Re: [ARCHIVED] Romantic Relationships decay/become negative fast with no interaction
@Bra1nBlast3d I was having a great deal of difficulty tracking their satisfaction and 'up-keeping' them, plus having romance tank. I tried a number of things with them, and if I'm very attentive and babysitting of them I can manage or recover from these ups and downs. It also helped a when I had them 'get to know' each other in repeated angles... as if they didn't already know each other through tons of Sim years and generations of kids and life... and they were very well paired in likes. It just shouldn't be that much work with them.
I finally had a friend ( @CGrant56 ) tell me that he was seeing (& heard this from others) relationships/decay behave with more difficulty in maintaining if they were married before the pack versus after the pack. I think he said he has even split up then re-married at least one couple as a workaround. So... in my new/current save/household I tried another workaround he mentioned... to get one of the Sims the 'Beloved' trait (the reward for the 'Friend of the World' aspiration). Since I'm playing a busy household working on very different goals currently, I just cheated in the reward trait onto the husband of the couple. I'm going to be testing it out to see how it goes tor me. If it helps, I'll either keep the trait until the pack gets tweaked (if and when that happens), or if I want to keep the trait I may just have the Sim complete the aspiration associated with it - gradually). The 'Beloved' trait keeps all relationships at the positive level the Sim had gotten them to, and the relationships do not decay. I will put directions on how I cheated it in in my game in a spoiler tag, in case anyone here wants to experiment with this also:
2. Make sure the Sim is home and select their thumbnail pic so they are the active Sim.
3. Open the Cheat popup box. ( Press Shift+Control+C )
4. Enable testing cheats. [ Enter the following in the cheat code box…
testingcheats off (press enter): (Note: testingcheats false also works) ]
5. Next, enter the following in the cheat box...
traits.equip_trait Trait_Legendary (press enter)"
6. you should now see the 'Beloved' trait in this Sim's Simology > Traits list:
Note: To remove the 'Beloved' trait later, do the above steps but enter the cheat traits.remove_trait Trait_Legendary instead.
