sexual preferences - what actions will be triggered?

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Just patched, and I'm a bit surprised that all my 400+ existing sims has "experimenting with both genders" as their default setting. This is kind of disturbing when they are married or are nowadays pushing elderhood after a long life of no such need to experiment.

I will need days of wasted gaming time to adjust those settings for all my sims. I really think the default should be according to how these things were before, and only change for new sims created in CAS or existing youngsters growing up. I assume that in most games the majority will be rather traditional, which means it would add more sense if we just changed settings for those we want to be experimental. It would save me for hours...

But I can't change what EA already thought was a great idea. My question now is what will happen to my platonically married sims if I do not change these details in CAS? How many woohoos with their spouse is needed to get rid of the experimenting status? Or are they decided to be experimental for their entire life even if they never even look at another sim?

I don't have HSY pack, so I guess these things won't interfere with social media flirting etc.
Will the new settings affect teens more than elders?

logionx · Answer

If you don't change anything then your sims should behave just as they did before, as far as I understand "experimenting with both genders" was the default setting before which have allowed players to do what they wanted.

From what I could see all my sims had this setting as default after the patch and I don't think you can change it through gameplay? I think that's something that you do in CAS. I spent some time to change that for some sims that I felt that they would not want to explore romantically, like my married sims.

What might have changed are your sims gender preferences as it looks like they will change depending on how you have played your sims, many of my sims had gender preferences already selected.

I have not noticed any new actions or consequences, my sims seems to behave as I have always played them and I have not noticed anything different for the other life stages.

brd709 · Answer

In the space of two sim days after they last WooHooed, my sim self's wife Liberty changed her WooHoo preference from men to women yet she was still romantically attracted to men. After four or five romantic interactions with a woman, Liberty's romantic preference changed from men to women. So now after 9 sim years of marriage Liberty is now in to women without changing her preferences in CAS.

simmerville · Answer

"Brd709;c-18168135" wrote:In the space of two sim days after they last WooHooed, my sim self's wife Liberty changed her WooHoo preference from men to women yet she was still romantically attracted to men. After four or five romantic interactions with a woman, Liberty's romantic preference changed from men to women. So now after 9 sim years of marriage Liberty is now in to women without changing her preferences in CAS. And I'm utterly confused... ;)I don't want my game to change their preferences like that, or did you direct it to happen?

silentk008 · Answer

"Simmerville;c-18168142" wrote:"Brd709;c-18168135" wrote:In the space of two sim days after they last WooHooed, my sim self's wife Liberty changed her WooHoo preference from men to women yet she was still romantically attracted to men. After four or five romantic interactions with a woman, Liberty's romantic preference changed from men to women. So now after 9 sim years of marriage Liberty is now in to women without changing her preferences in CAS. And I'm utterly confused... ;)I don't want my game to change their preferences like that, or did you direct it to happen?The preferences can be changed through gameplay it seems.If the player directs a sim to have to have romantic interactions with a female sim then the sim will develop a preference for female sims.At least that is how I understood it. Sounds great!

daephene1 · Answer

If they are set to exploring, and they flirt with or accept flirts from one gender, they will gradually develop a preference for that gender. If they are set to not exploring, they will only ever accept romantic interactions from their selected gender, or none if you prefer an aromantic sim. In the past the default for premades and townies was exploring, so that the player could start a relationship with any sim they wanted.

There's no faithfulness check at all, so the chances of your sim accepting random flirts from random sims is unchanged, except that if you set them to not exploring they will always reject any gender that is not checked as preferred for romance. If they are set to exploring and accept a random flirt, it could affect their preference.

Edited to add: As I understand what has been announced anyway. I am not sure what current bugs may affect the actual results.

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