Also having this issue. No NPC sims gain any relationships outside their households. Even if you advice them to go for a date or hang out with another sim and then receive the calls that the sims are now dating or that they're now close friends, no relationship between the two sims actually exist.
Here's my save to investigate the issue:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15yRXUGvcYx7TTIqcz7A14qQ45TVTt4kk/view?usp=drive_link
Really hope something will be done about it!
I'm not entirely sure but I have the suspicion that this might be a result of the game's relationship culling.
I once (long time ago) looked up the relationships after an NPC called me and I'm pretty sure I saw a tiny romance bar. But the game is very rigorous with relationship culling especially for NPCs (that's also a big problem in GT clubs imo) so it's quite possible that relationships like these might get deleted.
The only time I actually was able to trigger a changed relationship status was when I used the "hook up" interaction on a Sim in my own household (it was mainly for story purposes). These Sims actually starting dating and where boyfriend and girlfriend afterwards.
It's really sad. I wish this interaction was more meaningful (and that they'd only call for Sims that my Sim actually knows and can have an opinion about).
The Sims Team@flauschtrud @lucombre
Hello!
We would like to collect more saves.
If you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?
If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.
Instructions here: http://x.ea.com/74420
Thanks!
