When my sim autonomously starts talking with someone out of the household, I like that they have a multitude of interactions that they preform. However, I hate that when I click on that other sim for the first time, I still have to do an introduction. Shouldn’t that have already happened? Why do I need a friendly introduction hours in game after they are already interacting?
Yes this - and family members having to stop what they are doing to hug and greet each other at the start of every new conversation. I mean - just eat your breakfast and say hi to your mom at the same time so you don't miss school because you had to stop eating, walk across the kitchen, hug her, then say hi, then walk back to the table, and then not eat because they have to go to school because the whole thing took 1 hour in game time.
I have noticed this bug as well. I can see the relationship bar has a significant amount of green with another Sim but my Sim needs to have some kind of introduction for me to initiate any of the interactions.
Yeah, I use to have dinner parties so that my household would at least be casual acquaintances with most of the people other family members knew, only to discover even if I see them chat during the event they still need an "introduction" to actually know everyone in the household.
This is in my game too but on the flipside, I don't want a bunch of random sims showing as friends to my sim. If my sims introduce themselves to someone they automatically jump to friends or good friends and I don't want that. Plus this would impact celebrity sims and their limited access homes. If there is an introduction done or assumed, then those people can come knocking on my sim's door. I do not know the answer for you here but I do know that what you are suggesting would be disastrous for celebrity sims.
I guess I tend to think of it as casual chatting in line at the grocery store (no names exchanged and you’ll either never see each other again or not remember each other if you do) or actually introducing yourselves and planning to keep in touch or at least recognize each other around town to speak again.
The automation only ever does the former. While I wouldn’t want it to put every single passing townie into the relationship panel, I can see how it might make sense that if the conversation lasts longer than x amount of time, or happens with an invited guest at a party hosted at your home lot, you might want it to progress to the latter.
My sim's world pretty much revolves around my households and other than mixologists, I would much prefer the world to be empty as I have no use for npcs other than as meals for my vampires, and they could survive just fine on plasma packs. And honestly, could do without the mixologists too because they are useless. Other than Thorne, I don't think there is a single npc that I or my sims would miss. ok well maybe Agnes too lol.
