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Open Relationships in TS4
Pinmat135
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I think that one thing that needs to be added to TS4 is open relationships. "Ask to be in Open Relationship" should be a Romantic interaction once you have some amount of pink in the relationship bar (maybe 20? 25? 30?) that adds a new relationship-thingy (ex. Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Married, etc.) called "Open Relationship" (and of course in Mean there would be something turning it back to a normal relationship). The effects would be as follows, using Sim A and Sim B as our examples in an open relationship, Sim C as Sim A's romantic interest, and Sim D as Sim C's other romantic interest: If Sim A flirts with/woohoos with/etc. Sim C, Sim B won't be jealous/sad/whatever; if Sim A and Sim B are romantic in front of Sim C, Sim C will not be jealous/sad; if Sim C and Sim D are romantic, Sim A will not be jealous/sad; and if Sim A is noncommitical, while they have a boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse that they are in an Open Relationship with, they will NOT have the Tense moodlet (I forget what it's called) coming from being in a relationship - maybe they even have a Happy moodlet for a bit after getting married/getting a boyfriend/girlfriend, "In Love, But Not Tied Down"! This would be a great addition to the game.
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I feel that Sims 4 is so weak on the jealousy and rage systems. In Sims 2 even parents-in-law would be mad at the cheater. Your sim would hate the cheater for a long period (while their image was show red in the relationships menu.
I want polyamory, but they need to make monogamy stronger for polyamory make any impact in this game.
As for polyamoury - I like the idea that it should be balanced by certain traits and aspirations, as in not every Sim would accept it.
Agreed. I've been searching for ways to make poly relationships work in S4, but I think we just need a romance overhaul. When I played the S2, I used to LOVE cheating
The only time I got a somewhat realistic/satisfying reaction to cheating was with these twin sisters, but maybe it has to do with the fact that they are both teens? I never had adult Sims react in this way when being cheated on: (screenshots in spoiler section)
She actually started crying!
Never seen that.
Would be a good reason for them to add Wants & Fears to the game, as well as the Fear emotion. Hopeless romantic sims could feel the fear of being cheated when seeing their spouses talking to much with a certain sim. I really don't understand why Fear wasn't in the base game.
The player trait does that. It's the reward trait for completing serial romantic.
Anyway, I wouldn't want something like this to work via existing traits. There's something fun about playing a non-committal, serial romantic sim who plays the field but still gets jealous when their partners cheat on them. I wouldn't want these sims to just not care about it at all. If they want to add it as like a dialogue option then fine I guess. Kind of destroys the entire purpose of the serial romantic aspiration though so
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I agree, we need a general romance overhaul, of which this could be a part. EA kind of passes off Tense as the Fear emotion - when there's a fire, for example, Sims get Tense - but I'm not really feeling that comparison.
It would only be an option, if you wanted to have a "non-committal, serial romantic sim who plays the field but still gets jealous when their partners cheat on them" you totally could, just don't "Ask to be in Open Relationship."
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It would allow more flexibility in your Sims' relationships.
I'm confused guys, there is a no jealous reward trait after finishing the serial romantic aspiration; it will avoid other Sims getting jealous, so you can have relationships with a number of Sims at once without issue. There is also the jealous trait( you can pick in cas its the green eye), but I feel that it is wayyyy too much for me. My Sims can't even talk to her friends without their significant other getting mad.
I've never finished the serial romantic aspiration, so I didn't realize that. But, I'd like one as a reward for purchase, so any Sim can use it.
I loved in the sims 2 how if one sim caught the other cheating there would be this big drama going on and it showed how much the other sim was hurt. I feel like the sims 2 had more real relationships and emotions then the sims 4 does.
That's... not what an open relationship is.
On topic, I've wanted this for a while now. I sometimes use a mod (one that I can't discuss here <_____<) to achieve this but it'd be nice to have without mods and without needing to complete the Serial Romantic aspiration (or cheating the "player" trait onto every participating sim). On that note, it may be a glitch in my game but I've noticed that, even if all sims have the player trait, there's still a relationship loss when a sim sees two sims they're involved with being romantic. No jealousy or negative moodlets, but they still get a relationship drop. Anyone else noticed this or is it really just in my game?