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RubricalBook232's avatar
2 years ago

Relationships going up and down bug?

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.103.315.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Potentially by creating a social gathering?
What happens when the bug occurs? My relationships of my sims are going up and down even when I am not talking to anyone.
What do you expect to see? I would like it to stop.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

I will try to give as much information as possible.

I noticed this started happening after I had a social event. I could not tell you exactly which social event it was because I had two of them. I had one where I just called a bunch of people and invited them out to a club. The other was a dinner party. I believe it started happening after inviting everyone to the club, though. I just cannot be certain.

After the event, I kept getting the pop up in the corner to end the event. It wasn't showing any tasks, just the X for me to close it out basically. That has stopped happening. 

I was living in an apartment, but not from the new pack. It was the city apartments that were already there.

What is happening is that even when I am not talking to or interacting with another sim, my relationships are still being built (and ruined) as if I am interacting with the people. Please see attached photos for example. I am losing and building relationships with sims. It is constant. My relationships are very high with sims that I have personally never went out of my way to build relationships with, so it's like it's glitched and thinks I am still at a gathering or something?

I have disabled mods, I have evicted and moved her back in, I have completely changed worlds and put her in a house rather than an apartment. It happens on all lots.

7 Replies

  • @RubricalBook232 To be sure you just have the relationship icons as shown in your pics or does the relationship actually change ?

    Also did you delete the locathumbcache file after removing your mods ?
  • The relationships are actually changing. For example, I will get notifications I have just become best friends with someone that I've never even talked to. I go to check my relationships and sure enough, the bar is filled.

    I have not done that. Where is that located?

  • @crinrictOkay, I believe I deleted the file you were talking about. Just a file floating within the Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 ?

    If so, it is still occurring after that. I personally do not think it is linked to Mods or CC. My topic was just moved here. To me it seems it could be some sort of bug related to social gatherings or something.

    Edit: I don't know if it's worth noting, but I also seem to be gaining reputation (because my relationships are going up) and I am also gaining influence points as well. The little icons for those will come up above my head as well at times.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    2 years ago
    @RubricalBook232 this forum is for both troubleshooting and mods issues. Since you are a mod users it's important to rule those out.

    There's this thread on the influence point: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Random-Influence-Point-Icon-Appearing-Randomly-no/td-p/9196286 .. it's an old thread and not many people were having issues. Most didn't have Eco.

    There's also this thread for the relationship icons: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-Random-Negative-Positive-Relationship-Icons-appears/td-p/9185131 but here as well, it's an old thread. Some people actually have the relationship reduced other don't. All a bit inconclusive.

    Does it happen for all of your Sims and also in a new save ?
  • @crinrictIt seems to be only happening to that specific sim. When I switch to others in my household, it does not happen. It does not happen if I create a new household and start a new game/save. I think something just glitched out and I cannot get it to stop. I just really did not want to have to restart because I have gotten so far with this one.

  • @crinrict okay, I actually just noticed it IS happening to the other sim in my household. I just rarely play him, so I did not notice. He was a townie that I moved in. It was happening prior to him moving in as well.

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