Social Panel will no longer default to the incorrect tab. What tab was I on? Now I will always know.
Fixed in Patch 1.73.48/ 1.40
If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.
Clicking the "social groups" button now opens "Organisations" by default, even for sims not in university. This makes Get Together clubs more tedious to start than they were before, please address this? 😢
When you click social groups the university organisation panel shows by default....but sims are in university for a relatively short time, where as clubs are available for much more of a sims lifetime and therefore I believe clubs should be the default panel.
Can we make the clubs panel default to open? You could make Uni default if you're in university, but otherwise the uni panel opening first just means we have to click more to get to clubs which are for kids-elders and get more use than organisations which are only for YA-elder.
Pictured: Shows the social panel. The red arrow shows the default panel to open when clicking. The black arrow shows the preferred panel to open.
I don't even use clubs because its so annoying to click through, I would really love this!
@Trismagistos wrote:
Unfortunately, I think it won't be possible to use the Uni default as you suggest because there usually are more Sims in a household and the positions on the in game 'status bar' are fixed.
I will Me Too it and give you XP!
Have fun playing 😉
Ohh right I didn't even think of that, fair enough. In that case I say make clubs the default! Thanks so much for the xp and me too, hopefully EA see this and facepalm because they didn't think of it before and change it up :D. It would just be a huge convenience thing and might actually get people more into clubs! :D
How do we get EA to notice and consider this? Do we need more people to want it or is this something EA might consider for user friendliness? In which case how do we send them the message?
So Weerbesu has kindly provided a temporary fix here:
He also explained this is a BUG, so please EA can you fix it?
"I believe the game is supposed to remember whether the last opened tab is Clubs or Organizations for each Sim when you close the game so that the next time you open the game it will show the last opened tab. This setting is saved to the UserSetting.ini file in your The Sims 4 folder as "clubpaneltabsetting" for each Sim. However, due to a coding mistake the game always saves the wrong tab (i.e. if Clubs is the last opened tab it will save Organizations to the UserSetting.ini file, and vice versa). I've fixed this bug, as well as making Clubs the default tab when no value is saved to UserSetting.ini. You can download it here and test if it works. Please note that it will conflict with Neia's More Clubs per Sim mod."
PLEASE GO AND ME TOO THE BUG REPORT SO WE CAN GET THIS FIXED!!!!
(Removed mod link, no mod links on AHQ) - Atic
Is the temporary fix for this still available? If so maybe instead of a link you can list search terms? I've searched for this myself and can't find it, it would be a great help to find this mod!!
@Pegasyms Weerbesu has put this fix into the v1.23 update to his UI Cheats Extension mod. You can find a link to Weerbesu's mods in Crinrict's Hero Approved mod thread stickied to the top of the Bug Forum threads.
Since I don't use mods, I'm looking longingly at it but still hopeful a fix will be included in an official patch, sigh.
@yuk75 That's great news! Unfortunately EA has already deleted your link not even 3 hours after it was posted. I've looked over at MTS and Weerbesu's Patreon, but couldn't find a download. Thanks EA! This is truly infuriating. If EA were only as diligent about fixing bugs as they are fanatical about deleting helpful links to bug fixes this would indeed be a better game! Yeah, it's the rules of this forum... I know. Nonetheless, SHAME ON YOU EA!
I went looking for the rules and I can't find any rule against mod links. Is there a group of rules for this section I've missed or overlooked?
I guess I will let Weerbesu know and hopefully he will upload to MTS.
Hey, you're absolutely right! I went looking for that specific rule that prohibits the use of links myself and actually can't find it! There's one under Don'ts of Forum Rules & Guidelines that says:
However, that didn't seem to apply to your post (and to so many others that I've seen removed in the past). Clarification on this issue would be appreciated.
You could try and write out the whereabouts to weerbesu's bug fix mod by replacing all instances of the period punctuation with the word "DOT". That way, it's not really a link.
Let's just hope EA doesn't get all unreasonably overzealous and hysterical again...
