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flauschtrud
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
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Romantic Changes in Neighborhood Stories ignore sexual orientation

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.108.335.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? a lot
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1. Start a new save with a random Sim A and have them move into a house. 2. Create a second household of sexually non compatible roommates B and C (for example both aro/ace) 3. Deactivate Neighborhood Stories for unplayed households (we don't want to wait to long for the bug to show up) 4. Deactivate all Neighborhood Stories for played households except the new Romantic Changes (same). 5. Play as A and speed through the day until 2:30am of the next morning.
What happens when the bug occurs? Check Neighborhood Stories on the mailbox: B and C now started dating.
What do you expect to see? Neighborhood Stories to respect the sexual orientation of the Sims.
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. It's a new feature (although I assume that it might also be an issue for the random phone calls, but these are more difficult to reproduce).

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I tested this in a fresh and unmodded save.

Since B and C are played households their relationship actually persists (as opposed to if you also have Romantic Changes activated for unplayed households as reported here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Romantic-and-Friendship-Changes-in-Neighborhood-Stories/m-p/13894361#M282397).

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  • Khrisstyne's avatar
    Khrisstyne
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    I have had this happen in my save as well. I play on PS5 so no mods ever. This is also a new save.

    Two male Sims are dating. T'ron likes only women, and the other isn't attracted to anyone. 

  • Fanphoria's avatar
    Fanphoria
    Seasoned Ace
    9 months ago

    I play on PC and I've had this happen with and without mods. I mostly notice it when my sim get the phone call interactions. For instance, just today, the sim I was playing got a call from a friend asking if they should go on a date with someone. I didn't know the sim they were talking about so just answered "follow your heart". I little later I got another call saying they had gone a "very nice date", and when I checked, sure enough enough, there was a little romance bar between them (tho they hadn't met yet and had to be introduced--that's a sperate issue). But, when I checked that other sim, they had the wrong orientation to be attracted to the sim who had called me, with exploration turned off. Now, given how little impact these things seem to have, I know it will just fade and go away and they'll forget about each other in a little bit, but it's still a bit weird.

    I like neighborhood stories a lot, I just wish they worked a little bit better. 

  • Zitiache's avatar
    Zitiache
    New Traveler
    9 months ago

    Yeah, I've been running a test file where all of the default households are in my favorites (It totaled like 275 sims) so I could see how the different relationships play out if they didn't get culled. Molly and Mei Prescott and Savannah Price got into relationships that conflict with their orientation (Molly dated 2 men and Mei dated a woman, and Savannah is supposed to be Aro/Ace). Even if sims are exploring, their preferences don't change to reflect any new relationships, so I think the game is just ignoring orientation. So yeah, even if they did fix the neighborhood culling stuff they would then have to fix this issue.

    Also, I did not realize the default households had relationships outside their households, like I thought it was just flavor text when the household description talked about a sim having a crush on another sim.

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