This seems like a very basic, everyday thing that has been overlooked for years. A romance GP would really save this game for me...
So yeah, unrequitted love. One sim falls in love with another, while the other sim either doesn't know about it or doesn't feel the same. Fantastic for stories, gameplay, etc.
Sims team, pretty please consider adding this feature.
PS. I'm not looking for mods (I'm sure there are some), I would like this added to the game officially
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Like, if Sim A was super attracted to Sim B (maybe you could pick their turn ons and turn offs like in the sims 2) and Sim B was less attracted so Sim A, Sim B's romance meter would go up slower than Sim A's.
Love wouldn't be impossible, but it would take more time to win Sim B over.
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
Read Sim 66 here:https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/978195/sim-66/p1
https://kelloggjkellogg.blogspot.com/2020/10/sim-66-prologue.html
Yeah, MCCC does a great job breaking sims up, if anything. I had two sims that I wanted to marry, they were soulmates and everything, but when I switched households for a bit I got a notification that not only did one of the sims marry someone else, he got that random sim pregnant as well. I was upset, but I just rolled with it.
It's not the same as "official" unrequited love, but when I went to play him and his new pregnant wife, his ex kept calling constantly. It was actually pretty sad.
But I would love it if EA added something that could mimic this and have their romance/friendship bar differ. It seems like such a simple addition.
It could be pretty funny also but whew can you imagine the complaints?
Now, I have had some sims have a stronger romance bar for their partner than their partner does for them, but it's pretty rare and has only happened in my game if I play from just one sim's perspective. I do think it'd be really cool to see entirely one-sided love, as you said, OP; where one sim may barely know another or not know them at all while the other is completely in love with them. There's so many story opportunities there! And just imagine if your sim could receive anonymous love letters from them or small clues here and there that indicate the identity of the sim who has fallen for them? That would add so much dimension to the romance department!
A romance pack that fleshes out this area, adds reputation and more realistic consequences to cheating, new interactions, and possibly even new wedding items has been something I've wanted for a long time now. Hopefully we'll see something like this in the new year!
Nah, don't think they'd ever do it like that. It should work like the attraction system. It could even be toggleable just like a sim's autonomy is. Maybe even add to that a trait that makes sims fall in love easily (there are people like that) and a trait that makes sims very unlikely to ever fall in love (there are people like that as well) etc.