Is it not possible to DRASTICALLY reduce how much strangers come up to you to talk and partake in your current conversations uninvited?
You end up with a relationship panel crowded by strangers even though you never indroduced yourself and if you are flirting everything will get awkward and fail and there is no way of getting people out of your conversations.
Yes, random Sims joining your conversations has gotten much worse lately. I'm talking to another Sim and one walks by and stops right in between us!
Another thing lately too, I'm harvesting/digging for rocks and I'm being tagged 4 times by the same rando!
My newest peeve is the random Sim the game now adds to our relationship panel whenever I travel. So not only are we tagged whenever we leave our home but they game is forcing a rando Sim on us!
Same issue.
It's definitely annoying. I was playing through high school with a teen sim, and after EVERY. SINGLE. PERIOD. Mr. Morlind would come all the way over from class 2 to talk to my teen and interrupt my ordering lunch, or completing homework, or studying for the exam. I don't think there was a single time where the period ended and he didn't come over to talk to my sim. SO RIDICULOUS.
My Sim is also being randomly conversed with by townies. I can see the two talking and building relationship, but if I click the townie Sim I must introduce myself to them, despite us having a relationship bar.
This must be a feature, as I don't recall a time when it didn't happen, but I don't think it should be! If the controlling Sim speaks to other Townies while on a date or event, fine. But I have taken Sims on dates where, in no time, the couple will be joined by 5 others in conversation, and it just makes it harder to play smoothly. Every chat function takes a {hot} minute to complete, so multiple conversation hijackers on a timed and rated event, really messes things up.
And I'm really loving planned, goal-oriented events lately. I wasn't into them at first, but they're really beneficial for a number of reasons! Anything to decrease snags when you're already planning a lot is important! And this isn't the first time I've rediscovered old features for new gameplay. It happens all the time. It's why I love this game!
It has always happened, just not to the extent that it is now. I don't know how to explain it, but at some point something shifted. It is probably partly because so far my sims have always been celebrities and they have always been fairly unapproachable. So people trying to butt in on a date or whatever was annoying but it didn't last long. Now it is perpetually aggravating because no sooner than I cancel a group conversation to refocus on the date or whatever, a new group conversation is immediately going and this should not be. These conversations override anything I direct my sim to do because they won't stop the current conversation and if I cancel it then they're immediately stuck in another. It is so difficult to get them to DO anything because of it. and it wasn't always this way. That I know for a fact.
I have always thought that this is a bug because WE should decide who our Sims talk to and don't talk to. I feel like they could make it so player controlled Sims have a higher priority than townies. I also wish it was easier to say goodbye to a Sim because even without introductions a group conversation happens.
update for my post from 12 days ago:
I aged up a toddler a couple of days ago, Tamar's 1st day as a child, got a phone call from someone she has never met, not even when she was an infant or toddler, they called to congratulate Tamar for her birthday and instantly became friends!! Now I can say that friends are forced via a phone call, even if you don't answer it as it happened while Tamar was at her 1st day of school! My other issue is going to be that her social aspiration requires her to friend 2 adults and fear she will have 200 friends before she becomes a teen!!!!!! 😬
I also get this a lot, especially when dumpster diving; random sims decide the best time to talk to me is when I'm rummaging around in trash, lol.
My game has mods, but I haven't turned them back on since the last update and they still come talk to my sims.
(PS dumpster diving is a favorite feature!)
This is so frustrating, especially when you're on a date and some third person just starts following you around and talking to you.
