I think this is a case for the feedback section over at the official forum and not a bug.
It works fine, it's just really hard
Yeah, if Sims are inviting you, the dates seem to be a bit touchy. Many have complained about it.
I don't think it's a bug as such but rather something that needs tweaking.
You may want to post over at the official forum in the feedback threads.
Tried with me inviting someone, and it went much differently. Unlike when my sim was asked out, there was a list of goals in the top left.
The date ended well but seemed to bug near the end in a different way, with the two sims' actions being frozen (the rest of the sims in the apartment were fine), until I paused the game, after which the date ended, with a positive outcome.
I am not clear of your definitions though. "Something that needs tweeking' that is bloody annoying when it happens in that it tosses the relationship you have been working on for your sims out the window arbitrarily seems a lot more like a bug than a feedback issue. For future reference what would you classify as a bug?
Just an addendum. That last test was on Newcrest, with only the lot my sim family was living on built (so the date was at home). I'll try on WIllow Creek or Oasis and see what happens if I take a date to a social lot.
Bug = Something that is working differently as intended by the designers or an undesired side effect.
If something is working as intended but (like you can get the date to be a good one but have to constantly take care of them), then it's not necessarily a bug but something that should allow for some space.
If the date goes bad because of routing issues or them getting stuck, then the issue that is at hand is not the date itself, but he actual getting stuck or problems with the routing that can occur in any other scenario.
So it depends a bit what you want to report. The routing issues and getting stuck or the actual date going bad when you get invited ?
I've had one date invitation and had no issues making it a good one buy just doing the same things I would when there were goals. This was bugged before where they would always go bad, no matter what they did, but this has been fixed.
So the difference is:
Thank you for the clarification.
My reasons for considering this a bug would be:
1) Inexplicable sudden bad end for a date otherwise seeming going well. Note that this happening due to my sim going to the washroom long enough to urinate does not count as a 'pathing' issue. This may be a 'feedback' issue rather than a bug, but if it is intended that your date is that needy, it seems very strange.
2) Date mechanics seem completely different when asked out than when asking out. When I asked a sim out to my place, I got the window in the top left showing date goals. That didn't happen when the date asked my sim out. I will experiment with this a bit further in coming days to see if that is because of being asked out or if it was because the date was at a social venue rather than at home.
Issue 1 might be a feedback issue rather than a bug *if* that is intended behavior. Issue 2 seems much more like a bug. Note issue 1 could also be related to issue 2. Even though the dates seemed to be going well it could be that the goals set were not actually being met, but without the indicator that just was not clear. Again, I will experiment further as time permits to provide more information.
Sorry if I misunderstood you but it sounded like the going to the bathroom took a long time because you having issues with bystanders but reading your post again it said: AND without correlation between the bystanders and the bathroom visit.
I agree that this sounds very needy.
This was the original thread: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/FIXED-NPC-Social-Events-always-end-badly/m-p/4545434#M13026 on the issue. You never have a counter if you get invited which make sense, as you shouldn't have to do stuff as YOU get invited.
There should may be no classification for dates if you get invited as for the rest of the social events.
It's a bit hard to get an invitation triggered so I can't really try this until I get one.
I'll add it for now but changed your title to better reflect the issue.
I think there might be an issue that IS a bug, which is that the goals in the top left don't appear when an NPC asks me out, only when I ask them out? I would expect it to be the same either way.
