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Frustration ... GTW Alien rant.
Gruffman
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For starters, I don't use cheats. I roll with the semi-random events that occur in my game and just incorporate it into my story. Right now, I am on an alien adventure type legacy and it is frustrating me to no end.
My alien sim loves to use the mischief skill, erase memory on her family members, autonomously. Her husband and her oldest child no longer know her, she is headed for divorce from her husband. Yet she still knows them. Her husband, who she laughed at when she erased his memory now gets upset when he ( who doesn't know her ) rejects her flirtatious actions.
I don't mind the action so much, it is the fact that it is not player driven. It is worse ( IMO ) than a random flirty introduction or some of the other non-player controlled autonomous actions.
Whomever thought the autonomous memory erase was a good idea thought so very wrong. I am about ready to stop with my alien legacy and just go back to a human based legacy.
My alien sim loves to use the mischief skill, erase memory on her family members, autonomously. Her husband and her oldest child no longer know her, she is headed for divorce from her husband. Yet she still knows them. Her husband, who she laughed at when she erased his memory now gets upset when he ( who doesn't know her ) rejects her flirtatious actions.
I don't mind the action so much, it is the fact that it is not player driven. It is worse ( IMO ) than a random flirty introduction or some of the other non-player controlled autonomous actions.
Whomever thought the autonomous memory erase was a good idea thought so very wrong. I am about ready to stop with my alien legacy and just go back to a human based legacy.
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The funny thing is, I HATE the mischief social option and avoid it like the plague. This NPC alien had NO points in the skill and yet he was able to erase his wife's memory. And I have had it happen with other sims too. It is massively annoying and I hate it.
Perhaps you may line to post feedback on this AHQ EA site thread
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/TO-TEST-Alien-Memory-Erased-Can-you-get-it-back/m-p/5297492#M23841
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
I only played one alien until they nerfed the abduction situation. He never did that, is this a possible bug? I hope they put this back in the control of the player. It was fun to erase memory for those who found out he was an alien, it fit his story, but not if he does this on his own. Not sure where that save is (I have started over ten times with fresh folders over and over) but he never did this on his own but been a very long time since after the alien abduction patch since I played any aliens.
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
While they are at it, they might want to 'tone down' the use of the workbench. I thought that was cool for them to be attracted to that object, finally, but since they changed it in a patch it has become an obsession almost as much as trolling the web.
the wife thought it would be fun to memory erase her husband. She is pregnant with their first child ... and now mom and dad are on the rocks. Dad has been moved out to find the love of the rest of his life and mom gets to raise the child as a single mother ....
'Heh heh heh, it will be priceless when I make him forget all about me and our life together.'
An hour later ~
'How dare you forget all about me and our life together!'
I am sorry that this occurred in your game
You could perhaps try rolling back your save game file to an earlier version, before she memory erased her husband . These links explain how to do that.
https://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-restore-a-previous-saved-game-in-the-sims-4/
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/783120/how-to-roll-back-your-save/p1
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
She gets upset when she tries to do an automatic love interaction and he rejects it ... then both friendship/romantic take hit after hit till they are both pretty much strangers.
Thanks Rose.
I try to roll with whatever happens in the game and this is one of the things that just happens. It is just so annoying because it happens so frequently and its not player controlled.
Just like I didn't like my Sim autonomously looking up vampires on the computer, prompting Vlad to break into the house and take his blood. I had made sure my two Sims did not interact with vampires in any way, or talk about them, and the moment I look away, boom, Pete's on the computer looking up vampires.
I do believe in Sim free will, but you shouldn't have to direct them every second to make sure they don't screw up your story.
Yeah, it's horrible to have to put it in the family inventory so they won't go blow money building something every two seconds.
I can see where that would mess up play and I wasn't aware of it. That would be horrible to work so hard to get the relationship meter where you want it and to have go to zero or worse the negatives. I really haven't played aliens at all yet and this makes me not want to play because I would be really upset to get to where I wanted to be and have it all taken away by a glitch ect. Personally, I hate having to up anything so that would really hit me hard. Sorry about your game and the time you put into it.
Oh thats not good at all! I didn't know that could happen!