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6 years ago
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Flirty Introduction Too Powerful

Sometimes Flirty Introduction becomes too powerful. As far as I can tell, once I does, it stays that way in perpetuity. The played Sim walks up to a complete stranger, uses Flirty Introduction and it instantly fills the friendship bar to more than half full and puts them at friends status. I don't see any way to fix this besides just not using that introduction anymore. The Sim I show in the picture using it has only Charisma 5. What I do know is that Flirty Introduction shouldn't be more powerful than the "Polite Introduction" you work hard to earn in the Parenthood pack. This bug seems to run in conjunction with the relationship status bug I ran into and posted about, link below. I have to completely delete relationships as a work around to the status bug. I'll need to stop using Flirty Introduction to work around this one. (Having something that makes instant friends is too easy-mode for my tastes.)

https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-FreePlay/Relationship-Status-Stuck/m-p/8965290

Problem: Flirty Introduction fills friendship bar significantly more than "Polite Introduction" from Parenthood pack.

Should look like: Flirty Introduction should not fill friendship up much at all, similar to the other default Charisma introductions as its only purpose is to bring the conversation instantly into a "Suggestive Conversation." (I took the screenshot before it changed to Suggestive Conversation, and that did work; but the friendship bar should have stayed really low)

If anyone knows a fix, I'd love some tips and tricks! If not, I'd be happy to report bug if pointed to the right forum for that?

Edit: I am testing further, and Cheerful Introduction is filling the friendship meter even fuller making them "Good Friends" with not much farther to go before I could have my played Sim ask to be best friends. I am better off, RP wise, to stick with using "Polite Introduction" so the friendship can develop more slowly.

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Ok, testing more intros, everything is filling the friendship bar way up, even the default "Friendly Introduction" and "Funny Introduction" that do not have the Charisma sunglasses icons on them. The only greeting working properly for me right now is "Polite Introduction" from the Parenthood pack, which is, ironically, meant to fill the bar up more than the average greeting. It brings it to "Acquaintances" but about 2 or 3 interactions away from "Friends".

Thanks for your time! Thank goodness for cheats. lol

  • @CastleCatt What aspiration rewards and traits/skills does the sim have that you are testing this with? Some perks will do that. There's a Fame perk that will immediately make someone a best-friend on introduction. There are others that are similar. High level Charisma, some emotional traits obtained on aging up from child/teen, some aspiration rewards, some club bonuses greatly increase friendly interactions...

    There are lots of things that effect it. If you have several of those at once, it can be really OP.

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  • @CastleCatt What aspiration rewards and traits/skills does the sim have that you are testing this with? Some perks will do that. There's a Fame perk that will immediately make someone a best-friend on introduction. There are others that are similar. High level Charisma, some emotional traits obtained on aging up from child/teen, some aspiration rewards, some club bonuses greatly increase friendly interactions...

    There are lots of things that effect it. If you have several of those at once, it can be really OP.
  • Thank you @Psychotps and @jpkarlsen ! Yeah, I was wondering why I had never seen this happen before, at least not to my memory, after 1,250 hrs of gameplay 😃

    But I'm also trying an approach I hadn't before because even after all this gameplay, the romance attraction system is still either too subtle to detect or it doesn't exist. I wanted to start the relationship with very little in the friendship bar to take yet another very close look at the speed at which romance accumulates with various other Sims. But I think it's the Incredibly Friendly trait. I had just played a Sim who was greeting people with the not-Parenthood greetings and getting the result I wanted and sure enough. I haven't used the non-Parenthood greetings in a super long time, basically, and thought the Parenthood Greeting was stacking with Incredibly Friendly, but now I know it does not.

    Thank you so much for your help and answers!! I don't think there is a way to un-buy a trait once you have it without wiping them all with a cheat and buying them again (I don't know much about cheats. :P ) I'll just use MCCC (Thanks so much for the heads up on that too, Psychotps!!) and cheat the relationship down to the level I want to continue my romance experiment.