Product: The Sims Mobile
Platform: Apple iPad and iPhone
List the specific devices you play with: Apple iPad Air 2 and Apple iPhone 5SE
OS Version: 12.3.1
Player ID: 1003291874858
How often does the bug occur? Happened with all 4 characters that I made in 2018 which are around 4-5 generations deep, noticed this over the past week
Steps: Try to create new relationships and start new stories with a bugged character. The new contacts/stories may or may not remain.
What do you expect to see? Not this?
Connection Type: WiFi
Please select your region: North America
Country: USA
Additional feedback: Some things I've observed:
On Character 1, her contacts would go past 32 within a game session and I could "introduce"/"add to contacts", but sometime after restarting the game they will drop back down to 32 and some of those new contacts disappeared. I can't figure out a pattern to which get culled and which remain. ETA: I retired this character afternoon and created a new one in this slot instead of promoting a household member. Her pre-existing contacts were then "roommates" and I've been able to add 13 player Sims as contacts which are categorized as "Favorites". No disappearances as of yet... The number of contacts fluctuates throughout play session. Seems like whenever a townie wanders past my home, the number goes up?
On Character 2, she's at 25 contacts, and she also can't keep the new ones I attempt to acquire.
On Character 3, I was able to add one new story and have progress it to level 8. Her contact numbers seem to go to 20. All other attempts to add new contacts and start new stories have resulted in them disappearing before they got to level 2 or 3. I've lost count of how many, but at least 6 of them. One of them as I wrote this reply-- I started a first date, exited the game, and sometime in the new session I noticed that the person she was having the first date with had disappeared from contacts. The first date completed without an option to select a story. Just... gone.
On Character 4, this slot was also losing new contacts, so I turned this slot into a test subject-- retired the old one and promoted a household member to this slot. This new one was at 36 contacts about 20 of them current/past household/family, then I exited and reopened, and it turned into 35. One of her stories had made it to level 3 or 4 and is now gone and the contact is also gone.
Many of the contacts are past generations of family/household. I want that good upbringing trait and to create a legacy! ☹️ But it's not looking good for me. Too much of a good thing? I've checked in on friends' houses and found their Sims mine lost as contacts are still actively in the game and not retired. I asked one of them who said her Sim still had one of mine as acquaintance after mine lost them as contact.
An update to my previous report: I've retired all the prior Sims I have, and started up a new family branch. That seems to be helping-- still have some of the current Sims' contacts lost here and there but they're ones I hadn't started relationship stories with. So far, this batch of Sims hasn't lost a story. It makes me wonder if there's something about the prior Sims having such extensive families that affected it, or perhaps there's a maximum number of contacts across the account that we don't know about?
I've found with one of my current Sims that within one play session, I can get his contacts up to ridiculous numbers (70+!) by introducing himself to a bunch of townies, but the number drops after that session and eventually he forgets he knows them when I interact with them again. I've attached a screenshot example.
The "All" contacts seems to reflect any interaction or possibly even being in the same area with any NPCs and any player Sims? That number for all my Sims will go up and down. The "Favorites" seems to be any player Sims only-- none of my retirees, family members not in play, or NPC townies. The Friendly/Romantic/Rival doesn't correctly show numbers at all. For instance, one of my Sims has multiple romance stories with multiple fiancés, yet 0 Romantic contacts.
tl;dr: Contacts are buggy in multiple ways.
