Re: [XB1] Can't get multiple soulmates/issue with mermaid/dolphin

Soulmate and BFF are two different relationship statuses.

My sim has four soulmates, which is the top romance status you achieve if you fill both the friendship and romance bars. It can go through various pre-stages depending on the levels of the bars - if you have low friendship but some romance, it gives you the status "Romantic Interest" and then this gets replaced by something else if you continue raising the levels of the bars, for example "Lovebirds" if you have good friend ship and romance bars at the same time.

BFF is best friend status, which you can only have one at a time. You have to ask a sim to become your best friend using the option under Friendly socials, but this is only available at extreme high level friendship bar (maybe 90-95% full?). It's not something that automatically gets assigned. I've had sims get married and then have to temporarily switch their best friends to each other just to complete that step of the Soulmate Aspiration (usually they have other best friends).

I haven't experienced any bugginess with these.

No, not a mix up.

Again, multiple soulmates do Not appear on our game, on any save file. Soulmate pops up only once, and at best is buggy. Also, it does not always appear as soon as your get friendship and romance up all the way. It’s been this way since we first bought the game (disc, Sims 4 + Cats & Dog version).

@OmoskyI don’t know how it works on Xbox, but is there an option to repair the game? (That’s an option on PC.) If that options exists, have you tried it?

On computer it’s possible to have several soulmates, and the soulmate status can disappear.

@Omosky SO maybe it's more this issue than the relationship to the dolphins as such ?

There's a thread here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Sims-can-t-become-soulmates/m-p/7905918

The invisibility is strange though but there's a thread for this here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-IL-Summoned-dolphin-is-invisible/m-p/7968490#M93553

Katrus, not that I’ve noticed. I’ll have to take a closer look later. 

Soulmate status has never left for any of ours, even if we purposely break some hearts.

Crinrict, I wouldn’t think so too if it weren’t for the tests. I’ll play around with the mermaids again and see if I can get some save files to trigger the invisible dolphins with non-soulmate sims. 

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I have not been able to find an in game “repair game” button. 

@crinrict I’ve ran through several, randomly and newly generated, mermaid couples on new saves, who got saved right after choosing a lot, to test both sides with the same sims. The results have not changed.

Calling dolphins before the sims are soulmates with anyone:

I got invisible dolphins to show up by calling the dolphin as it was trying to leave; and when a sim got struck by lightning at the start of when calling a dolphin but didn’t finish. Soulmates still won’t trigger with any other sims though. At 100% friendship and 100% romance, the most I can get is Lovebirds.

Calling dolphins after the sims are soulmates with either each other or other sims (different tests with different random game sims):

The dolphins show up invisible from the get go, every single time they are called, and sometimes they don’t show up under relationships.

So yes, I do still believe the two are tied together somewhere, at least for our game. Otherwise, why would the dolphins show up invisible not matter what when the only change is whether the sim already has a soulmate or not? Plus considering everyone says sims can have more than one soulmate, yet is not possible on ours. Why that is, I don’t know.

Correct.