Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.63.136.1010
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All DLC except for Eco Living
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1. build house 2. paint every surface with neutral paints (the ones with no environment effect) and use minimal decorations. 3. let sim walk around house
What happens when the bug occurs? Sims in the house will get the "poorly decorated" moodlet (-1 or -2) in every room where they should be at 0 (not decorated) or higher. Entering build mode and repainting random pieces of wall and floor makes the moodlet go away temporarily, but after a few minutes it comes back. Entering a room that has a high environment score will sometimes make the "poor decorated" moodlet go away, but they will not gain either of the "Decorated" moodlets, even though they should.
What do you expect to see? I expect sims to not get negative moodlets about the environment when there's nothing negative about the environment they're in. I expect sims to get mood buffs from items that are supposed to give them environment mood buffs.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. 5 June 2020 patch
Should say that I get this problem in the brand new house I've spent months building for my superstar actress. I spent 5 hours last night repainting absolutely every wall and floor piece - including both sides of inaccessible areas (like the outside of the underground pools) - to make sure everything IS truly painted. Although the house is not finished, it has plenty of decor that it should not be possible to get negative moodlets about decor anywhere, but even in the rooms that are finished I cannot get positive decor moodlets even though it should reach at least "Nice" or "Very nice".
I tried loading an older family that live in a modified vanilla home and although they don't get negative moodlets, they also don't like the decor as much as they used to. At best they get "decorated" where before it'd be "very nice" everywhere.
Essentially it looks like the change to the decor rating system makes the game subtract a bunch from the room scores for no justified reason, which makes otherwise happy sims hate life in general for no reason.
It also doesn't help that the tooltip talks about floors and wallpapers (esp in a house with all painted walls). Either show me what the problem is or tell me. The text must read "you appear to have unpainted floors or walls" if that is the problem or "[Insert sim name] dislikes the colour of the walls in this room" if that is the problem, and so on. Anything else is pointless because we have no hope in hell figuring out what the problem is, let alone how to fix it. Clearly the game knows (or thinks) something is wrong with the house, which means it also can and must tell us what that is. Sims is not supposed to be about "guess the b******t emotion" .
