New Social Menu Feedback

Hi @nnonva ,

as far as I know there is no "base" social wheel.

The first group of interactions you see when you first click on another sim contains interactions that are drawn from various subcategories.

They are chosen for that first group based on various factors including the situation, your sim's mood, who the sim is talking to etc.

Oh! Right, hold on,

I forgot to mention I do have the "Traditional Social Menu" option enabled (Game Options > Gameplay). It's been so long I had completely forgotten the modern wheel was a thing at all, let alone that particular setting. Attached is a screenshot of what I usually see with that option enabled when first clicking on a sim I want to interact with (marked with start is the first set of options that consistently shows up), as far as I can tell this "traditional menu" hasn't really changed, it's the contents of the Friendly/Funny/Mean wheels that have been overhauled.

Speaking of, I tried switching the setting off, but the result was kinda the same in terms of content, just organized differently? There's two "More Choices" options, and they cycle a bit weird (I've attached another screenshot). For some reason after cycling back from either "More Choices" branch, the "More Choices" options swap positions, eg: the first top one now takes me to the wheel with "Swindle for Credits" instead of the one with Friendly/Funny/Mean/etc. It's fairly consistent otherwise

Might need a restart to have the modern wheel apply properly, I don't know. Give me a moment.

EDIT: Nevermind, restarting with that setting now disabled did nothing. Neither does interacting with sims other than that servo. I struck a conversation with said servo and no situational socials popped up either. Now, playing as said servo talking to the übersim, I did get the first wheel to be populated with situational options, the next group after More Choices having the usual Friendly/Whatever options, no duplicate "More Choices" (maybe due to lacking the skills, attributes, etc. seen in said duplicate, such as "Swindle for Credits")

This might all be getting out of scope for the original report though.

Should I change the title to something like "Traditional Social Menu interaction categorization oversights"?

Is there a way (option/mod) to revert the social menu to how it was?

I know some people love it but I have been playing sims for way too long and trying to figure out is part of Small talk or interests or whatever is not fun.

I thank the whole team for reorganizing the conversation menu, it was really needed.
I would like to add a few suggestions. In the first picture the interaction "Kick the ball with" (sorry I'm translating from Italian), should be in the Activities menu, as well as the one about Football, and also others like Build a sand castle with etc.

In the second image, the interaction " Enthuse for fabrication" would fit better in the Hobbies menu.

I found other conversation topics that would fit better in other submenus. Confer sacred knitting knowledge should be in the Hobbies menu, and Train to fight with lightsabers would fit better in the Activities menu (since it is an action performed together with another Sim); or, even better, it would be useful to create a Batuu submenu, where all conversation topics related to this GP would be placed.

@GiardiniDiMarzo while I have not run into these particular examples yet, I do agree with you that all the examples you mentioned would make far more sense under those categories that you suggested! 💡🙂

That said, I also love the new pie menu changes! 😃 I had suggested something similar a couple years ago, and was so surprised that they changed it! 🙌

YES PLEASE!

The new menu is outrageous and it's entirely too stressful to attempt to decipher what someone without the ability to organize might have been thinking. Add to that the incredibly distracting new icons that don't make any sense, I would much rather just not have to deal with it. So instead of click on ANY social interactions, my only option is to just wait for something to happen. That's not fun either. What's the point, they've completely ruined this game. 

I can't wait for someone to create a mod that actually fixes this mess. 

My Sims keep having whims that they want to ask their friend and/or S.O. about their day. But with the new conversation wheel, I can't find the Ask About Day social interaction under Friendly actions. Am I missing it or does that interaction no longer exist? The closest interaction I've found is the Check In on Sim (which I think is new?) but that doesn't satisfy the Ask About Day Whim. 

I can't stand the new social menu! I need to be able to change it back! I've just spent 10 mins trying to find where to go to tell another sim I just want to be friends!!! (I still haven't found it)  It's not in romance, it's not a friendly thing, apparently, it's not a deep conversation, it's not mean. For goodness sake please let there be a way to opt out of this chaos. I knew where everything was when it was alphabetical!  

Since they updated the conversation buttons with the infant update does anyone know what category to find the "Ask to Be Best Friend" option?