Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-1344907-20140816173348/@comment-1344907-20141227194914

They had another 50% off sale?

Well, anyway, as the game's marketing campaign emphasized, emotions are a pretty big part of the game. You'll want to manipulate them to your advantage. For instance, if you want your Sim to paint or do any other creative activity, you'll want them to be the Inspired mood to improve the quality of whatever they're creating. You can get them in the Inspired mood by "Taking a Thoughtful Shower" or "Browsing the Art Gallery" on the computer.

Also, the "Focused" mood is really useful; it speeds up skill gain for your Sims. You can get your Sim in that mood by playing chess or "Browsing Simpedia" on the computer. There are other emotions with their own uses, but those are the best ones, in my experience.

Many of the Sims' actions have a different animation based on your Sim's emotion, so it's interesting to experiment. Like, the Sims use different dance moves based on their emotion:



(Seems like this is what they spent most of their production time on lol)

Also, it seems to be more difficult to create friendships in this game, so you really have to go out of your way if you want to befriend NPC Sims.

That's all I can think of for now, but I think most of the game should be familiar to you, if you've played other Sims games.