Re: [FIXED] Neighbourhood stories not taking family into account

@Jayrae316

Do you know if this reflected in the family tree/Sim Genealogy tab for the affected Sims, when you went to their household?

ETA: Also as above! Didn't see that message when I started typing haha.

Hi! I'm SimmerStar4 (they/them). I'm not an expert on game issues, so don't take me as one! I'm just a Sims player who wants to try and help fellow players, and who finds game bugs and issues interesting.

The Sim calling is the son of the Sim he says he’s dating. I use these townies in all my saves. The townie is my rl son’s Simself and the Sim he’s dating is my Simself 😩 this has never happened before. How do I make it stop?

How can you reproduce it? Create 2 adult sims, give them 6 children (young adult), split them in different households. They should still marked as played, and now active NS romance option. Wait until you get the NS notification that they romanced each other. (FreshSims 4 folder/game tested with patch 1.108.318.1020)

Please fix this. I want to use NS but not if this can happen!

I did turn off the relationships on neighborhood stories after this but the whole experience really freaked me out a little. I had to close the game.. I hope developers are aware of this problem and fix it immediately. I play with no mods or cc and when I checked in game the 2 Sims relationship was still listed as mother and son. 

😩 this is awful.

Patch today (July 26, 2024) claimed that this issue was fixed. Within 3 minutes of playing my game again, got a notification that cousins were now dating each other. Loading into that family shows that they are indeed Cousins, Sweethearts, and Partners. Was the fix only for new files and this just permanently destroyed my legacy?

@Jayrae316Did you get a phone call? The changes from Neighborhood Stories happen at night at 2:30am, so it's possible that it already happened before the patch. The phone call usually happens the next day after a few hours.

EDIT: If this is the case for you, you could check the versions of your safe file and see if there is one where your game time is still before 2:30am.

It was a phone call. I guess I'll try playing another 24 hrs and see what happens. 

This appears to have been the case. There have been no further incestuous relationships in Neighborhood stories. There are still problems with it though. Namely sims that have clear romance/woohoo settings that are being ignored. Sims set to romance with no one and woohoo with no one are entering into romantic partnerships via NS. Sims that are interested in same sex romance and woohoo are getting into romantic partnerships with the opposite sex. While this isn't quite as alarming as the brother sister relations, it still shows that this feature needs more work. Also, while not a problem, I got four notifications at the mailbox in one day that four different sims were in romantic partnerships with the same sim. The next day three more had entered into partnerships with this same sim. I love that poly is now available in the game, but this seems to be a bit overdone. I don't think that this feature was ready to go live and now they need to scramble to fix it.