"thuggishsplicer;14352987" wrote:
@cwaddell Those shots were great! LOL
Your werewolf might have the unlucky hidden trait.
Hey, how do you check the attraction system? I installed a mod that changes it, but I want to see how my sims are attracted to each other.
Glad you like the shots.
Actually Wolf's got the lucky trait but I changed both his and Kathy's traits to make it harder for them to form a romantic relationship. He got socially awkward and she has shy and unflirty (which seems to be the cause for some of their difficulty in the romance department). Wolf got the wish for a first kiss with Kathy so I first had one of them try the "consider attractiveness" social. It was 1 out of 10.
In the past, before game patch level 1.42, the w..h..er mod used its own attractiveness scoring. The scoring was not symmetrical, one sim's score did not necessarily match the other's scoring of them. And the score could increase a level or 2 when their relationship progressed, but not from the bottom to the top because of one or two romantic interactions. The original "consider attractiveness" was a friendly social and the score had meaning. Now the mod uses EA's attractiveness scoring and supposedly is no longer very accurate. Using a new general setting in the mod, I have chosen to set some of the interactions in the romantic socials rather than the friendly socials. This interaction is one of them.
After I had Wolf complement Kathy's appearance suddenly hearts appeared and I got the message he thought she was hot or something like that. I tried "consider attractiveness" again and their relationship was now 10 out of 10.
Because I also use the "PurityAttraction" mod which modifies the EA attraction system I'm not sure which of these three things is causing this "on-off" attraction rather than the older gradual system. This incident has convinced me not to bother using "consider attractiveness" any more until NRaas fixes it. Supposedly the "scan room" interaction gives better info. I've only tried that once and it's been awhile but I might try it again. I can see a bachelor or bachelorette experiment in the future where I can set up a variety of traits on the candidates and then use the "scan room" to see how they all score. Could be fun.
EDIT: I just realized the large difference in their scores probably was because I tested first when Wolf was in werewolf form and the second time he was in human form. So maybe the "consider attractiveness" social still has value.
P.S. The scoring add-on mod is needed.
