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GieSunn
New Traveler
7 months ago
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no more NPCs automatically offer to become a couple or go on a date

Hi, I noticed that when you start playing a new game with newly created sims, you get a lot of invitation offers from all the expansion packs. Lovestruck should have npc's themselves invite you on dates or offer to become a couple, but when you play the same save for a longer time in the second generation, they never automatically invite you anywhere. I have marked in the settings everywhere that the sims are fully autonomous. I can somehow fix this? 

  • @GieSunn 

    I've noticed this too.  I'm not sure by any means, but I think it might be something to do with a sim that gains and keeps multiple romantic relationships.  If your sims have an active romantic relationship, then those calls seem to stop.  I've been experimenting with it and have got those calls to start with a sim again by making them fully single with no other active relationships.  It doesn't seem to happen as often as it did initially though, but it does look like those phone calls are geared towards single unattached sims.  So, what I think you have to do to keep getting those calls is keep the sim single by ending one romantic relationship before starting another.  Again, I'm not sure but that is what it looks like to me based on how things are going in my game.

    Btw, the autonomy (Full/Off) setting only affects your active household.  NPCs and played sims in inactive households that are used by the game for other things when you are not playing them are unaffected by that setting so it has nothing to do with the phone calls as the sims calling your sims are treated as NPCs.

    Hope this helps.

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  • @GieSunn 

    I've noticed this too.  I'm not sure by any means, but I think it might be something to do with a sim that gains and keeps multiple romantic relationships.  If your sims have an active romantic relationship, then those calls seem to stop.  I've been experimenting with it and have got those calls to start with a sim again by making them fully single with no other active relationships.  It doesn't seem to happen as often as it did initially though, but it does look like those phone calls are geared towards single unattached sims.  So, what I think you have to do to keep getting those calls is keep the sim single by ending one romantic relationship before starting another.  Again, I'm not sure but that is what it looks like to me based on how things are going in my game.

    Btw, the autonomy (Full/Off) setting only affects your active household.  NPCs and played sims in inactive households that are used by the game for other things when you are not playing them are unaffected by that setting so it has nothing to do with the phone calls as the sims calling your sims are treated as NPCs.

    Hope this helps.

  • GieSunn's avatar
    GieSunn
    New Traveler
    7 months ago

    You were right! Thanks. I hope they automatically offer more on the date, because they never offered anything before.

  • CGrant56's avatar
    CGrant56
    Hero+
    7 months ago

    @GieSunn 

    It would be nice is the dates you get invited on did something other than just show up outside a venue.  I have always been disappointed with that especially the dates to restaurants.  But it is the way it is.  At least those dates do count for the Love>Serial Romantic aspiration Go on 2 Dates milestone if you have it active when the date ends.

    Hope this helps.

  • GieSunn's avatar
    GieSunn
    New Traveler
    7 months ago

    Ech, I played all evening and only got one offer to move in together after the first date. 😄 I refused and I didn't get any more offers from that sim. I remember when lovestruck was released I got offers a lot more often, even to get married.

  • CGrant56's avatar
    CGrant56
    Hero+
    7 months ago

    @GieSunn 

    What I have noticed about those offers is that they always come from your latest romantic interest.  If you say no, they don't seem to ask again.  But if you end that relationship and start another, more than likely, the new romantic interest will ask one of both of those questions.  So, it looks to me like it's a sort of one and done type thing.  One way to get around it if you want a certain sim to ask those questions that you already know, is to use a cheat and kill off the relationship so your sim and that sim don't know each other.  So, then you can start over by meeting them again.

    Hope this helps.