Loyal trait

The first thing I did was add the Loyal trait to all of my sims.

The first thing THEY did was immediately cheat on their partners, even ones who had never cheated before.

In my game, the Loyal trait seemed to guarantee that sims will DEFINITELY cheat...so, it's backwards and works the opposite of the way it should, just like everything else.

If anything, it encouraged cheating in my game and seemed to be more of a push to give them tense/guilty moodlets about cheating than anything else. It certainly didn't stop the behavior.

If you're not opposed to mods, use the "Committed" trait by Chingyu. THAT actually works and DOES stop sims from cheating.

Thank goodness that hasn't happened to my sims. However, I only play vanilla, no mods, cc or mccs.

@SERVERFRA You're very lucky. The random/obsessive cheating has been a long standing problem in my game. It started back when I was playing the vanilla game, and is actually what drove me to start using mods to begin with.

I never used mods in Sims 2 or Sims 3, but I have found them to be an absolute necessity in Sims 4 because of the way autonomy (and other things) got coded in this game.

My story would have been destroyed years ago if I hadn't started using mods to stop the madness.

I'm happy to hear your experience with the vanilla game has been different than mine was, and I hope that continues to be the case.

For any others who are still struggling to find a way to stop the cheating that's so strongly pushed and enforced in this game (for whatever reason), Chingyu's Friendzone mod is also fantastic and works beautifully. It's been a game saver for me.

Happy simming, all! :)

"mightysprite;c-18191596" wrote:
....Aaaand just like any other 2022 TS4 feature, turns out the Loyal trait is bugged!
Whether or not you are actually using the Loyal trait on any of your sims!

HQ user lazarusinashes yesterday identified the source of the new bug, introduced in this patch, where sims do mean interactions autonomously for no reason.
There is a mistake in the coding of the Loyal trait that affects most mean interactions.
See their post #150 here
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-Sims-autonomously-do-mean-interactions-for-no-reason/m-p/11937163#M232648

So thats what was happening, I had this same thing happen. Also, I gave my sim the loyal trait and she still proceeded to flirt with someone else right in front of her boyfriend who she even exchanged promise rings with. I was honestly shocked because ironically she never flirted autonomously before I gave her the loyal trait. Im just in shock at how poorly programmed this game is to be honest......so no, this trait doesn't work at all. All it does is give them random moodlets.