Just something I was thinking about last night. Apparently this game has this "Gender Preference" as a hidden feature but what if it was made as an option in CAS?
When a new Sim is created, you get the option of what gender preference they will favour; male, female, both or undecided. For example, if you create a female Sim who only prefers men, they won't be flirting with other women. That doesn't mean they might not end up interested at some point. At the start of the TV series The L Word, Jenny was straight and in a relationship with a man and not once thought of being with another woman. When she meets Marina who's clearly attracted to her, she's not interested at all but over time something developed between them. Maybe this could be a feature in the game?
Now, if you have a female Sim who flirts with other women, after a couple of times the game notices this and asks if you'd like this preference set, so she will only be flirting with other women and no men. I have a female Sim who has numerous other women as lovers so it's strange seeing her in a bar flirting with men when clearly her preference is set in stone.
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Yes it does, but no they are not un-romanceable. Don't know where you got that from. You can influence that preference by flirting with any male or female sim. The preference influences their autonomous flirting and betters the chance of romantic interactions to succeed for a particular gender, but you still can romance the other one, you just need to put in some more work. If you get them both flirty it's even easier.
I like that we can't see it and I like that it's still player defined. I don't need a "it's this" or "it's that" in CAS, and it works well like this so, if it ain't broke.... This has been a BG system since TS2 days. So honestly don't know what you mean by "before" lol
In the meantime, I downloaded a mod that hides the romance option for Sims of the same gender as my Sim. There was one to do the opposite too. I like this because it keeps the game from turning my Sims bi or gay when I switch to another household to play with someone else.
Yeah, but like...that's kind of my issue? Pointing back to my previous example, why would it be "more work" to romance a lesbian in a marriage of convenience with a man? Or, for that matter, a bisexual who was married, but then got divorced or their spouse died or something. There's no reason why the gender of the other sim should factor into how "hard" it is to romance them.
I should just be able to designate sims I want to be truly bisexual, is what I'm saying. I don't want to have to "work at" flirting with them in equal measure from different genders. I just want them to be bisexual.
Also, it's kind of a messed up implication that those with a strong preference for one gender or another just need "more work" put into them. I would actually rather that it be impossible, and we get a notice response flirting saying something like, "Sorry, I'm not into guys" or something like that.
Again, I just want to able to designate and control the characters of my sims. I want to be able to say "this sim is bisexual" or "this sim is gay" or "this sim is straight" and have that stick. The game doesn't know what stories I'm telling and shouldn't be in control like that. If it's an option to have it game designated, that's fine, it should be an option, not a universal.
And again, the idea that a character could be a "lesbian" sim...but still will sleep with a male sim if that sim just "works hard" at romancing her enough makes me actively queasy.
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I think we should all be able to choose the sexuality of our Sims, many of us like making Simselfs, or very complex stories.. and these things are important.
For example when I create a Simself.. I want her to be the most accurate she can be to me.. I want to play a Sim that is the same as me.. and when my Sim goes to flirt with all the girls or is happy being flirted to by one.. well.. it definitely stops being what I would do and feel haha and when I play stories I want my Sim to follow the story I gave for them..
I really want this to be a feature.. I hope it becomes one