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Sim refuses to get along with one of his children??
justdancerebecca
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No matter what I do, their relationship keeps decaying. This sim has 5 kids, and only has a problem with one of the twins. Everyone else gets along. Whenever I leave them be for a while, I come back, and they're doing mischief/mean interactions and the conversation is unpleasant. I thought it had something to do with one of their traits, but they both have the insane trait, and neither of them have evil traits. I just dislike having to babysit my sims during a conversation. Maybe it's meant to be realistic, I don't know. Not sure how to go about fixing it...
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He had four children (3 teens and 1 young adult; 2 boys and 2 girls)
That's the one which is the problem. A sim with an insane trait will randomly insult other family members (or anyone, really), so two with the same trait are probably feeding off each other and making it worse.
I used to use the insane trait on my simself but I've had to stop because of the negativity it produces within the family. It's so annoying. I've got mental health problems and I don't insult my family members for no reason every so often. It's a shame because I like the trait otherwise...
Dad also has music lover and creative I believe.
I figured that might have been the problem, I just hardly ever use that trait so I wasn't;t sure
The kid, I can't remember. I think music lover as well. Sorry if my typing is off, I just woke up lmao
That's interesting. I've had problems with hot-headed and evil for obvious reasons, but not insane. I'll double-check the child's second trait, hang on
My simself usually has the bookworm, geek and insane traits. She'll be happily tapping away writing on the computer, in a good mood. Her husband comes in to talk to her and she'll insult him. No reason for it but the insane trait that I can see. Take the insane trait out of the equation and she's nice as pie.
I agree that certain combinations can exacerbate it, and it may be okay in your game, but it sure does cause problems in my game!
Yeah, it must be a combo thing then. Because I rarely ever combine insanity with geek/bookworm traits. Maybe she insults him because he doesn't let her work and be geeky?
I remember as a baby seeing the - thing float above his ands dad's head (couldn't figure out why), maybe that's one reason why it's low. He spent more time with the oldest child as a baby, I was hoping to work on their friendship as he aged, but nope lmao
He was a geek too, though lol. Maybe he said they couldn't get any more books because he'd spent all their money on action figures!
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Hm. Worth investigating, me thinks. Let me google that
I wish this would happen in my game because everyone loves everyone and that's too unrealistic!
That's interesting, I never took that into account. Sounds cool.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/818077/how-do-you-know-if-they-are-attracted
And there's some stuff in here that might give a clue
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/relationships/romance.php
So I'm guessing when they just don't seem to be compatible / get along as well as they do with others, it really is a mix of traits, emotions, moodlets, context, etc. Not sure you can call that an attraction system, but tbh, I hated TS3's attraction system. It's frustrating to have your founder suddenly flirt with the heir's husband just because they are magically attracted to one another. I always felt that the sims they were attracted to were rarely the sims I actually wanted them to be with, and then when they were happily attached and married and everything was going well, zooom, there they'd go flirt with some complete stranger, because attraction. That's why.
I had a sim like this once where he and his daughter we best friends when she was a baby and child, but once she became a teen their relationship was strained. They didn't speak without one being mean to the other, so I let the relationship decay and they didn't really speak again until she was a young adult. Not sure why this happened out of the blue, but its only happened the one time in my game.
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First of all traits have nothing at all to do with whether these Sims will get along or not. Just rule that out first. Because this is the TS4 and traits aren't going to influence whether the other Sim likes or hates this Sim. That is part of the older games, and is not part of this game. That's why so many people complain about traits in this game.
O.k. secondly insane does bring on many mood swings, anger, flirty etc. 99% of time it is flirty so they may not be getting along so well if one was angry when you weren't paying attention.
But that isn't even the real culprit. But the mischief skill It's the Real Problem. Even a good Sim will use it once picked up over and over and over and over. It overrides all traits and moods. It ruins many games. It should be fried.