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sleepingmarii
Seasoned Newcomer
1 year ago

Sims constantly autonomously flirt with sims other than their partner?

I don't know if I'm the only one having this problem but it is frustrating me so bad. All of my sims constantly flirt autonomously when I'm not playing the household or directly controlling them, even sims that are dating/married! The "loyal" trait doesn't seem to prevent this at all either and only makes them twice as depressed about flirting with someone else. Most of my sims are bi but so far that has only resulted in any and all positive relationship automatically becoming romantic instead of being able to just make friends. This happens within households but  especially when the coupled sims show up to a party or public venue while I am playing a different household-- whenever I switch back to the other one I always find my soulmate couples jealous and depressed every single time.

I really hope this can be adjusted in a future update to make sims that are in a relationship much less likely to flirt with sims that aren't their partner, with the exception of sims with the noncommittal trait of course.

Or does anyone know a way I can fix this? I'd really rather not have to rely on extra mods besides mccc but it seems like my only option is to turn off autonomous flirting completely but that would prevent couples from autonomously flirting with each other. I'm just so frustrated that every time I come back to a household, even after 

7 Replies

  • aikelee's avatar
    aikelee
    Rising Traveler
    15 hours ago

    Yes, this!  

    EA needs to get onto this issue. My sims flirt non-stop. Teens even with elders, married or not. It puts the romance bar up, even within family members or their step parent. It is becoming ridiculous, makes me not even want to play anymore. 

  • aikelee's avatar
    aikelee
    Rising Traveler
    16 hours ago

    Yes it’s making my game unplayable. I have put mods in to stop this random flirting but it won’t stop. Everyone flirts even teens with elders. Married sims, everyone. They get romance bar and it’s so frustrating to remove it every time. 

  • 1isgbin2fyic's avatar
    1isgbin2fyic
    Rising Novice
    10 months ago

    YES. Ive just wrote about this lol. If you want to prevent this you just have to watch them the whole time they have an interaction with someone and if you see theyre about to do something romantioc to them just cancel it. Its annoying but its the only thing that has worked for me. I really hope they fix this.

  • The problem is sim emotions aren’t targeted. So if they’re in a flirty mood (and having recently flirted with a significant other, or even just being in the same room as a sim they have a flirty sentiment with makes them flirty) they will choose to autonomously flirt. With anyone and everyone. All the “loyal” trait does is make them feel bad about it.

    When I’m playing a couple with high romance, I basically just don’t let them socialize with neighbors together. They either are alone together, or I send one away and let the other visit normally.

  • Can we add in an option to turn off random Flirting for console players that can't use mods?? My married sims ALWAYS end up flirting with random townies, making the spouses despise each other. It's ruining the game!

  • This has been incredibly annoying for me. I'm trying to play without mods, and I've turned off autonomy, and the flirting is CONSTANT. I have two sims who are engaged, both have the Loyal trait, and one is Jealous, and it's absolutely obnoxious how often they both flirt with their neighbors and friends. It makes me want to not have them interact with other sims at all! This is a bug and needs to be fixed.

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