Relationships and consequences
I was playing a sim of mine last night. He's a restaurant owner, owns 3 now. Anyways he had an affair with Bella Goth. I decided to go over and play her until she had the baby that was obviously going...
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I just noticed the lack of consequences today. I have a married couple, and the husband casually flirted with one of his co-workers when they were out with their club at the bar. So eventually, I wanted his wife to find out about it because I planned for the two to divorce eventually.
Anyway, he was at the bar with his co-workers and I led him flirt with her again, and I sent his wife over. She literally didn't notice that her husband flirted with another woman even though she stood right next to them. She needed to stand by them even closer until she finally realized it and just did the "shouting forbidden words"-animation and got an angry moodlet. But there was nothing afterwards. No autonomous mean interaction with neither her husband, nor the woman he cheated on her with. I needed to direct her to it first. Well, I managed to get both their friendship and romance levels in the red, but the player shouldn't direct their sims to do it first, it should come from alone (even with free will off). Or is this just the way the devs want to give the players more "control"?
This just reminded me of a couple I had in TS3. They were married for quiet some time and had a child together, but suddenly, they regularly argued with each other from free will, without me doing anything. Then suddenly they divorced without me directing them to do it. The child stood next to them and seemed really sad about it. I wish it were like this in TS4. My couple there isn't divorced yet but I will direct them to in front of their daughters to see if they have any reactions to it (problably not).
Just to show you how the consequences and reactions are significantly lacking in this game compared to TS3.
Anyway, he was at the bar with his co-workers and I led him flirt with her again, and I sent his wife over. She literally didn't notice that her husband flirted with another woman even though she stood right next to them. She needed to stand by them even closer until she finally realized it and just did the "shouting forbidden words"-animation and got an angry moodlet. But there was nothing afterwards. No autonomous mean interaction with neither her husband, nor the woman he cheated on her with. I needed to direct her to it first. Well, I managed to get both their friendship and romance levels in the red, but the player shouldn't direct their sims to do it first, it should come from alone (even with free will off). Or is this just the way the devs want to give the players more "control"?
This just reminded me of a couple I had in TS3. They were married for quiet some time and had a child together, but suddenly, they regularly argued with each other from free will, without me doing anything. Then suddenly they divorced without me directing them to do it. The child stood next to them and seemed really sad about it. I wish it were like this in TS4. My couple there isn't divorced yet but I will direct them to in front of their daughters to see if they have any reactions to it (problably not).
Just to show you how the consequences and reactions are significantly lacking in this game compared to TS3.
