Not everyone is afraid of storms. I actually love them. I do not currently know any adults who are afraid of storms. Not all pets are afraid of storms, either. I've had a few who were, but most of my dogs and cats have never batted an eye at thunder. Yet in the game, fear is the default setting for all sims when reacting to storms. I think there needs to be some tweaking here. It's too heavy handed in making sims fear thunder.
Toddlers and children, sure. I used to hate storms when I was little, but somewhere around 8 or so, that faded away and ever since I have had a deep appreciation for their beauty and power. Maye some teen and adult sims never grow out of it, sure,but it should not be the default reaction for every sim in the game. I have yet to see a sim not react to a storm with fear unless they have the Storm Chaser trait. IMO you shouldn't have to buy a reward trait or declare weather preference to like storms just to lose a fear.
Same with pets. Their fear reaction is more common than people, but again, not all. Please either adjust the tuning or tell us how we can do it ourselves, since there seems to be no mod for this now. Thanks!
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The brave trait is nice, but costs 8000 satisfaction points, the season reward traits are cheaper but I'm not sure if they work for fear over thunderstorms.
You can tune it yourself with the storm chaser trait you mentioned or the brave trait that was mentioned by izecson, and there’s the mod mentioned by logion. No need for devs to come into the game and steal things from us that we paid for. Thanks. No more nerfing!
to be honest, I like the scared emotion and the interactions with it. it's fun. but not with thunderstorms. it gets old with the first thunderstorm and from that point onward just gets more and more annoying. I preferred tense, because it was less loud. I agree very much with the sentiment that sims need more personality. sims are way too similar. emotions should not be the exact same for everyone. autonomy should not be the exact same for everyone. whims should not be the exact same for everyone. it is all just fine at best, infuriating at its worst. I would prefer a system that would randomly assign general and trait-independent interests, whims and fears, and there being a reward store potion or some other way to let the player delete or swap out what they want.
Personally, I think storms can be beautiful and am perfectly content during them-- In my house. So I am rather content to leave it as is with storm chaser and brave as my opt out options.
It shouldn't require special traits tho.
I think this is one of the situations where being Tense while outside during a storm actually fits better for regular adult Sims without the Storm Chaser reward trait. Only children, and adults with adequate traits should be Scared during a storm, regardless of whether they're inside or outside.
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It's a great mod, I recently had a thunderstorm at the Akiyama household and their two kids were really scared, but I could calm them down because Kado and Jenna were calm. It made so much more sense and it also felt like it added to family gameplay.