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Offline piratemuse

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Social Glitches?
« on: May 01, 2016, 05:38:04 AM »
Hi! I recently downloaded the Sims 4 and after a few days I noticed that whenever I go to a household after playing someone else, social connections have disappeared for at least one of the sims. This obviously didn't happen before I played other households, but now it's fairly noticeable.

For instance, after playing about 5 hours of sister-sims and becoming good friends with neighbours etc, if I go back to their household one of the sisters will no longer have the neighbours even in their "text" options. 

It's not all the time but it's enough to be annoying. Anyone know how to fix it or is it just a classic case of "switch it off and on again" ?

Offline CuriousSim

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Re: Social Glitches?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2016, 06:30:27 PM »
I would make sure to make a save point, before changing. Sometimes, switching can have unintended side effects. Your conscientious Sim might not be as good of an employee, when you return, and you might find your Sim with a new girlfriend/boyfriend or having dumped a significant he or she formerly had. You might find other other anomalies, in the Sim's relationships. The longer you leave your Sim, to his/her self, the more likely that Sim's personal life will be radically different, than when you last played that Sim. As long as you're prepared for that, rotation can be a nice change of pace. Making a save point allows you to go back, if something drastically wrong happens, though.

I haven't used rotation that much so far, other than to water my main Sim's plants, while he's at work. In Willow Creek, I would switch to Travis Scott, while my main Sim was at work, to make him a bit more useful. I also used that as an opportunity to make him go to work. That was before I learned that unplayed Sims don't normally go to work. That's a little annoying sometimes, because sometimes visiting friends act like they're unemployed & visit at all hours of the day.



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Re: Social Glitches?
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2016, 10:21:22 PM »
Welcome to the forum piratemuse
This is the 'side-effect' of the relationship system that was patched in when Get Together was released. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do to change how the game does this. Some sims friendships get 'culled' even when you are still actively playing them so it's not a 'rotational play' thing per say. Although playing rotationally can add to the complexity of this game function.

Some relationship levels are immune to this 'relationship culling'. If you become Good Friends or BBF that sim relationship won't be culled. If your sim romantically exchanges phone numbers, becomes engaged/married, woohoos recently with a sim... that sim relationship won't be culled either. And by 'culled' I mean the relationship status, not 'removed from the game'.

(Some simmers are calling this function 'relationship culling' as opposed to 'culling' which is when the sim is deleted from the game when the worlds population goes above 220 in total. I think 'relationship culling' is a good phrase as it pretty much sums up what is happening.)
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