Re: Engagement ring changes fingers after proposal

@crinrict  My backups from before the proposal are from a long time before the proposal, like when they were just boyfriend and girlfriend. So, basically starting from right after a first kiss. To make them propose again would be the same as starting from new sims out of CAS who had amazing compatibility. I could do it, but it would take a while. LOL

If this was a detrimental issue, I would test it again in a flash, regardless of the time involved. But it may be a nothing burger, just due to the constraints of the game, ie rings are designed to only go on one finger. It might well be that you can choose any ring to propose with and during the proposal interaction it will appear on the engagement finger, but then revert to the finger it was originally designed to go on.

Or it could be an oversight and the game designers missed a line in code.

It is such a picky thing to even bring up when real bugs need squashing. But ... oh, I probably don't have a good excuse for just hoping the ring would be on the right finger. LOL

I am curious to know if this is happening to everyone, though.

I have no idea if something like this was happening before we could make our own rings for proposals. I never paid any attention. I typically do not add jewelry to outfits, especially rings. I can hardly see them on a sim, tbh. Rings that came with the game before now were tiny and my eyes are not what they used to be. Now the ones the sims create are very visible, so I noticed because I took pics of their engagement and watched it happen.

I know from trying on different styles of created rings my sim made, before in a different game, that if a ring is on their finger, it can get replaced by a ring of a different style, but I do not know if that is random or even if it should be happening.

I am guessing the number of rings a sim is wearing would have no bearing on the engagement finger placement. I have never seen a ring go on that particular finger before, on that hand. They always seem to go on the first two fingers and pinky finger. I thought it might have been to leave the engagement finger open for engagement and marriage. Because on the female's other hand, I have seen rings go on that finger.

After wrestling with myself, I finally decided to try to find out if it was a bug or intentional. It's probably just silly of me, but, ack, I wanted to know. LOL

@crinrict  Yes, I think that may be a good idea. We just need to get other people's experiences, and more people might read about it there.

I did try one thing, which is not definitive, but leads me to believe it might be just the way things are. I had her make him a ring to match hers, and give it to him as a gift. Since it was just a gift, not a proposal, nothing is for sure. But he did put the ring she gave him on the same hand and same finger as where it ended up on her hand. So maybe that ring is assigned to that location on both males and females??

But we still do not know if engagements should be different, so .... I hope other people chime in with how it goes for their sims during and after a proposal, with this style ring and other styles as well.

One thing I will say for sure, the jewelry is lovely. It really is a pleasure to see them wearing it.  🙂

@SalixCat  I don't have my game open right now to check the exact name, but it is the one with the word Gothic in it. Victorian Gothic, maybe?

Edit: It should not make any difference for testing, but the ring shown was made from rose gold and the crystal that sounds a lot like a jonquil flower. I'll edit this later when I get into my game again to look up the exact names. But both of the materials were rare.

I put a collection of rare gems on my gallery page, if anyone needs to download them for testing ....

Edit: Ah, the name of the ring is Edwardian Gothic, and the crystal is Jonquilyst. Please note your sim needs gemology skill level 10 to craft this ring.

@amjoie No worries 😉 I don't have my game open either atm. Might try to create the ring later.

@amjoie Thanks for the ring details 🙌

My Sim crafted two Edwardian Gothic rings, one for her and the other one for her boyfriend. She wears it on her left middle finger.

During the proposal animation, her fiancè wears the ring on his left ring finger.

Then, right after the proposal animation is finished, he is wearing the ring on his left middle finger

Maybe this is by design. Maybe the proposal animation is adjusted to show the selected ring, but the final placement is on the assigned finger, which in this case is the left middle finger.

@SalixCat  Thank you so much for testing this. So, the same thing happened to your sims as happened to mine. It means that either this is just a matter of needing to live within game constraints OR this is a glitch. Examining the code might give more of an indication of what is happening, but I do not have the skills for that.

Just for the sake of clarity: I was playing my game with mods when my sim proposed. And your game was played without mods during the proposal, is that correct?

@SalixCat  I think the next thing would be to find out if other people who use a different ring for their sim's engagement see that other ring on the correct finger during the proposal animation, but then the ring switches to a different finger afterwards. That would help narrow down whether just one ring is glitched or if all of them do the same thing.

It would also be helpful to know if any of the rings are ever placed on the left hand engagement finger, prior to a proposal. I have never seen that on any of my sims, no matter what style ring, so far. But I do not think my sim has made every style ring, yet.

So if anyone reading this has more feedback on rings and proposals, I hope you will give us the benefit of your experience. 🙂