"Nushnushganay;c-17733468" wrote:
"DevSims91;c-17733446" wrote:
I’d like that and if we don’t have it already a single life style, not everyone wants a relationship... Also more whims would be nice.
Assigning a Sim the Unflirty trait could help bring about a "not into relationships" situation, perhaps?
And much as I have enjoyed having Sims who cheat, other Sims who are in an open relationship or poly, etc., it would be nice to have a High Fidelity trait or something, in which if you want, you can have a Sim who will not flirt outside their relationship, and will dismiss or take offense at a Sim attempting to flirt with them, who isn't in the relationship, so that exclusive monogamous relationships are easier to maintain as such and more believable when two Sims really do just want to have the marital-fidelity life.
I would also like it if the Jealous trait did not just seem to be neurotic. Possessiveness and jealousy aren't always results of insecurity. I guess it's a hard one to make, without crossing the line into Controlling. Wow, that would make another interesting trait. Sometimes I think a slider system for traits would be better. We could set a dial between Honest and Dishonest, Trusting and Fearful, Funny and Serious, Polite and Rude, Tidy and Messy, Clean or Filthy, Diligent or Lazy, Charming or Awkward. But that wouldn't work well with traits that don't have an opposite, like Child of the Islands.
I played a lot of Sims with unflirty trait. Unfortunately, this trait is just a few extra moodlets (tense, uncomfortable when seeing romantic interactions) and differently described interactions ... Sims with an unflirty trait just as often have whims about flirting with a loved one and starting an affair with them is actually very easy.
The Jealous Sims are even fun, but in the long run, nothing to play. First of all, the spouse has a bad reputation all the time because the game treats jealousy scenes as cheating! Secondly, the Sim is tense all the time and it makes life difficult. It's a pity because it had potential.
It bothers me that the game does not promote an ethical style of play. None of the new lifestyles are dedicated to ordinary Sims in love. (My Sim, who NEVER - I've been playing him a lot since spring 2020 - had no one else in his whims but his current wife - now suddenly wants to flirt with another Sim, even if his wife is near). I like romance myself and I love dramas, but sometimes I want to play "Walt Disney style", "big, happy love" and so on. My friends (often elderly people) also prefer to form peaceful, happy families. What a pity that the developers of the game are not willing or able to create at least ONE mechanism that will favor monogamy.
