After using the “Set the Mood” interaction, the couple consistently receives a negative emotion, such as sadness or anger, even though the interaction is successful. The game says they “successfully set the mood,” but one of the Zois becomes sad or angry immediately afterward, which seems contradictory.
This happens even with married couples who have maxed-out friendship and romance, and after other romantic interactions such as kissing and hugging. The issue happens every time and makes me avoid using the interaction because it negatively affects the couple’s emotions and relationship.
I think we’ve had this issue here in the forum a few times already. It should have a positive consequence / moodlet once you perform various romantic interactions before “setting the mood”, if I remember correctly. I usually continued romantic interactions until both zois’ romance moodlets were at least +10. Then “setting the mood” should end with both zois feeling happy
@HeinziDerHeld I tested getting the romance moodlets to at least +20. Even at this point of higher mood, only one zoi will get the “successful set the mood”. When I check the logs, it sometimes shows as success on one and the other wont get a bad mood, but wont get successful either. It’s rather strange. Hopefully they are really working on it. I normally avoid it as well, my ocd can’t take all these negative reactions.
I’m aware that this issue has been reported before, and I have already read the other thread about it. I still decided to create a new topic because the problem is clearly still happening.
The official response mentioned in that discussion says that negative emotions can be acquired randomly, which would make sense if the negative reaction happened occasionally as part of the game mechanics. However, that is not what I described in my report.
In my case, the negative reaction happens every single time after using the “Set the Mood” interaction, even when the Zois already have a high relationship level, are married, and have previously had romantic interactions with each other. I specifically made it clear that this happens consistently, rather than randomly or occasionally.
That distinction is important. If the negative reaction is supposed to happen randomly, then an occasional negative reaction would be expected behavior. But if the same negative reaction is triggered 100% of the time under these circumstances, that suggests a different issue and is worth reporting, especially since previous romantic interactions and a high relationship level do not prevent it.
It also makes this interaction essentially unusable, because every time I use “Set the Mood,” it produces the same negative reaction regardless of the Zois’ existing relationship.
So yes, there is already another report about this, and there has been an official response. However, that does not mean the issue described here has been resolved or that reporting it again is unnecessary. I created this topic specifically because the behavior is still consistently reproducible despite the conditions that were suggested to prevent it.
I would really appreciate an official clarification from the developers on this specific behavior. The previous official response mentioned that the negative emotion can occur randomly, but based on what I’m experiencing, it is not happening randomly — it happens every single time.
I’m mainly hoping that this report can reach the development team so they can take a closer look at the issue and clarify this consistent behavior.
