7 years ago
Can't ask Sim out
I am unable to ask my sim's girlfriend out on dates through the phone or through clicking on her in the Relationships panel. The phone interaction, "Ask on Date" is simply gone. I had this issue alr...
Hi @CastleCatt
I moved your post to tech for troubleshooting. The thread you posted in was from 2015 and mod related at the time.
Are you using any mods in your game ?
Does it happen to all your Sims or just that particular one ?
So kind of you, thank you. I don't use any mods. I have the deluxe version of the base game and about 5 xpacs, and that's all. I played this darned game for over 300 hours (don't tell anyone) with no issue. But now it looks like this issue is now happening to all of my Sims, even after having restored factory settings. Granted, I went to the Community Gallery and used all of my premade sims and buildings in the new test world. Surely they are not bugged. If I have 2 or more romantic interests, the option stays on my phone. I had a Sim that lost the interaction in my original world, so she had a second guy over, flirted some pink into the bar, and the option reappeared. My sim in the test world asked to "just be friends" with several other sims to narrow romantic interests to the one I want her to marry. Strangely, 2 of the ones she broke up with still show up as being romantic interests (hearts instead of just smiley faces on the friendship icon and the romantic text in the relationship description) even with no pink in the bar. And there was a touch of pink in the romance bar of another 2, but it didn't offer the "just be friends" interaction, so I am stuck with my Sim still being interested in several sims. Her phone is fine, so I was hopeful. But I switched to the "boyfriend's" household. He's interested in only 1 Sim, and his phone does not have "Ask on Date" available, nor can I ask her in the Relationship panel. I think if I invite her over it will let me ask. I can check if it would be helpful. (It was working on my original world, so I assume it is fine in the test world.) There's another Sim in that household who also has interest in only 1 Sim, and they also cannot ask on date by phone or relationship panel. So yeah it really looks like, if a Sim is interested in only 1 person, they are not able to call them for a date. Thanks for your time. I appreciate what you do.
Could you try a new save just for testing purposes to see if it's related to the save game or a general issue ?
You don't need to delete your current save, this is just for narrowing down the problem.
No problem, thank you. I hope I did Ok. I didn't redo the test folder method. If I need to, please let me know and I will start again. I created a new save on the same test folder I had already created as per the instructions in the above link. I didn't put any of my uploaded gallery content in the world this time. I just created a Sim then took her to a couple of public places to meet some people. She met 3. When she had built up romance with only one guy, the "Ask on Date" phone interaction did not appear, and I also was unable to ask him on a date through the Relationship panel.
So I had another guy over and she built a little bit of romance with him. Having 2 romantic interests opened up the phone interaction. Interestingly, it only let me use the Relationship panel to ask on date if I had the guy over to her house. If a guy has left her house, I can use only the phone. So that's what happened on a completely pure new save when all I had my Sim do was meet 3 people and flirt with 2. I did have her watch about 10 seconds of TV. I have no idea if any of this information is helpful at all. I apologize. I am not tech savvy at all.
I will be absolutely amazed if this game ever becomes playable again. I really don't see how this can be fixed, and I have no idea what happened. I am sad because there were some other features I hadn't tried yet in some xpacs, but I am grateful that you have taken the time to give this a look.