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12 months ago
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[ARCHIVED] Romance Interactions constantly rejected

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.96.6.2300
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Cats & Dogs, City Living, Cottage Living, Discover University, Eco Lifestyle, Get Famous, Get Together, Get to work, Growing Together, High School Years, Island Living, Seasons, Dine Out, Dream Home Decorator, Parenthood, Realm of Magic, Spa Day, Vampires, Werewolves, Backyard Stuff, Kids Room Stuff, Laundry Day Stuff, My First Pet Stuff, Nifty Knitting, Paranormal Stuff, Romantic Garden Stuff, Tiny Living, and Toddler Stuff.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Flirt, do romantic socials
What happens when the bug occurs? Constant Rejection
What do you expect to see? I don't expect everyone to flirt back but I expext some romance to happen.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. 7/23/24 patch

Not sure where to put this still, the site's hard to understand on mobile but I started a new Sims save because I wanted a polyamorous sim now that it's possible in the game. And with that I created probably around 10-12 sims and gave them all varying jealousy triggers. I made almost every single one interested in men and women to keep it simple. My sim has experienced non-stop rejection from every single sim no matter who it is. I've had her attempt to flirt with probably 8 sims now and the only interaction that has ever worked is compliment appearance, and that was only one a singular sim. I'm not even sure if this is a bug or if they added new limitations to flirtation but I get their friendship bars to halfway or more and then attempt to flirt and it still fails every single time. I clicked 50-99% of the time because the compliment appearance has worked twice but I've been trying for about 6 hours over the course of 3 days to get her to get a romance bar with someone, she has it with one sim, the one complimenting appearance and flirty introduction worked on but every other interaction I attempt with the sim has failed.

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  • @DiggityDayne 

    First remove all mods if you have any. Then test

    If that doesn't help.

    Please list the traits of your sim and the one you try to romance.

    Post screenshots of Gender, Sexual orientation and Romantic boundaries.

  • @DiggityDayne To be sure, you have one Sim interact with all the others and are getting the rejections ?

    Or did you try multiple Sims to interact with others ?

    If it's the first, could you test another Sim if they have the same issue ?
  • i’m having this exact same issue its so frustrating! i’m trying to get my male sim to find a partner but he gets rejected by everyone, i’ve tried him flirting with about 8 different woman but they all give him the hand, i play on console so i don’t have any mods

  • @Ellcott_x I haven't yet tested this since adding the new pack/patch as I'm in build mode currently setting up my Lovestruck Sim, but I've recently gone through Other Households and edited Townies romantic preferences to make them compatible with certain Sims.

    I had one Sim recently who was rejected every single time. I found some (but not all) Townies had no preferences and it was not many but it happened to be the ones my Sim was talking to (she was romancing Paparazzi). As soon as I edited their preferences my Sim was successful. I did the same thing in preparation for the new pack last week.

    Another thing you can do is add a new potential romantic interest of your own to their household as a friend or romantic partner and move them out into their own household so they don't have to live together and can carry on a regular relationship, but do that in live mode so they've built friendship first or I find (if I immediately use Split Household) they have a low friendship bar still. I usually make them a fiancé but now we have Partner/Engaged I can still then break them up later. I'm really glad they added Partner because I'll use it a lot for this. I see the OP here had created some Sims specifically for the pack which is slightly different. But again it should help to partner the Sims up in CAS first.

    You can also use Enchanting Introduction with a high enough Charisma Skill to have more success with a Sim who has the right preferences.

    I'm also on Console btw and this is just a workaround but hope this helps, good luck!

  • Product: The Sims 4
    Platform:PC
    Which language are you playing the game in? Italiano
    How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
    What is your current game version number? 1.108.349.1020
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? get together, growing together, seasons, highschool years, city living, cottage living, and the kits that were given out for free.
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Interact with other sims and start to flirt or be romantic.
    What happens when the bug occurs? Every time I try to build a romantic relationship with a lot of different sims, even if the friendship bar is high, my sim gets rejected. This also happens after more time with friendly interactions (which before almost never happened), even when no romantic interaction has been done, and it's almost impossible to build a relationship because every sim will go away embarassed. Mi sim doesn't have any particular trait that should cause a disadvantage, it's also a romantic! I tried and every sim has this problem.
    What do you expect to see? I expect to see relationship happening normally, with some hiccups but not everyone of them ending in disaster.
    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? Yes
    Please describe the patch or change you made. Last update after the love struck expansion pack release.

    I accidentaly closed the game without saving it and I don't have proof of all the failed relationship I had. They were a lot...

  • EA_Cade's avatar
    EA_Cade
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    9 months ago

    Hey all,

    Just checking in to see if anyone is still seeing this on a modless game as we've been unable to reproduce it on our end.

    If so please share your save file with us (instructions: http://x.ea.com/74420) so we can take a look.

    Thanks!

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