Romantic interest in TS4
Hi, everyone. I'm new to TS4, after having played TS3. I'm wondering how differently TS4 handles romantic interest. My Sim was talking to someone at the gym and made a few flirtatious comments,...
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"babajayne;c-17912261" wrote:
It’s really easy and fast to romance someone in this game (if you want to) - just look at the 100 baby challenge.
I’ve never seen evidence of preferences in my sims. If they’re there, they’re not strong enough to be obvious to me.
I don’t know how well “Ask to just be friends” works, because it hasn’t worked for a group of sims I have that dated through their school years and settled on one partner. They still have moments with their exes where autonomous flirting happens while I’m not controlling them. It has caused drama at weddings and parties. The one who was cheated on gets an angry moodlet and usually a hurt sentiment. But the relationship doesn’t take a huge hit and by the time I play that couple again, it’s like nothing happened (I play rotationally and the moodlet and sentiment have decayed by that time).
"Ask to Just be Friends" is just a reset button to the zero point on the pink bar, but the game (in a decision that makes sense IRL but doesn't really work in-game) remembers that the pink bar exists, and I think (from experience) that makes sims more likely to start flirting again. It does make sense IRL, as I mentioned—raise your hand if you've ever been uncomfortable around a person you've been romantically involved with who still remained close friends with their ex, no matter how platonic they said it is now. The game just handles it...really questionably. Especially if the "just be friends" is the result of a sim rebuffing a romantic interest before it ever gets anywhere, not even so much as a flirt back, just a firm no.
