My Sim has high charisma and is almost always Confident (due to High Self-Esteem), but almost every conversation she has with someone who is not her household defaults to Awkward Encounter. This happens regardless of the other Sim's mood. I can occasionally get it up to "Casual Discussion" after several positive interactions, but it will almost immediately go back on the next interaction even if that interaction is also positive.
It sounds like your sim or the sims you are talking to have a fear, there is a fear that causes all conversations to be awkward, I think it's called fear of being judged. You need to overcome it (by figuring out differences with other sims), or using a fear-be-gone potion or turning wants and fears off in the settings.
Yes, could be a fear, or it could be a trait - Socially Awkward from High School years, for example. Does this happen no matter which social interactions you pick?
logionX My Sim does not have this fear. I checked two of the Sims I knew I was having this problem with, and one of them does in fact have this fear; the other does not, though. (Both Sims live in the world, but have never been played before. I don't know if that makes a difference vs. Sims who are currently not in world.) This might be enough to work around and figure it out from here (thank you!), but I am still unclear on why it happens so much with most if not all conversations, not just those with the Sim confirmed to have the fear.
PipMenace I do not have High School Years, so none of the Sims have the Socially Awkward trait. I am mainly trying Friendly interactions with the Charisma icon on them but it appears to happen regardless of interaction type. If I do a lot of Funny interactions I can sometimes get it back to "Casual Discussion" for one or two interactions before it goes back.
If you’re using a lot of charisma interactions - are you asking for loans and flirting, or just doing things like “brighten day”? I think if you flatter/sweet talk and there’s more than 2 sims in the conversation, you’ll usually get an awkward moodlet. You might also get an awkward result if ask for loan fails, but I’m less sure about that.
I guess there are less Friendly Charisma interactions than I thought—I do use Brighten Day frequently, but also Friendly interactions without the Charisma icon; sorry for misspeaking. I have also tried flirting if I can get the conversation to "Casual Discussion" but it seems to go poorly, even though my Sim has high Charisma and sometimes the Sim she's talking to is in a Flirty mood.
You might be right that it's influenced by there being other Sims around, since Sims out in public tend to just come up and join conversations all the time.
