Conversations look meaningless!
Did you notice that sims after a couple mean interactions still look friendly with each other when they do the "ordinary talking" again? You know, when there aren't any interactions in their queue? It...
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"CK213;c-15987765" wrote:
This game needs a cooling off period for sims that have engaged enough negative socials that it makes sense that they wouldn't want to speak to each other anymore or it doesn't make sense to have friendly interactions. The Sims 2 had that. Sims didn't want anything to do with other sims that they were mad at.
The Sims 3 has a social context mechanic.
TS4 could borrow from that too. Being rude and mean should set a social context that will make it difficult for friendly socials to be accepted unless several friendly socials or an apology has been made.
I would love to see townies interacting and observing rudeness, meanness, and practical jokes being met with being annoyance and silence from other sims when their antagonizes try to go on like nothing happened.
They can make this part of the Drama And Danger Game Pack. ;)
I think this is already the case to a certain extent. Just maybe not as overt as you might want. I'm pretty sure friendly interactions are more likely to fail when deep into meanness, but it may be more dependent on relationship than social context. I haven't looked closely at the code on that one; just going off of what I remember in gameplay.
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