"GrumpyGlowfish;c-17974356" wrote:
Remember the good old days in TS1: Making Magic, when ageing wasn't a thing, but children could use a spell to become adults and, since the game didn't recognise family ties at all, start full-blown romantic relationships with their parents immediately afterwards? That happened to me once by accident. Thankfully, sims in TS4 in general seem to be less autonomously flirty and don't fall in love as quickly, so unwanted flings are easy to avoid, but I can understand where the discomfort comes from.
I guess you have never played with a situation like the OP has. For instance if a couple is in the home and you want one to become flirty with spouse, so they watch the Romance channel. Or even a date there you want to promote into a romantic relationship. Ok, would you have the parent or Sim not watch the Romance channel because guess what that Sim can auto flirt with anyone in the house. It's why there are threads that say the game turned their Sim straight and or the game turned their Sim gay. Because if any Sim is flirty they can and do flirt with
anyone, autonomously as long as they are flirty and especially if they have the flirty trait. So, every one against any sort of tweaking by Maxis are saying the player has control. No, we don't. The emotion or the trait can and does overflow to any near by Sim. It's why there are threads about how their Sim outside their control got up from a table in a restaurant and walked over and flirted it up with another Sim they didn't want their Sim to flirt with. Do any of you not read feedback and complaints? It's been going on for years and it also includes any adult near by or in a household. So, Again No, the player doesn't always have control of a Sim with a flirty emotion nor with a flirty trait before it's too late to make it stop. The point is the player shouldn't have to 'avoid' something like seeing daddy flirt with step child who just aged into a young woman or man or other gender preference.
Maxis, it's also no longer acceptable in today's society to have a child in the home in The Sims and wait like a vulture until they grow up to be their child bride....that is just gross now, too. Like old guys in a lot just waiting for that little girl to grow up... Players should have a choice about if the game sees that child as family or not once aged up to YA or adult etc.
If every thing in this game is going to be politically correct isn't it about time the game protects the child Sim from old vultures later? think on it. Young minds shouldn't think it's ok should they? After all your game influences society doesn't it? At least you try to make it seem that way. It's your game, how are you going to fix it? It's not acceptable any more.
