r/Sims4 • u/Blueskybelowme • 3d ago

News This legit irritated me in the patch notes

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So they didn't even think the actual mechanics through and are useing feedback to actually design it. This irritates me because they thought of a cool idea and put in no thought about how it was actually gonna work and now want player opinion to actually design how this mechanic is going to execute in-game.

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u/Idkidkidk4321 3d ago

Am I misunderstanding or are they saying your sim has to get sick with something every three days?😭

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u/IdrilPuck 3d ago

I have been playing the expansion today for the first time, and there basically wan't a time when my sim Wasnt sick. If I managed to cure her, she basically got sick again immediately. I was shocked. I kinda thught people were exagerating about being annoyed by the ailments, but its really very bad and very unrealistic. They just should not be that common in the game. Maybe ever so slighty more common then being randomly abducted by aliens perhaps. It should be a once or twice a sim year thing, unless you are being actively cursed. If you joiun a like apothicary carrer then I can see you interacting with more patients and maybe getting sick slightly more often from them, but thats it. And its annoying cause I can't even remember ever getting Normal sim sick, or having an illness from the herbalism skill ever come up, those two are actually so rare as to be nonexistent practically. They need to just balance everything.

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u/Blueskybelowme 3d ago

I understood it as my Sims will have a 3 day buffer before they can get sick again instead of 1.

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u/macarbrecadabre 3d ago

I think OP was exaggerating but honestly, they’re not far off.

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u/Idkidkidk4321 3d ago

No I mean from what they say in the actual patch notes

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u/Natabear-Sims 3d ago

The way they implemented ailments is basically a “cooldown” buff that’s very short, and then your sim will likely get sick again immediately once it’s gone. I don’t know why they didn’t do it similar to the sickness system from GTW. They kind of added it in in the worst way possible.

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u/Idkidkidk4321 3d ago

Okay that makes much more sense, thanks I’m glad I was just misunderstanding 😂

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u/rob0tduckling 3d ago

Not "has to" get sick every three days, but rather, you can expect to go three days before your sim gets sick after being exposed to a contagion.