Oh, Where's the Wedding Ring?

[Swede1992]

Well I'm split. I'm happy for you Justine that you at least have come some part on your way of restoring your bug (if it was that other husband that was blocking your sim), but then also, these bugs that hinders some players (for example yours truly) to have their sims engage in these social commitments seem to have come with WA or at least any of the patches because it wasn't there at the beginning. This got me thinking, is it possible that all those troubles are just variants of the bug Justine's having? That the sims have foreign families that doesn't necessarily show up all the time?

This should really be fixed by EA sometime.

[LivvieLove]

Eh I'm sorry to hear about your luck, I have dealt with something similar where I got caught in a tryangle with a random daughter to one of my sim teens. Well I didn't even mind it at all, I was almost thrilled with the random drama of it all (because I made it so she grew up very strict) so I decided that I would add her to the family (using a form of adoption called Testingcheats then add to family then disabling the testingcheats.), however she only glitched up my game badly for talking with her and being around her because of the constant glitch of her being randomly related. So I would suggest not going to the person because it will definitely cause a massive glitch.

[Justine]

  what's even better, now that I've travelled to Egypt I have another daughter! Her father just died btw., and for two days my Marlene has been mourning him.

Does this bug mean it's impossible to complete the Heart-breaker LTW with VA Sims?...It's a pretty major inconvenience for someone who wants to play a "dirty Sim".

And could you possibly explain to me what is this yours truly bug you were speaking of? Or at least link me the appropriate topic?

 

[LivvieLove]

There is no link to it, but my bug was whenever I would talk to the child the relationship bar (that shows up when you start to speak with another sim in the top left-hand corner of the screen) would not go away and many other actions would get built up on top of it until it froze and glitched everything. Even so I hadn't known of reseting and maybe that might help but that game was gone because I had finally given up on any hope of getting rid of the child. Any interactions at all with her would involve the freeze and the random glitch (which was quite unnerving) so I finally gave in. Hopefully that doesn't happen to you though, and to be cautious I wouldn't go after the child she has found until you are sure that reseting would fix the problem, and if you do go after the child and reseting doesnt work... you can say goodbye to your sim family.

[Justine]

Thanks! I've spoken to my chinese daughter in China and nothing happened, but I wouldn't risk bringing her to Sunset Valley. Dealing with six Sims at a time is enough a challenge The house's bathroom is already glitchy, she'd probably loop them constantly.

[Justine]

Just to give an end to this story:

I put in a new character in the house, Henriette, an evil-House, m.d.-like woman, and held a beautiful wedding ceremony for her and Jules. His teenage daughters were her bridesmaids in white dresses and helped with the party, everyone had a great time. Marlene got there straight from work, dressed in her best with a "stabbed in the back" moodlet, and congratulated the newly-weds. For now all of them live under the same roof and it's peaceful and quiet. Marlene's and Alvi Miraj's daughter had her birthday on the same day and grew up to be a very pretty bookworm. You can imagine it was rather hectic, having two parties the same day

[rokrchik]

Interesting. I did a search on these forums looking for an answer to the same issue. I have two Sims that I pulled out of CAS and moved into separate homes. I'm trying a legacy where I only control one member of the family while everyone else is complete free will, and then pass the torch to each generation. So these two Sims met, became best friends, she moved in they've had two babies but NO ask to marry option pops up. I'm thinking these are fresh Sims who didn't have time to create relationships with anyone else. But now I think/wonder..... if they are pulled from the already made Sims, could they have pre-built relationships? I will have to check to see if one or both has a family tree (other than the two kids they currently have). Not something I would have thought to check!

Thanks,
rokrchik

[Pam]

It's possible that this bug has been fixed.  In my current family, one of the daughters was going steady with Lindsey Landgraab.  She got a wish to break up with him, which she did.  Then a couple of days later, she met Mortimer Goth and worked up to asking him to go steady.  No problem.  Let's hope that the issue has been resolved, at least with Sims going forward from now.

[rokrchik]

I couldn't wait to race home last night and see if perhaps either of my pre-made Sims I pulled out of CAS for my challenge had other family, hence the ask to marry option not being available. Imagine my surprise when the only family that showed up in either family tree were the two children they'd had together. And still no marriage option. It's not really a big deal, I mean the challenge doesn't state the two have to be married. It's just annoying. To be honest I have not had any couples have that option in the two or three weeks I have been playing. The only couple to get engaged in game, did so on their own while I was playing another family.

Odd.

Kerry

[Pam]

I'd say give it a try with a brand new freshly made Sim and see what happens.  If the bug has been fixed, it's been very recently, so any existing Sims may still be bugged.

[rokrchik]

Thanks Pam. I think I might just be too impatient. Somewhere I saw that one of the two sims has to find the other extremely irresistable (or something along those lines) before this option pops up. So perhaps it just needs a bit more flirting. I'm not giving up yet!

[Pam]

True, it does take a good bit of time to work up.  It doesn't show up after just 3 or 4 interactions.  Then it also depends on the mood of the Sims.  Sometimes the other Sim is having a bad day and it just doesn't work out.  And if your Sim has low needs, the option won't come up, either.

[rokrchik]

So last night I patiently waited for both my Sims to be in relatively good moods and then just kept blasting the 'romantic' interaction. I just went in a circle: flirt, amorous hug, kiss, compliment. Did that several times and then noticed I had a new option! Embrace! So added that to the mix. Then finally saw 'massage' come up - he's only had that want locked since forever. And with a few more rounds of that I finally saw that Summer found Joe "extremely irresistable" and I got the 'propose to go steady' and then egagement, wedding options. Yeah! But I forgot to have her do it so they had her last name. Instead of Joe Blow and Summer Dream becoming the Dreams - they are now the Blows. *snort*

Kerry

[The Illuminator]

You can always go to the city hall and change your name...

[Pam]

Excellent news, rokrchik!  And like The Illuminator said, you can just take them to City Hall and change their names.  I think you have to go during business hours.