Please use this thread going forward: Sims forget already existing relationships | EA Forums - 11894834
EA Staff (Retired)I have some additional info from our engineers on the rules our game uses for relationship culling:
1. The relationship will not decay if either the romance or friendship track goes above 20 or below -20. This means that relationships that have progressed beyond these points are safe (unless they then fall into this range).
2. Decay will not begin unless there has been no relationship progress in either direction for a day.
3. Certain relationship bits can prevent the relationship being culled anyways.
4. Even after decaying down to 0, the relationship will then still give an additional day before culling is done. If the relationship does move away from 0 in either direction, then the relationship will not be culled and the process will start all over.
After reading this, if you still believe you have a bug in your game, it'd be much appreciated if you could share a save file with me. You can DM me the link to your save, thanks for the help!
Instructions for sending me your save:
Yes, this is an extremely disappointing response. I play rotationally. You are telling me I must play your way, just one single household per gamefile, or my sims in currently unplayed households will forget their family, their loved ones, their rivals, their enemies. You are telling me this is the game design and you have no intentions of fixing it for rotational players.
So yeah, you're essentially telling me to -f- off.
I haven't bought anything for TS4 for months, and given this, I won't be buying anything more. I haven't played TS4 since the June/July patch, as I waited, fruitlessly, for the bugs from that patch to be fixed. I was kinda figuring you weren't fixing the relationship bug, that EA was just stringing us along here, and that official response confirms my deduction. I am SO done with being strung along.
So bye, Felicia.
@SimGuruNick This is also happening to me after the November patch or installing Snowy Escape, i am not sure. My sims forget their friends, i am like introducing each other for 10th time even they were friends before. It is not like decreasing relationship level, they completely disappear from relationships section. I will send my save files as soon as possible. Please fix this...
Yeah, I see this issue is still alive and well! I have a generational save, and around 11 "families" (households) placed in different worlds, and after time even my couples who had children forget about each other and stop being together without me doing that. I thought that maybe moving these families to "unplayed" households would just freeze their relationships somehow; sadly, it didn't! What a horrible and non-user-friendly feature :^(
