Wants & Fears Discussion Thread

"lanlyn;c-18166328" wrote:
This Wants and Fears system is a bugged-up mess! I am doing a test save because I'm too afraid to play any of my other families. I can't keep W&F turned off. It switches back on every time I start the save or come out of CAS. This is a vanilla save. I've taken all my mods out while I try to find a way to keep W&F off.

Last night, I started my game and the welcome wagon (the engaged Markovic couple in Tartosa) was already knocking at my door. I hadn't yet turned W&F off again like I always have to do. I got distracted by these visitors. Cassidy, my sim, introduced herself and then the couple started flirting with each other--not flirting with my sim at all. Cassidy just met these two, but immediately weird fears popped up about Cassidy being cheated on. She doesn't have a partner, no love interests, no friends! And not only did the game claim she had a cheating partner, but it also got her chosen sexual orientation wrong.

Suddenly, this woman Cassidy barely knew was listed as a romantic interest with a red bar.
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Wants and Fears is the glitchiest nonsense I've ever run across!
https://chi01pap001files.storage.live.com/y4mu0eDgR59TqvIWK8LSEHt-_0k3m1Cbjp6LgCKj3vlGElHLZlrZSUiNYJD_eOkVZyDIdlP_Ghq1czD5T6yuknTJWMHpTr3xV2tGP9XRGtX0pVOGSdvcaLCoy7jRQTVxURqXOe-hkCh94oCGHYZq29y3OMAbrR85Ms4onEjV8PUj1bwlq-_VzETmwCpKrbvsPWM?width=1077&height=250&cropmode=none
I just quit the game without saving. ?

That's the kind of thing I'm not sure I'm ready to trust my faithfulness mod to stop. I use Chingyu's mod and it does prevent accidents with romantic socials. If a sim has pledged to be faithful then all romantic socials with any sim other than their partner is greyed out. So I can't make a mistake where I'm not controlling the sim I think. We've all made that mistake before. I feel like it's doing the same for autonomous socials as well but after this patch debacle, even with an updated mod how safe is it?

The other problem is wants related to things we have to tell them to do because they won't on their own. My novelist sim has wants for writing a book and publishing one. Perfectly normal wants for her considering her career. But since she won't do either on her own, what happens when I spend a few days with one of my other households? As it is I feel like if I play that save I need to check on everybody at least every other sim day, or everyday.