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Cyan148
New Ace
4 years ago

Story Progression update is flawed and annoying

I enjoy including various characters that come shipped with dlc into my game, such as Morgyn Ember, and the Vatore siblings, but in doing so I've come across a frustrating flaw with the new story progression addition (Discuss expanding family, ask to pursue dream career, random phone calls from other sims asking about others).

I gave the vatore siblings parents, Korey and Adelaide Vatore. Lilith and Caleb's household is separate but they are labelled as a played family. Tell me why their mother, Adelaide is getting calls from her own daughter Lilith asking Adelaide what she thinks of Caleb, and if Adelaide thinks Lilith should get to know Caleb. They are siblings. They live together. They are good friends. Why is she calling her mum to ask if she should get to know her own brother?

A similar thing happened with Lilith calling Korey ask if she should get to know Adelaide Vatore... who is Lillith's mother. Caleb also called his friend Leo to ask if he should get to know Lilith.

And then the worst one I've received so far... Caleb is dating Summer Holiday, and whilst playing on Caleb's household, he receives a story progression phone call from SUMMER which states something along the lines of "OMG I accidently found a ring in Caleb's bag. I think he's going to propose to me. OMG what should I do?!" Let me clarify again, in case it hasn't clicked... Summer called Caleb to tell Caleb that she found a ring in Caleb's bag as if she isn't speaking to Caleb right now. I clicked this off before thinking to screenshot it because it was the first flaw I met and didn't expect to see anything similar again,

I'm pretty sure at some point I also had a toddler call.

UPDATE: So Lilith and Leo are dating. Lilith called up Leo and did the "I found a ring in Leo's bag" thing and I took a screenshot to attach (have to add it on a reply). It's so dumb that this can happen

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    simsplayer818
    Hero
    4 years ago

    I saw an article that apparently Sims players had been asking the team to introduce this for years but I know I wasn't, in 20 years of playing the Sims I didn't think it was necessary. It's just caused problems and it's made the constant calls and text messages go into overdrive as I've already said on that bug feed. Plus it has a negative relationship effect if you don't give the answer they want and you get a nasty message from them.

    I had the problem with my non committal Sims new partner telling him she'd found a ring from him after they'd just started dating and I dismissed it but then he got messages they were engaged. But that was apparently fixed in the latest patch. I'm also getting messages from elder Sims asking if they should try for a baby.

    The calls do definitely work, but they work when I say no as well. I usually just ignore it but if I go to use the phone to do something, these calls override what I'm doing and I've answered it before I know it. I usually just agree if it's for a promotion and I get the promotion notification sound that it's worked for their acquaintance. The baby one though, I always say no but it has still registered as a yes. One friend suddenly had not 1 but 3 babies. I've noticed that when I said no to the request about spending time with another Sim, I got a message saying they'd had a great time. But I'd said no. I've started checking my Households for extra babies I don't know about. I have this thing about Sim babies in a house with no nursery! It was the thing I hated about Sims 3 where neighbours had babies lying on their front lawn unattended! It used to stress me out.

    I think it's something that could have been a game option instead, like lifestyles which I could just disable. The big problem I have with it is that the phone starts from the minute you've just said hello to someone and they are barely an acquaintance. It's unrealistic, these are things I don't ring my best mates about in real life, much less the person I pass the time of day with when they deliver my groceries. As much as I know them to say Hi, ask how work is going and know which footie team they support, if they suddenly said to me so should I have another baby...well that would just be SUPER awkward!

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