Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.73.48.1030What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Every pack except Star Wars and a few kits. Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play with a teen sim and add a bunch of their high school classmates to Social Bunny (not tested with other aged sims).What happens when the bug occurs? Sim will randomly gain romance points with their teenage classmates in the middle of class/day/night, often times without any flirty messages sent over Social Bunny or without even interacting with that particular sim. In addition, every classmate at school seems to always be in a flirty mood for some reason.What do you expect to see? For my sim's entire high school to not be in love with her.Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? YesPlease describe the patch or change you made. Bought the High School Years expansion pack. Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title

Product: The Sims 4Platform: MacWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? 100% of the time with 33-75% of the Sims' friends, typically takes 5-8 sims days to startWhat is your current game version number? Version 1.90.358.1230What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All Expansions, game packs, and stuff packs plus all the kits with build/buy itemsSteps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Teen with a bunch of friends on social tummy (including teens and adults)What happens when the bug occurs? Like previously stated in the post, My Teens are getting random romantic relationships with random people on their Social Bunny list, even though I ignored all of their romantic messages and never had any player directed or autonomous romantic actions, but several random teens and a couple married (not to each other) adults and one random young adult. What I wanted to add in addition is that in all three saves for testing this, majority of the romantic relationships didn't follow my Sims' defined sexual orientation. I had one gay male teen, one lesbian female teen. and one heterosexual female teen, doubled checked and made sure I did the correct setting for it in CAS, and all of them had multiple romantic partners that was opposite of what their sexual orientations stated, even though I ignored all of their romantic messages on social bunny and never had any player directed or autonomous romantic actions. Also in one save, even though the teen told their friend "Ask to just be friends" a couple days later the sim tagged the sim in a romantic post and a few Sim hours later when I got the "You had a lot to post about today notification" they had a small romantic relationship again and they hasn't even interacted with them that specific dayWhat do you expect to see? If I ignore random romantic messages to not have a romantic relationship with said sims, and to not get random romantic relationships not following the Sims' sexual orientation. I don't mind the romantic messages from opposite sexual orientation, from the same age group, as long as my sim doesn't get a romantic relationshipHave you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?Save one had mods that were compatible with the patch (none that affected sims relationships in anyway), I removed them and repaired the game, then after that the random relationships started happening. Saves 2 and 3 were after I complete removed the Sims 4 folder and regenerated it and there have never been mods Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Happened after the HSY was installed

Update: I was able to replicate the issue in a new save file with a young adult by adding a bunch of sims she barely met at the bar, adding them all to Social Bunny, and then having my sim basically sleep for two weeks straight. Lo and behold, when she finally awoke, she magically had romance with 5 sims she’s barely spoken to but was now somehow good friends with 😅

Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Often?What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All but a few build/cas kitsSteps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game with teen sims (not sure if it happens with other ages)What happens when the bug occurs? My sim has several romantic relationship built with his teen friends without any romantic interactions, it also ignores the sexual orientation set for him. So far his girlfriend has only one 'romantic' relationship start without her doing anything romantic, but it also ignored her sexual orientation.What do you expect to see? No romantic relationships when my sims haven't done any romantic interactions with the sims.Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not at the moment, I removed my mods folder before the July 26 update & it's still out. Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? YesPlease describe the patch or change you made. Added HSY and had my sims start social bunny and meet some teens. Here's my one teen sim's romance panel, note the only sim he's interacted romantically with is his girlfriend, the one with the high pink on the romance bar. This is his teen girlfriend's romance bar (both are part of the household I'm playing). Note that this is a brand new save I've been playing since the July 26/22 game update and it has never had any mod (or cc) use in it. Best regards,Jennifer

Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? SvenskaHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? AllSteps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Just play around and random teen friends will get into a romantic relationship with your sim. At the end of the day your sim will have like 5-10 romantic relationships with her friends without them even talking to each other. What happens when the bug occurs? My sim gets several romantic relationship builds with her teen friends. Happen randomly during the day. What do you expect to see? No romantic relationships if your sim hasn’t flirted with other sims. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? YesDid this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? YesPlease describe the patch or change you made. Only since yesterday which is weird. I have played the game a few days before without this happening. Yesterday I updated mc command center and got my sim to not go to the school prom. @Nightside-RushI experience the exactly same issue since yesterday. My teen doesn’t even talk to her teen friends but all of the sudden some random ones get into a romantic relationship with her. It doesn’t respect gender preferences either and happen a few times during the day.Even her teen boyfriend got into a romantic relationship with her mother (!) without them even knowing each other 😫 this is super weird.I do play with a few updates mods like mc command center.

Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? NederlandsHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.90.375.1020What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? By playing the sims 4. Maybe it's from social bunny NPC sending flirtatious messages to my sims? What happens when the bug occurs? Suddenly my sims have romantic relationships with almost everyone they know. Even without romantic interactions nor sending flirtatious text on social bunnyWhat do you expect to see? Not to have romantic relationships with everyone they know without doing so. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? YesPlease describe the patch or change you made. After high school years I started to have this problem....

[OPEN] [HSY] Romantic Relationships with all Sims/ Disregards orientation

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LittleMisNoob
3 years ago
@Nightside-RushThis is happening to me too, not only romance but friend interactions too, i keep gaining and losing romance and friend with other sims without doing anything
Plau87
3 years ago
Me too. My sim has Social Bunny disabled, cause she had a full relationship bar with way too many sims that she just met once (I like to play realistically, and to me this was very unrealistic). I cheated the relationship bar down on a lot of them.. She does not have Social Bunny, she does not see them or talk to them on the phone, and I suddenly get these notifications that "sim just became good friends with my sim", and it drives me nuts! I have to manually set their relationship to zero but it still keeps gaining. My sim has the ++ or -- over her head constantly, gaining and losing relationship with other sims without interacting with them. Thankfully the romance bar stopped gaining on all her so called romances (I don't know how) cause that was driving me crazy too, she had way too many romantic interests without even meeting them, after Social Bunny was disabled. I hope they fix this soon!
cdarato646
3 years ago
Do we still have no solution to this?
vyvexthorne
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I had this when I used a sim I had pre-made specifically for HSY before the pack was released. When I started a new run with a brand new sim it didn't occur.
Plau87
3 years ago
I found a workaround/solution, at least it works in my game. My sim no longer gain/lose friendship/romance without interacting with other sims while Social Bunny is deactivated.
If SB is deactivated, turn it back on. Open SB. Delete all of the added friends on the friends list, your sim shouldn't have any friends there (messages and posts will still be there).
Then turn off the option that says something like "get notifications" (I don't remember exactly what is said). THEN disable SB once again. This was the fix for me. I hope it works for you guys too, please let me know if it does. 🙂
siirysiir
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Alizatina aaahh social tummy!! that's the cutest typo I've ever seen! :D :3 Anyways this is pretty annoying that sims become besties on Social bunny with a bunch of randos from school they've only ever talked to once.

A suggested fix: maybe rework this so that sims will only gain any type of relationship if they post or react to others' posts on Social bunny only if directed by the player? If there has to be an autonomous part, make it a lot less frequent/probable and remove the romance gain/loss altogether for autonomous reactions by other sims.
SimGuruRitzy
EA Staff
3 years ago
Hello All,

If anyone of you are still encountering this (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: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-to-Send-User-Files-to-The-Sims-4-Team/m-p/6065302

CM Edit: Please send any save files for this issue to @TheSimsDirect.
TheSimsDirect
The Sims Team
2 years ago
Hello All,

Is any of you 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!

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