"MaggieMarley;c-17120584" wrote:
So does this mean that if a male sim I’m not playing has been autonomously flirting with, say, only female sims, then he will reject the romantic advances of my male sim? I’m a bit worried about this update because I want my sims to be able to couple up with whoever I want them to be with. If gender preferences are going to affect flirt options in this way I would like the option to make all sims bisexual.
This is what I'm wondering as well. From reading this thread, it
seems like it only affects "success," not reaction? Is that correct? So, it's "preference" in terms of "if you flirt more with one gender you 'get better' and have more success with that gender" but a sim will never "reject" based on their own preference?
Although, now that I think about it, I was just noticing that my sim was having a harder time than usually making romantic progress with certain sims...could it be because of this update?
I'm not
opposed to there being a preference like that, but I kind of wish there were options about it. Like, for instance, as you said, if we
wanted all our sims to be essentially bisexual (which I'd kind of gotten used to) we could, but then if we wanted to "turn on" a more clear preference, where
some sims would be bisexual but some would have a clear preference, we could. Also, it'd definitely be nice if we could choose who has what preferences easily in CAS.
Based on my most recent experience playing after the update, it
seems like a sim
will reject advances based on a preference...but that can definitely be overcome by persistence and the right moves. Which is...
sigh. I dunno. Sexuality can be fluid? But making that the case like that in game--that there's a "preference" that can be "overcome" by the player just putting sufficient moves on the sim in question--can have some unintentional unfortunate implications.
This is kinda why I've never been desperate to have set sexual preferences in game. I felt more comfortable just making those decisions for myself through gameplay than trusting an algorithm to do it properly for me.
