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Fake buildings and unhappy Sims
janwearsbraces
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What's with all the fake buildings bloating the debug menu? Also, since the last patch, my Sims are continually unhappy about the decor no matter how many times I change it. 
Is anyone else having this issue?
Is anyone else having this issue? Spiral staircases please!
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Yes, I am as well. I thought it was the lot I was on, but since you posted you're having the same issue, I guess it's a new bug.
And the other Sim I'm currently playing lives in a nearly bare house with almost no furniture (but there is flooring and wallpaper) because she's broke and I'm playing it like all of her stuff is still packed up and she has to still order some large furniture. But all of her miscellaneous packed decor is in one isolated room. The rest of her house is literally one single bed in her bedroom, and a utilitarian kitchen and bathroom. She doesn't get positive or negative decor moodlets either.
What kind of decor have you been trying?
I heard this was a new "feature" and not a bug. They've changed how the well decorated moodlets work. It's explained in the video at around the 2:50 mark.
Some of them look really nice!
For me, I'm using an Alien apartment complex that I downloaded from the Gallery, so there's a variety of "sci-fi" looking decor. I might have to pop into some other households to take a look and see if I'm getting a universal reaction to decorations or if it's specific houses.
I might just look into getting another mod that shuts down the environmental moodlets altogether. I just feel that they add more chaos. I'm glad they have a countdown now and that there's both positive and negative, but it should be either a one-time buff/debuff or at least just once a day. I think they could use a cool down timer as well so they're not constantly popping back up when a Sim re-enters a room.
I mean, people don't really obsess over their decorations every day, several times a day, do they?
I feel like the game just can't know or remember when a Sim does what or goes where after a while. Or rather, there's obviously no restriction in a moodlet recurring back to back.
What's funny is before I saw this thread, I didn't even realize my Sims hadn't been experiencing Decor moodlets. And I don't miss them. I mean, my Sims experience enough other moodlets which are far more interesting to me than the Decor ones.
Also I just thought of this re: your last question. I find that when I redo my living space or clean up, I don't necessarily feel happy, but I feel At Ease/Calm/Relaxed. Which is actually a more appropriate moodlet than Happy because it also is more of an opposition to the Uncomfortable moodlet which Sims get around messy surroundings.
Yeah, having a nice, freshly clean environment can give a peaceful feeling. I personally think that in game terms, it should have been determined by a Sim's traits and not a universal reaction. Because Neat, Materialistic, and Slob Sims would certainly be more or less sensitive to something like that.
I definitely agree.
Apparently, instead of making the +2 and +3 decorated bonuses more expensive to get (which would have made sense), they just made the bonus you get from a decorated room random, thus nullifying the point of actually spending money on decorating a room.
I guess they are trying to do something about the sims being constantly happy indoors earlier.
Whenever my Sims are in a space which is more expansive i.e. more distance between decor objects or even just standing at the lot's edge arriving home from school/work, they are getting an "Undecorated" negative moodlet. I thought perhaps this was because I had some junk items in the corner of the lot from the debug menu but these don't actually have Environment stats so I seriously doubt it.
Seeing more online now and other people's experiences it seems to be a bigger problem owed to this change.
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