Seems to be related to this bug: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Gender-Preference-Attraction-Bug/m-p/6705996#M60744
The game just makes couples from whatever sims despite all their features, so skeletons also are victims of this.
@rostsit Thank you for taking the time to respond on this post. I appreciate that you are willing to help!
I really don't think it's like the bug you linked, though. By all accounts, it appears as if the development team has taken measures to prevent any kind of relationship building between the skeletons and other Sims.
The family seems to spawn randomly, because I have no idea what the skeletons do when they're not assisting, or on temple guard duty. (probably, they go somewhere to learn how to crack their bones, and perform various feats of double jointedness... I'm kidding. Mostly.)
In any case, the skeletons aren't flirty with the sims I've played. It's just, later down the line -- I've met other "not in world" Sims, that are somehow the children of SPECIFICALLY the skeletons I have had interactions with. Its like they decided they wanted equal Sim rights, and had a family out of rebellion. (Again. Kidding. Probably not the right time or place)...
The picture is of Patella Kost when I summoned her as a skeletal assistant while vacationing in Selvadorada. Ella (my active Sim) and Patella interacted with one another -- but not in any way flirty. And no matter how many "friendly" interactions were preformed, their relationship bar remained neutral. It wasn't until later that I met the children of Patella... and further on, the daughters of Tibia Skeleton, another assistant I had summoned.
So, no romance or flirting... just randomly spawning families after my Sim had interacted with them.
EA StaffWe have your savefile and will investigate this at our end. Thank you for your report.
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thanks for your help. Hopefully you'll be able to reproduce it... if for no other reason than it's super weird. You won't meet the children of the skeletons (sounds like a movie title) until after interacting with them... at least, that's how they showed up before.
Thank you again.
I think you misunderstand. It has nothing to do with the romance. Only with the fact that the game now makes couples from all sims you've met. I now even have a hermit from Granite Falls married to a random townie in Newcrest, all happened autonomously after meeting said hermit.
The same bug is with the skeletons. You meet them, the game immediately adds them to the possible "townies' pool"/"open for marriage pool" or whatever. Just like with gender preferences. If 2 sims are in this "pool", it doesn't matter, if they are straight or gay. The game will make couples with absolute randomness.
It all seems to me to be the SAME bug.
@rostsit I apologize. It's super weird, though...
I think my subject title might have been slightly misleading. They only seem to have children. Fully grown, adult children. I've never seen a husband in the picture, I just assumed... but then, there's no way for a skeleton to get pregnant. The sheer mechanics alone make the brain reel.
So, I suppose it could be related. If they're having romances that produce the children. But both times I witnessed it, I only saw the byproduct of what I assumed was a coupling. Patella Kost had four adult children. That's how I first noticed it. I met one of her sons -- well, my SIM met one of her sons, Zygot Kost. When I asked him to move in, I just noticed that he was from a family of five: Petella (skeleton) was mother to four adult, regular (non skeleton) Sims.
The same was true later. I met another adult named Patella Skeleton. The last name was way too ostentatious to have not been the same as the first. And so, I became friends the the "human" Patella, so I could ask her to move in. When I did, I discovered she had a sister (also Patella), and their mother was Tibia Skeleton -- an actual Skeleton. I specifically remember both Skeletal assistants.
I never witnessed any type of "father" being around, and silly me -- I didn't check their family tree before moving them out. I really should have, because at the very least -- it would have been interesting to see. But what seemed to be happening for me was that the Skeletons just spawned adult children... or rather, the game spawned adult children and assigned them to the Skeletons? I really don't know.
So, it could be that those tired old bones were in the mood for some love... I just never saw that part, if that's how it happened. (if that IS how it happened, I think I'm probably glad I didn't see that part.) Plus, a pregnant skeleton might have given me nightmares. (I'm kidding. Kind of.)
Thank you for posting, and for trying to help put a pinpoint on what might be going on. I don't know much about it, and it could very well be that you are correct. I only noticed the skeltons, and their adult Sim children, though.
Thank you again... I apologize if I offended you before. I know you are trying to help, and it was not my intention to be so contradictory.
I didn't feel offended, everything is ok, we are discussing 😉
And I assure you I saw the same (exactly) bug with skeletons in my game. Children of skeletons etc. More than that, I also saw their actual spouses. The only difference is that I've never met the actual skeleton "in town" - at least in their skeleton form. I think in my game when moved into the family they are switched to their human form you can see in CAS.
I didn't post this bug myself just because I believe it is related to other bugs I've mentioned. But you did, and you even had a save-file to share with developers. Which is perfect, thank you!
