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JuniperWhimsy
Seasoned Veteran
4 days ago
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[LS] Romance Satisfaction doesn't appear for pre-existing player made couples

This was something I've noticed in all my old saves after buying and playing with Lovestruck - every pre-existing couple I had made (usually from playing in game, I haven't tested couples I might have created as a couple in CAS) don't have any romance satisfaction.  It doesn't show in their relationship profiles and I don't get the pop ups telling me it's gone up or down, it's like the mechanic just doesn't exist for these pre-coupled sims.  I don't know if this was by design by the devs, but in my opinion it's a bug as all the other Lovestruck romance gameplay elements are present.

Example; I have a save where I made two single sims.  They met through gameplay and became a couple.  After Lovestruck came out and I installed it I returned to the save.  I went into CAS and added things they both found attractive and unattractive in other sims and this changed their attraction level to each other.  However, neither of them have any romance satisfaction AT ALL.  I've played with them for multiple sim days, their romance bar is maxed out and still NO romance satisfaction.  (see pics below showing their romantic feelings for each other - no romance satisfaction exists.)

The only way I have found to get romantic satisfaction for any couples I had in saves pre-dating Lovestruck's release is to end their romantic relationship (either by breaking up or asking to just be friends) and then starting their romantic relationship from scratch.  

It's super frustrating as it means I can't do the new aspirations that came with Lovestruck on any of these pre-existing coupled up sims as the aspirations require romantic satisfaction. And some of these couples are married and I don't want to break them up as then it looks like they got divorced which isn't the story I'm trying to tell in most cases!

I play on PC and I've noticed this in all saves I started before Lovestruck. Some are vanilla saves, some have mods and CC removed and some are still modded. 

cc or mods removed
live mode
never cc or mods
pc

4 Comments

  • HollownessDevour's avatar
    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    4 days ago

    When I got LS and had this issue with my pre-existing couple, but they were only romantic interest and moved up to engaged or something then it triggered. So I do believe this is an issue for existing couples but some people just needed to up their romantic status to trigger.

  • siladris's avatar
    siladris
    Seasoned Adventurer
    3 days ago

    I think the game only checks to see if Romantic Satisfaction needs to be triggered when the romantic relationship first goes above a certain threshold. So for instance if the threshold was a romantic bar of 25 and your couple had a maxed relationship when you installed Lovestruck, it won't trigger because the game isn't seeing the relationship go from like 23->26. 

    You could probably do a work-around by instead of actually getting them divorced, you could try to cheat their romantic bar down to like 10 and then back to 100. There was a thread on Reddit with a similar issue where half of a couple didn't get the "Fell in Love" milestone because she wasn't in the active household when they met the threshold, and he was able to fix it that way. 

  • JuniperWhimsy's avatar
    JuniperWhimsy
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 days ago

    Thanks siladris​ and HollownessDevour​, what you've said has made sense.  Interestingly though, the couple I mentioned above are part of a rotational save and while playing the other household in the save I got the "I found a ring in my partner's bag" pop up.  I choose the "do what you think is best" option and when I returned to play the couple they had become engaged 'off-screen' but still had no romance satisfaction.  I guess because I wasn't playing with them when they got engaged the romantic satisfaction didn't trigger when their romantic status changed.

    It's just dumb and annoying that this is the case for pre-existing couples, especially married ones.  It shouldn't be necessary to cheat to lower their romance level to get romance satisfaction once it goes back up, purely because there are no romance statuses left after marriage to trigger satisfaction!  I really hope this wasn't by design.

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