Relationships and consequences

"Vagenius;c-16249678" wrote:
I guess I can understand what some of you are saying. That would present a problem for someone who wanted the whole situation to play out exactly as it has. I just wish I had the option to maybe even have Mortimer accuse her of cheating and their relationship takes a hit and the relationship between him and the kid was harder to build. I went into the goth family last night and the sim Bella had an affair with was just chilling in the house. He was talking to the kids and hanging out with everyone, eating something he probably made himself in the kitchen. I get it sometimes that happens, there's an affair or a child from another person in a family and everyone gets along. I can make Mortimer fight with the guy and their relationship could suck. They don't care though, they're still happy or go on about their business making dinner or watching tv. I had to have the guy flirt with Bella (edit: I meant Bella flirt with the guy), and have Mortimer right there to get a reaction. The first time I did it he was outside the room and didn't react at all. Then he was mad and went on to go watch tv. The guy was still in the house, the kids didn't care about the flirting and everything and everyone was right back to chatting and having a good ol time. I don't know I guess it just bothers me. It makes the game not even hard at all. It's like our "full of emotions" sims really have no emotions at all and it's just a little moodlet that says they do. They're ok with everything. Affairs, illegitimate children, kill the neighbors dog, poison your family members, mass murder, rob a bank (yes I know you can't do some of that stuff), and sims will be like, '"Oh well", sad moodlet(6 hours) but the room is nicely decorated and I had a good lunch so I'm actually happy. I don't know it's annoying to me personally but I guess it doesn't bother everyone.

That indeed is a flaw (I actually thought they’d improved that). To compare the situation with Sims 3 (because I did something similar once): I made my sim flirt with Morrigan Hemlock, while both her husband and daughter (Belisama, a kid) were present. First the daughter came to them with a very angry face and started to scare my sim. I ignored her and told the lovebirds to woohoo in the shower. The minute I did that, Belisama headed to the shower, hindering them. The woohoo instruction disappeared and after two seconds of showering Belisama came out again. She’d clearly only done that to prevent them from doing what they were planning to do. By then the husband had joined the scene and started scolding Morrigan. Untill then they had been a very romantic couple together, constantly flirting with each other (my sim had stayed in their house for a couple of days so we witnessed that) and when I gave up the flirting (it was not going to happen, also Morrigan didn’t react very willing anymore) she started flirting with her husband. In vain, he pushed her away and he continued being mad at her (no idea how long, my sim left their premises after that).