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mahamari's avatar
3 years ago

How do I fix messed up relationships from the earlier HSY relationships bug?

Hi,

I hope I didn’t miss another topic about this same issue, and I apologize if I’ve accidentally created a repeat post.

I’m trying to figure out how to fix relationships previously messed up by the relationships bugs with High School Years. For instance, one of my teens was inappropriately somehow a romantic interest of the school principal and his girlfriend’s mom, as well as his adoptive dad (among other random sims). I think the bug that generated all the problems has since been patched(?), but the romantic interest markers with those sims and other random sims remained, and now that he’s aged up to a young adult, I’m concerned about weird stuff happening with the inappropriately tagged sims when I’m not actively paying attention, haha. Is there any way to remove that the inappropriate relationships without resorting to mods?

Thanks for any help/advice!

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  • @mahamari  Does this sim have the option to "ask to just be friends" with the others?  Now that he's an adult, the interaction may show up where it hadn't before.

  • mahamari's avatar
    mahamari
    3 years ago

    I've done that where I could, and in some cases, I didn't see the option (like with his adoptive dad, so maybe they don't count as *not* being just friends, even though the romantic interest icon somehow stayed? I'm not 100% sure - but since they're not blood-related, flirty interactions still seem to be available now that the teen sim is an adult, and I assume that's working as intended?), and they're not actively in romantic relationships with him now (I've tried to keep the romance bar empty), but the romantic interest icon is still there, and once in a while when I'm not paying attention, one of them will flirt with him when I'm taking care of another sim, which raises the romance bar, and I have to drain it out again. It's just kind of creepy. I guess I'm not entirely sure the autonomous flirting won't happen even if they weren't marked as romantic interests, but the status seems to encourage the sims to potentially flirt with each other when left to their own devices, which I'd rather eliminate if I can.

    Thanks for any advice! I really appreciate it!

  • Quick clarification - I went back into the game to make sure I posted the right information earlier, and with the adoptive dad, it's actually that he no longer has the romantic interest icon, but the romance bar (empty) is still there, and flirty interactions are still possible. It's other sims that have the romantic interest icon (and empty bar), but I don't see the "ask to just be friends" option for some of these. I was also hoping to remove these sims from the romance tab under that sim's relationships but don't know if it's doable without a mod.

    Thanks again for your help!

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @mahamari  I don't think there's any other way to directly remove a romance bar, but if it helps, you could add a mod temporarily and then remove it afterwards.  Or you could remove the relationship entirely, then restore it, with cheats.  I don't know the exact string to use, but if you're not sure either, or the text you're inputting isn't working, let me know and I'll find out or find someone else who knows.

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