[NEEDS INPUT] Household Members Aren't Maintaining Friendships (from library

[paradiseplanet27]

I think I've started noticing this issue too while I was doing my CAS makeover project. I could've sworn a played household I saved with high relationships ended up resetting themselves to default when they're placed into a new file. This I always knows happens all the time to couples who are simply boyfriend/girlfriend, but recently I noticed some family relations were reset to default too...

[paradiseplanet27]

I can now confirm my households don't keep their current relationships at all when placed directly from the Library to a new save at least; they default to whatever they start with in CAS.

[SweetieWright_84]

Glad to know it's not just me. Hopefully there will be a fix for this soon. I haven't really played much with Live Mode because of this. I don't want to have to go through my entire save file and fix every relationship. That's a lot of households.

[paradiseplanet27]

It's sad too; I have this household with a dog that's supposed to be full friendship with one of his owners, and the married couple in the same household is supposed to have max on friendship and romance, while the teen son is supposed to have 0 friendship with his father, and none of this is being saved at all in the Library. It frustrates me.

[SweetieWright_84]

Just a little update on this issue. I just tested to see if the latest patch (today-2/5/19) had fixed it. It has not.

[SweetieWright_84]

Another update: Tested to see if this issue was still there after the latest updates (4\16 & 4/19/19). It's still there. 

[SimQARobo · Accepted solution]

Hello.

My understanding is that this is by design.  Saving to library resets relationship levels (although it does save family relationships: father, mother, brother, daughter, etc.).  It's similar to how relationship levels are not maintained (they gradually decay in this case) when Sims exist in world but are not actively played for a while.

[SweetieWright_84]

I don't think it used to be that way. They used to maintain all relationships, if I remember correctly. Thanks for replying.

[manzana0807]

I don't think it was always this way either. It seems like it might have changed around the time of Seasons being released? I'm not sure, because I've always kept track of relationships outside of the game, but I remember starting a new game around the time of Seasons and being confused at why my family had their friendship levels with each other reset.

Even though I do keep track of these things for my own records, it's still super frustrating to reset all the relationship levels between family members every time I move them to a new save.

[SimGuruNick]

I checked this on the May 2018 Patch (which was before Seasons) and the relationships were resetting for me. I double checked on the September 2017 Patch and was seeing the same thing. 

My test steps: on a New Game, two random Sims created in CAS and placed on a random lot in WC. Cheated them to full 100 Friendship. Manage Worlds -> Household Management -> the Edit/Add button to take them into CAS, Save to Library and added some nonsense to the Description, so I could differentiate between the original family that was already in the Library. Back to Manage Worlds, Save and Exit to Main Menu, New Game, random Sim on a random lot, Manage Worlds, Library, placed the household and yep, the relationship was reset back to around 50.