Romantic relationship between adults and children. :(

"Kimmer;d-1002681" wrote:
EA, are you ever going to fix this disgusting bug? :disappointed:
It existed already long before the disastrous pre-HSY patch and now it's just spreading like wildfire. Sims suddenly becoming pedophiles is not okay and it's supposed to be fixed ASAP.

This has nothing to do with mods, because I've never had any of them in my game.

Agreed. I don't often play with child stages, because I age my sims up very quickly, but I did recently decide to have one household with the child stages for something different - something different of course NOT meaning an adult sim starts flirting with a child when they visit! Completely unacceptable.

I don't understand the premise for this topic, you have not really said anything about what happened. So not sure how you expect it to be fixed, less you assume developers already know about due to reporting or twitter feedback, in which case I am not really sure what you're expecting if they're already working on tracking the problem?

Are the adult Sims getting a romantic relationship bar with underaged Sims? Are they able to say things from the romance menu? Or is the Sim's overall mood just flirty. Just because a Sim feels flirty and is talking to a child, doesn't mean they are flirting with the child. If they are actually getting a romantic relationship that bug needs to be reported.

"telemwill;c-18169619" wrote:
Are the adult Sims getting a romantic relationship bar with underaged Sims? Are they able to say things from the romance menu? Or is the Sim's overall mood just flirty. Just because a Sim feels flirty and is talking to a child, doesn't mean they are flirting with the child. If they are actually getting a romantic relationship that bug needs to be reported.

Yes, romance bars are happening between children of all ages and adults.
My global celebrity male Sim put his toddler son to a sleep and afterwards I noticed that the father was flirty. Then I noticed that he has a romance bar with his son and their relationship was described as "budding romance".
Then after HSY my teen Sims are having romance bars with adults left and right and there's no stopping it. They already have romance bars with random teens that they're not interested at all, but adults too, it's just ridiculous.
Yesterday I was playing one of my new saves and my Sims family's child daughter suddenly had a romance bar with Summer Holiday who is her mothers best friend.
I understand that it's just the romance bars happening, but it's annoying. I can cheat the romance bars down, but they still don't go away, the second bar stays there always. Now when the romance is out of control in this game there's going to be a lot more random romance bars all the time with random Sims and they're going to make my Sims relationships look messy.

"Kimmer;c-18169684" wrote:

"telemwill;c-18169619" wrote:
Are the adult Sims getting a romantic relationship bar with underaged Sims? Are they able to say things from the romance menu? Or is the Sim's overall mood just flirty. Just because a Sim feels flirty and is talking to a child, doesn't mean they are flirting with the child. If they are actually getting a romantic relationship that bug needs to be reported.

Yes, romance bars are happening between children of all ages and adults.
My global celebrity male Sim put his toddler son to a sleep and afterwards I noticed that the father was flirty. Then I noticed that he has a romance bar with his son and their relationship was described as "budding romance".
Then after HSY my teen Sims are having romance bars with adults left and right and there's no stopping it. They already have romance bars with random teens that they're not interested at all, but adults too, it's just ridiculous.
Yesterday I was playing one of my new saves and my Sims family's child daughter suddenly had a romance bar with Summer Holiday who is her mothers best friend.
I understand that it's just the romance bars happening, but it's annoying. I can cheat the romance bars down, but they still don't go away, the second bar stays there always. Now when the romance is out of control in this game there's going to be a lot more random romance bars all the time with random Sims and they're going to make my Sims relationships look messy.

Yes, that would bother me too! I hope I don't see it, and that it's fixed soon for you.

You bug report here I believe.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs

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I never had this or seen anything inappropriate in my game but you are better off just hitting the me too button on the big report. Not sure what you are trying to imply or accomplish. There are never and never will be any romantic options or interactions between the improper ages. Pedophile is just a standard overused term people throw around at every single possible opportunity and literally does not exist in the sims. It's obviously an unintended bug and it can't be fixed until they are able to reproduce the problem and find out what the cause is. Until then just cheat the romance bar away if you get one? That's what I would do if I ever see it.
It's just a game and like I said NO romantic interactions are possible. This is another case of simmers overracting to things.

"telemwill;c-18169619" wrote:
Are the adult Sims getting a romantic relationship bar with underaged Sims? Are they able to say things from the romance menu? Or is the Sim's overall mood just flirty. Just because a Sim feels flirty and is talking to a child, doesn't mean they are flirting with the child. If they are actually getting a romantic relationship that bug needs to be reported.

In my case it was literally the flirt action (little wave, blowing a kiss) from an adult sim aimed at a child sim. I didn't wait or check to see if any romance bars happened, because I immediately paused and restarted my game.

What's the link for bug reporting on this? Thanks.