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Ukyojin's avatar
7 years ago

To Sim Guru: hidden "attraction system" in TS4?

Hello!

First of all very sorry for mistakes in English. I will try do my best to explain my problem.

I playing this game for romances. Usually I make a single Sim (male or female) and start to searching for a mate for him/her. On the beginning I searched Sims who were attracted to me, but soon I realized, that it won't work. My Sims ignored each other but they wanted to flirt with others.

So I started to "follow my Sims". I started to using "Risqué question" and when the answer was positive, I started the romance... But usually when the girl answered positively, my Sim was not very interested on her... Ok, she likes him, but he do not like her very much. Nice idea, I do like it, seriously, but WHY?

I started lots of games... Sometimes I had the marriages, who woo-hooing 4-5 times per day (autonomously!) but most of my heroes don't want to chat...

What should we do, how to build our Sims and their potential "soul mates"? Why my Sim ignoring his wife and preferring Nina Caliente, who sitting near his apartment all the time and chatting with other Sims?

And what's with the Sims, who are in our area all the time? It looks like the game sending us interesting Sims for our hero.

Please, could the gurus tell me, is this incidentally, the "chemistry" between Sims starting when they meet each other and this is random? Or maybe in CAS our Sim gets hidden preferences? Or maybe it is based on traits, skills, work, aspirations?

EDIT.

This is a couple of roomies, first minutes of new game, they only ask risque questions (first the girl, then the guy - both positive) - and little chat (I don't remember, the girl maybe told one joke...):



Kind regards!
  • pretty sure they're referring to their sims. I do think some sims mesh way better than others based on my own matchmaking adventures. as for the hidden mechanics of it. . . no idea! if anything, that system might be completely random.
  • I'm unsure who the hero refers to, but assuming it's meant to be like their knight in shining armor, or something...
  • @Chazzzy @paradiseplanet thanks for your answers, even if it's slightly mischievous ;) haha, in my language "hero" means also "character from books, movies, games et cetera". I can imagine, that it maybe looks funny, :)

    @Evil_One good nickname! :) I don't think so, I think that the Sims from part 4 are sociopaths. ;)

    @littlemissgogo Maybe you're right, but usually I playing with one male Sim and he likes the same ladies (and gentlemen too) from town.
  • I've had some Sims be far more resistant to my Sim romancing them than others, whether they have flirty traits or not. To that effect, sometimes I go with the flow on their relationships at times, which leads to interesting results.
  • I noticed with my other Sims that the "Ask Risque Question" social is one of the more risky ones, as most target Sims would reject that interaction when I started with it. That is, with my other Sims. I recently started a new save and started playing a male Sim, and for some reason he has been ridiculously successful when it comes to romance. He does have the Alluring trait, but so did my other Sim... I've been playing this dude for a while now and am pretty sure he hasn't once been rejected yet! It's absolutely crazy... and I kind of don't like it lol, because I didn't intend for the man to be some sort of Adonis at all when I created him... So I don't know. For my other Sims, I noticed they seemed to hit it off better with some than others, and I also noticed that once Sims become Best or Good Friends it can be superhard to get out of the friendzone... but with this Sim, he just matches with anybody. I really, really wish there were an actual attraction system in this game, though. I desperately need it.