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tuxedo-tara
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago

Romantic wants related to other sims are rare?

I finally updated to get the wants/fears and something I'm noticing is that my sims very rarely roll the want to interact with other sims? This is the same across my loner sims and my outgoing sims. At most, they'll roll to be friendly or be friends with someone. But I never see the want to be funny towards another sim or be romantic with another sim (other than the Try for a Baby option, which I've gotten once since updating at the beginning of Oct.).

I used to really enjoy getting the whims relating to flirting or asking a sim to be my sim's girlfriend/boyfriend. They helped guide my gameplay, and made me feel like my sim was choosing who they wanted a romantic relationship with. I know other people have mentioned they still get romance related wants, is there something I have to do to trigger them?

Things that might effect this
I do not have High School Years
I do play with Mods (MCCC, Meaningful Stories, and the Woohoo Wellness Mod)
I have not manually chosen my sims orientation, these are all sims from a save file that existed before I made the update (so far through asking each other it seems like everyone is bi?)
I have removed all likes/dislikes related to music, I'm aware those wants take over everything so I nipped that in the bud asap.
Two of my sims are in an unhappy marriage, two are in a happy marriage, and one is single with plenty of friends and acquaintances. No one has rolled romantic wants besides the one want to Try for a Baby I previously mentioned (and it was the unhappy couple to boot!).

I know this is a newer system but I've seen so many people talk about how their sim rolls wants to ask a rando out or to break up with their partner and I was kinda looking forward to that drama. I feel like I must be missing something to not be getting any of those wants. Any advice would be appreciated!

  • If you interact a lot with a certain Sim, the temporary Want on the right might roll something related to that Sim. My Sim was on a date with another, and halfway through the date he got the Want to kiss her. I agree though that it doesn't seem to happen as often as with Whims.

    A fun one though was to "Be disliked by..." He and his neighbors don't get along, and he already had a red relationship with one of them. He wanted to take that negative relationship all the way. :D
  • xoJessi's avatar
    xoJessi
    New Spectator
    Try getting the whimoverhaul mod (it adds a lot more personality to the want system)

    https://i.imgur.com/cVTQKrR.png

    I also enjoy whim/want driven gameplay and this saved me :)
  • tuxedo-tara's avatar
    tuxedo-tara
    Seasoned Newcomer
    "xoJessi;c-18202063" wrote:
    Try getting the whimoverhaul mod (it adds a lot more personality to the want system)

    https://i.imgur.com/cVTQKrR.png

    I also enjoy whim/want driven gameplay and this saved me :)


    Thank you so much, not only did this fix the issue it's added so much more depth to my gameplay!!
  • "tokyorabbit;d-1004672" wrote:
    I finally updated to get the wants/fears and something I'm noticing is that my sims very rarely roll the want to interact with other sims? This is the same across my loner sims and my outgoing sims. At most, they'll roll to be friendly or be friends with someone. But I never see the want to be funny towards another sim or be romantic with another sim (other than the Try for a Baby option, which I've gotten once since updating at the beginning of Oct.).

    I used to really enjoy getting the whims relating to flirting or asking a sim to be my sim's girlfriend/boyfriend. They helped guide my gameplay, and made me feel like my sim was choosing who they wanted a romantic relationship with. I know other people have mentioned they still get romance related wants, is there something I have to do to trigger them?

    Things that might effect this
    I do not have High School Years
    I do play with Mods (MCCC, Meaningful Stories, and the Woohoo Wellness Mod)
    I have not manually chosen my sims orientation, these are all sims from a save file that existed before I made the update (so far through asking each other it seems like everyone is bi?)
    I have removed all likes/dislikes related to music, I'm aware those wants take over everything so I nipped that in the bud asap.
    Two of my sims are in an unhappy marriage, two are in a happy marriage, and one is single with plenty of friends and acquaintances. No one has rolled romantic wants besides the one want to Try for a Baby I previously mentioned (and it was the unhappy couple to boot!).

    I know this is a newer system but I've seen so many people talk about how their sim rolls wants to ask a rando out or to break up with their partner and I was kinda looking forward to that drama. I feel like I must be missing something to not be getting any of those wants. Any advice would be appreciated!



    Prehaps this will change once we get a Romantic Based Expansion Pack and I believe it's going to happen sooner then later.
  • Hi @tokyorabbit it sounds like some of your mods might be romance-related. Have you tried without mods?