Is anyone having difficulty with making friends lately? Especially re: the Social Butterfly (kids) aspiration. It's the last one I need for my sim, but the whole friend-making process seems to be taking for-e-ver compared to when I last played a few months ago.
The other thing is, the friends aren't registering in the Social Butterfly "Make 2 adult friends/Make 3 kid friends" goals.
So my sim spent an entire day interacting with Ulrike and got the green relationship bar up quite high, but the game was still saying they were acquaintances. I gave up, sent her home, and quit the game. The next day (both in-game and IRL), Ulrike is showing as a friend, but it hasn't counted that friendship towards the final social butterfly goal. I haven't switched to any other child aspirations as he's already finished the others.
So I managed to reacreate the problem. I've just had the same problem with one of the townie kids. His green bar was definitely well passed halfway, but they weren't friends. I restarted the game, suddenly they were good friends, but still no registering for the Social Butterfly aspiration. Again, he's finished all the others, I haven't changed aspirations.
Before Restart:
![](http://i.imgur.com/zwb31nh.png)
After Restart:
Now they're good friends
![](http://i.imgur.com/zwb31nh.png)
But still no takers for Social Butterfly
![](http://i.imgur.com/psT1oza.png)
Any ideas? Tis a vanilla game. I am lacking a few stuff/game/expansion packs.