HOW DO I DISABLE OR GET RID OF SOCIAL GROUPS?

I'd love to know too. This bothers me almost as much as the celebrity system.

shortmikez wrote:
I really hate that sims come home with their social group status and infect the town with it. How do I remove or stop this?

In a non-mod manner ? Since social influence skills decay on their own over time, all you need to do is quarantine your sim until they are no longer "infected". Not really sure how long that will take though, sorry.

If you happen to be a mod-user: Social groups are handled as skills, so you can simply set your skill level to "0" to remove them. :)

EA has a way of making annoying things in game. ^_^

NRaas wrote:

shortmikez wrote:
I really hate that sims come home with their social group status and infect the town with it. How do I remove or stop this?

In a non-mod manner ? Since social influence skills decay on their own over time, all you need to do is quarantine your sim until they are no longer "infected". Not really sure how long that will take though, sorry.

If you happen to be a mod-user: Social groups are handled as skills, so you can simply set your skill level to "0" to remove them. :)

I use your Overwatch to clean up cars, etc... But have you made a function to clean all? That would be a great addition to the Overwatch.

I've always thought it was weird that social groups went past the college stage. It would be much more believable if the social groups were only for kids, teens, and sims who attend university.

The way it is in game now doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Typically, I ignore the social groups unless I want my sim to get one of the jobs you can get for getting to the top of a social group or for getting an extra trait or other benefit of being in a group.

ShanaJada wrote:
I don't know if you're open to mods, but there is a mod which simply slows down the social group influence gain. It hasn't been completely tested, and it does conflict with any other skill mods.
I'll happily link it to you if you don't mind using it! :)

That would be great. Please post the link.

ShanaJada wrote:
So sorry for the late reply! :oops:
Here you go!

Thank you so much!

OMG I know right! I had Late night uninstalled until supernatural came out with that "population control" option but now I'm super annoyed with these social groups. I absolutely hate them... it's exactly like the celebrity rating system (anyone can be a jock/nerd/rebel instantly)I've had to rely on 3rd party mods... Hopefully EA doesn't make the same mistake with Sims 4.

I hate both celebrity status and social groups, only some times using them - and surprisingly have had little to no trouble with SG to date. Celebrity system, then again, I keep opted out usually.

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