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Have these "fears of a dead end job" been effecting anyone else a little more lately?
ashleyrosey06
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I don't know if it was this latest patch update, but I haven't seen any severe effects of the "fears and wants" update until now??
I just hopped on tonight and jumped into my cop sim's household, which happened to be mid-morning in sim's time, so of course he's late for work (rotational play nightmares, lol). So I just send him to work, but when he returns, both the tense and sad buffs are there. I'm just thinking he had a rough day at the station since I couldn't 'join him at work'. Nope.... he has the tense "looming anxiety" and sadness from a "passionless job" buffs because of his FEAR of a dead-end job!
This is the first time I'm seeing this, so I thought it had to be a result of the tardiness?? (maybe he got chewed out by his co-chief and suddenly regrets his life now?) Either way, I'm not having that. I worked too hard to get him finally promoted to Chief to be burnt out already! So I quit without saving, log back in and play a different household so my cop-sim will hopefully be at work in the background and solve the problem... So I now send the 2nd household's sim to work by 10am and on-time, but once he comes home, the same tense buff from "fear of a dead end job" appears.
Okay? Maybe its just a highest-rank burnout thing then (One is the Police Chief and the other, the CEO)... Take 3: I try one more household without quitting this time. Low and behold.... the R.N. has the same two buffs as the first after her shift was already done.
Is this just a super-important-workers-are-regretting-their-life update, and we just have to get our sims out of it? Or is every employed sim suddenly succumbing to the times? I already feel like this now irl, I don't want to have to drag my virtual self out of it too LOL!
I just hopped on tonight and jumped into my cop sim's household, which happened to be mid-morning in sim's time, so of course he's late for work (rotational play nightmares, lol). So I just send him to work, but when he returns, both the tense and sad buffs are there. I'm just thinking he had a rough day at the station since I couldn't 'join him at work'. Nope.... he has the tense "looming anxiety" and sadness from a "passionless job" buffs because of his FEAR of a dead-end job!
This is the first time I'm seeing this, so I thought it had to be a result of the tardiness?? (maybe he got chewed out by his co-chief and suddenly regrets his life now?) Either way, I'm not having that. I worked too hard to get him finally promoted to Chief to be burnt out already! So I quit without saving, log back in and play a different household so my cop-sim will hopefully be at work in the background and solve the problem... So I now send the 2nd household's sim to work by 10am and on-time, but once he comes home, the same tense buff from "fear of a dead end job" appears.
Okay? Maybe its just a highest-rank burnout thing then (One is the Police Chief and the other, the CEO)... Take 3: I try one more household without quitting this time. Low and behold.... the R.N. has the same two buffs as the first after her shift was already done.
Is this just a super-important-workers-are-regretting-their-life update, and we just have to get our sims out of it? Or is every employed sim suddenly succumbing to the times? I already feel like this now irl, I don't want to have to drag my virtual self out of it too LOL!
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I have a couple of sims I don’t want to move up in there jobs. I want Jade to stay as a receptionist in one of my games. My thought is that she has less responsibility by not moving up, and more time to enjoy herself…..I haven’t played her since the wants/fears. I think the fears are annoying in many cases. It takes away the way I want to play some sims. I actually preferred just having whims that I could play when I wanted to. It didn’t conflict with the way I played my sims. I just wish they would have updated the whims for each of the packs that we used. Not all of my sims always want to turn off the stereo and turn it back on to a new channel every 5 minutes to take care of a want ( because they don’t really want that ). Some of my sims do like to listen to music and even dance on their own….. but not all of my sims…. Lol.
I love the active careers, and don’t mind the objectives of the careers at all. But now the Dev’s are taking away the way I want to play certain sims…… that I don’t like. I know I can turn off wants and fears, but then my sims can’t earn points for potions and such. I personally wish they would just let us go back to whims if we want to.
Before they go to work, you can click on them and there is an option to "regain passion" (or something like that). That fixed it for me.
In my sim's case, he eventually aged to an elder and I had him retire. I rotated out of the household so I don't know much else beyond that.
It's becoming incredibly repetitive. I really don't like that these are so unbalanced.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Fear-of-Dead-End-Job-not-Conquered-Excessive/m-p/11692453
I've heard from some the "regain passion" option is at least a temporary fix, but it's better than nothing! I'll have to try it next time I play, thank you
That's good to know its a bug and not just the game causing constant suffering lol! Thanks for the heads up!
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I wonder if it came with the update that came with the Snowy Escapes neighborhood, you know, with the Career Sim trait and those things.
The same reason that every sim was rolling the want to own a bee box after Seasons came out, even Penny Pizazz who had absolutely nothing to do with gardening.
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Sims 4: Seasons
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Annoying when you want them to progress but them being tense all the time prevent them from getting a promotion.
It's not balanced at all and it seems like they have abandoned it, just like updating the townies/ houses (although I'm not happy with the Goth makeover and I don't want them to change any other sims looks, I still want them to update sims with skills, relationships, characters vales and update base games homes and earlier packs), refreshing packs like they did with Spa Day, updating neighbourhood stories and basically anything else they say will come that never will.
They seem like me, I'm impulsive and do things on a whim and plan out things to just abandon them but at least that only affect me. Not a bunch of people who build expectations and look forward to said thing.
I'm still hoping for them to update Dine Out so our sims can work at them and even have the owner/ household sims do the jobs that we have to hire sims for.