[ARCHIVED] Sims forget already existing relationships

hi, @SimQARobo!

the forgotten Sims do disappear from the panel. strangely, others with completely empty friendship (or friendship and romance) bars remain, especially unhoused/not in world NPCs, at least in my case. and they have been there for a long, long time, longer than those Sims with a bit of green/pink in their bars that do disappear and need to be re-introduced to the rest.

so they could be gone after a Sim week, or never! but it does seem weird that a random townie my Sims interacted with months ago (IRL, actually!) and basically never again (no changes to their relationship bars) would still there while a friend or acquaintance they talk with much more often would disappear.

Sims in my played households are always friends. so they get to be good friends or best friends, see each other every day, so that works. the problem seems to be with friends or, more specifically, acquaintances or "just friends". of the latter, some with 100% empty relationship bars -and no contact whatsoever- remain, while an acquaintance with some green in the friendship bar (perhaps 25%) will disappear after only a couple of Sim days without talking to them in person. i'm trying to expand on the first paragraph but i don't really see a pattern...

really fast relationship decrease is also noticeable when some Sims travel from their own house to a different lot, be it a community or residential one. they might be gone for only a few Sim hours and, upon returning, their relationship with good and best friends (those are the ones i have in my main household) will have dropped significantly. it also happens between the household members that did not leave the house during those Sim hours.

this happens without my playing rotationally very often. i stick with the one household most of the time, and those Sims interact with the rest of my housed (but at that moment unplayed) ones.

so a good friend will sometimes turn into a friend (or a friend into an acquaintance) after one Sim day, even. or a few Sim hours. it's not always the same. the romance bar also drops very quickly, even for Sims who are a couple/engaged/etc.

something else i have noticed is that some Sims with lower friendship bars than those who are simply acquaintances will still be listed as friends.

also, i tested without mods.

@SimQARoboIn case your still looking in to this. Im having this issue as well and its causing a lot of problems in my game. - I play on Mac and I play rotational, so whenever I shift back to another household they have lost relationships with several family members and friends living in the world, but are good/ friends with random townies that don't live in the world.

- They are completely wiped out of the relationsship panel as if they never met.

- I usually play a household for two weeks and then shift, so I can't really say exactly as I sometimes switch back after two weeks to the same household, and other times rotate for several sim weeks/ months. I seems to occur no matter how long time that has gone, but the longer time, the more of them seems to be gone from the panel.
- And random sims seem to have taken the place of friendly relationships in the panel. (Bonus info: I have experienced this both with and without ageing on for all sims in the game)

- It varies from acquaintances to friends, im not completely sure if any good friends have disappeared but I suspect it.
Best friends and parents, children & siblings seem to stay in the panel. Although I think the relationships to some of them have vanished too. - When they are not in the same household.
But cousins and grandchildren/parents and even close relationships significant others, and all other kind of relationships will disappear completely from the relationsship panel.

- Yes, no mods or CC, ever.

Thanks!

Stinalina

I've just found this issue in my game. It's actually the first time I notice it. I was planning to marry those two sims, and now, I will have to start over.

Now for the questions:

- They are completely removed from the friendship panel.

- Less than one sim day passed when I found the issue.

- They were friends, as long as I remember.

- I use no mods at all.

I mainly play with one family. However, I usually take one sim night for playing with the other families, when I make 1 or up to 4 families pregnant, and then go back to the main family. I usually go back around 7 am, sim time. However, this time I got issues with a family (Tried to make a house on a hill, had to make some improvements so that the sims could walk home), and had to go back at around 8:30 am. I noticed this around 10 am, when I tried to call the other sim to hang out, and was just not there. Since I was told about the family tree bug, I've been backing up my game in a second save, however, when I checked the backup, this issue was also present there.

Both sims were in saved households (no townies or unfavorited sims involved).

If it turns useful, I could send the saves.

Talk to you later!

All relationship statuses completely forgotten over time. Has anyone figured out any fixes to this. Town is Sulani only I believe