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11 years ago
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[BY DESIGN] NPC's don't react appropriately to Sims they dislike

I have an evil Sim, so have been bombarding random NPC's that are wandering by the house with a long string of negative interactions, like insult, fight, etc. They will react to the negative interact...
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    SimGuruNick
    9 years ago

    So the part about receiving a TNS that says "thanks for coming by" is by design. We don't have any way to vary that text for different situations, and it's just meant to be a generic kind of "see ya".

    The other stuff sounds like potential issues, but I cannot reproduce it currently. I just had my Sim get in a fight with another Sim walking by my house, and the other Sim's only attempted interactions with me, after the fight, were to Yell At me. Twice. And then they stalked off. Even their idle animations, while Yelling at me, had turned angry and hunched over. 

    Another Sim I tried to fight ended up beating my Sim up, and gained the Confident mood, and then starting talking to me about a Rumor immediately afterwards. Kinda weird, but I believe this sort of situation is also by design. They were Confident, not Angry. Their idle animations, in between me trying to Yell at them over and over, were also relaxed/pleasant, but this again appeared to be because the NPC was Confident, not Angry. Actual Angry Sims are behaving angrily for me. 

    If anyone's still seeing any issues it would be great if you could share a save file with me, thank you much!

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9 years ago

So the part about receiving a TNS that says "thanks for coming by" is by design. We don't have any way to vary that text for different situations, and it's just meant to be a generic kind of "see ya".

The other stuff sounds like potential issues, but I cannot reproduce it currently. I just had my Sim get in a fight with another Sim walking by my house, and the other Sim's only attempted interactions with me, after the fight, were to Yell At me. Twice. And then they stalked off. Even their idle animations, while Yelling at me, had turned angry and hunched over. 

Another Sim I tried to fight ended up beating my Sim up, and gained the Confident mood, and then starting talking to me about a Rumor immediately afterwards. Kinda weird, but I believe this sort of situation is also by design. They were Confident, not Angry. Their idle animations, in between me trying to Yell at them over and over, were also relaxed/pleasant, but this again appeared to be because the NPC was Confident, not Angry. Actual Angry Sims are behaving angrily for me. 

If anyone's still seeing any issues it would be great if you could share a save file with me, thank you much!

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crinrict
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9 years ago

Thank you @SimGuruNick for the insight.

I'm going to mark this as by design for now unless @shepherdmoon can provide further info

Maybe it would be good to post about this in the feedback forum over at the officials cause I kinda don't like it either.

It's like: I will engage in a friendly chat with you although I hate your guts and you hate mine (although there's always an occasion where that might happen, if the surrounding asks for it, if I randomly meet my enemy in the park, I think he would actually MAKE me angry rather than make me engage in a friendly conversation with them.

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