Accused of Cheating - EA's gone overboard and taken control away from players
First of all, there is a lot of complaining about this feature out there. Too bad EA isn't reading these and addressing concerns. That said, I'll add my voice to that list...
Apparently there is a random possibility of being accused, even though no actual cheating occurred. THIS is ridiculous! EA is failing to realize the effort we players make with regards to our Sim relationships and is crushing them without our having the ability to refuse. MY Sim was married and pregnant - her husband was custom-created because I wanted a Sim that wasn't ridiculous - when she went to work, returned home and was accused. Her husband left her and she ended up with a bad reputation for being an unwed mother to boot! I tried to reconcile them, even got her pregnant again in the hope more advanced relationship options would come up, but nothing worked. I had to eventually divorce them so my Sim could remarry. I had to create a new Sim because 😇 again, I wanted a certain look versus the weird options EA gives us, and (b) single Sims are snapped up before my Sim can get over to their house.
Her teen daughter had a boyfriend she left behind when she went to college and, when she got a boyfriend there (why doesn't a teens' friends follow them to college?), she was accused of cheating - I'm guessing because she didn't break it off formally with the kid back home who was still a teen. That relationship was eventually mended but it shouldn't have been part of the game play. Teens and college students are SUPPOSED to date around so should NEVER be accused of cheating. It really put a damper on my Sims college experience.
As for YA/A cheating, it should never have been written in as a random action. IF a married/engaged controlled Sim dated outside the relationship, that would be one thing. But EA is undermining its users gameplay, which should never be considered acceptable. I'm perturbed enough as it is that my married Sims are CONSTANTLY getting phone calls asking for dates. Why the he** doesn't EA give us the option to turn this off or at least limit it to specific traits? I've read that there is a Lifetime Reward that can negate this - lazy EA would rather give an expensive reward than fix this glitch - but my understanding is that it is rather expensive. Again, I'm extremely perturbed that all of the hard work I do to get the reward points must be saved in order to fix EA's silly and offensive programming instead of applying it to rewards I would rather have.
The programmers over there at EA need to be made aware of these issues and be made to understand that it is more important to preserve the users control of the game than to "showcase" their ability to create these interactions that frankly ruin the game. That said, it's never too late to issue ANOTHER patch which fixes the constant requests for dates of married Sims AND random cheating accusations.
