After all this time, the only relationships you can set in CAS are still parent/child, siblings, married, or "household member". And while there are ways to work around or cheat other dynamics, they take extra time and effort and honestly? Why shouldn't we be able to just make and set our own starter stories the way we want? Pre-made families from University & Island Living have a grandchild living with their grandparent(s), but if I wanted to make a family like that in CAS there's a whole lot of extra, unnecessary steps I'd need to do. Grandparent/grandchild, uncle or aunt/niece nephew, cousins, dating, engaged, (or even friends, best friends, enemies & "divorced") I think should all be options in the drop down menu in CAS. It's SUCH a limit to the creativity allowed in household creation, and I really thought it would be something fixed in a patch pretty early on, but after so many patches "adding" things, I still couldn't easily make a child being raised by their aunt or uncle or grandparent, or make a household that's a gaggle of cousins, or set a relationship to "dating" or anything like that. Is it really so difficult to put all the relationships possible in game into the CAS menu?

Agreed, it would be great to have all of these options.

"Elliandre;c-18005551" wrote:Yes, that would be great! What I do is create the family members and then delete the Sims I don't want, but yeah it seems so time consuming. I wish I could always edit the relationships too. I don't understand why sometimes I can't change them like if they are premades or downloaded from the gallery then the option menu is greyed out.Yeah, some CAS options will be locked for "already existing" sims. The only work around I know for that is to enable the "CAS full edit mode" cheat (I forget the exact input code, but it's easily googleable). Once you turn that on everything should unlocked including relationships & even traits. Tho, you do have to re-enter it every time you load the game (although I think there's a mod out there that keeps it always on? again, google is probably more helpful than me here lol)

I agree with all of this. I would also like it made clear to the Sims the child that becomes an adult in a household was the stepchild of the adult so please fix that, too. It's weird to be able to hook up an older adult with their previous stepchild. Extended family options has been something requested for eternity.

I would like the game to have a proper Great-Grandparents relationship, so far it's only as a friend.

Don't understand why this is not a thing in basegame since 2014? Isn't that basic and huge part of a Life Simulation Game?Why can't we select relationships in CAS like- Friends- Besties- Affair/Fling/Hook Up- Lover- Grandparents- Cousins- Step Parents/Siblings- etc.Wie have more than married or unkown realationship in real life, right? Why is it so hard to implement that as a choice? Expand the relationships in CAS, pretty please!

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mariefoxprice83
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
Agreed, it would be great to have all of these options.
Fanphoria
4 years ago
"Elliandre;c-18005551" wrote:
Yes, that would be great! What I do is create the family members and then delete the Sims I don't want, but yeah it seems so time consuming. I wish I could always edit the relationships too. I don't understand why sometimes I can't change them like if they are premades or downloaded from the gallery then the option menu is greyed out.

Yeah, some CAS options will be locked for "already existing" sims. The only work around I know for that is to enable the "CAS full edit mode" cheat (I forget the exact input code, but it's easily googleable). Once you turn that on everything should unlocked including relationships & even traits. Tho, you do have to re-enter it every time you load the game (although I think there's a mod out there that keeps it always on? again, google is probably more helpful than me here lol)
Cinebar
3 years ago
I agree with all of this. I would also like it made clear to the Sims the child that becomes an adult in a household was the stepchild of the adult so please fix that, too. It's weird to be able to hook up an older adult with their previous stepchild. Extended family options has been something requested for eternity.
SEREFRAS
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
I would like the game to have a proper Great-Grandparents relationship, so far it's only as a friend.
berkleyraw
3 years ago
Don't understand why this is not a thing in basegame since 2014? Isn't that basic and huge part of a Life Simulation Game?

Why can't we select relationships in CAS like
- Friends
- Besties
- Affair/Fling/Hook Up
- Lover
- Grandparents
- Cousins
- Step Parents/Siblings
- etc.

Wie have more than married or unkown realationship in real life, right? Why is it so hard to implement that as a choice? Expand the relationships in CAS, pretty please!
Anaruad
3 years ago
Agreed! Especially for family and significant other relationships. If I want to create, say, a kid living with their grandparents, or an engaged couple living together, I shouldn't need to create and delete family members or play the game for an hour before placing them to make that happen. It would be so much nicer for making family stories.
catloverplayer
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Yes please. I especially want boy/girlfriend, engaged,best friends forever and exes or divorced.

Boy/Girlfriend and fiancee should already have shared their first kiss?

Exes should still be friends with no pink bar. Same for divorced sims.

Bffs should me maxed out in friendship.
ThriorTheSecond
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago
I fully agree!
I thought it was hilarious(ly sad) how I saved my family to a library, then brought the family to CaS, aaaaaaand it did not let me set up the actual true relations they have in the game. Like, the father is a vampire so he unsurprisingly is still the age in which he was turned (young adult), 4 of his kids are YA's as well. The CaS absolutely refused to set him up as the father, only as household member, husband or brother to his own freaking kids. And yes, he is registered as a vampire in CaS so I see no reason why the system should be so strict about how the "ages don't fit herp derp". Not to mention all the other stuff that definitely should be in there like grandparents with grandchildren etc.
Cangwen1990
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
I would totally love that.
elliandre
4 years ago
Yes, that would be great! What I do is create the family members and then delete the Sims I don't want, but yeah it seems so time consuming. I wish I could always edit the relationships too. I don't understand why sometimes I can't change them like if they are premades or downloaded from the gallery then the option menu is greyed out.