Was looking through my past threads and noticed that I'd asked why step-family members and aunts/uncles by marriage weren't labeled as relatives back when TS4 first came out. Years later, the Sims 4 team hasn't done anything to change that. My gameplay is heavily family-centric, so it tends to get annoying.
Tbh, I'm no expert on this stuff, so what're some of your thoughts on it?
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As far as I know, no one's said anything about the reason why. I've brought it up in a feedback thread one of the gurus has going sometime last year, but didn't get any response. I'm really hoping that they'll do something about it in a later update. Or at least tell us why they haven't.
Yea, I'll go with laziness, it's been years, I've commented on threads about this before too, and it hasn't changed. And it's frustrating, because it should be simple.
I mean, I'm not super upset about it, but I kind of just wish it was a thing, you know?
Not only should there be a relationship tag for all first generation relatives, there should never be an instance where first family relationships fall below the acquaintance level.
In the case of second generation family at least fix it so a child doesn't have to introduce themselves to their Granparents.
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I wish they were but TS3 is the only game that ever did this.
My sim girl adopted a toddler, she is listed as the boys mother. The girl ended up falling in love and getting married with a male sim while the boy was still a toddler. So the male sim pretty much raised the boy from toddlerhood. The male sim is a roommate, not step-dad, not dad, but roommate. Said boy is now a YA and he and his "roommate-step dad" have a half pink romance bar.
It should not be like this. It needs to be fixed.
Last year, in another save, I moved in a widowed elder with his son's family. The elder sim, who had seen the couple grow from adolescence, had the whim to flirt with his daughter-in-law for being "near a friendly relationship". Just no.
Another unrelated thing that bugs me is no BIO area for them.... I want to write a back story ti each sim but can lol
I get what you mean... to give the benefit of the doubt I guess they want to see it as being more realistic in a sense. For example, my oldest met his grandfathers (my dad and my husbands dad) and one grandmother (my husbands mom) once and was around them briefly before we moved out of state was was a year old at the time and only knows of them through phone contact (Mainly my dad) he has never met my mom. My second child has never met any of his grand parents. In a realistic sense I guess thats why they have relationships made this way... idk
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I don't allow my sims that get a second partner to have children if they already have a child with an earlier partner just because of this. Very irritating.
I hate to go back to a previous version of The Sims, but in TS2, it didn't list step-parents in the tree. However, there was the 'family kiss', so the step-relationship was recognized in-game as a 'family' relationship. Step-parents couldn't flirt with their step kids.
It would be nice to see the relationship recognized in-game as it's listed in the family tree or as a family relationship. I just want the problem fixed so my step-parents stop flirting with their step-kids.