Open Relationships in TS4

"Karon;c-17221937" wrote:

"IreneLudwig;c-17219540" wrote:

"Karon;c-17219423" wrote:

I feel that Sims 4 is so weak on the jealousy and rage systems. In Sims 2 even parents-in-law would be mad at the cheater. Your sim would hate the cheater for a long period (while their image was show red in the relationships menu.
I want polyamory, but they need to make monogamy stronger for polyamory make any impact in this game.

Agreed. I've been searching for ways to make poly relationships work in S4, but I think we just need a romance overhaul. When I played the S2, I used to LOVE cheating :D Their reactions where so over the top! In the S4, spouses barely acknowledge being cheated on. It's disappointing, especially if you consider that the brand of S4 revolves around emotions and Sims being more "intelligent" than in the previous iterations of the game.

The only time I got a somewhat realistic/satisfying reaction to cheating was with these twin sisters, but maybe it has to do with the fact that they are both teens? I never had adult Sims react in this way when being cheated on: (screenshots in spoiler section)

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https://i.imgur.com/T0oIbyn.png

She actually started crying!

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https://i.imgur.com/03YnYvY.png

Never seen that.
Would be a good reason for them to add Wants & Fears to the game, as well as the Fear emotion. Hopeless romantic sims could feel the fear of being cheated when seeing their spouses talking to much with a certain sim. I really don't understand why Fear wasn't in the base game.

I agree, we need a general romance overhaul, of which this could be a part. EA kind of passes off Tense as the Fear emotion - when there's a fire, for example, Sims get Tense - but I'm not really feeling that comparison.

"Cupid;c-17221973" wrote:

"Babykittyjade;c-17210543" wrote:
And i thought they had a way you can make your significant other not become jealous but I didn't look into it.

The player trait does that. It's the reward trait for completing serial romantic.

Anyway, I wouldn't want something like this to work via existing traits. There's something fun about playing a non-committal, serial romantic sim who plays the field but still gets jealous when their partners cheat on them. I wouldn't want these sims to just not care about it at all. If they want to add it as like a dialogue option then fine I guess. Kind of destroys the entire purpose of the serial romantic aspiration though so

It would only be an option, if you wanted to have a "non-committal, serial romantic sim who plays the field but still gets jealous when their partners cheat on them" you totally could, just don't "Ask to be in Open Relationship."