Product: The Sims 4Platform:MacWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Rarely (0% - 9%)What is your current game version number? 1.53.115.1020What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I'm not sure What happens when the bug occurs? It's Valentine's day. My husband gave his wife flowers, and their friendship went down by a good chunk. No dialogue or notification popped up. What happened?What do you expect to see? For her to be happy, not be worse friends with him.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? Neutral/Not Sure This only happened once, but I'm still not sure what went wrong. Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag

I removed all the 'gift giving' traditions from every holiday, because this is so un-fun.For me, it's not only flower-giving that causes the sims to get negative relationship points; it's any kind of gift. For example, one child giving another child who has the 'geek' trait a voidcritter card caused a mutual relationship hit. I did this multiple times, as I was deliberately giving the cards to npcs (to stack the deck, heh--only it doesn't work that way, rats!), & every time the kids reacted negatively (they knew what I was up to? 👿 ). Curiously, when adult sims gave child sims voidcritter cards, the kids responded positively. ??? Aside from the cards, though, the responses seemed random, & seldom made sense given the relationships & characteristics of the sims involved. Why would an empathetic, polite, etc. sim respond badly to her child giving her a flower? She wouldn't...except in TS4. 😞I don't care if it's by design: it's a terrible, immersion-breaking design, & needs to be fixed. The various gift/flower-giving traditions aren't worth having until this is fixed.

Yes.I finally found some other forums discussing this, and it looks like it seems kind of random if Sims like gifts or not, which seems like a bug in itself.Why wouldn't a Sim who has a flower garden like a rose from her husband on Valentine's day? Still seems weird.

This happens on PS4 also. The worst is when a child gives their parent a flower or gift and the parent gives them a thumbs down and they get a double negative relationship loss. Husbands and wives lose the same for flowers or gifts.

@greyzonesims I just guessed it was 'by design', but hitting the 'me too' anyway just in case it's truly a glitch. :D

[OPEN] [S] Giving Flowers - Friendship decreased?

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crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
@greyzonesims Did you test this without mods installed ?
greyzonesims
7 years ago
Yes.
I finally found some other forums discussing this, and it looks like it seems kind of random if Sims like gifts or not, which seems like a bug in itself.
Why wouldn't a Sim who has a flower garden like a rose from her husband on Valentine's day? Still seems weird.
aidans1985
7 years ago
@greyzonesims Yeah its weird, but there is a 50\50 chance they like it or not. Complete with relationship hit or boost. 😜
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
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bookmaster325
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
@greyzonesims I just guessed it was 'by design', but hitting the 'me too' anyway just in case it's truly a glitch. :D
Tiarella4
6 years ago
I removed all the 'gift giving' traditions from every holiday, because this is so un-fun.
For me, it's not only flower-giving that causes the sims to get negative relationship points; it's any kind of gift. For example, one child giving another child who has the 'geek' trait a voidcritter card caused a mutual relationship hit. I did this multiple times, as I was deliberately giving the cards to npcs (to stack the deck, heh--only it doesn't work that way, rats!), & every time the kids reacted negatively (they knew what I was up to? 👿 ). Curiously, when adult sims gave child sims voidcritter cards, the kids responded positively. ??? Aside from the cards, though, the responses seemed random, & seldom made sense given the relationships & characteristics of the sims involved. Why would an empathetic, polite, etc. sim respond badly to her child giving her a flower? She wouldn't...except in TS4. 😞
I don't care if it's by design: it's a terrible, immersion-breaking design, & needs to be fixed. The various gift/flower-giving traditions aren't worth having until this is fixed.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Why is this still a problem?
Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@paradiseplanet27 Well, I'm not sure it'd be a good idea to make all gifts react positively. Something is effecting it and making them turn it down, I just don't know what. I know their current mood has something to do with it.

Like, I know if I do a high-level romance interaction too early, it will end up with an "Awkward conversation" moodlet. After that, all romance interactions will fail, even the low-level ones. I have to get rid of the "awkward" thing before I can attempt any further romance options.

It could be something like that. Some moodlet on the target sim is causing it to fail, like maybe the sim is sad, awkward, tense, cold, hot, etc.
PoptartJuniper
Hero (Retired)
6 years ago
This happens on PS4 also. The worst is when a child gives their parent a flower or gift and the parent gives them a thumbs down and they get a double negative relationship loss. Husbands and wives lose the same for flowers or gifts.
AppleBlossom3
Rising Adventurer
5 years ago
I know this is old, but I did 4 gifting interactions today, and they all turned out with a negative outcome. This included regular gifting (2 times) and Finchwick Favors (2 times). I used different sims each time, both givers and receivers. This can't be right. It has to be a bug. If it's by design, maybe they should only make Snob sims be selective about gifts. I'll keep playing around with this and see if it continues....