[NEEDS INPUT] Sims are no longer interacting with each other in bars etc

[rjssim]

Hi Crin, my own sim works fine, and if I invite friends etc to my sim's house they interact just fine. The problem is the background sims, the ones you didn't invite. When you go to places like bars, coffee shops etc as shown in the videos I shared they are just non-interactive and lifeless. I am sure the same thing happens at parks and the such as well.

[crinrict]

The ladies night was at a bar but maybe that's different.

I'll see if I can get some more testing in.

[rjssim]

Hey Crin, it might be worth taking a peak at my thread again in the main sims forums as well. Several others have posted feedback since I started the topic, and the current poll rating shows a lot of people are experiencing this issue as well. I think many people don't know that they should be coming here to post their feedback which is why I created the topic there as well.

Sims forum topic of issue:

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16647836#Comment_16647836

[crinrict]

Get them to post here. Would be useful.

I'm a bit swamped with RL until later this week.

[Rosehrtgirl]

I thought I would do some testing myself at the cafe. From my testing it seems to be a combination of relationship culling and sims introduction greetings. Townie sims can't talk to each other unless they know each other and it takes a long time before they'll usually introduce themselves to a sim they don't know. I had to spend almost whole day at the cafe, before a townie sim started to talk to another. sim in my played game. So the bug in a combination of relationship culling and townie sims taking a long time to introduce themselves to a sim they don't know. Which makes the game very dull. Terrible for story tellers though.

So that is where the deep cutting in relationship culling comes into play and causes this bug of sorts. In a new game a lot of townies already know each other and relationship culling hasn't come into play yet, so right away you'll see townies talking to each other, and lot shorter lines since their are fewer townies. And it doesn't matter if you have mods or not. I tested with mods in and out of the game. Got the same results. Same as with my played game. So that is my result of the testing.

[buhlynnduh]

This is also happening in my game. No one talks to eachother anymore. At home, at the bar, at the park. Everyone just stands around in silence unless I prompt them to talk. Which is annoying.

[manzana0807]

It's definitely related to relationship culling from the tests I've done since finally patching yesterday.  Sims that have a prior relationship are socializing in bars and other community lots, but if you have several on a lot with no relationship they will not socialize.

It's frustrating enough trying to play in bars, for example, where Sims have a tendency to just either swarm the bar or stand in front of the television when there are other activities on the lot for them to do, but now they just look like a bunch of zombies staring at the television or standing around the bar. It's not a lag issue for me at all. It's definitely caused by relationship culling.

[rjssim]

Thanks for the information, aparkison. I hope the devs will be able to fix this.

[rjssim]

As of the August 16th 2018 patch, this issue still remains in the game as shown in the video I just uploaded today below. Please, DEVS and Gurus, give us a sign that you are looking into this bug. Also, thank you for fixing the blurry screenshot bug.

[manzana0807]

No problem! I hope so too, because if this was intended to stop the rampant flirting that goes on, I'd rather have that than have all social interactions tanked along with the flirting! I always loved that in Sims 4 the community lots were always so much more alive than in Sims 3. Now they just feel like dead zones unless there's lot of Sims with prior relationships on the lot.