They REALLY need to add a step-parent relationship...

I agree that there should be a step parent tag;

buuut I disagree with step parents not being able to be a romantic interest, that's kind of a key element to creating drama.

This is something that really bugs me. If you switch between families and suddenly you have people with very inappropriate relationships when you return.

We need to keep asking for this until someone pays attention. I have a step-daughter in RL, so it bothers me that I cannot replicate that relationship in my game - especially as I could do it in Sims 3.

"dreamprisoner;c-16034639" wrote:
I agree that there should be a step parent tag;

buuut I disagree with step parents not being able to be a romantic interest, that's kind of a key element to creating drama.

Finally someone understands me :joy:

More family relationships need to be added. Step parents, Step siblings, COUSINS! Great Grandparents. Seriously? I can have transgender sims but cousins won't know they are related. Even though I have 5 generations of sims, Great grandmother won't recognize her great granddaughter as such. What does she have Alzheimer's?

"flowerkitten67;c-16427647" wrote:

"SarahsShady;c-16040628" wrote:
More family relationships need to be added. Step parents, Step siblings, COUSINS! Great Grandparents. Seriously? I can have transgender sims but cousins won't know they are related. Even though I have 5 generations of sims, Great grandmother won't recognize her great granddaughter as such. What does she have Alzheimer's?

There arent cousin relationships in game? And grandparents dont recognize their grandkids? I didnt even know those things @SarahsShady

Well actually, there are cousin and grandparent relationships, but it requires you to have already branched the family in that way to recognize them. For example, for a grandparent and grandchild to acknowledge each other as such, you need to have already had a Sim in between that was the child to the grandparent and the parent to the grandchild. Cousins are recognized if the Sims' parents' siblings have children of their own...HOWEVER family relations stop getting recognized from second-cousin down, so in effect you can romance your second-cousin... :grimace:

in laws, step kids and aunts/uncles. Can someone ask them???'

I have mentioned it before but yes! TS4 seriously needs to recognize extended families (steps everything, in-laws, second cousins, etc) in the relationship panel. Leaving open the option for romance for those who want it. But the sims should know their relatives.

Yeah, I've been using that already. I had a foster situation (because I blended two families) and the foster sister became a sort of care taker to the younger brother. But, nothing indicates what her relationship is to her foster father and his second wife, nor to her foster sister, who was slightly older than she.

"Otoyo;c-15884337" wrote:
I too wish it would show case more complicated family relationships. The fact that a person can raise a child, from a child to an adult, as a parent (with all the same love and care) and still be labeled as nothing more than a roommate is very sad, and doesn't give us the chance to show off the more complex family dynamics of real life. I had one sim marry his fiance after she adopted two babies. The children weren't considered his in any way, but he ended up raising them as his own (becoming best friends with the adopted son and not his own flesh and blood younger son), but he was just a roommate in the end. That didn't seem to match as well. The parenthood pack helped a little with making them feel like a family though, but still they were technically roommates.

I couldn't agree more. It does seem that the characters themselves just lack depth in their interactions. Aside from a few added interactions such as "lecture on responsibility" and "help with homework" , the parent/child or parent/teen relationships are otherwise simply room-mate situations, and as such the roommate dynamic is not a lot deeper than "friends" they have from other households. And, of course, aside from the jealousy reaction to flirty interactions, even spouses don't demonstrate much that is different from friends. And if there is a "flirty spouse" reaction, that being "Very Angry", once that buff times out, the dalliance "never happened". Off the radar.

I don't want to sound picky or unappreciative, though. More depth to each sim is only on my wish list.