"imhappy;15382698" wrote:
Thanks for putting this together. Recently I noticed that some of my sims have negative relationships with other sims. And I never introduced them to each other. Is this adding negative relationships new? Or an anti-culling, story progression feature? Or is it just my game? (I do play with mods)
It's new, I believe, since about a year ago. When two Sims meet in the background, there are two kinds of outcomes:
A. Just acquaintances
B. 45%-level (stronger) relationship in one of three kinds:
B-1. "Friend" - 45% positive on the friendship scale
B-2. "Dislike" - 45%
negative on the friendship scale
B-3. "Sweetheart" (I might have the level name wrong for that one) - 45% positive on the romance scale
I believe that which of the three it ends up being has to do with how they greet each other. I don't know the proportion of each of the A and B options.
History of this:
The B-3 was reported since launch by Simmers; the B-1 and B-2 and an increase in B-3 were reported since December '15 (which is also when Get Together introduced new autonomous greeting animations for Sims with high-level relationships, so we see more variety). The late-November or early-December '16 patch removed the B-3 option for played married Sims.
Modding this:
- There are some mod options that prohibit autonomous flirty greeting, a control for B-3.
- MC Command Centre can delete relationships so that you make Sims "forget" each other. You can choose which relationship bars you want deleted.
- UI Cheats Extensions lets you reset the relationship levels to ones you want but I believe it doesn't delete the bars.
- There was a beta mod on Tumblr that stopped the 45% relationships from forming at all but I've not seen if it's had a full release.
