[OPEN] Can't disable Neighbourhood Stories (Completely/part)

I have had the exact same problem. After the update I set specific neighbourhood stories for all the households that I don't play with. These mostly included that they would not die by accident, move out, and for some, have children. I spent probably over an hour setting all these specific settings. When I started playing, I clicked the mailbox and the "check newest neighbourhood stories" button. I could click the button multiple times, and each time it promted a new story, with seemingly no limit. This made me feel like either EVERY single neighbourhood story happened all the time every second, or I made it happen everytime I clicked to check. After a while I noticed that several things happened that I specificly unchecked so it wouldn't happen. For example Eliza Pancake died, but I specificly made sure that the Pancake family only could switch jobs. It happened to all my households. The Spencer-Kim-Lewis family either adopted or got two babies, the Goth family got a new baby, Angela Pleasant moved out, the Heckings adopted two toddlers, and MANY families adopted several pets. The examples are endless. Many of the neighbourhood stories happened without me checking, I only noticed when I randomly checked. I ended up turning off ALL neighbourhood stories, but I can still check the mailbox and get new updates. I really liked the idea of the neighbourhood stories, but with all these issues it basically ruins my game...

same problem, despite specifying that I only allowed death by accident and pet adoption I am suddenly having a bunch of unplanned babies and quite a few new households.

i haven't tried yet what happens when I try to turn of the feature completely.

Where did the devs get to now someone made a correctly formatted bug report?

This issue definitely needs a response.

@Tonje911  In my playthrough I tested it, I have 4 events everyday, not more than that, but I have to click on the mailbox 4 times (because the game shows one notification at a time).
If I can suggest, when you choose what do you want or not want to happen to a specific family, be sure to click the √ button everytime, even when you did not change anything, do not click che X button on the top right.

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@GiardiniDiMarzo wrote:
when you choose what do you want or not want to happen to a specific family, be sure to click the √ button everytime, even when you did not change anything, do not click che X button on the top left.

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I was careful to click the √ button after deselecting the things I didn't want (that greys the unwanted things out).

So this isn't the solution. It's still broken.

Where are the settings for this supposed to be at in my game folders? No settings for individual options on Neighbourhood Stories exist in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 in Options.ini (just an option for storyprogressioneffects = 1 or 0 but that is probably related to the setting available in game options).

So the options given to us in Manage Households accessed via the Worlds menu don't appear to be doing anything as far as my game settings are concerned. Should these options not appear in Options.ini as well if they actually did something?

@khitteh I'm guessing they are saved with the save game so you can set them individually per save (like the age settings for example)

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@crinrict wrote:

@khittehI'm guessing they are saved with the save game so you can set them individually per save (like the age settings for example)

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Ahhh *sounds of frustration*

Could they maybe make us an option for global settings affecting all savegames in game options? With individual settings like in world menu (so global ability to turn off death or leave job or whatever). People who want it per game could just keep that option unchecked. Devs please pop in and comment on this.

And in meantime anyone know why the individual settings accessed via world menu don't work?

There's a really good post about how settings work on the forums by SimGuru Nate: NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES SYSTEM - From the Neighborhood to the World .

It says that settings are per saved game: "Like other game options, Neighborhood Stories configurations exist on a per-save basis. Because each of your saves has its own settings, you can switch back and forth between them without having to re-configure anything. Just load up and let the stories roll!"

Not sure if this helps.

In my save when I turn things off, they're staying turned off, and I spent the first day turning things on and off a lot.