[FIXED] Fish Notifications For Inactive Households/ Sims without skill
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Rarely (0% - 9%) What is your current game version number? 1.53.115.1020 What...
Sims that do not have the Fishing Skill, or have not been Fishing at all, will not get notifications about identifying Fish. THEY WERE FISHING WITH THEIR MINDS.
Fixed in Patch 1.69.57/ 1.35
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Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in?English How often does the bug occur?Often (50% - 99%) What is your current game version number?1.59.73.1020 (64 Bit) What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed?Get Famous Seasons Cats & Dogs City Living Get Together Get to Work Strangerville Vampires Dine Out Spa Day Outdoor Retreat Laundry Day Stuff Bowling Night Stuff Vintage Glamour Stuff Backyard Stuff Romantic Garden Stuff Movie Hangout Stuff Spooky Stuff Holiday Celebration Pack Grim's Ghoulish Guitar Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves?I'm afraid I don't know what triggers it, but it happens frequently. It seems to be when my Sim is hanging out with a new friend. ...maybe. What happens when the bug occurs?Suddenly, I will receive a notification that someone in my household has "discovered a new type of fish," even though they're just hanging out indoors, not doing anything involving fishing. What do you expect to see?I expect to only receive notifications about fishing while I'm actually fishing. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?Never used. Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system?No
In the picture I attached, the "Alpha Goodall" is the sim standing by the oven. Marwa Frond has the green Mohawk. Alpha's eating something Marwa cooked, and she's having a bowl of peas. How on Earth did he discover Salmon? To my knowledge, neither of them has even been fishing in their whole lives. This will typically happen once a (real world) day when I play this game.
@michaelottingerThis happens a lot in my game too. Sims can pass along "fish notes" information from their Notebook through dialog options. I think the option is called "Discuss local fishing spots". Sims will do this dialog option autonomously if you let them chat for a while. Seems like maybe this started when they revamped Fishing a couple months back? Some NPC Sim must have told Marwa and now she has told Alpha. Especially if she has any NPC friends with the Loves the Outdoors trait. That's my guess anyway. In theory you can fill your entire Notebook without ever touching a fishing pole! As far as I know this is not a bug, it's just how the game works now.
You can do a quick test on this. Check both of their smartphone Notebooks to see if one of them has notes on any fish that the other does not. Then try the "Discuss Local Fishing Spots" dialog option and see if the second Sim learns a new Fish in their Notebook.
@crinrict I tested this and Sims can definitely learn a new fish in their Notebook through the "Discuss Local Fishing Spots" dialog even when they no Fishing skill whatsoever (Level 0). I agree that it shouldn't happen if you have no fishing skill, but it appears that is how the game currently works.
As for the NPCs I can only presume they gain fishing knowledge directly from fishing.
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