@Omosky SO maybe it's more this issue than the relationship to the dolphins as such ?
There's a thread here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Sims-can-t-become-soulmates/m-p/7905918
The invisibility is strange though but there's a thread for this here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-IL-Summoned-dolphin-is-invisible/m-p/7968490#M93553
Katrus, not that I’ve noticed. I’ll have to take a closer look later.
Soulmate status has never left for any of ours, even if we purposely break some hearts.
Crinrict, I wouldn’t think so too if it weren’t for the tests. I’ll play around with the mermaids again and see if I can get some save files to trigger the invisible dolphins with non-soulmate sims.
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I have not been able to find an in game “repair game” button.
@crinrict I’ve ran through several, randomly and newly generated, mermaid couples on new saves, who got saved right after choosing a lot, to test both sides with the same sims. The results have not changed.
Calling dolphins before the sims are soulmates with anyone:
I got invisible dolphins to show up by calling the dolphin as it was trying to leave; and when a sim got struck by lightning at the start of when calling a dolphin but didn’t finish. Soulmates still won’t trigger with any other sims though. At 100% friendship and 100% romance, the most I can get is Lovebirds.
Calling dolphins after the sims are soulmates with either each other or other sims (different tests with different random game sims):
The dolphins show up invisible from the get go, every single time they are called, and sometimes they don’t show up under relationships.
So yes, I do still believe the two are tied together somewhere, at least for our game. Otherwise, why would the dolphins show up invisible not matter what when the only change is whether the sim already has a soulmate or not? Plus considering everyone says sims can have more than one soulmate, yet is not possible on ours. Why that is, I don’t know.
