Download for feedback: True Happiness v5 (Patreon)

This is my new mod for The Sims 4, that I was previously calling Happiness Overhaul. I've been working on it for months, but it's now complete with all the features I wanted to include, everything seems to work, it's updated for the most recent game patch, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

I'm giving it to my patrons here early as thanks for your support.

If you download it to try it out, it would be great if you could let me know with a comment or 'like' on this post, and then come back later to tell me what you think, and how it played for you. I think it'll need another update to fully support the Cats & Dogs expansion itself, but I hope to give the mod a public release after that, if the response here is positive and there are no issues found.

Enjoy!

What it does
Happiness will no longer be your sims' default state. They will feel truly happy only when something worthy of it happens to them, and the rest of the time, they will feel merely fine.

True happiness also becomes something you'll want your sims to experience. While truly happy, your sims will do well at their careers, be effective at all of their skills, and be gaining satisfaction points all the time.

Why would you want this?
Some people complain that their sims too rarely feel just ok. Some people complain that their sims are smiling all of the time and it's weird. Some people using my Emotional Inertia mod complain the opposite - that their sims almost never feel happy. This mod should solve all of those problems.

True Happiness in detail
The roles of the 'happy' and 'fine' moods have changed.

'Fine' is now the boosting mood for positive emotions, taking the role previously filled by the 'happy'mood. Other positive moods will be boosted by the score of the 'fine' mood.

'Happy' is now a full positive mood. It does not boost other moods, and can be boosted by the score of the 'fine' mood.

Most 'happy' moodlets are now, behind the scenes, really 'fine' moodlets. Their tooltip will still display 'Happy+1', but when these moodlets are the only type of positive moodlet present, they will display as 'boosting: fine', and your sim will feel the 'fine' mood.

Some moodlets have been selected to be true 'happy' moodlets. These can put your sim into the 'happy' mood, and be boosted by the 'fine' moodlets. True happy moodlets can be rare, hard to gain, hard to predict, or come from doing something that your sim's personality particularly enjoys.

As the colour of moodlets that are boosting other moods is hardcoded to be green, and this is not moddable, the associated colour of the 'happy' and 'fine' moods have been swapped. The 'fine' mood and its changeable moodlets display as green, and the 'happy' mood displays as white. This should make the colours in the UI more consistent, and make moodlets easier to read and identify.
(If you want to see what the mod is like without the swapped colours, remove the 'roBurky - TrueHappiness-Moods.package' file from your mods folder.)

The 'happy' mood now has a number of additional benefits that should make being truly happy something you will be pleased for your sims to experience.

• When your sim gains a true happy moodlet, they will also gain a +1 'fine' moodlet for 'A Happy Moment', with half of the true happy moodlet's duration. Some more common true happy moodlets are an exception to this, and do not come with the 'A Happy Moment' moodlet.
• Sims that are happy are gaining satisfaction points all the time at a constant rate.
• Sims that are happy get a bonus to their career performance equivalent to the bonus from being in that career's associated mood.
• Sims that are happy get a bonus to all of their skills equivalent to the bonus from other positive moods to their associated skills.
• The pie menu buttons for interactions that will benefit from the happy mood's bonus to skills will display with a colour tag and sometimes an explanatory tooltip, just like they do when benefiting from the skill bonuses of other moods. This colour tag will blend in with the rest of the menu button, as the happy mood's colour is now white, but it should still be easy to tell that the tag is there.