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An update for the categories of interaction?
kinot9229
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Am I the only one who thinks there are too many interactions under the “ friendly” category ?
Every time it costs me so much time to find the interaction that I want to use.
Every time it costs me so much time to find the interaction that I want to use.
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What puzzles me about the friendly category is that all the "complain about X" type actions are "friendly". And when I use "be friendly" as a club rule, almost the only friendly interactions that have a club thumbs-up symbol are the "complain about" actions. Most of the other friendly interactions don't have the thumbs-up symbol and don't earn club points. This seems a bit weird.
Agree. 'Previous' would be nice. Sometimes I forget which interaction I'm looking for by the time I get to the end. 😄
Honestly it's been cluttered with trash since the BG. And they have been adding the most useless friendly interactions since then. There are so many interactions in there that don't do anything, or that don't give more or less relationship points, regarding of traits and such.
Do we really need the "Boast about vampire lifestyle" interaction or whatever? It doesn't do anything. Or "confess fear of vampires"? Why is that even available when talking to normal sims?
Do we seriously need to have the "talk about favourite bands" or "recipes" or "books", etc? They are no different from each other, it just annoys me this pickiness when they all have the same end result and animation.
Gossip also doesn't do anything, the gossip animation doesn't even make sense to me, sims should be whispering to each other or animated as if they are making fun of someone. In past games gossiping was a whole thing, you'd get to know secrets of other sims.
Discuss interests also doesn't do anything.
And all of these useless interactions just clutter up the tab. I wish they just had the "chat" option and then we'd be able to change the topic, like in previous games.
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Ask about day made sense in TS3, but because sims would react according to their mood when asked about this, and a thought bubble/speech balloon would pop up to illustrate their feelings. In TS4 nothing happens ahahaha As a matter of fact you don't even need to ask the sim about their day because you can see their emotion on the conversation UI. If it were up to me either updated it or delete it. It's starting to get really painful to scroll through all of those.
Socialising in TS4 is one of the worst features of the game since the BG, not just because sims are all the same but because of this pie menu mess. It just becomes such a chore.
There are a few friendly interactions that make sense and should be kept separate:
Get to know => Reveals a personality trait of the target sim and adds it to the relationship panel.
Ask about career => Reveals the job of the target sim.
Compliment and brighten day => Builds charisma.
Cheer up / talk about negative emotions => Helps ease the negative emotion of the target sim.
Declare weather preferences => Exactly what it says on the tin, although I have yet to check if it actually makes any difference the next time the sim is surprised by their favourite or least favourite weather.
There's more interactions that can be really helpful, but always disappear in a sea of useless synonyms for a friendly chat. Because of this, I constantly have to pause my game while trying to make two sims have a meaningful conversation.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
It would give them more depth if discussing favourite writers with other bookworm sims gave them higher relationship points but it doesn't. And if it made other sims bored because they don't enjoy reading, but it doesn't. They are all just for the flavour of the thing which makes them useless and clutter up the real interactions.
This would be so helpful! I overshoot the one I wanted a lot.