[OPEN] Excessive hugging

[unseenlarks]

thank you @crinrict.

[MsPigglyPooh]

My thing is it gets really annoying when they're eating and get up to hug, especially being home with each other all day it's not realistic. When you're out and you haven't seen a friend in a while or meeting a friend or family member it makes sense. but its every time my sims start a conversation at home with the family they have to get up and hug its too much for me. over the top.

[Orig1nalM1ssTee]

I'm not sure when this started but it's probably one of the most annoying things in my gameplay.

My sims sit down to have meals and if I direct them to have a convo (ask about day, ask about school etc etc) instead of starting the conversation (like they did before) they instead get up and hug each other. After that, it lags for what seems like forever then they sit down (in some other seat) and start talking. 

Why should dinner take 4 hours to complete?

Is there a fix for this?

P.s. it also happens while watching TV together. We are not SIMS 4 now, why are little things like this still an issue?

[crinrict]

Hi @Orig1nalM1ssTee

I merged your post with open bug report on the issue.

[comicsforever]

I always really like it when my sims play on there own and mine don't do it often

[crinrict]

Are you sure you posted in the correct thread @comicsforever ? This is about excessive hugging ?

[comicsforever]

you and another person were talking about excessive violin playing on here I was just replying to that sorry that I took things off topic

@crinrict

[crinrict]

Must have missed that.

Seems we're getting too many of these excessive things now. If they do all this stuff excessively, it may not be so bad and needs to go to the general forum for feedback.

[comicsforever]

it seems odd to me that everyone seems to be seeing different excessive  things I'm not really seeing anymore hugging then usual or excessive violin playing or excessive  trolling

and I play this game a lot could there be a bug ? I really don't know what to make of this @crinrict

[simvasion]

It's not necessarily "hugging" which is the problem here in this thread - what it seems to be is excessive "greeting".

If sims haven't spoken for a while, they need to greet each other again, either with a hug or a kiss on the cheek or whatever other greeting is appropriate.

If both the sims are sitting at a table eating, it interrupts that, they get up, pick up their plates, greet and then put the plates down and resume eating.

This is not the old behaviour. They used to just stay seated and do a simple wave to each other at the table or other seated greeting. This started happening after the Parenthood patch.