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nempne
Seasoned Traveler
1 month ago
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[LBMBLE] Heart on Your Sleeve trait - Slower than normal friendship progression

Sims with the Heart on Your Sleeve trait do not appear to be gaining friendship as-intended. The tuning suggests that they should have  1.2x speed friendship gain with sims of the same trait, LoyalAmbitious and Self-Assured Sims, but this does not appear to be accurate in regular gameplay.

I compared one sim to another (who not only has the Mean trait, but also has Bad Manners, Insensitive and Argumentative) while they performed the exact same interactions on a separate Loyal sim:
That is, Friendly Introduction>Monkey Around.

This interaction yielded him 11pts, while my sim with the HoYS trait 7pts.
This sort of pattern also seems to carry over into other interactions as well
(*Note: I've learned that Monkey Around is apparently not something that is permissible to Sims with the HoYS trait, which I hope is also addressed, as it's not malicious in any way, and is a very cute interaction often performed by teens autonomously; however, the following point provided below stands)

In other situations, my sim with the HoYS trait will gain no friendship points at all if she is the active sim selected when performing a conversation. Interactions performed on this sim do not seem to have this much of an effect. In addition, other Sims react negatively to the Sim with the trait as well, even Small Talk interactions appear to cause negative friendship points.

8 Comments

  • I personally have not tested, but here are internal files for reference. This is what should be happening, and if it is not—it should be looked into.

     

  • nempne's avatar
    nempne
    Seasoned Traveler
    1 month ago

    Yep! I'm confused why that doesn't seem to be the case atp. I have seen others say that they've had this/similar issues as well on other platforms, too. I don't know what's up with that, I just want to use this cute new trait, but it's proving to be very difficult.

  • Seeing this issue on Xbox Series X with all content installed and 24 maker packs.

    My Sim with this trait is actually really struggling to gain friendship, even Friendly Introduction isn't having it's usual effects for her and any relationship starts way below where it should be. It doesn't appear to affect romantic relationships. I tested 2 and my Sim maxed the romance bar easily while the friendship bar remained way below halfway and didn't appear to be moving. She matched the personality type and favourite conversation types of the target Sims too. This Sim was created as a sister of Summer Holiday and she has the Gregarious Trait from choosing the Friend of the World Aspiration.

  • Also having this issue! It took me awhile to realize it because once my Sim aged up to teen and took this trait, she was mostly hanging around with people she already knew. But I haven't been able to build any new friendships for her.

  • Ooooh is this why my HoYS sim is struggling so much to make friends with his stepchildren??

  • Aurorabig's avatar
    Aurorabig
    Rising Adventurer
    11 hours ago

    My sim is not able to make friends at all. Even when they do activities like playing video games or fishing, the plus sign is not showing, and the friendship bar is not moving. 

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