[OPEN] Romantic Relationships decay/become negative fast with no interaction

by margar8263
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Re: [OPEN] Romantic Relationships decay/become negative fast with no interaction

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I've also had this issue on my Mac. I get the romance bar all the way up, then it goes away within a day or two.
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Re: [OPEN] Romantic Relationships decay/become negative fast with no interaction

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This has been happening to me as well even if they're cuddling its showing green hearts with plus signs but the romance relationship is going down further in the red. It seems like you can't do anything. You have to stay up there butt just to make the relationship last lol

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Re: [OPEN] Romantic Relationships decay/become negative fast with no interaction

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This is a big issue for me as well. The notices are not at all in keeping with the interactions of the sims, either. So they might have just been very romantic, then a message appears that x is very unsatisfied and "If you are mean to me I will split up with you!" completely out of nowhere. I don't mind fluctuating relationships but they have to have some basis in logic!

I also had one sim who was obsessed with her partner not giving her attention whenever he was spending time with their kids. That seems plotworthy, except she kept getting those moodlets long after he was dead. And I kept getting messages about her being unsatisfied and needing to improve their relationship...

 

I've since started a new game, but in the new one, I had this happen right after a sim's husband died of anger. About 24 sim hours later I got the message that the two sims were very satisfied in their relationship and their romantic connection would keep growing. He does appear as a ghost sometimes but had not done so at the time I got this message - she was still in mourning. (also his partner is afraid of ghosts, so their interactions post mortem have been eclectic to say the least).

 

I think the whole thing has randomised and the messages that come up/sudden relationship decay isn't really tracking what the sims are doing, how their relationship is, their interactions and so on. Plus, even when sims are happy, and don't have a mean trait, they suddenly will start 'unpleasant' conversations or 'awkward' conversations...

 

This will sound terrible, but I ended up pairing a family where the parents were best friends and had no romantic connection at all. They had babies together by science and they were great parents, with healthy social interactions and no drastic and unprovoked mood swings. It was a big relief :/ Right now I have all but given up on proper sim relationships because maintaining them is next to impossible. This despite having Lovestruck installed because I *want* my sims to have productive relationships...


Sidenote - I have not found that taking sims on a date makes any difference to this. I've had it happen right after coming back from a successful date...

I have no mods or CC installed so I know this is definitely a game twitch.

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Re: [OPEN] Romantic Relationships decay/become negative fast with no interaction

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The same happens to me. The game is simply unplayable. It's very sad because within minutes, relationships go from 100 to -100 without any reason. I can't play anymore, and it seems that this problem won't be solved anytime soon because people have been experiencing it since July, and nothing has been done. I recently started playing The Sims again, and it's a shame to see it like this. Frown

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Re: [OPEN] Romantic Relationships decay/become negative fast with no interaction

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@margar8263 I’m having the same issue. Even using a cheat for the relationship doesn’t work. It just goes right back down.
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I'm glad other people are having a similar problem. My one sim didn't see her s/o for *max* 3 days (over the weekend) because she had family and skill stuff to do and when I checked on Monday morning, their relationship had gone from full romance and almost full friendship to full red romance and about a quarter red friendship. This was with no notifications or moodlets/sentiments about it and when I checked, her satisfaction was still 'fine'. Not sure about his.

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@margar8263 Happening to me currently.
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Update 

 

they are now divorced 

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quickly losing romance

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Since the Lovestruck pack came out, I've had pretty significant issues with my Sims losing romance with their partners at a quicker rate. I know this is partially because of the new features, but it's gotten to an extreme level. My current Sim has 5 romantic relationships and right now, all of those relationships are going well. They're all satisfied and I've worked hard to build the romance up, yet in a matter of in-game hours, the whole romance bar vanishes. And I'm not exaggerating. I spent a full day building the romance bars back up with all partners after first noticing that they were getting low, and then sent my Sim to bed. The morning after, two bars were suddenly in the negative and one was getting close. Two were fine. I cheated the bars back up to 80% so I wouldn't have to repeat all that work, but literally two hours later (in game), the bars were completely depleted again. It's really frustrating not being able to keep them up when there's no reason for such drastic decay, and it's weird that it only happens with 3 of 5 relationships when they all have similar dynamics and satisfaction levels.

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Re: Romance relationship bug

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@Nutzella20 I would say that lovestruck has been confusing. I see that they need more interaction, though you have to study to find how it works.

I will try this.

though I find it also seems that people are sad all the time.
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