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cosumeu
3 years ago

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

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? 1.90.375.1020 What e...
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EA_Lanna
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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

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    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 &#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.

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