Emotions Guide Preview

[Carl]

Here's a first look at my Emotions Guide. It's going to take a bit more work to get my Sims in negative emotional states and do my own research. I do have to thank the community, and especially justproud2b, for all the information that has been gathered on the Emotions board. I did some of my own testing, but was glad to see my results were already determined by a member there in that you need +8 to get to 'Very' this or that.

I think I will go ahead and show the community at large via the site news, but wanted to hear of anything you guys think I should include in this one. It's going to be a very popular page, given it is something most players would expect/need out of a strategy guide for this game.

[justproud2b]

Great job on the guide (as usual) Carl I wasn't even aware the memories auto did that. I turned them off just like you said for the reason you said!

My own suggestion would be on the emotions list you have under "List of Emotions in Sims 4" that you might consider putting the associated careers that require them since you have the careers done. Some people reading that page may not realize that being in a emotion helps with certain jobs. So it might be a good way to highlight that (if it wouldn't be too cluttered) also allowing you to link to your career guides from there.

edit: Also I tested this theory for myself. If you remove a screenshot used for a memory the memory stays and still works.

[Carl]

Good to know on the memories, and yep I'll be doing some internal linking to show off career pages for emotions, with special mentions of ideal moods for skills and careers there as well.

I ended up in a situation that forced me to discover the thing about memories helper. I don't mind if you expand your own tutorial with that extra info.

I was not able to find the screenshots I'd recently taken in the sea of over 500 of them that loaded. I'm not even sure that it loaded ALL my shots, and none of the screenshots that appeared were eligible for memories for Sims in that household. It's very insistent that the Sim in the household be present in the shots, so I guess plenty of people on their 2nd/third save file might be in a similar situation that I was and need to know about the memories helper option.

[Ciosa]

If Sims get too sad, it can lead to death.

Under the sadness guide - the sadness emotion has been specifically noted as not inducing death, unlike some of the other negative emotions.  (Anger, Embarrassment, and Playful can cause death.)  The devs have confirmed this.

Is a Crib Sheet useful to anyone?

[Tigerskin]

Is a Crib Sheet useful to anyone?

Oh that's really cool Ciosa  Very useful.

[Ciosa]

Thank you!  I intend to expand it and add more stuff.  I got really irritated on my first play through when I made a chef, and then discovered I wasn't capable of completing the mixology aspiration afterward - you can complete the 'level five culinary' without joining the chef branch, but the mixology aspiration specifically requires you to be in the mixology career path.  So I scrapped the sim and started over and took note of all the aspirations which required a specific career.  I like making Sims who've completed all skills and all aspirations and all collections, and then moving on to their children.  (Superdad!)

Speaking of which, I hope if they have a law enforcement career in the future, we have super-hero sims again, like in Sims 2.  Watching them fly off to work was just spectacular.

This should be the career outfit:

[Carl]

I got that edited into the guide, Ciosa, thanks!