So gross... can I fix this

Just FYI, MCCC can remove the relationship bar, but not the meter, it sticks no matter what. i would like to see the ability to forget a relationship over time like the game does with a friendship if you hadn't interacted with a sim over time.

"Stormkeep;c-18081130" wrote:
"So it doesn't come back" ... no, that would require mods. It's a game glitch and can happen when sims get into flirty conversations with more than one Sim at a time. The mother or daughter probably injected herself into a conversation that the other one was having with someone else.

To remove it, you can use the modify relationship cheat code, or a mod (MCCC can do this). To prevent it from ever happening again, you can use a mod for it. It's pretty rare though, so imo not worth adding a mod to prevent.
I'm pretty sure there's a setting in MCCC that prevents it (though I could be mistaken)

I've had this happen in the past between two sisters and they went and talked to each other, there is no one else involved, they flirted with each other in any event. I can see it happen outside this injecting sims into a conversation. Although i have seen this happen on occasion recently though between other sims.

Just out of interest i wished this game would stop injecting my sims into conversation or forcing a random conversation on my sims. in general it is highly annoying.

"EA_Cade;c-18081805" wrote:
This is clearly not working as designed, I've seen 2 reports of this over the last few days and I've sent this issue up to the Sims teams for investigation this morning.

While you're at it, can you track down that random mischief interaction from a conversation?
You often have a good conversation between one sim to another and then suddenly the mischief interaction plays autonomously with no means to stop it and sabotages the friendly conversation for no good reason at all. It's worse with children when they start shoving each other around and there is nothing that would set it off.

The only way I've seen that will remove that romantic relationship meter, is to delete the relationship completely with MCCC. Then add it back to how it was, and is supposed to be. Its drastic, but I haven't found any other way.

So now i know this relationship bug has returned, i have done a complete accounting of my sims and all their relationships and i'm seeing a number of disturbing things going on. Things i'd never want these sims doing in a million years and some that are so far out of character i wonder if they had the stuffing knocked out of them first.

In total there are 318 sims i have, most of which are teenagers or older with only a handful of elders.
there are:
- 18 counts of incestuous relationships.
- 31 counts of random flirts starting a relationship bar to the minimum score.
- 6 counts of sims kissing each other randomly and starting a relationship bar. This includes one teenage female sim i had no intention of getting into a relationship just yet and two male sims, alpha sims who hate each other other that just kissed out in the open, both of which are entirely hetrosexual as well, one is married with two children and all three of his family were nearby and the other guy is married but his wife wasn't around.
- 1 count of a surprise woowho and a child out of nowhere and further MCCC and that adult mod were set to prevent exactly this from happening, yet it happened. i aged the child up and deleted it with no further thought on the subject.

Put some safeguards in place or better still stop forcing sims into interactions they have no business being in.

@Hoverael Just... wow. 18 incestuous is a LOT. I was so put off by one in my game that if I found 18 I'd be shattered. They need to fix this.

I have been playing since 2014 with over 6000 recorded hours (I mostly play offline, so that is a conservative figure). I have played modded/unmodded, 100s of sims and I play rotationally. I create parents for all my sims of whatever age for back story purposes and have never seen this.

I had this happen in my game recently when I was playing with the Bheeda household and Jesminder had some how formed a romantic relationship with their toddler. I used MCCC to repair it but things like this just should not happen. I hope it can be looked into and fixed.

"ModerateOsprey;c-18083507" wrote:
I have been playing since 2014 with over 6000 recorded hours (I mostly play offline, so that is a conservative figure). I have played modded/unmodded, 100s of sims and I play rotationally. I create parents for all my sims of whatever age for back story purposes and have never seen this.

5 years, 5700+ hours, also some offline. I have played 25+ saves, all except one rotationally. Countless sims, with and without kids. 99% of the time modded, including a certain adult mod. Also never seen this.

Doesn't mean there isn't a problem. Doesn't matter if the sims can't act romantically with eachother. Incest is a very real problem, one which I'm very uncomfortable with, if I should see it in my game. This is an issue that must be resolved, and from what EA_Cade said, is being looked into. And hopefully, it will be fixed for good.

I don't have MCC sadly

I don't want either to be "deleted" out of game and placed back in because it would destroy every other relationship they have in game.

@Wahini2024, just use the modifyrelationship to get rid of it then, and hope it doesn't happen again.

@Stormkeep Yeah I've modified this way before but the romance meter never goes away it just isn't full and in my rotational play if they had a pink meter they can "regrow" the romance when I'm not around.

I've had to save sims into gallery and bring them fresh into the game without relationships at all to avoid this a few times to prevent old flames from returning. It was wrecking marriages. But I'm trying to avoid that here if it's even possible and just remove the meter so the only meter is the green one and not remove the sim.

It's just so yucky, why is there no prevention for this.