Familial chemistry
Brynne:
Once again, not an incestuous issue. Not technically. Sorry, sanmonroe.
Can anyone explain to me how in-law status affects chemistry? I have a situation that perplexes me. I have a sim named Josh, who, since NL, apparently has a thing for his brother Bradley's wife. They have 2 lightening bolts for each other. If I have any sims in the room that Josh shares 3 lightening bolts with, including Josh's fiancee, when asked to "scope room", Josh will always say "Dayna is hot!". He always, without fail, chooses Dayna over any other sims in the room, even those he has more chemistry with. He's obsessed with her when she's in the same room as him. I have so many pictures of Josh doing the "la la la"...thing over Dayna; it's become a new storyline. Dayna is romance, Josh is romance, Bradley is popularity. Bradley and Josh are both Taurus and have almost identical personalities. Bradley and Dayna have 3 bolts together. I can't figure out why Josh and Dayna don't also have 3 bolts for each other, and why Josh is so taken with her with just 2 bolts. The only thing I can think of is that the familial ties must factor into the equation. Josh has all the flirt options available for Dayna, but Dayna has only the family options for Josh. Could that lose them a bolt? And is Josh reacting as though he has 3 bolts, because maybe they actually would have 3 bolts if Dayna wasn't his sister-in-law? Just guessing.
Brynne:
Is it just me, or is the site slow as molasses right now?
Anyway, I set up a situation and took a screenshot. You can see in the relationship panel that Josh has 3 bolts for the sim with the bladder desperation going on, lol. He also has 3 bolts with the female sim in the orange dress, but she doesn't show up in the relationship panel in this shot. And you can also see he has 2 bolts with Dayna. Josh is scoping the room, and Dayna is the only one glowing.
Dark Trepie:
It *could* have something to do with her marital status. I use "could" loosely based on what I just experienced. This one girl I had living at college had two bolts with the Lahma mascot and three bolts with her boyfriend. But when she graduated and I got her married to said boyfriend, she went down to one bolt with the mascot.
I guess its the chemisty systems way of dischoriging cheating or whatever. 95% of my sims would be adulterous little scampes if I didn't intervene, slap them on the wrist, and tell them "NO!".
There are exceptions however. Take John and Jennifer Burb for example. In my game, even with complimenting turn ons and offs, the best they can hit is two bolts. Jennifer's zodiac is repelled by John's. John will swoon over her when I use "Check Sim Out", but she just goes "meh" when I do the same for her. When the welcome wagon came by to greet them after I moved them in Brandi Brooke was in the group, and John instantly got three bolts with her. And they were both swooning over each other.
I usually play my families monogamously, but I think I'll use this as an excuse to throw some drama in. Happy families get monotnous after a while. And if Jennifer doesn't care one way ot the other about John, he should probably go and find someone who does...
gali:
You have to test 3 fits:
1) Zodiac-sign fit (Taurus is attracted by Aries and Libra) - what is the girl sign?
2) Turn-ons and turn-offs - perhaps one of them lack the same turn-on with the other, which can reduce the bolts.
3) Mutual interests - if they have not mutual interests, it can reduce too the bolts; they have to have at least 5 mutual interests.
You can arrange it with the SimPe.
In this case, you have to decide which one of the brothers will stay with the girl, and reduce the relationship between the girl and the other brother. If Josh is turned on by blond hair - make the girl with black hair, and so on.
It is natural that a romance sim will drive attraction, no matter who is in the room.
I have much more hard situation than yours: Tank Grunt is now Knowledge (Capricorn), married to a beautiful townie (Aquarius), with a baby, and wants to flirt with each "skirt" around, no matter if he has 3, 2, 1 or zero bolts with her...:).
His mother, Lyla Grunt. was a romance sim, and inherited him the romance genes...:).
I always am on guard, because he is a dangerous sim, and can "slip" quickly to an affair, although he is madly in love with his wife...:). He forgets the flirt wish right after I fulfill any of his other wishes, and again concentrate only in his wife.
He has 3 bolts with the fiancees/wives of his brothers (Ripp and Buck), and every now and then he wishes to flirt with them - tough guy...:).
Brynne:
The brothers are nearly identical in personality, have the same zodiac sign, almost the exact same interests, are in the same career field, same career level (not that that matters), the only difference, really, is that the husband is Popularity and his brother is romance. The two brothers also have the same traits that Dayna is attracted to. She likes hats and fitness, they both fit the bill. I'm thinking you're right, Trepie, and the family status is what's keeping them at two bolts. If I have Dayna scope the room, she will always swoon over Bradley. If I have Dayna ask Josh if he likes what he sees, he...well, likes what he sees. If I have Josh ask Dayna, she says "meh". And, like I said, she only has the family options available for Josh. If she wants to kiss him, it's a family kiss. Even though in her wants panel she wants to "woohoo" Josh!
I *could* change it so that there would not be any attraction between Josh and Dayna, but this is kind of a fun storyline. They haven't woohoo'd, yet, although there has been some casual kissing and flirting. I don't know if there will be any woohoo between them. But there will be plenty of woohoo-al tension!
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