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atreya33
Legend
4 years ago

Do sims behave differently after the gender preference update?

I am wondering what people's experiences are with the gender preference updates. I am dreading to update my game because of this feature. I always liked that any sim was able to fall in love with any sim and gender basically didn't matter in matters of the heart. Most of my sims fall in love with a sim who is 'the one' for them and stay with that one person.

As I understand by default existing sims will automatically have default options applied to them. It looks like they are no longer romantically interested in anyone anymore but at the same time willing to shag anyone and everyone. That is not exactly what I had in mind because I almost exclusively play faithful monogamous sims. I am also a bit uncomfortable with separating romantic interest from woohoo. Do sims want to woohoo with sims they are not in love with? Do they autonomously woohoo with sims they don't love?

So I would like to ask people who already updated 'what is your experience?' especially with sims whose orientation you did not manually edit. Do they still behave the same? Do existing married couples still behave the same way?

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  • I do have encountered some sims with fixed romance preference (which many people argued will not happen...). And no, those were not sims from HSY.
  • I don't have the HSY pack either and I noticed the same issue as @Darren . I had a male sim flirt with my female sim and then when she asked him if he wanted to woohoo, I got a pop-up message saying he wasn't interested in that sort of thing with anyone, but we could be friends instead. I also had a transgender female sim who was flirting with a male and he turned around and said he wasn't interested in woohoo with males. I thought the whole point of this update was to assign preferences if we want to, not randomly dish them out to every sim.
  • Brd709's avatar
    Brd709
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    After testing with my sim self's wife, her romantic interest changed from men to women after a couple of flirty interactions with another woman.
  • Incredibly disappointed with the way this update is behaving at the moment. I have a mix of gay, lesbian, bi and het couples in my game. I've set all of them to their respective sexual preferences. The het couples are all still happily monogamous, the rest are running around flirting up a storm regardless of gender preference and/or current relationship, and wanting to break up with their partners for no reason every few game play cycles. Seriously, what the heck?! What sort of message does this send the LGBTQIA+ community? Oh those heterosexual sims are happily married and not looking to woohoo/romance/flirt with anything that moves, but if you have any sim outside of straights mcstraightville then they'll just start cheating & chasing after anyone, anywhere, anytime. How about, no. :|

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