autonomous flirting while married

Hi ArtemisiaNewgate​ 

• To be sure, not all Sims flirting have the loyal trait ?
• Do they get a romance bar with other Sims from this ?
• Do you have any NAPs active ?

Hey a bug similar to this is happening to me straight after the update on console. Similar to the glitch where sims are excessively mean unprovoked and for no reason. Every single sim is randomly flirting with each other. It’s most likely a bug with the game like the excessively mean sims glitch. 

For me not all sims have the loyal trait. NAPS are off and it happened in 4 separate worlds. They didn’t get a romance bar yet but I’m afraid to let these sims keep talking before they do cuz that would destroy the ideas I have for them.

I will add to this tho in case the loyal trait is the problem cuz Im seeing a bit of a common theme, I have two loyal sims in the household. Only one of them was flirted WITH tho. The other two sims that were flirted with do not have the loyal trait and the NPCs that were flirting weren’t loyal.

I noticed this too, and I do not think this is related to the Loyal trait.

I think this is another case of the game treating a missing test set reference as having passed the test. This is identical to the "Sabotage interaction falsely available" bug report. A lot of romantic actions had a new autonomy test added looking for two new test set references that I assume will be in Adventure Awaits. 

I was able to hide this issue from my game with an XML tuning mod that created the two missing test sets. I just made them both check to see if both sims were noncommittal. Doesn't really matter what the test is, as long as it can fail and it makes sense for the action.

The problematic code:

<L n="test_autonomous">
. . .
    <L>
      <V t="test_set_reference">
        <T n="test_set_reference">482810</T>
      </V>
      <V t="gender_preference">
        <U n="gender_preference">
          <T n="ignore_reciprocal">False</T>
          <L n="subject">
            <E>Actor</E>
          </L>
          <L n="target_sim">
            <E>Listeners</E>
          </L>
        </U>
      </V>
      <V t="test_set_reference">
        <T n="test_set_reference">154175<!--testSet_UnflirtyTraitRomanticSocialsAutonomous--></T>
      </V>
      <V t="test_set_reference">
        <T n="test_set_reference">490981</T>
      </V>
    </L>
. . .
</L>

(The other bug report: https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/sabotage-interaction-falsely-available/12597201)

Hi, the same thing happened to me and i believe my response could be helpful, since i couldn't find that person's reply.

• Not all of the sims who did this for me had the loyal trair
• They do get a romance bar
• I do not have NAPs active, nor any DLCs beside the vampire one

Same, it has broken up so many of my relationships 

This is happening even with mods to squash random flirting. Loyal trait or no, each and every one of my married couples have had a flirting instance - to the point that I had to turn off jealousy for nonphysical or there wouldn't be any relationships left. It seems to be NPCs doing the actual flirting, though there have been some interactions that I've missed...and even if they reject the flirt, jealousy causes strife. They have all gotten a romance bar, even if the flirt was rejected. Tested with and without mods, so I know it's game related.

In mine everyone flirts and it's gotten crazy!

have this bug and it's so aggravating. i have a whole friend group of friends yet one of the guys has a romance bar with TWO of the friends in the group. its ridiclous 

Good point. I am so careful with Friend Affection and Admiration vs. Romantic but someone needs to tell autonomy.