Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.90.375.1020What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Everything up to and including High School YearsSteps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play any household for a couple of daysWhat happens when the bug occurs? Each sim-day, at 07:00 AM the current household gets a notification about ThrifTea. This is annoying and unnecessary, especially if you don't care about ThrifTea. What do you expect to see? A way to disable this notification either through gameplay, options or the passage of time. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? NoThifTea notifications happen every day, for every household, regardless of living in Copperdale or not.

Hi @EA_LannaSorry if my initial report was misleading and/or incomplete.I came to the conclusion that this behavior is NOT by design by looking at the game files.The notification displayed everyday is for Exclusive items (notification_FashionMarketplace_ExclusiveStock.snippet)The "Exclusive" notification triggers ONLY if there are exclusive items in the store. (FashionThriftStoreTuning)There is a configuration for the exclusive items drop-chance. It is set to 100% by default which ALWAYS triggers the message.BUTThe official TDESCS (https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/1001794/1-90-358-tdescs) specify that the default value should be 25%Spoiler (Highlight to read)<Tunable type="float" name="EXCLUSIVE_ITEM_CHANCE" class="TunablePercent" default="25" display="Exclusive Item Chance" muid="4EAD5CFEA58D17F5" min="0" max="100" description="The chance that an exclusive item from the &#xA;thrift store random shuffle is successful" Deprecated="False" filter="0" group="General" /><Tunable type="float" name="EXCLUSIVE_ITEM_CHANCE" class="TunablePercent" default="25" display="Exclusive Item Chance" muid="4EAD5CFEA58D17F5" min="0" max="100" description="The chance that an exclusive item from the &#xA;thrift store random shuffle is successful" Deprecated="False" filter="0" group="General" />This implies that the intended behavior is: - 25% chance of exclusive items- ONLY receive notification when there are exclusive items in the store- therefore we should get, on average, the Exclusive notification every FOUR days, not every day.It seems the implementation and the documentation are in contradiction.

yes, and I'd like to turn off notifications about the High School events too. Please, no more football and cheerleading notifications. The sound is so jolting it really disturbs me and it's irrelevant to the gameplay.Until then, there's a mod to turn the sound off for these at least: https://simularity.cc/mods/tuning/stop-noises-hsy-events/and for turning off the ThriftTea notifications: https://modthesims.info/d/670156/no-thriftea-daily-notification.htmlPlease Note: Electronic Arts does not approve these mods, they are player-made.

This is super annoying. I get it, ThrifTea exists, I don’t need a daily reminder. We get ONE reminder about Batuu and university when a new game is started; this is already unnecessary, I know what expansions I have, but at least it only happens once. The daily ThrifTea notification feels like the game trying to force me to use this feature.

@DemB00ts Very much agree with you. Its very annoying to get this notification every day. I know where the ThrifTea is, and I have no interest in going. I found nothing to buy from the store, and my sims have food/drinks at home. Its not my idea of a thrift shop at all.The game is already overflowing with notifications, I really didn't need more of them.

I only got the pack a few weeks ago but find the daily pop up quite annoying. It would be nice if we could turn it off.

[HSY] Too frequent ThrifTea notifications (daily, with no option to disable)

14 Replies

EA_Lanna
Community Manager
3 years ago
Hi @cosumeu,

As this is by design, I've popped this on over from the Bug Reports forum to the General Discussion and Feedback board.

Thanks,

EA_Lanna
cosumeu
3 years ago
Hi @EA_Lanna
Sorry if my initial report was misleading and/or incomplete.
I came to the conclusion that this behavior is NOT by design by looking at the game files.
The notification displayed everyday is for Exclusive items (notification_FashionMarketplace_ExclusiveStock.snippet)
The "Exclusive" notification triggers ONLY if there are exclusive items in the store. (FashionThriftStoreTuning)
There is a configuration for the exclusive items drop-chance. It is set to 100% by default which ALWAYS triggers the message.
BUT
The official TDESCS (https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/1001794/1-90-358-tdescs) specify that the default value should be 25%
Spoiler
<Tunable type="float" name="EXCLUSIVE_ITEM_CHANCE" class="TunablePercent" default="25" display="Exclusive Item Chance" muid="4EAD5CFEA58D17F5" min="0" max="100" description="The chance that an exclusive item from the 
thrift store random shuffle is successful" Deprecated="False" filter="0" group="General" />
This implies that the intended behavior is:
- 25% chance of exclusive items
- ONLY receive notification when there are exclusive items in the store
- therefore we should get, on average, the Exclusive notification every FOUR days, not every day.
It seems the implementation and the documentation are in contradiction.
DemB00ts
Seasoned Traveler
3 years ago
This is super annoying. I get it, ThrifTea exists, I don’t need a daily reminder. We get ONE reminder about Batuu and university when a new game is started; this is already unnecessary, I know what expansions I have, but at least it only happens once. The daily ThrifTea notification feels like the game trying to force me to use this feature.
Kathykins
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@DemB00ts Very much agree with you. Its very annoying to get this notification every day. I know where the ThrifTea is, and I have no interest in going. I found nothing to buy from the store, and my sims have food/drinks at home. Its not my idea of a thrift shop at all.

The game is already overflowing with notifications, I really didn't need more of them.
Starrceline
3 years ago
yes, and I'd like to turn off notifications about the High School events too. Please, no more football and cheerleading notifications. The sound is so jolting it really disturbs me and it's irrelevant to the gameplay.

Until then, there's a mod to turn the sound off for these at least: https://simularity.cc/mods/tuning/stop-noises-hsy-events/

and for turning off the ThriftTea notifications: https://modthesims.info/d/670156/no-thriftea-daily-notification.html

Please Note: Electronic Arts does not approve these mods, they are player-made.
Kathykins
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Starrceline I'm also using a mod to turn off festival notifications, not only the sounds. I never visit them anyway, maybe except Flea Market once in a blue moon.

Thank you for posting the link to the ThrifTea mod 🙂 I'll be getting that too!
Strangelovekraf
3 years ago
I have chosen not to even purchase the pack because of this.
MagpieMorrigan
Rising Vanguard
2 years ago
This is still an issue.
atreya33
Legend
2 years ago
I only got the pack a few weeks ago but find the daily pop up quite annoying. It would be nice if we could turn it off.
LareeIvores
9 months ago
This is a bug (as explained in the 3rd post) and still an issue. It should be moved back to the bugs forum. The message should not appear every day!