and suggestions.

rosemow

aktex wrote: »

After their vacation at Granite Falls they even had the "relaxed from vacation" and "need vacation" moodlets at the same time. I am not talking about the "stressful workday" or "locked insight" moodlets.

It does sound like a bug issue. You may like to start a new thread on the AHQ EA thread and post feedback on the issue there
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs

Try also testing in a new fresh save game, to see if a sim there also has this issue.

Anthonydyer

I have sims in ordinary and city living careers and the amount of time I receive that moodlet seems a bit excessive.

I do know from playing yesterday that my sim took a day off, went to work the next day, and got that moodlet. Maybe they hate their jobs.

aktex

Anthonydyer wrote: »

Maybe they hate their jobs.

Good point you've got there Once I had a job I hated and I wished my vacations never ended.

Chazzzy

I thought there were only 2 ways for Sims to get the tense moodlet from work. #1 if you set their work task to “Work Hard” and #2 if you get one of those pop up questions during work and select an unfavorable option.

AprilDawn

@aktex What Chazzy said - you may want to check that. This happened a lot in a game I was playing a while back and when I checked what option was on when they were at work - it was somehow defaulting to 'work hard' for several sims - I had to keep changing them all back to work normally and then they stopped getting the tense moodlet all the time.

aktex

It is not the normal tense moodlet that sims get after a stressful workday (the one with the workbag icon). It says „need a vacation day“ and has a loungechair with a sun as icon. This moodlet usually occures when a sim has not taken any vacation days in a while. It is supposed to disappear after the sim has taken a vacation day. But my sims get that moodlet every day, even right after they had taken a vacation day.

I had one of my sims change their job and the moodlet even came after their first day of work.

AprilDawn

@aktex Oh, OK. Not really sure which tense moodlet it was because it was a while ago. I do see the 'need a vacation day' one a lot more than I used to though - probably since Jungle Adventures - trying to get people to buy it so their sims can go on vacation! Maybe it is trait related - lazy, ambitious (if not getting promoted), irresponsible (if got that from childhood)? Likely just another bug though.

invisiblgirl

aktex wrote: »

It is not the normal tense moodlet that sims get after a stressful workday (the one with the workbag icon). It says „need a vacation day“ and has a loungechair with a sun as icon. This moodlet usually occures when a sim has not taken any vacation days in a while. It is supposed to disappear after the sim has taken a vacation day. But my sims get that moodlet every day, even right after they had taken a vacation day.

I had one of my sims change their job and the moodlet even came after their first day of work.

One of my Sims is getting it, too - the 'need a vacation day' - and it's definitely 'need a vacation day' and not something else. She's got the outdoor lover trait, so maybe that's the trigger (even though she's in the gardening career, so you'd think she's spending enough time outside). One thing I noticed with the gardening career is that with promotions, the schedule change cheats them of their normal day off, so they really are working a ridiculous number of days in a row.

Either that, or it's just in-game spam to encourage players to buy the vacation packs.