Pairing Sims and NPC interactions I am curious about this topic. What methods do you use to pair up your Sims? Do you make predetermined couples? Do you pair up your Sims by astrological signs or aspiration type, or do you use some other method? I am also curious to know what NPC relationship type interactions you have seen in your game. I have witnessed NPC's flirting and also smootching and making out with my PC controlled Sim. One of my Sims fell in love with a female Sim without any direction from me other than to have him chat with the female ocassionally and to invite her over to his house. Her actions looked like she had the "hots" for this particular Sim and would be very similar to what I might do if I wanted to pair up a Sim with a particular NPC. -Hrnac
I have three teen couples in my hood currently; I paired them by having them go steady with the one they built a relationship score with the fastest. It's interesting though how the one girl, Kellsey, is totally in love with Alberto. She always wants to go out with him, but she always wants to sneak out with next-door-neighbor kid and best friend Jack. I chalk those instincts up to her mother's romance aspiration coming out in her even though I made her a knowledge sim.
Well, when it comes to picking a mate, first, I examine the available prospects, then pick the best one based on the kind of attributes I'd like to instill in the children. My view of what constitutes good attributes being documented elsewhere in the forums. This gives me a tendency to avoid townies, as their personality types are rarely any good, as most of them are lazy, worthless bums which are well past the point of corrective parenting. This will happen for sure if there's a preexisting relationship, but I've never observed an uncontrolled sim attempting to initiate a romantic relationship. That would be very strange, then, because I recall Maxis specifically stated that Sims don't initiate relationships like this without player input. This is consistent with observed behaviors, as no NPC has ever wrecked a party this way. Heh, I wouldn't quite say THAT. It's more likely that Alberto is a stuffed shirt and not the sort of guy you'd want to go raise hell with in the wee hours of the night. Maybe he doesn't have the kind of stamina needed to be up at night.
What happened between the two Sims (Jason and Renee) goes like this. I created Jason as a new Sim and moved him onto a vacant lot. After building a small house for him, I had a lone male Sim stop by for a visit. I had Jason strike up a conversation with the NPC and then had the NPC leave. A short while later the standard Sims 3 person welcom wagon team showed up and Jason greeted them using nothing more than the "chat" option. While the welcome wagon was still present, a new female sim named Renee stopeed by. Renee was created by me some time ago and is not a townie. I had Jason greet her and then chat with her. During the course of his chat with Renee, his short term relationship value soared to 44 with the long term value climbing to 6. After the initial chat, I let Jason run on his own for a bit (I always use free will) and he chatted and told a few jokes to the other sims. Renee flirted (she used the charm option) on her own with Jason several times before the gang ultimately left. The next day after reviewing his relationship scores with the females, I had Jason call up renee and invite her over. After greeting her and chatting for a bit, she again flirted with Jason. By now he had become friends with Renee and had built up a short term relationship value of 55 and a long term value of 30. Before she left, she "smootched' Jason on her own and all of a sudden jason developed a crush on her. I did not control Jason during this time other than to greet Renee and to do an initial chat with Renee. I subsequently invited Renee over the next night and once again greeted and chatted with Renee. This time I decided to turn off free will so I could observe what Renee might do. Once again, she did not dissapoint. She told an assortment of dirty jokes, flirted using charm, caress and also showed appreciation using admire and backrub. By the end of the night Jasons short term relationship value was at 100 and his long term value was at 55. The fourth night had Renee coming over once again and I had Jason greet and chat with Renee as usual. Renee proceeded to do her assortment of charming, admiring and dirty joke telling, and they soon became best friends. Soon after that she used the "makeout" option and Jason then fell in love with her. I found the above very interesting to observe and the outcome was most interesting because I only used the chat option once per night with Renee. Another interesting thing that I observed was that on two seperate occasions when Jasons comfort score was very low, she gave him a back rub after seeing his complain of a sore neck. This could have been a coincident, but it was cool to observe. So tonight, I suspect that I will have to finally interact if Jason eventually wants to "woohoo" Renee. I do not believe that an NPC can initiate that option. It was kind of neat watching an NPC sim "chase" after a user controlled sim for a change. -Hrnac
It's possible that Renee is a Romance sim. And J.M.: Poor Alberto absolutely resembles that remark! He's so serious all the time. I look at it this way, eventually I'll have two couples with very close ties thanks to Kellsey's persistence in sneaking out with Jack.
I just took a look at Renee in SimPE and she is a Family Sim with straight 5's for her attributes. Jason is in love with her but she only has a crush on him. I will run Jason a bit more tonight and see what happens with Renee. -Hrnac
Cool story. Let us know what happens. I would say that Renne and Jason are compatible with their star signs. In SimEnhancer, you can see that. Interesting that a family sim was so flirtatous. I too have found some of my sims just hit it off with a NPC sim, but with others they don't. Good luck to Jason!
