Your common Sim in The Sims 4 is a mercurial creature, vulnerable to flights of fancy and sudden temper swings. While that’s nice at simulating a telenovela, it makes for some unpredictable tales. Modder “roBurky” has spent the previous two years making an attempt to imbue these digital homunculi with just a little extra humanity, and the result’s the primary main launch of the Meaningful Stories mod. While there’s extra deliberate for the long run, it at present reworks Sims moods right into a associated net of reactions with larger highs and deeper lows. Sometimes, you simply get just a little cranky after lacking lunch.
The core ideas of the Meaningful Moods module (the primary a part of Meaningful Stories) are emotional inertia and happiness now not being the default state of being. Living comfortably will progressively increase morale and at excessive ranges it renders most Sims no less than partially resistant to sudden destructive shifts. Similarly, if a Sim falls right into a rut, it’ll take effort and time and (ideally) supportive family and friends to tug them again out. Moodlets even have various levels of depth, leading to completely different results, making behaviour extra pure however much less predictable.
The Meaningful Stories web page is stuffed with prolonged explanations on every side of the mod, like this piece explaining simply how discomfort opens the door to a large number of destructive ideas. The subsequent model of the mod, at present in semi-public testing (see the bit on Patreon beneath) expands on how a lot autonomy the common Sim has. There’s additionally some growth on how their reminiscences have an effect on their long-term behaviour, tweaks to their whims and additional rebalancing of moods. It’s laudable stuff, and constructing subtly on an already good basis.
You can seize the Meaningful Stories mod here on Itch – it’s a dinky little 456kB obtain. Creator roBurky is funding additional improvement on Patreon here, and provides work-in-progress builds to supporters.
