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)

16 Replies

Janaque
New Hotshot
9 months ago
@LareeIvores Agreed! It is a BUG.

I just downloaded a bunch of mods to fix this bug too. Ridiculous!
Ambergers
New Scout
9 months ago
Every. Single. Day.
It's so annoying!
We need a way to disable notifications for events we do not care about. My Sim isn't even in high school anymore and he still gets notified every week about the football and cheerleading events.
HALirious9k
Seasoned Hotshot
9 months ago
@DemB00ts I had high hopes for SocialBunny, but after using it a while, the daily notifications help me remember to deactivate it ASAP. 😝
Indeed, a one time reminder would suffice in most of the cases for these events. Maybe they should be properly attached to certain conditions — like having teenagers in the household for the football/cheerleading events.
MarleyTheWizard
Seasoned Ace
9 months ago
I have tried my best to ignore it, but with ever growing amount of notifications, I no longer can.
The only positive is that at least the notification is silent...
I wish there was an option to check that you were a seasoned simmer, meaning that you don't need all of the info notifications.
A better design would be having the notification once per save/per household, or only if there is a teen in the household.
sayuri18
Seasoned Novice
26 days ago
still annoys me every time i play the game. sometimes enough to make me want to turn it off and stop playing. why should we need mods to fix something this basic that ahs been an issue for years?!
simgirl1010
Hero
26 days ago
Don't come for me but I have a mod that notifies me of all events. 😀 I also like the phone calls. 🫢

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

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