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4 years ago

What makes Sims be mean to each other autonomously?

I've been playing this game forever and yet I can't figure out why some sims just always want to do mean interactions to specific other sims.

In my current active household the "dad" sim, if left to autonomy, regularly uses the insult interaction on his wife.
He's actually a nice sim, very friendly and respectful to almost all other sims in the game but for some reason, he's mean to his wife. She's also a really sweet sim, even has the "Pristine Reputation" with maxed out bar for her public image. Neither of them has any negative traits from Character values either.
It's also not mood related I wouldn't think; he is normally in quite a good mood, either confident, happy or inspired.

I can't for the life of me figure out why he wants to be a dick to his wife all the time. Could it be because they are just very different? They have the "opposites attract" sentiment frequently.

I will add that these two sims were started in this game as a new game to do the Surviving the Holidays scenario, so at the very start of the game they absolutely hated each other. Mean interactions toward each other was completely normal back then. She was actually the one who was more mean at that time, but all of the negative sentiments are LONG since passed.

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  • The erratic trait actually also always allows for mean autonomous socials without further tests.

    I agree it's a fun trait. It certainly got more challenging with the addition of sentiments.
  • "83bienchen;c-18031747" wrote:
    Just some additional info:
    The game mechanics allow for mean autonomous socials as soon as sims have the broken up relationship bit. There are no additional tests so in a vanilla game, Sims that have once broken-up will always be able to autonomously be mean to each other no matter how strong their relationship got afterwards.


    OMG, the devs really don't believe in 2nd chances I guess! That's good information. Though it doesn't apply to my specific issue here, it's definitely really useful to know. I appreciate you sharing this info.
  • Sometimes it depends on relationship and skill the interaction the sim tries to execute, or just the sim failed the execution of the interaction itself.

    my sims, and they could be best friends, happily married or what ever, and one of them tries to be mischievous, or funny, and they’re comedy/mischief skill is low. The interaction they did has a chance at failing or the other sim simply just didn’t find it funny, and it comes across as mean.
  • I didn't Play the scenarios, but don't These Sims start off with the broken up relationship bit? Anything else wouldn't make much sense. As you said, you also started from the scenarios @Stormkeep.
    Btw, all bitter sentiment bits also allow for autonomous mean socials. I'd Post the complete list but I'm currently not in a Position to sit at my PC healthwise.

    How often a Sim will actually choose to be mean instead of friendly, funny, ... depends as always in their other traits, rel bits, the rel bit situation and their moods.
  • "83bienchen;c-18032082" wrote:
    I didn't Play the scenarios, but don't These Sims start off with the broken up relationship bit?


    No, they just start as bitter enemies with the bitter grudge sentiment. No prior romantic entanglement. The scenario "backstory" explains them living together not because of some previous romance but as being due to the involvement of "some gnomes and real estate scams."

    One of the two potential scenario outcomes involves keeping them as enemies while also having them be romantically involved, so maybe that's what you are thinking of?

    I tried for that "Enemies with benefits" outcome, but I couldn't manage to keep them as enemies. Blake, with her cheerful trait, made that more difficult to accomplish then I anticipated.


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