I really don’t mind that this only affects the sims my sims know. I don’t really care if other households make changes. And I think it’s nice that we are given a choice before any changes happen. Otherwise it might ruin the plans I have for marrying certain sims or seeing how a couple’s kids would end up. I like being consulted about this stuff. It will be even better when we can mark certain households off-limits, because I would rarely or never approve a change within the households I play.
There are some core relationship issues that I wish would get fixed which would allow us even more control over who gets to call us about their life choices or the other sims involved in those decisions:
Let us remove sims from the relationship panel. Other sims butt into my conversations and I don’t want to know them. Then they end up being friends with my sims somehow while I’m playing other households. I don’t want them calling me for advice. Relationship Culling often makes my sim forget they even knew people- give us the choice on who to cull. It’s not as if they have dozens of acquaintances - there should at least be a limit there if anyone is to be culled, ever. But I‘ve seen culling occur and they know just 3 other sims that are in their own household. That’s so unnecessary. Meanwhile, my small children are upset because someone apparently died who they had no business knowing. I want to remove these weird relationships when I see them.
Relationship Culling has destroyed the relationships around me in households I wasn’t playing. I want those maintained so that Rashidah Watson can one day ask me if she should say yes to a proposal from Rahul Chopra. Or Kaori Nishidake from Kitoshi Ito. Or Siobhan Fyres from Sergio Romeo. Unless I mark them as “played” immediately at the start of a game, it’s like they never knew each other.