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Can we please have a sexual preference option?
bruceleroy98
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I'm getting tired of having to struggle to undo unwanted same sex relationships in my game. I understand gameplay freedom and I have nothing against homosexuality but I don't want it in my game without my control.
Please make this a gameplay base game update soon. It ruins the flow of the game. Make it optional please.
Please make this a gameplay base game update soon. It ruins the flow of the game. Make it optional please.
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"This Sim is attracted to Male/Female/Both/None."
Would make some of my households easier when I don't have to watch every Sim with a flirty mood.
We want: Faeries, with a good ability tree, hopefully before summer 2024.
What do we want to get rid of: The holiday bug, the constant showering and the weed glitch.
It's extremely hard to "play my way" when I have to fight with the system to keep my sims acting appropriately to the story I've decided.
I'm surprised they never implemented a system like that.
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They could add a text to the player 'Do you want so and so to accept the flirt?' if it came from a Sim who is not their preference and the player still be in control to answer yes, change their Sim preferences or yes accept it.
and same goes for opposite: i want no unwanted straight relationships in my game for my gay/lesbian sims either
and tbh meanwhile i sort of get sims making relations while i don't play them (probably result of them interacting as walkbys) it also drives me crazy cause nothing stays and sims be forgetting they know their grandma and grandpa cause i was playing another family
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When I don’t play my households, they always seem to be developing flirty relationships which is very frustrating.
Brent Hecking has romanced a lady townie. 🤷🏼♂️. That doesn’t make sense.
Somehow Bob Pancakes has a romance with Katrina Caliente! 😂🤦🏼♂️.
Dylan Sigmore has also flirted with a lady townie. The pink bar is there but lower than quarter way. 🤷🏼♂️.
It’s funny but very annoying at the same time. I fix it by using the ‘let’s be friends’ when I next play them and find out who they have been flirting with.
I do wish we had a way to turning romance off outside the lot were playing. There’s no sense to the current system. It’s very immersion breaking.
If that is the case it must be relatively recent as TS2 played sims are neutral until the player makes the selection. At least some of the townies are pre-set.
Yes WonderfulWhims allows you to choose sexual orientation along with quite few other factors for attraction. Basically turn ons and turn offs. Also I do believe you can go in and setup a percentage on how many sims in the world be straight and how many will be gay.
ETA: I went in and checked and yes WW, does allow you to control the distribution of sexual orientations of newly generated sims, including asexual and bi. The only way to control existing sims is through the like/dislike option in each sims personal settings. It's cumbersome but at this point it's the best way I know of to fix the issue.
TS4 doesn't have the hidden option in code to stick to the gender we first pick for our Sims' attraction other like we do in TS2. As you know TS4 Sims will accept love from any other Sim. Many say it's because they are coded to be Bi. I don't know about the code in TS4 but modders would, but since there was a huge thread on TS3 about wanting sexual preference and that has been over ten years ago, it must be impossible to do in CAS or Maxis would have eventually done it, I think. Surely they wouldn't ignore such a longstanding request for over ten years to put this option in CAS. lol
The T in LGBTQ already means trans, so it doesn't need duplicate mention. And "Free Love" isn't specific to LGBTQ people. Beatniks and shortly after, Hippies, were the first to make a Revolution out of promoting "free love" and the vast majority of them were straight, white, and privileged. The point being, whether and to what degree monogamy matters, is separate from orientation or gender identity.
I too am annoyed by how meaningless relationships and woohoo are in sims4 due to them not caring, and hooking up with anyone and everyone, but that's not because of LGBTQ inclusion or representation, and one doesn't imply the other.
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In TS2, once you did the "Scope Room" interaction or the "Check Sim Out" interaction, every other Sim on the lot would start showing their preference. You remembered correctly. I just finished playing TS2 and just did this.
I wasn't referring to monogamy as being desirable, nor did I say that free love is specific to LGBTQ community, but rather sim's predilection for hooking up with literally anyone. They basically have no taboos, and anything goes regardless of sex or marital status. As far as sexual orientation goes, everyone's bisexual by default, the only reason some don't get engaged in bisexual relationships is because they don't get the opportunity. Also, happily married sims will get pink bars with whoever pays them a compliment, monogamy is again not a choice but a lack of opportunity. So, maybe it's a lazy way to code relationships in game and not a desire to include LGBTQ representation but the fact remains that sims do not discriminate and have an anything goes approach to relationships.