How often do your sims go on dates

> @HowGreatThouArt said:
> Honestly I forget they're even an option after my Sims get married. I do dates before marriage but then I become too busy managing the next generation. If Sims 4 had open world, I'd probably do dates more often.

exactly :smiley: open world while dating would be great xD

I always make an effort since I love finding my sim love & maintaining romance in their relationships. However I'd be a lot happier if we could slow dance.... feels like somethings missing without it *grumbles*

"LadyDecaf;c-16841471" wrote:

I always make an effort since I love finding my sim love & maintaining romance in their relationships. However I'd be a lot happier if we could slow dance.... feels like somethings missing without it *grumbles*

Me too, @LadyDecaf, me too.

It is really sad that we're this many years into the game and they haven't added slow dancing yet. Like you, I go out of my way to keep the romantic life of my married sims healthy. They have regular date nights; if one sim works late and the other does not, I have the early working Sim stay up late so they can still eat together and go to sleep together, even if it means taking a nap earlier in the day. Doing it right, it also means they wake up together too and have breakfast together before the early-worker has to head off to work.

I mean, I make a real effort to make sure my married sims make a real effort to not lose the magic. Is letting them slow dance really too much to ask?

I send mine out to date a lot when they're not married. Once they're married, I'll send them when they're both off work to complete the aspirations.

It's a tie between sometimes and often, as one of my YA twin daughters has been seeing her boyfriend a lot lately.

Here and there, and I don't pay attention at goals. Almost always I get bronze.

"Stormkeep;c-16840991" wrote:

"MilwayLang;c-16840978" wrote:

"itsbritneybeech1_;c-16840638" wrote:
> @MilwayLang said:
> I don't like to wait for the loading screen and the goals either.. but if another sim from a different household asked me to go on date I'll accept them

I don't like waiting on the loading screen either, mine takes very long and my laptop's not the best.. so when I do go to another destination it takes a bit of time to play smoothly. I preferred the way the world worked in sims 3

I never played TS3 but i've watched few people played it. And yes, I wish there's no more loading screen :disappointed:

Trick is to install the game on an SSD. Load times are like 3 seconds for me.

My SSD has made playing the Sims on any other machine a chore, though I envy your three second loading times - closer to 15 seconds for me

"Stormkeep;c-16841537" wrote:


Me too, @LadyDecaf, me too.

It is really sad that we're this many years into the game and they haven't added slow dancing yet. Like you, I go out of my way to keep the romantic life of my married sims healthy. They have regular date nights; if one sim works late and the other does not, I have the early working Sim stay up late so they can still eat together and go to sleep together, even if it means taking a nap earlier in the day. Doing it right, it also means they wake up together too and have breakfast together before the early-worker has to head off to work.

I mean, I make a real effort to make sure my married sims make a real effort to not lose the magic. Is letting them slow dance really too much to ask?

Preach-- it's so important to me that couples feel like couples. And don't even get me started on cuddling while sleeping-- really miss that autonomous action from sims 3 where one sim would often slide over and hold the other in bed. Things like that used to help flesh out romance in the game. Le sigh.

I let it organically happen

Very very seldom... I enjoy the thought but not the way it works in this game. The loading screens get on my nerves and normally dates never feel like a date. If the dates were enjoyable Id do it more often loading screen or not. I do the careers were I get to go with my sim to his/her job and ones I enjoy doing I don't mind the loading screens. It would be same with dates but they're just not worth the trouble.