I have this Sim that is a total pain in the fernisnay! I matched his or
her signs perfectly with the other Sims and he can't get along with anyone!
What do I do?!
Oh, dear. Unfortunately, you have been stuck with what I endearingly call
a "Difficult Sim." A DS is one of those funny little quirks in the game (and
by funny, I mean, totally aggravating), where for no reason at all a Sim
that you made was generated with very few interests. This means, that while
all your other Sims enjoy talking about everything from A to Z (sports,
politics, law, weather, fashion), this one Sim will only be interested
in 1-3 things. As a result, he is constantly bored by what all the other
Sims are saying, and is incompatible with most everyone, even if his signs
are compatible with his family members or friends, and you've made him
as nice as can be! I have no idea why this happens (if it's planned, a
bug or what), but when it happens, it's very frustrating!
There are only really three solutions to this:
1. If you catch this right away (and I mean, right after
you've created your family and moved them into the house), redo the family
in Make-a-Family.
2. If you have Hot Date, send the annoying Sim to a store Downtown
where he can buy a magazine that will boost his interests. Also in Hot
Date, you can choose the "change topic" option while the Sim is tapping
his foot impatiently as he's conversing. ("Change topic" is a new option
that comes with Hot Date allowing Sims to change the topic of conversation
if it's going poorly.)
3. If you don't have Hot Date and don't want to do option #1, then
deal with it. But trust me, it won't be easy! With a Sim like this,
you have to be very careful to avoid any type of social interaction where
he will be talking with the others. This means: no TV watching (he'll talk!),
no group activities like chess (he'll talk!), and no eating meals
together (he'll talk!). Before I got Hot Date, Bella Goth was the protypical
"Difficult Sim." Within a Sim week, I managed to plunge her relationship
to Morty from a 100 to a -50, where she absolutely hated him! I quickly
learned that I had to have her eat meals by herself and keep conversations
to a minimum.
Oh, but wait, you cry! You need to boost this Sim's social! How on earth do you do that when you have to keep the conversations to a minimum? His social level will go down otherwise! Easy-- only have the Difficult Sim initiate conversations, not the other way around! If your other Sims want to initiate conversation, cancel out the action and have your Difficult Sim start the conversation instead. Also, you can have the Sim participate in certain group activities where no talking happens. Bella seemed to enjoy Morty's piano playing! But then of course, that required him not having to open his big mouth and bore her to death.
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Those oh, so wonderful things that Sims do to drive us all crazy!