Strange Family Ties
Velax:
Anyone noticed how ancestors further back than grandmother/father don't count as family, too?
Andygal:
I noticed that a looooong time ago.
Ancient Sim:
Quote from: Velax on 2005 October 03, 03:28:02
Anyone noticed how ancestors further back than grandmother/father don't count as family, too?
I think maybe the main reason for that is to lessen the amount of telepathic memories. For example, Mortimer's grandparents only have memories pertaining to him, whereas if they recognised Cassandra & Alexander as family, they would also have a bucketload for them as well. I suppose one answer could be to tick the family box in SimPE (without specifying a relationship) and use the "no telepathic memories" mod to stop those memories being added, although that would only work if the sims concerned didn't actually know each other.
Velax:
Yeah.....I just thought it was odd that people could have relationships with their great-grand children. Sneh.
Ancient Sim:
Well, I got Desdemona to check someone out and this brought all her flashes up. She had two for Jonathan, but that might have been because he hates make-up and she wears it. Anyway, still no option for anything fruity from him and when I asked him to check her out, there were no hearts. I therefore gave them an artificially-induced mutual crush and WHOA ... it was like turning on a tap, they couldn't keep their hands off each other. He got all the romantic options, but still retained Family Kiss. Unfortunately, neither of them could perform any interactions with flashes on, which means the flashes can't be built-up. I exited without saving the crush part, but I really do need to find a way to remove this non-existent 'family' connection.
Another rather puzzling thing with Desdemona ... when all her flashes appeared, she had one for Don Lothario (relationship 0/0). I thought this was rather odd because she's Knowledge and he's Romance, not to mention the fact that he was her mother's first husband and is the father of her two half-siblings (and with Maxis strange rules, that should probably constitute family). Anyway, shortly after he happened to walk onto the lot and as he walked past Desdemona, the flash developed a cross through it. Nothing had changed, so maybe Cassandra was putting on the 'fluence from beyond the grave, or Desdemona suddenly realised who Don was. Rather amusing in a way, I suppose.
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