August 2020
August 2020
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.65.70.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play rotational play through? Install new packs?
What happens when the bug occurs? I will start playing a family and every sim in the game will have forgotten/deleted all the sims they have interacted with besides the people they live with. They will forget their boyfriends/girlfriends, club members, coworkers, good friends, acquaintances etc. This has happened multiple times and I am tired of cheating back everyone's relationships.
What do you expect to see? I expect to see my sims remembering the sims they interact with, especially with high or significant relationships.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
I just downloaded the Nifty Knitting Pack and it did this again. All of my relationships for all of my sims are deleted. This is very frustrating as I spent a lot of time working on these relationships. I'm not sure when or why it happens. Sometimes I don't catch it until later but it is very frustrating.
August 2020
August 2020
WOW! My sims even forgot friends that are in her personal group and she used to live with. So aggravating.
August 2020
I've had this issue also with some households recently. Mostly the relationships return as they used to be when they meet the other sim who has just vanished from the relationships listing again. But it's a pain in the butt to go visit them all (or even trying to remember who's missing) >.<
August 2020
August 2020
My sims are losing relationships with family members they've known. Parents/children etc.
I currently use the mccc mod to fix it but have never ran into this issue before.
September 2020
I've just found this issue in my game. It's actually the first time I notice it. I was planning to marry those two sims, and now, I will have to start over.
Now for the questions:
- They are completely removed from the friendship panel.
- Less than one sim day passed when I found the issue.
- They were friends, as long as I remember.
- I use no mods at all.
I mainly play with one family. However, I usually take one sim night for playing with the other families, when I make 1 or up to 4 families pregnant, and then go back to the main family. I usually go back around 7 am, sim time. However, this time I got issues with a family (Tried to make a house on a hill, had to make some improvements so that the sims could walk home), and had to go back at around 8:30 am. I noticed this around 10 am, when I tried to call the other sim to hang out, and was just not there. Since I was told about the family tree bug, I've been backing up my game in a second save, however, when I checked the backup, this issue was also present there.
Both sims were in saved households (no townies or unfavorited sims involved).
If it turns useful, I could send the saves.
Talk to you later!
October 2020 - last edited October 2020 by EA_Lanna
I have some additional info from our engineers on the rules our game uses for relationship culling:
1. The relationship will not decay if either the romance or friendship track goes above 20 or below -20. This means that relationships that have progressed beyond these points are safe (unless they then fall into this range).
2. Decay will not begin unless there has been no relationship progress in either direction for a day.
3. Certain relationship bits can prevent the relationship being culled anyways.
4. Even after decaying down to 0, the relationship will then still give an additional day before culling is done. If the relationship does move away from 0 in either direction, then the relationship will not be culled and the process will start all over.
After reading this, if you still believe you have a bug in your game, it'd be much appreciated if you could share a save file with me. You can DM me the link to your save, thanks for the help!
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October 2020
@SimGuruNick--thank you for the update!