Mods: Small Talk Fix Balanced Painting Bigger Households Precise Age Group Control
Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):
Windows 10 Professional / 22H2 / 19045.7291
13th Gen Intel(R) Core i9-13900KF 3.00 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
192 Gb Ram, 4TB NVmE with 2.2tb left.
Steps to Reproduce:
Start a new game and do not interfere with pre-generated families for a while.
Cycle through families, and notice how most hate each other’s guts.
Cycle again, and again – Same thing.
It’s becoming a major issue, at least in Bliss Bay.
Parents hating their kids, kids hating their parents and siblings.
I did not play with the town settings and playing on default settings.
The only families where this does not happen is the family you play (if you play one) all the other will degrade in a day or three. It’s the same issue that was present in the 0.1.0 version of the game, before the May-2025 hotfix that had fixed this.
There’s a theory that it’s because zoics extremely often want to tease someone. Yesterday, while I was pathetically failing my job at the shop I was attacked by an NPC girl who couldn’t come up with anything better than to walk straight into the shop and start making faces at my character, after which both of us naturally received a negative reaction. And I’ve definitely noticed this more than once with completely unfamiliar zoics.
If the same thing happens “off-camera” - the reason for universal hatred becomes clear.
It is still happening even with the sliders set on the highest when it comes down to positive vibe and minimum negative vibe same as family relationships set on max.
Now the sliders are acting wonky again after that hotfix
If it would be alright i would like to merge my post with this one
My zoi nearly got married again by having a small chatter with the pizza guy at the gym with the lowest setting on how fast a romantic relationship
There is something going on with those city management sliders and that bug refuse to give in.
I hope the team can develope a good bug spray or a trap that is holding this time if not place the bug in a jar
Yep. I have 5 Zoi sisters who are meant to get along and yet they all hate each other by the time I switch to them. Really awful and immersion breaking.
I would rather they fix the negativity rather than adding an opt-out for this one, not going to lie.
In the last brainstorm there was hint again about the personality aligning with traits and memories.
Maybe that will mellow this out.
It’s okay sometimes to have zois who are anti-social, bullies with no remorse who enjoy making other feel miserable. But when it affects your family and other families relationship with their parents/children/siblings ? It gets a bit annoying and unrealistic.
My vote is on a fix rather than a yes or no. The current status of things feels abnormal.
Small Talk Fix
I was attacked by an NPC girl who couldn’t come up with anything better than to walk straight into the shop and start making faces at my character, after which both of us naturally received a negative reaction. And I’ve definitely noticed this more than once with completely unfamiliar zoics.
