Has anyone noticed that ever since Strangerville was installed, romance has been severely nerfed?
Romance actions now seem to fail at an extremely higher rate. Proposing? Even with full friendship and full romance bars, and a "Steamy" conversation, it fails 4 out of 5 times.
It's gotten extremely difficult. No matter the friendship bar, if there isn't any romance bar yet, you can't do anything other than "Flirt" or else it fails. If "Flirt" fails, then nothing will work from then on, you might as well just walk away.
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No, that's been a problem for a while. I actually had to write a mod to remove it. The "Lovelorn" debuff. Hate it.
And before you ask, no, it's not my mod causing the problem. I tried removing it and the romance is still nerfed.
Last time I tried it was immediately before this first post. Was in Strangerville, At their home, inside, and it failed 4 times on full bars before finally accepting. I romance a LOT. It's only become a problem since Strangerville.
And I never use Unflirty because It'll hamper my romance ability.
Although... I did leave Lily Feng as "unflirty" because I wanted the challenge of having my "good, flirty" sim successfully romance an "evil, unflirty" sim. Was tough getting started but did it. Never tried to propose to her tho.
Most of my flirtatious actions are successful, but proposing has failed a majority of times. It takes multiple tries for Sims to accept, in both my girlfriend and my saves.
And I am aware that the proposal bug is well-known, but my Sims have been rejected while indoors as well.
I noticed that once a romantic option fails, ALL romantic options fail until you get rid of the "Awkward" or "Embarrassed" moodlet on the other sim. Even then, they tend to still fail after. I figured that was just how the game worked. It's just the initial failure is occurring at a much higher rate recently.
I suppose it's possible it might have been a recent patch. I tend to cycle through my games. I'll play Skyrim for weeks until I get bored then switch over to Fallout, etc. I just switched back to Sims 4 a month ago. Got Strangerville when it was released so It was about the same time.
Whenever it started, it's still a problem.
With all the problems recently, I'm getting bored with it again. Science career broken, Detective career broken, Romance broken, Gardening completely nerfed since Seasons. Might bug out until the next patch.
I don't know why maxis is hell-bent on nerfing everything in the game:
Gardening used to be an awesome way to make money. Grow Strawberries and Snapdragons until level 5, then splice them together to get Dragonfruit. Grow a single Dragonfruit plant getting 8 fruits a harvest and make 2000 a day. Since Seasons, they cut the harvest by 75% and the available season by 75%, now it's only 2 per harvest and they only grow in 1 season. Now you have to grow 4 times the plants and grow them indoors to get the same payout.
Science career is completely nerfed, since gardening doesn't work on community lots, it's almost impossible to get gold on any given day, making progression in that career take MUCH longer.
Now romance is completely nerfed, successfully romancing a sim takes MUCH longer now. You have to flirt once, and friendly for two hours or else romances fail. If the romance fails, it's best to quit for another day 'cause everything will fail.
It's getting too hard to do anything to make the game fun any more.