Please bring back the attraction system from TS2!

I love the attraction/chemistry system in Sims 2. This game has so much depth and detail in the gameplay that I am still attached to it 17 years later. These features make for a fun experience when trying to pair Sims up with a future spouse before they leave college.

I play premades in college. I also sometimes create a Sim self and this is when I choose traits I would be attracted to. Sometimes they graduate from college already in love with their future spouse. Sometimes they don't. I also set tmy Sim self's primary Aspiration to either Family or Knowledge. I leave the premades alone until their Junior year when they can change Aspiration if they are Romance or Pleasure. Also, since I play the UC, I have the option to assign a Secondary Aspiration (comes with FreeTime for those who don't have all the EP's or the UC) of Family or Knowledge. I also (once I place them in a dorm) have them Scope Room and pick their gender preference. They usually show me exactly who they are most attracted to. I also do this when I take them to community lots and they start talking to students on the lots.

This is TOTALLY missing from Sims 4 and I hope they implement something close to this so I can try to enjoy a game I have spent well over $1000 on (That includes the packs I have bought. This does not include the cost of 3 different laptops) in 7 years.

I like the TS2 system because, though imperfect, it still provides a baseline. If sim A falls within sim B's preferences and vice versa, matchmaking is much easier and expressions of feelings come naturally. If they don't, matchmaking will be difficult at best, and feelings will still be freely if negatively - expressed. The system is more complex than just those few attributes we can check off, and is much better than the TS4 'if it moves it's fair game'.

If they do, then the turn-ons and turn-offs need to make more sense. Why isn't eye color in there?!

Yes please.

Count me in on this request!

I've only played Sims 4 and I want an attraction system because chemistry doesn't always feel genuine in the Sims 4.

110% agreed!

My personal play style is to play a lot of Sims and colonize the world through my Sims meeting up, finding partners and reproducing so the next generation can keep going and the next and the next. But my Sims need to make their own partner choices, I don't want to make them for them, that's not interesting. It's kind of baffling that something so basically human as personal preference/sexual attraction hasn't been put into the game in seven years.

I think this is my top wish for the game right now. And I'd like to see the Romance Guru updated to have the Matchmaker skills from Sims 2 as well. That was probably the hugest disappointment about City Living for me. There's a romance festival but no way to match up your Sims there?? The Guru doesn't even do anything that makes it worth talking to him. Such a letdown and missed opportunity. ?

The attraction system was so much fun it made going to bars and dating much more interesting I need turn ons/turn on brought back

Playing The Sims 2 I had a lot of fun with it. The main possible drawback I can think of about the possible introduction into TS4, is that I would feel quite disappointed if I found out that sims in the main couples in my saves could suddenly find out to don't find each other attractive on the basis of the new attraction system.

That was something that sort of happened already when I was playing TS2, actually, as this feature was not in the base game but introduced with the packs following Nightlife. For example, in Strangetown I used to couple Lazlo Curious with Crystal Vu and I liked them as a couple quite a lot, but after the introduction of the attraction system I actually found out that they didn't like each other at all, after all. :'(

"HermioneSims;c-18030547" wrote:
Playing The Sims 2 I had a lot of fun with it. The main possible drawback I can think of about the possible introduction into TS4, is that I would feel quite disappointed if I found out that sims in the main couples in my saves could suddenly find out to don't find each other attractive on the basis of the new attraction system.

That was something that sort of happened already when I was playing TS2, actually, as this feature was not in the base game but introduced with the packs following Nightlife. For example, in Strangetown I used to couple Lazlo Curious with Crystal Vu and I liked them as a couple quite a lot, but after the introduction of the attraction system I actually found out that they didn't like each other at all, after all. :'(

Maybe there could be other things they like that you could work to improve so that their partner finds them attractive.