Cheating makes no sense

[May93]

1. Why would someone get mad if they see the person who is cheating with them being romantic with their husband/wife. They should already know that they're married and not get mad about it
2. Not all of my Sims are monogamous so it shouldn't even be considered cheating for them!

[Yazoo]

1) They get mad, because that married Sim, led them on. I mean how would you feel if you were married, and your spouse was cheating on you (Of course by your number one, it seems that the Sim in questioning wife/husband didn't know). And they were stringing their lover along. Wouldn't you get pissed? I know I would.

2) Cheating is cheating. Whether or not if the Sim is in committed relationship or not. If I fell in love with someone, and they claimed to love me back. And I found out that they cheated on me, or told someone the same thing. I would be very hurt.

Certainly, cheating never really makes sense. Or why people do it. But bottom line is, that is why I use the:

"No Jealousy At All" hack

Because then my Romantic Sims can't get bitch slapped for something that the other Sim knows is going on.

Therefore, I do like having Romance Sims, causes a lot of drama. I would know, I didn't have the "No Jealousy At All" Hack, and my Sims got bitch slapped, and all hell broke loose. Ah the good times.

[Fivey]

ACR.

That is all.

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

There are several good alternatives to EA jealousy . Levera's method/mod is one. This is what I use http://forums.modthesims.info/download.php?t=185019 , it's a no jealousy unless married/engaged/steady mod. If you use ACR you can have a great variety of settings for jealousy/faithfulness as well. EA jealousy always struck me as absolutely bonkers. One or two dates or hang outs and someone is jumping out of the bushes with an axe. What happened to "the talk" ? Where, in the real world one person says "Lets be exclusive " and the other person agrees.None of this presumptive idiocy.

[May93]

2) Cheating is cheating. Whether or not if the Sim is in committed relationship or not. If I fell in love with someone, and they claimed to love me back. And I found out that they cheated on me, or told someone the same thing. I would be very hurt.





It's supposed to be consensual polygamy, where both partners know that their partner has other partners.

^thanks for the link to the mod, I'm sure it will work for me

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

You may much prefer Fivey's suggestion, which was great. ACR is here http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?board=38.0 , many options. Set things by hood, dwelling and/or sim. Bring your reading glasses for the instructions , much text to familiarize yourself with it.

[Fivey]

You may much prefer Fivey's suggestion, which was great. ACR is here http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?board=38.0 , many options. Set things by hood, dwelling and/or sim. Bring your reading glasses for the instructions , much text to familiarize yourself with it.

Or just go by hands-on learning like I do.

[Peni Griffin]

Or just go by hands-on learning like I do.
It's certainly the most appropriate way to get to know a Romance mod. :luff:

[Dizzy-noodles]

EA jealousy always struck me as absolutely bonkers. One or two dates or hang outs and someone is jumping out of the bushes with an axe.

Haha this made me laugh so much! But I know what you mean!

[dieKristina]

Maxis stupid jealousy system used to always really annoy me. It especially made me hate romance sims, who were absolotely okay with themselfes having tons of relationships, but yet expected every single one of their lovers to be completely faithful to them. Talk about beig selfish, inconsistent and extremely imature! And a sim would be totally upset if someone they had a little crush on did anything romanctic with someone else - this despite the fact that the crush wasn´t even mutual! But even a silly little thing like that would still lead to cheating memories! :faceslap: I wonder what Maxis were thinking when they programmed the game like that - did they seriously believe most people would want it like that?

The day when I first tried ACR was absolutely wonderful - it made the cheating system work just the way I always wanted.:) Romance sims will, by default, never get jealous for example. That made sense to me, and ever since then I have started to like romance sims a lot more. And if you have two family sims who you want to be polygamous you easily change that thanks to the awesome mod that is ACR. I love ACR for many different reasons, but I have to say this is probably for me the most important thing it does. So, like other people already said, get ACR!

[Peni Griffin]

Eh, they get over it. Especially if you have Freetime and haven't changed the BFF behavior. You have to really work to romance someone so fast they don't become BFF with you by the time they catch you cheating.

It's the behavior of the relatives of Romance sims who catch discarded lovers getting on with their lives that I have trouble with. But that challenges me to come up with in-character reasons for that, and my game is richer for it.

[maxon]

Personally, I prefer the fighting and the hypocritical jealousy of the romance sims is spot on real life for most in my opinion. Though I have and love ACR, I use the neighbourhood option to turn jealousy back to Maxis default for everyone.

[dieKristina]

I should probably speak for myself then... I personally prefer ACR´s default jealosy system, but if other people like how Maxis made it; who am I to say Maxis did it wrong? When I read my previous message again it kind of soundet that way, which wasn´t my intention. And now when I think about it it could actually be quite interesting and dramatic to have a romance sim or two with tons of lovers, who expected them all to be completely faithful. It wouldn´t be a sympatic character IMO, but not all sims have to be nice. In fact those selfish, grouchy and slightly narcissistic types can be lots of fun to play with too.

[TortureTheNannies]

ACR might be my answer, if it runs right. I've always wanted to program a morality score for my sims. I use the clothes to remind myself who does what in the game. Sally Sue never kissed a boy in high school and she's been married to the same guy for all these years. Bertha Hot Pants rolled a very low morality score, so for her, jealousy shouldn't be an issue. She's also the one that can talk any man into bed.

I also use this to counter the sims tendency to accept all romantic offers. If Whitey Green is faithful to his wife , he can't accept offers from Ms Hotpants. So that means she cannot offer to him, sorry.. I don't have a hack for this, I roll their score and record it in their biographies.

[poisonapple88]

ACR is definitely a useful mod. It gets annoying sometimes when a married couple won't stop woohooing! But I like that you can change the level of jealousy. With ACR 2, you can choose how high or low a relationship will set off jealousy. While my romance sims just don't care if they're partner is cheating, a faithful spouse would go nuts if they had even a crush. Definitely play with ACR! If you don't like it then just uninstall it.

[May93]

Ok, I'm trying ACR but I'm completely lost and can't find instructions anywhere.
I'm a bit worried about messing things up

[Darby]

The zip file you extracted ACR from should contain a document.

However, if you downloaded ACR2, the document included is an overview that may not contain all the info you're looking for. For the basics, you may want to download the documents from the original version of ACR and read that too. Just be sure to go back to the doc for ACR2 in order to see what changes were made.

The docs for the original version of ACR are here:
http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=19.0'

ETA:
It gets annoying sometimes when a married couple won't stop woohooing!
Check the sims' "timers". If they're set for 24 hours, you'll be seeing more woohoo than if they're set for longer. I think it can go up to 72 hours.

[Luisa's Bones]

I usually don't have a problem with jealous sims because I try to keep my sims faithful to each other. But there was a time when a couple went out to a community lot and the wife was talking to another guy and they became friends, and a wish popped up that she wanted to slow dance with him. Since I had not played the Sims 2 in ages I didn't realise this was a romantic interaction. Before the wife and the male friend even took a step towards each other, her husband was there in a FLASH slapping her silly. And I was totally surprised, he came out of nowhere lol. He stayed pissed of for ages even after she tried making it up to him and apologizing, it still ruined the marriage. Ugh...

But I don't mind the jealousy being there, it's more realistic than no jealousy at all and makes them a little bit more human I think.

[Peni Griffin]

It's a huge improvement over Sims 1 jealousy,which generated huge fight clouds over partners fast dancing with old friends.