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Shannca95
5 years ago
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Sims 3 No Romance Building

I redownded The Sims 3 yesterday with no mods or CC and for some reason whether I make a single sim or a married couple there is no romantic relationship. When I try to build the relationship all the...
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  • DonroaAkashu's avatar
    DonroaAkashu
    5 years ago

    @Shannca95   Hehe, I think it was too long ago I actually played The Sims 3, having moved on to TS4 now. 🙂

    I had to test in my own game, and loaded it on Steam, where I have it already installed, with all packs. Made a married couple in CAS (new folder), and chose romantic interactions between them. Maybe you have played The Sims 4 as well, because what I realised I'd forgotten was that TS3 does not have a visible separate romantic relationship bar; any interactions made raises (or lowers) the green relationship bar only. To make the option Woohoo/Try For Baby appear, the other sim need to find your sim Extremely Irresistable, which you will see in the friendship panel in the top left corner. And of course, you need the items necessary placed, like a bed for instance. The game is also more picky with the player's choices, and less forgiving, so sometimes it takes quite a lot more romantic interactions to get the sims in mood, and the process is also built on momentum, so any false move and the sims loose their interest (for the moment). More realistic this way, I think. 🙂

    If this doesn't work, could you say which traits you give your sims? Then I'll try through Origin, with only the packs you have listed. Oh, and also what 'age' they are, the difference between TS4 teens and TS3 teens are great.

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DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago

@Shannca95   Hehe, I think it was too long ago I actually played The Sims 3, having moved on to TS4 now. 🙂

I had to test in my own game, and loaded it on Steam, where I have it already installed, with all packs. Made a married couple in CAS (new folder), and chose romantic interactions between them. Maybe you have played The Sims 4 as well, because what I realised I'd forgotten was that TS3 does not have a visible separate romantic relationship bar; any interactions made raises (or lowers) the green relationship bar only. To make the option Woohoo/Try For Baby appear, the other sim need to find your sim Extremely Irresistable, which you will see in the friendship panel in the top left corner. And of course, you need the items necessary placed, like a bed for instance. The game is also more picky with the player's choices, and less forgiving, so sometimes it takes quite a lot more romantic interactions to get the sims in mood, and the process is also built on momentum, so any false move and the sims loose their interest (for the moment). More realistic this way, I think. 🙂

If this doesn't work, could you say which traits you give your sims? Then I'll try through Origin, with only the packs you have listed. Oh, and also what 'age' they are, the difference between TS4 teens and TS3 teens are great.

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Shannca95
5 years ago

Oh wow you are actually right about the relationship bar! Haha, definitely forgot about that from not playing it for so long now.

When I first had the issue I couldn't get any Woohoo or Try for a Baby options even when Sims were irresistible. I don't know how but uninstalling Origin and Sims and then reinstalling everything worked and resolved the issue!

Thank you for reminding me how the Sims 3 works 😂! 

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    DonroaAkashu
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    @Shannca95  Oh, I'm so glad it works now! And sorry to make you jump through hoops before testing the game myself, it's just so common an issue with missing interactions being the result of issues with the files in the user folder I've learned to suggest that first. Thank you for trying them though, and have fun gaming. 🙂

    • Shannca95's avatar
      Shannca95
      5 years ago

      No worries at all, I now know what to do if anything else happens because I have never had to do that before (and have been playing since 2002 - I must be very lucky lol). 

      Thanks so much for your help 🙂

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