My ideal romance system (autonomy)

"Cupid;c-16413420" wrote:
I think instead, I'd prefer it if the strength of an existing relationship were inversely related to the amount of flirting the sim chooses to do or accept. So for example, a sim who has a boyfriend or girlfriend that they're on pretty good terms with would rarely flirt autonomously, and it would be hard for other sims to flirt with them, but not impossible. Whereas a sim with a soulmate would never flirt autonomously, and be nearly impossible to romance.

"MissNightOwl;d-938012" wrote:
I think most of us can agree that the romance in the Sims is rather far from being perfect. In my opinion it's a problem not just in TS4, since in TS3 there were that constant love letters and gifts from secret admirer, no matter if your Sim was married or not. For me, it could be annoying after some time. In TS4 the big problem is that Sims will flirt with anyone as soon as they're in flirty mood. At the moment I'm using the mod to prevent that; Sims still flirt autonomously, but only with their lovers. However, sometimes I feel I'm missing on something. Sometimes I'd like my Sims to choose their partners on their own. But then I remember situations like my Sim flirting with her friend's boyfriend in front of her own boyfriend, just because she drank some Sakura Tea. So, I stay with the mod.

There's a lot of great ideas for additional romantic options on the Forums, but I wish the algorythm of romantic interactions itself could be changed. In my ideal system Sims would perform autonomous romantic interactions if:

• they have no romantic relationship above the value of 10,
  
• only with Sims they have romantic relationship above 10.
  

In other words, the romantic autonomy for a Sim would be limited as soon as they reach certain level of romance with any Sim. Of course, we could make our Sims to involve into more relationship. The autonomy could also depend on the Sim's trait (it'd be good opportunity to introduce the Faithful/Unfaithful traits).

What do you think of such system? I feel it would be pretty realistic, and it'd allow some spontanity and unpredictability in the game, without unnecessary drama.

"MissNightOwl;d-938012" wrote:
I think most of us can agree that the romance in the Sims is rather far from being perfect. In my opinion it's a problem not just in TS4, since in TS3 there were that constant love letters and gifts from secret admirer, no matter if your Sim was married or not. For me, it could be annoying after some time. In TS4 the big problem is that Sims will flirt with anyone as soon as they're in flirty mood. At the moment I'm using the mod to prevent that; Sims still flirt autonomously, but only with their lovers. However, sometimes I feel I'm missing on something. Sometimes I'd like my Sims to choose their partners on their own. But then I remember situations like my Sim flirting with her friend's boyfriend in front of her own boyfriend, just because she drank some Sakura Tea. So, I stay with the mod.

There's a lot of great ideas for additional romantic options on the Forums, but I wish the algorythm of romantic interactions itself could be changed. In my ideal system Sims would perform autonomous romantic interactions if:

• they have no romantic relationship above the value of 10,
  
• only with Sims they have romantic relationship above 10.
  

In other words, the romantic autonomy for a Sim would be limited as soon as they reach certain level of romance with any Sim. Of course, we could make our Sims to involve into more relationship. The autonomy could also depend on the Sim's trait (it'd be good opportunity to introduce the Faithful/Unfaithful traits).

What do you think of such system? I feel it would be pretty realistic, and it'd allow some spontanity and unpredictability in the game, without unnecessary drama.