Forced Friendships/Interrupting NPCs
Devs PLEASE stop NPCs from being able to interrupt/stop/remove/take over conversations. NPCs will walk up and simply dominate the conversations already going on. Every time they will alter your conversation flow and force themselves onto your friends list. There is nothing we can do about it either at present. We are only allowed 100 people on our list and yet you allow NPCs we don’t talk to, ( and in the most part would NEVER talk to ) to walk up and take over our conversations with others. They take over the conversation and replace what you already had going on with others. This also allows them access to your home thru the setting “people you know”. This is unacceptable. You allow what are basically “stalkers” to latch onto people and invade their lives. PLEASE remove the ability to do so or allow us to interrupt them and remove them from our lists. Thank you.
(This is a copy/paste from my husband’s discussion on Steam. It was suggested to repost here)
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I have even had to kill more than one NPC because there was no way they would let me keep my conversation in peace with whom I wanted…
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It happens on dates and scheduled meet-ups, too. That’s especially annoying! It’s nice to have zois go on a date in public, but then they might get hit on by random NPCs who want to play third-wheel and completely derail the date or meet-up.
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LOL honestly, I have thought about it but haven’t done it yet. Maybe I should.
Oh yeah, have had dates completely interrupted and gone badly and reduce the relationship. Nothing can get done as it should. I also hate the fact that they are automatically added to your relationship list. No one should be added unless you actively develop a friendship.
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I absolutely agree. There are too many random encounters with zois (including “co-workers” when your zoi has a rabbit-hole job) that it can quickly fill up the list of contacts for a zoi who goes out a lot.
I think they shouldn’t add someone to the contacts list until there is some friendship, romance or business relationship developing (not just one encounter). I think it’s okay if it happens before hitting the Friend, Mutual Crush, or Peer level because you might want your zoi to have an easier time contacting and building the relationship with a zoi you want them to get closer to.
Additionally, we should have the option to delete contacts from the list that have no remaining relationship values and there’s no interest in continuing contact with them. No one wants a sad week over the death of some random zoi they never talked to after those first early encounters. 
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Just adding my +1 here.
I find myself avoiding meet-ups or dates as I have never yet experienced one which did not break down due to unsolicited interference from random zois I never met before.
Any conversations I start myself are inevitably interrupted, and often all zois involved will stand around doing nothing for some length of time waiting for an unwanted stranger to walk up and butt in. Unknown npc’s can likewise interrupt any activity in a public space or active career, and sometimes even try it when your zoi is at home - which is why I lock all doors/gates to stop them inviting themselves in.
As Grangefife and Starwing already said, at the very least we need the ability to remove such random unwanted contacts from our relationship list, as it is very quickly cluttered with zois we will never interact with again, making it harder to locate the ones we do want to stay in touch with - and limiting the number of contacts we can make for ourselves.
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It would also help when you remove queued npc interaction that it would actually cancel the interaction. I had my zoi meeting his gf at the beach and I saw a romance interaction queued and thought it was from her even though I didn’t see her yet. I removed the interaction but another zoi sat down in the chair and started talking to him, so it was their romance interaction to my zoi. I reloaded my save and it happened again even when I clicked on the other zoi and removed it from their queue as well. The interaction still went through, even though I cancelled it on both zois. I reloaded again and this time I rescued my zoi and only then did it ask me to stop the interaction. It’s so tedious to have dates with zois in public spaces as they are constantly interrupted by npcs and sometimes ruining relationships.
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This is so annoying, even though I’ve turned off autonomy and set ‘Conversation Karma Positivity’ to highest and ‘Negativity’ to lowest, my Zois get interrupted from NPCs (they don’t even know) all the time and stop their queued up actions to end up in and endless spiral of rude small talk -.-
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