My sim's friends keep declining invites!

@igazor Nail on the head right there. Maybe she just needed to take a shower. She is a slob after all. Maybe her friend was sick of watching her lick plates. She should have responded "I'll come over when you learn some manners and don't smell".

Sims are just downright ornery sometimes and it is hard to figure out why. If I need the sim for my story I use the invite over option that way I know they will come. I usually will check to be sure they are not working or doing something important like woohooing that I could potentially be interrupting. That would be mean. :lol:

If their motives are low or they have another higher priority such as getting ready to go to work or their just in a bad mood they will always decline an invite.

@ScottDemon yeah, I did consider that, but I had 2 other sims try inviting their best friends and those were also declined. Then I attempted the same a day later and got the same result. There is definitely something funky going on.

"MKSizzle;c-16682765" wrote:
@ScottDemon yeah, I did consider that, but I had 2 other sims try inviting their best friends and those were also declined. Then I attempted the same a day later and got the same result. There is definitely something funky going on.

There is another way without resorting to the MC forced invites. Go to where one of these sims are and chat them up socially. Eventually, somewhere in between Sim A thinks Sim B is being sociable/friendly, the option to form a group or invite over should come up. Try one of those. If there is another sim you also wish to invite, bring the "group" (of two) to where they are and ask them to join the group, then bring the group home with you. Or if it's just the one, skip the group and invite them over in person.

What often strikes me as funny is that "Ask to Move In" will frequently show up as a social interaction before or at the same time as "Invite Over." Sheesh, I just wanted to play video games with my friends and order a pizza or something like that, I wasn't looking for a reason to expand my one bedroom apartment and make a lifelong commitment! ;)

If they still refuse, then you might be able to use MC to find out why -- check their motive scores (MC > Basic > Mood) and moodlets (MC > Intermediate > Moodlets > Remove Moodlet, but just to see the list not to really remove anything), and their Career status to make sure they aren't planning to get ready for work soon. Even that can be difficult to see, I've had inactive sims claim to need to be getting ready for work "soon" when it's 12 noon and they didn't start work until 5pm or later.

And if it's not any of those things and they are still refusing to come over, then I would have to say these sims don't really like yours as much as you think they do.

"MKSizzle;c-16682765" wrote:
@ScottDemon yeah, I did consider that, but I had 2 other sims try inviting their best friends and those were also declined. Then I attempted the same a day later and got the same result. There is definitely something funky going on.

Actually it's not really unusual the game doesn't always do a good job keeping inactive sims motives at a decent level it always leaves a couple of them very low. Have you tried using MC's Max Motives on them?
Find the sim if their on a community lot like the park pause the game then click on the sim MC>Intermediate>Max Motives unpause the game keep that sim in view wait about 4 or 5 seconds and then use your sims map tag (which you should be able to see somewhere on the screen) to Invite them over.
If their in a house first open the house click on the house or it's map tag MC>Open then find the sim once found pause the game and use Max Motives on them and follow the rest of the steps. And make sure to close the house back up after your done MC>Close
If they refuse the invite after that then maybe something funky is going on. But if they accept the invite that means the game isn't managing all their motives well.
Just make sure to pick a time they don't have to be anywhere say right after they get off from work.