Calendar Update? Okay...The festivals & notifications...not okay...
I'm once again sending this out there in the world. I'm ready to petition and pitch this. Those who have multiple packs stacked up will get where I'm coming from. Due to the sheer amount of these packs such as Cottage Living, Snowy Escape, High School Years, Life & Death, and City Living...and maybe one or two I missed. I get notifications are cool to prompt to go to festivals, but not with all gameplays.
Right now, I'm working to the top in the royalty chain with a nosy brother, and an unexpected jealous sister who will soon be outcast from the dynasty. I'd like to add that was a fun unexpected note the game slid in, she was becoming jealous of her sisters leadership...but,,,no room for that, so no tainted blood. Toodles... Through my mental story that the game aided it to become, what really breaks the fun out of it is all the notifications for these festivals and events.
Really. No, I don't want to go to The Festival of Snow. No, I don't want to go to Afterlife Anonymous, No I don't want to go to Prom because my sim is a young adult. Don't get me started on the football one. It scares the hell out of me when the music plays. With all the packs that are now laid out, not every single gameplay I want to focus on these festivals. My main sim woman doesn't have kids so no to all youth festivals. I can't even see any of my Dynasty Sims touching dirt or an animal for Cottage Living.
The sounds and notifications are ridiculous and stack up my notification wall alone when it comes every 5 minutes. If EA wants to update something, then update the calendar...pronto. Allow players to turn off notifications to their choosing such as how we can isolate Fae & werewolves in their designated world. (an update with vampires being designated to their world would be nice to.) Allow us to choose which ones we want or don't want on the calendar. Or...allow players to turn off notifications all together. It is such a break in the actual fun sometimes, where the festivals become such an annoyance that I have to turn off the game.
I understand there is a mod that will remove everything from the calendar and add when you want too, frankly I have tried it and am very close to kicking it back into my mods folder because right now I don't want to attend any festivals.
I hope other players agree, and I hope EA can get to the core of this to give players freedom to play how they want instead of placing a chokehold on these notifications to attend festivals.
Cupids Corner is another. Sometimes the first thing I do in a save file when I don't want to use the social media is deactivate Social Bunny & Cupids Corner. Which that one is fine. Like with my Occult save file, I tend to use the phone as less as possible aside from travelling and/or ordering food. At the moment, Social Bunny is good to raise up friendships with multiple sims without having to visit them to get my dynasty girl in with the dynasties...errr.....become 'friends'.... 😇
The calendar needs to be reworked, or something has to be done with all these festivals. I, alone am going to go absolutely insane. The Pit Beast seems like a tempting alternative to jump into than deal with these festivals.
