Order of Sims in Relationship Panel???

I think it's actually based on your relationship value changing - that is if you talk with someone, but your friendship or romance value doesn't change, they don't move up in the list, while if your relationship values do change, they move to the front of the list.

I'm basing this on the fact that I have UI cheats and will use it from time to time to prevent sims from getting too far down the list (there should be a "socialize with friends" option while your sim is at School/Work, in addition, to make new ones...) and when I bump their relationships, they get bumped to the list even though the only interaction was me using UI cheats.

"Peral;c-17857520" wrote:
I think the relationship panel needs to be improved. If one of my Sims attend a party and meet a lot of new Sims, he could forget his best friend as a child just because he hasn't talked to him in a while. He could also forget his worst enemy or his former girlfriend. Their should be protected slots in the memory list for the Sims he should not forget

This! My sim forgot his ex-wife, mother of their daughter. Either he got dementia or the way game culls relationships is rediculous.

I so wish that we could sort them by strength of relation. In my book that is the only useful way. Now they sort by the time since your sim was in contact with them. It's a tad confusing, really. If I knew that a sim must must be in touch with friends so and so often I'd get the picture, but as for as I know we know no such rules. Besides, your best friend might very well be someone you did not speak to in a while. Hopefully this could be added tho EA's laundry list.

It's not a bug so the laundry list isn't the right place for it. Still I wish they would sort it by strength of relationship as it was in TS2. Meanwhile they might also add a invite household option while they're at it. :D