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5ce2ccbf9076e950
Seasoned Novice
27 days ago

Secret Lover issue-Bug or intended?

My sim is getting around town to stir the pot, and im unsure if its intended but when he has a secret lover, over time [or in my latest case almost immediately after] ill get the notification that my sim and secret lover sim are official partners...without the 'go steady' or 'go official' from the secret lover stage, which i think is why the secret children never seem to be secret since by that point the game reads them as being in a relationship, regardless if the secret lover is married or not.

Just a bit confused if that is intended or possibly a bug, or if the secret child thing is different from the dads perspective since I'm playing him atm.

 

If it is intended;

1. Does the perspective effect the mechanic?
2. Is there a cap to Secret Lover sims?
3. is there anyway to 'back track' the 'exclusivity' and back to secret lover stage?

Some info; the first 3? ish sims that were secret lovers, all became 'official partners' from the notification [similar to the first kiss notification] that 'X sim and X sim are now partners' at the exact same time when loading into my save without those sims being on lot So i dont think it was autonomously chosen to become official especially with 2 'secret' lovers at the exact same time.

I did notice that the 'memory' or connection thing on their profiles [where it could say things like 'deeply connected' etc] still had the 'Secret Lover' memory/relationship thing on the sims profile.

I'll try to give more info if anyone can confirm they have faced similar issues, Thanks for reading!! 🙂

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  • kaynicole5's avatar
    kaynicole5
    Rising Newcomer
    20 days ago

    Just had this same issue, if you found anything out on it, please let me know! Ruined my whole story 😅

  • 5ce2ccbf9076e950's avatar
    5ce2ccbf9076e950
    Seasoned Novice
    16 days ago

    I have some suspicions to the cause, I have attempted for the 2 sims [or in this case a different female sim] to make the relationship a 'woohoo partner' relationship BEFORE trying for babies/progressing romance too much-and as far as i can tell the game is reading the kids as secret children.

    My suspicion is that the game for whatever reason, values the sims in a 'romantic situation' available for official romance as well as woohoo leading to the secret children not actually being listed as such, without pre-emptively limiting the relationship itself as 'woohoo' only.

    If this is the case, the 'secret lover' option does not limit the relationship status the way woohoo partners option does 🙃 regardless if the two secret lovers have official partners or not. I'll continue using the 'ask to be woohoo partners' instead of 'secret lover' OR just before doing such.

    Let me know if you notice the same! 

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