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khitteh
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

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

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.85.203.1030 What e...
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amjoie
Rising Ace
2 years ago
@crinrict I have a save that I play with MCCC and have had problems with story progression being active despite being unchecked. This did not happen before the For Rent patch/installation. It is a new thing, and very annoying, since I have to keep moving sims back into their homes and undoing marriages I did not want to happen.

The only option for MCCC concerning story progression is whether or not you want the mod to override settings IF you have story progression activated. It is a yes/no choice of override or not. If story progression is not activated, then MCCC does nothing. It cannot make something happen by itself. I have never enabled the mod override, so MCCC is and has always been inactive concerning story progression in that save.

I did notice that some of the story progression choice boxes were highlighted by default, whether or not the box was checked to enable story progression. I undid the highlighting, so when I play that save where I use mods, I will take note whether changing the status of the choice boxes makes a difference. But it really should not matter, technically, if the story progression has not been enabled at all, to begin with.
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crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@amjoie That's why all reports should always be made on a vanilla game. To rule out it's a mod. There's so many bugs in the game, it's really a shame it the Maxis needs to test mod stuff as well and then find out it's nothing they need to fix cause it's a mod. It's really just a waste of everyone's time.
  • merrysimmaker's avatar
    merrysimmaker
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago
    @crinrict I think those of who use mods make a good effort to test with and without. As I mentioned I tried this in a new save with no mods/cc but this issue is very intermittent. I could play an hour and then randomly get 10 notifications of sims moving or dying (which I have turned off). I also play with minimal mods but because of this, I am going to start a new save, despite that I hate it, and play without mods to gather info on this. It sucks as a player b/c we can see these things going wrong and we know they are new issues that are not likely to be introduced by mods but the real waste of time FOR ME as a long time player with every single game is trying to open my game mods or not and play and encountering so many bugs and glitches that I spend more time researching and testing than I get to actually play. My issues got really bad back when growing together's prepatch came out and have continued to worsen with each new patch since. I had issues before but nothing like what I've had since April. It's miserable to have a game you enjoy and play for stress relief to cause so much more stress and grief due to errors by the makers. Just please understand and realize no one here wants to waste EA's time, we just want help.
    • merrysimmaker's avatar
      merrysimmaker
      Seasoned Veteran
      2 years ago

      Coming in with an update for whoever it might help.
      I started a new game (no mods, they are off)... I had zero neighborhood notices (usually you get some but I got none).
      I didn't time how long I played but at least a few hours the game was running.

      I added MCCC only.  I played another few hours.  After about an hour, I got a TON of moving notifications.  I screenshot and moved on waiting to see if I got anything else.
      In the meantime I researched what I could about MCCC and moving and there is a section in population that MIGHT be responsible.  I am still testing on this.  After the inital issue, I didn't get anymore moving notices and no death notices.

      I turn off all move in/move out and all deaths in neighborhood stories for the record.

      I have added in several more mods including Twisted Mexi and UI Cheats (one at a time and playing a few hours/leaving the game running at least).
      No notices whatsoever.

      I am continuing to research this the best of my ability for us so if you/anyone here has something I should try, please let me know.

      I have only had the weird moving notices one time so far and I can't figure out how/why it came up, I can only make assumptions it has something to do with MCCC but then why didn't it keep happening?

      I researched more the deaths that I get often in my game (is there another thread for this?) and it talks about the "culling of too many sims" with repeated deaths.  I am curious if that's my issue in my main save.  I had originally a blank save I've built up with families and homes and I rotate play but it would suck if the game insisted on killing them off for that reason.

      @crinrict if you have any suggestions, I am all ears and happy to test. 🙂

      • crinrict's avatar
        crinrict
        Hero+
        2 years ago
        @mrstank30 All I need is people to remove ALL of their mods (even MCCC, it's a big mod and can cause side effects that aren't expected).

        I wish mod users were responsible as you suggest but unfortunately, that is not always the case.

        There's Game and mod issues where folks can post in when they need help with their modded games. The bug forum is for vanilla game issues only cause that's what the team needs to look into.

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