Sexual Preference Not Changed By Woo-Hooing?
Ancient Sim:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 August 06, 10:08:23
First, a sim has to exhibit a gender preference (they don't come with one, so homemade sims never attempt it). Secondly, the sims have to be unattached.
How strong does the gender preference need to be and what exactly is "unattached" in Sim terms? If they are living with someone but not engaged, only in love, would that qualify? What if they are engaged but not married? I made two Romance Sims very strongly in favour of the opposite sex and threw them together, but all they did was talk. Both are living with someone, one is engaged and the other isn't. They had only encountered each other in passing (had a 0/0 relationship), but the male is 100/100 best friends with the female's live-in. Not sure if that would stop them flirting with each other or not. I think flirting is coded-in with some Sims anyway. Not sure if I mentioned it here, but in my game Buck Grunt always flirts spontaneously with Jill Smith (maybe others too, haven't tested it yet) and it's the only time I've ever seen that happen with a pre-made Sim.
ZephyrZodiac:
Keanu Broke flirts with anything in trousers that he doesn't happen to be related to!
Oddysey:
I wish there were more configurable options in the game . . . like maybe two seperate power want trees for Rromance sims: one that was all about promiscuity, and one that was about romance but not kids. The "Have a child" fears would come up more for the second one; the first wouldn't really care. And multiple power want trees for Family sims would be nice: one that was about having tons of kids, and one that was more about having a larger extended family, so they would get more "relative gets married" and "relative has child" (I don't know why that's not a want that ships with the game . . . seems kind of obvious.) and wants like "Have/Be Friends With X family members". Heck, while I'm on the subject, having seperate "paranormal" and "science fiction" want trees for knowledge sims, and some more non-personal power wants (relative saved from death, self/relative saved from death X times, relative abducted by aliens X times, self abducted by aliens some obscene number of times, etc.) would be nice.
Also, it'd be nice to be able to pre-configure a CAS sim's gender preference. I guess they didn't put that in because they don't want to be accused of shoving the whole idea of having "gay sims" in peoples faces. They could have at least made a cheat code, though.
Is it even possible to hand-edit sexuality in game?
I think the WooHoo not affecting it thing is probably a combination of technical stuff associated with it being an object-based interaction and the thought that if a sim is at WooHoo level with another sim, they've done enough romantic interactions to define their sexuality anyway.
At least it's not binary. Maxis does seem to grok the idea that sexuality is a range rather than a "gay/straight/bi" choice.
gali:
You can choose the sex preference with the SimPe. When you select the character (sim), You can set his/her sex preferences - equal/women/men. It a slider, which can be dragged wherever you want.
Oddysey:
Yeah, I know. It's just a bit of an annoyance that there's no way to do it in-game. <sigh>
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