Free time- attraction wierdness
Zazazu:
I've always noticed that there is a tendency over time for two married sims to gain another bolt. I've had neutral chemistry ones pop up a bolt right after getting married, even. Wouldn't be alarmed.
Ryslin:
Oh?
Never had it happen before, course I just may have ignored the concept. All together I am happy about it even if it is old news.
doren:
Sometimes I think it is just me, but my sims don't always seem comply with their programming. I always had some couples where the attraction did not follow the rule. Actually I like them better because of it.
My favourite one has the combination aries/libra (aries are repulsed by libras),fortune/popularity. Their turn-ons match as do their personalities, but they should not have more than two bolts. They don't care and have three bolts. Sometimes I also get the impression that sims develop a stronger chemistry in a longterm relationship.
Another observation I made with Stella Terrano - who must have some special alien pheromones and is generally fancied by every male she come across - is that attraction can differ even when the "target" is identical. One of the NPC's sharing a dormer with Stella has three bolts for her (and a very high attraction score, checked via ACR), one of the students from the Maxis premade "Shifting Paradymes" has exactly the same personality, the same starsign and the same match with regard to turn-ons - he has one bolt for her.
cwykes:
I'm wondering if lag is an issue in some of these examples where attraction seems to have changed for no reason
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 July 14, 12:58:58
Sim bolts are "cached", so if something changes a sim's chemistry, such as fluctuation of turn-ons, personality, aspiration changes, love potions, etc., the results may be slow to display.
jefrir:
Relationships such as marriage do have a positive effect on attraction - this was stated when attraction was introduced, and I assume it is there so pre-existing couples have at least some chemistry. Which is why I find it so odd that all Maxis couples have 0 or 1 bolts - that's what I get when I deliberately try to make them as incompatible as possible.
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