Powerful Calm Emotions
Added 2021-04-01 20:13:30 +0000 UTC
Is it just me or is the Compassionate reward trait kind of useless? You're able to calm emotions, but if a Sim is particularly upset, it barely does anything. Ostensibly, it makes a Sim's negative buffs ease -- and it does somewhat, but really it just reduces the length of time that they will last.
This mod makes it so that the interaction completely removes any negative buffs. Specifically angry, embarrassed, tense, and sad buffs. Cranky is unaffected, but the base Calm Emotions interaction reduces the length of time that cranky buffs last, which has been kept in place.
Technical stuff: it adds four lines to the Calm Emotions interaction which were ripped from the "Lend Emotional Support" interaction that comes with the "Companion" reward trait. These four lines are "loots" (i.e. events that take place when an interaction is completed) for removing negative buffs in the aforementioned categories.
This mod modifies E882D22F!00000012!0000000000027463.socials_Targeted_Friendly_Compassionate_CalmEmotions.InteractionTuning and anything else that does so will conflict with it! It also requires Parenthood.
Comments
It's possible, but it wouldn't be easy. If I recall correctly, this interaction is an affordance given to a Compassionate Sim, which basically means that the interaction is not available unless the Sim has the trait. This is different from a test, which, while it does the same thing in this instance, would be an easy fix where I'd just delete a few lines. You can think of an affordance sort of like "if this Sim has this trait, they're able to do this" while a test is like "anyone can do this as long as they have this trait."
Adam Washington
2021-05-08 16:50:09 +0000 UTCI like this idea. Could this be a basic interaction for Sims that don't have the compassionate trait?
Miss Mani
2021-05-05 05:50:17 +0000 UTC
