Relationship statuses?

"Cinebar;c-15697903" wrote:

"TravisBlackfox;c-15695659" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-15695471" wrote:

"TravisBlackfox;c-15694328" wrote:
I am scared now to play any other household like ever reading this stuff. I didn't realize Sims could cheat without the correct prompts. My two fellas are married and the only time I ever had a problem with the romance bar thing was because one decided it was a good idea to run outside and try out his newly discovered "enchanting" charisma trait. He gave the guy a small pink romance bar as a result, but to me that doesn't exactly mean cheating per say. It just means that was a plum thing in the system hah. My boys haven't woohooed or kissed on anyone other than each other. I did have the gardener of all people flirt with one of them who got seriously upset and embarrassed about it and his modlet thing said he didn't appreciate what he was asked. His husband overheard and even though his other half wasn't comfortable or reacting positively towards the question, he still got seriously angry about it all (I cheated and went to a previous save I"m not having unfair conflict).

I guess my question in all of this is what is honestly considered cheating? Hugging another Sim? Talking to them?? To me having that romance bar come up would be that but doesn't that take some time and work? Especially when it comes to woohoo?

It can turn into cheating if they have the 'pink bar' with another Sim no matter the gender etc. Because if you rotate you may see those two out somewhere and they engage in romantic interactions even though one or maybe even both are your own Sims and you just aren't playing them at the moment. If they have a pink bar with another Sim they will start doing romantic interactions when you see them out somewhere. They build this pink bar with another Sim on their own when you aren't playing them. Your Sim and a townie etc.

Yuck, so it's probably better to leave them under my control? I thought the autonomy or whatever that word is could be shut off when you play other households? Maybe I misunderstood the mechanics of it. I had seemed to have recalled you can control a new home, but shut off others from doing their own thing? To me that's a bit mean to have married characters have the ability to cheat if you don't want that sort of thing going on in your game. I've been cheated for real and know what it's like. I certainly don't want my Sims to deal with that.

No. Setting autonomy off for a singular Sim doesn't even work while they are under your control. These Sims are supposed to be living some sort of time continuance/story progression. That's why the game gives them fake romances outside your control if you aren't playing them. And fake friendships etc. So, if you see your Sim out and the other townie is there they have the fake relationship/romance is still in the 'pink' they will engage in romantic actions right in front of you. Or even if that Sim is still in your control they will get up and try to do romantic interactions with that 'fake townie relationship' if they show up, too.

What do you mean by Fake romances and friendships? Does this mean then that they'll honestly cheat if you're not controlling them or is that what you mean by fake where they'd do those things, but it doesn't affect them once you have them in your control?