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Re: EA Made NPC/Townie Relationships & Sentiments Not Shown

@doreilly1122 are you sure there are actually supposed to be any? They are doing a much better job these days of setting up interesting backstories for the premade characters, but in most cases, that's all they are - stories in the text.

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  • simvasion's avatar
    simvasion
    Hero
    4 years ago
    @doreilly1122 I just tested loading a game from before Cottage Living existed and then checking Cecilia immediately after she was created. She has acquaintance friendships with Ian Moody and Michael Bell and the sentiment for a bad date with Michael.

    So it seems like it's working to me. In my main save, where two weeks has passed in game since Henford on Bagley was created, my Cecilia now doesn't have the sentiment, which is probably to be expected, as they aren't permanent and have a timer to expire. Because I have her as unplayed as well, she's also subject to the game's more aggressive relationship culling activity for NPCs, where it will sometimes wipe all non-important relationships between NPC and NPCs.

    So from my test, it looks like it's working just like the wiki has, but it's not a bug that it doesn't last - I've mostly found that sentiments are temporary.