Hello, Fellow Simmers,
So, I have a family in which the father is an alien and the mother is a human. He is a Genius, a Loner and a Perfectionist. She is Childish, a Goofball and an Insider. For the past few in game months, their relationship has been great! They flirted, dated, woo-hooed, got married and are now expecting a child. Everything SHOULD be perfect, except for one problem; for some reason the husband keeps using "Erase Memory" on his wife independent of what I tell him to do.
The first time it happened they were involved in a group chat with a few Townies who discovered he was an alien when he started to glow with Confidence (I keep him in his disguise about 95% of the time), so I figured he was aiming at the Townies and accidentally hit his wife. No matter, I loaded a previous saved game and made sure they did not attend that party; but ever since that event, if I don't watch the two of them like a hawk, he will attempt to erase her memory. Apparently it is linked to the Mischievous trait, in which he somehow got one rank while flirting with his wife.
What do I do?!? Micromanagement is part of the Sims experience, but playing the role of NBC censor trying to be one second ahead of the swear word is not at all fun. At one point, I decided to simply play the event out and rebuild the relationship, but the wife wanted NOTHING to do with him and every Friendly interaction failed to the point that they were two words away from being enemies. Is there anything I can do to prevent my alien from assuming the role of the M.I.B. in every conversation?
~~ Alorxico
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If you have GT you can set up a club just for the couple. I like to do this cause it helps promote romance or skill building depending on what they need. Then make the use of Alien Powers forbidden at least against members of the club.
I had one of my sim's erase his husband's memory right before he died but in a way that was funny. It was like he didn't want his husband sad when he left. It would make me crazy any other time though so I can sympathize.
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But to answer some questions, @zeldagirl180 I double checked but autonomy is turned off. @Bert1701 the first time it happened they were in a group. They had gotten invited to a lot party by some NPC and the entire group learned he was an alien because he started to glow. He then used "Erase memory" and it hit everyone in the group, including his wife. It is only after I reverted to an earlier save that I noticed he was doing it a lot, almost like the game remembered he had done it before and wanted him to do it again.
Very interesting. I had an alien that was not in my household erase my Sims memory. & I've seen it occur a lot between two alien Sims not in my household. I thought it was cool, as I'd never seen it done autonomously. I'm enjoying this for storytelling purposes.
However, sorry this is happening in your game. I'm wondering if this is a glitch or bug?
The tragic thing was, his dad died of old age before he had got back to friend status with his mum. So there was this teen, dad just died, and mum couldn't console him, because she didn't know him well enough to care.
I have a very serious Sim in one of my other families and for the longest time all of his default socialization options (the list that appears when you first click on another Sim to speak with them) were all Romantic, Funny or Mean. I finally let him be funny with someone and the number of funny options dropped like a stone.
@EmmaVane Aww, that's so sad. Did Mom remember the dad or no?
Me, personally I would love something like that to happen ... in both the game and life .... but that is another story.
I think if I wanted to rebuild the relationship after something like that, I would send the wife to the shower and take a steamy shower to get her in a flirty mood and then have the husband try to get the friendship/romance bars back up. One rejected romance and the bars take a hit and it can get into the red enemies zone quick.
And I could introduce the daughter to her mother.
Pretty sure the daughter erased her mother's memory of her.
Used a cheat (modifyrelationship John Doe Jane Doe 50 LTR_Friendship_Main) to get their relationship back. The parents are elders with glowing life bars, I don't want them to pass away being only acquainted with their only child!
Select the husband
Do Ctrl + Shift + C to open the cheat window
Type testingcheats true
[Enter]
Type stats.set_skill_level Major_Mischief 0
[Enter]
Save your game
Exit completely
Reload your game
His Mischief skill should now be nonexistent.
Good luck!
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That was to expand on the previous comment.