- Most recently interacted with Sim will appear at the beginning of the Relationship panel.
Fixed in Patch 1.110.265/2.01
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I've had this bug pop up from time to time over the years. I found something that clears it up for a while but it always eventually comes back. It pops up pretty rarely thankfully. Talk to the sim that is locked in the "top left", number #1 position in the relationship panel. I found this easiest to do by just having your sim at home and then invite them over. When the #1 locked sim shows at your house, talk to them. For me, this bumps the locked character out of the #1 position to about the middle of the relationship panel. The sim that was to the right of the #1 position should now be the new #1. Repeat the call thing with each sim. Eventually you'll notice the initial locked #1 sim when you started the process working their way back to the #1 spot. Either right before they get back into the #1 spot or are at the #1 spot again, the relationship panel goes back to normal somehow. It's been a while since I've had this bug pop up so I forgot exactly when the Relationship Panel rights itself again. The Relationship panel is now "unlocked". It goes back to who ever you are currently talking to being in the #1 spot.
To every sim? So if my sim knows a 100 sims I should do it a 100 times? Seriously asking to make sure I understand the process.
I never have had to do it to every Sim. Every time I've had to do it, upon speaking to the "Stuck" sim in the #1 spot they never went all the way to the lower right of the relationship panel. Can't recall where they do go exactly, but I want to say.... 3 or 4 rows down? So unless your #1 gets bumped all the way to the bottom of your relationship panel, you won't have to do every one of your relationships. You just need to repeat it until they work their way back into the #1 spot. If the bug pops up again I'll make sure and come back and post exactly how many rows down the #1 stuck sims gets moved down to. Though I'm not sure if it's a set amount.
OK, had the bug pop up again. Things are a lil different now than they were in the past because now I have a household with more than one Sim in it. I usually play single Sim households but have had the bug pop up before in the past with multi-sim households but that was before I had figured out my work around. What I noticed this time around is that when the bug pops up, it occurs to every Sim in game- even unplayed households. When I noticed the bug popped up, I went and checked if the other Sim in my household had it too and they did. I then went and checked with another played household and then an unplayed one. Sure enough, everyone had it. I then started up my "fix" with a single Sim in the household I was playing. This time when I tried my "fix", the Sim in the locked #1 position jumped to row #16 in the panel, quite a ways down my list and further down than when I play with a single Sim. This time when I talked to the Sims progressively moving up in my list, I noticed the initial locked #1 position Sim wasn't moving much. It moved from row #16 up to row #14 then stayed there. I kept up with the invite over and talk to operation and after a while noticed a Sim I had already talked to during it was moving back to the #1 position. When that Sim worked its way back to the upper right #1 position a second time, the bug cleared up.
When I checked the other Sim on this household, their relationship panel is still bugged and locked ☹️ I may at some point check and see if the "Fix" works on them too but after calling up and inviting Sims over for a solid 10-15 minutes or so I'm not really feeling like doing it again anytime time soon. Perhaps after a while it will fix itself for them and the other Sims in the world like it has before in the past for me. It's a really weird bug. No idea what starts it but when I noticed the bug popping up again, there were two events that occurred before the bug popped up. I may have missed exactly when it popped up. I haven't been checking the relationship panel every time my Active Sim talked to someone. Now these events might be total coincidence and not related in any way to the actual bug starting up, but they were two possibilities I noticed before the bug showed up again. 1) I was thinking maybe the number of Sims in your relationship panel triggers it when you get "too many" Sims in your Relationship Panel. When I noticed the bug I checked to see how many Sims were in my Active Sim relationship panel. It was 79, one less than the 80 Maximum Sims I had set in the Manage Households in the manage World Screen. I went and bumped the Maximum Sim Count to 200 then went back to the household and the bug was still there. I don't think the Maximum Sim Count triggers or affects the bug. At the least bumping the Count up doesn't fix it if it does initiate the bug. 2) I had a related family have kids right before I noticed the bug popping up. Again, might be total coincidence but those were the only two things that stood out from day-to-day gameplay I noticed before the bug popped up again.
That's it for now. Might message back if the Relationship Panel fixes itself for the rest of the Sims in the world. I might try and fix the Relationships for the second Sim in my Active Household and see if that affects anything. This bug is a weird one. I just wish I knew what causes it.
