[FIXED] Romantic interest for everyone in group conversations (flirtatious joke)

This is an older issue that's supposed to be fixed.

You say for you it's very rare. Do you have any idea what triggers it to still happen ? Any specific interaction ? Or do you think it just has to do with the existing relationship level ?

The third party will gettin uncomfortable is by design I think but I haven't seen them get a romantic relationship myself in a long while.

The old thread on the issue is here (for reference, please don't post there): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Teenage-romance-with-adult-bug/td-p/3902463

I think it was the flirtatious joke that did it, too. I'm having a hard time trying to replicate the exact issue though. I don't know if it makes a difference but every time it's happened to me, I'd been playing that same household for a long period of time. In the new tester household I made specifically for trying to get it to happen, I noticed that everyone in the group will react to things you're doing to one specific sim as if you're doing it to them but the actual romance bar popping up isn't happening. For instance, if I got the tester sim to romance her husband, everyone will be embarrassed/"awkward conversation", and a few will become flirty. I'll have to play with that household for longer... maybe my individual saves just got corrupted somehow?

It's kinda frustrating because it's hard to force it to happen, but the times it has happened have been really annoying. You can't even choose who your sim is talking to in group conversations and a lot of the time, they just start talking with anyone and everyone in the room. I think the actual issue might tie into another issue where flirty sims in general are extremely aggressive, because I think all the sims who ended up with the romance bars were in flirty moods when it happened.

I haven't owned the game that long, so it's not like the older households would have had the same issue that Crin mentioned that got fixed. I'm going to keep trying to get it to happen in a fresh save, and if I don't, then maybe it's an issue with my save games. Overall, not the end of the world, just an irritating bug that I've encountered.

Hi @CinnamonToastBun

Would you be willing to send your save files?  If so, instructions are here:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-to-Send-User-Files-to-The-Sims-4-Team/m-p/6065...

That would help us a lot!.

Thank you very much!

Tagging @CinnamonToastBun for saves

Oops, I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out how to get a save file for you guys! Sorry about that. Anyway, the first save where this happened is the one labeled OG, the most egregious example is in the Waters family. Epiphany Waters has an inappropriate relationship with Bella Goth and Eliza Pancakes as a result of doing some type of romantic interaction with her husband around them. The husband is romantically involved with Bella but this was intentional, he is having an affair. I did not make him do a romantic interaction with Bella when the glitch happened, it was definitely with his wife. Also, Don Lothario is Epiphany's ex boyfriend, so the romance bar is intentional with him. It's just Bella Goth and Eliza Pancakes who are the problem. I tried to make Epiphany hate Bella so that the romance bar would go away, but it didn't work.

The second game with the glitch is Big City Living, the household is Nash-Kibo. This is the one after I installed MCCC. Hadassah Nash had an inappropriate relationship form after using a romance interaction with her boyfriend at the time, she managed to get a romance bar with her half sister Lacey Kibo and Lacey's wife Saya Yamamoto. I continued playing the game for a long time after it occurred and tried to use MCCC to eradicate the pink romance bars but it didn't work. It's been a really long time in-game and Lacey and Saya both died, their spirits were sent to the Netherworld because I didn't think to strengthen their connection. So they aren't in Hadassah's friends list anymore. It should also be noted that even though I put MCCC in, I don't have incest features enabled and never did, so I'm not sure how she was able to even get that kind of relationship with her half-sister, unless it's by design that the game doesn't view them as actually related.

The OG save has other examples of the glitch happening in other households. It happened at least one other time in Johnny Zest's household in Brindleton Bay, but I haven't touched that house in so long I couldn't tell you who was involved or how it happened... I just remember that after playing for a good amount of time, his wife had suddenly developed romance bars with people I hadn't directed her to interact with at all.

Also, when you open the game it says that there was custom content CAS stuff. I had briefly put in some CAS items but it was after the glitch already occurred, and I took them out after only a short time of playing. They were not in the game when it happened either of the times when the two biggest examples happened.

Here's the dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jzsn535fqkl1ogh/saves.zip?dl=0

I've experienced this problem recently as well. The intended recipient of the flirtatious interactions was Miko Ojo. Akira Kibo and Penny Pizzazz were sitting at the picnic table as well and were part of the conversation. Despite the fact that my Sim was ONLY flirting with Miko, I discovered later that Akira and Penny were ALSO considered romantic interests. I can't really send a save, seeing as I got the romance bar to go away on both of them by asking to just be friends, but I figured you all might want to know that it isn't an isolated issue. I actually considered making a thread about this myself until I found this one.