Seriously, I'm going to have to cheat my sim younger from adult to young adult (I don't feel like starting over yet again). Adults are useless for socializing with grownups, now. I usually finish the beloved aspiration in a year or less (too fast, probably). Now my sim has 4 friends after a year, and the rest are barely past stranger.
And the age difference pluses and minuses aren't slight between the two, they are overwhelming. Elders, toddlers, and children are about the same for both, and pretty fast. Infants are slower for YA, but who cares for those few days? But YA to teens gains is unchanged, while A to teens is VERY SLOW (in capitals). YA to other YA, slightly faster than before, while A to YA is slightly slower. And YA to A is unchanged, while A to A is much slower. So adults don't even get along with their own kind.
The dumbest thing about all this to me is it treats young adults as if they are a tiny age range, just past teen, and adults like they are all about to turn elder. It should be an age range. In a perfect game each day they would get older; I know that's hard and I don't expect exactly that, but this is crazy stark between the age groups.
Edit-went in and changed my adult sim to a young adult and made three friends in two days. Sorry, but the changes are anything but subtle, at least when it comes to adults.
So to sum up. For adults, you get less points for a positive interaction with every age group older than a child (except elders, they stayed the same). And you lose more points for a negative interaction with all those ages as well. So if you get two positives and one negative out of three, you're pretty much gaining nothing. Terrible design.
