"MaggieMarley;c-17120896" wrote:
Thank you for sharing your observations @FanPhoria I have to say I’m a little annoyed. I suspect that if e.g. a female sim is married to a male sim, this will mean she has a preference for men and will reject advances from women. No more having my female sims get with Bella Goth I guess :(
To be clear, I'm not
certain this is the case. I haven't experimented much yet, and my sampling is small. However, I
was noticing that my maxed charisma sim was having a
much harder time romancing certain sims for no reason I could discern.
But I think you picked out what the potential issue is here--it makes things
very binary. Essentially, it would make it almost impossible for there to be a "bisexual" sim
in a relationship, because if they're in a romantic relationship, then whatever that person's gender is is their preference right? And since it's not something we, the player, actually have control over--certainly not with the NPCs and premades--it limits the stories that can be told.
Again, I don't have a problem with their being a preference
per se, it's just that this isn't how I personally would have wanted it. Like...a percentage set in CAS--while still imperfect--would be preferable to this. So, there's be, like, a bar with male on one side and female on the other, and you could slide that bar where ever you wanted. You could put it at 100% one thing, or and even 50/50, or 75% female/25% male--whatever you wanted!
I've always wanted something like that for romance/flirty interactions
in general too, tbh. So you could set the chance of romantic success for a given sim at Almost Guaranteed, Very High, High, Average, Low, Very Low, and Impossible. Y'know, rather simply an "unflirty" trait, which seems more like an "awkward in romance situations and hates PDA trait, lol.
I mean,
then I could actually design a sim
like me--I'd set the gender preference at close to 50/50, and then success at being romanced at Very Low--Boom! And actual ace/aro spectrum bisexual in the sims! Amazing!
