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Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
8 years ago

Complete stranger text you for club invite.

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 expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? all
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game with new household for a while.
What happens when the bug occurs? You'll get a text from complete stranger(never met, never talk, not in relationship panel) asking to join a club. I call this a bug because this sim didn't share his/her contact information with such people at this moment. Also worth to mention that this stranger is not a neighbor. If you do this in real life, the recepient may call a police, I assure you.
What do you expect to see? Only the people who have a relationship above Like with you may send an invitation to a club.
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? No

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5 Replies

  • CMeki's avatar
    CMeki
    Hero (Retired)
    8 years ago

    I don't think this classifies as a bug, rather as feedback, as this is the way the game is designed. You might have your number in the town-phone-book? You usually get these invites after you've done something that people in the club likes. Say if you do a lot of gardening then there is a bigger chance that you'll get invited to Garden Gnomes (pre-made club).
    Perhaps a member was walking past your house and saw your garden, and thought "Oh, who lives there, I should contact them about our club!"
    Now I know it's not exactly like that bc the NPC-sims are not that smart, but I think that is the "reason". I rather like this feature, but you're entitled to your own opinion.

    Maybe rather that changing the "club"-thing, there could be an option in your phone to like "remove number from public phone-book" so that people who are below friend-level can't contact you? 🙂
    (I mean Vlad does the same if you have the vampies-pack)

    Maybe @crinrict can move this to Game Information 🙂

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    8 years ago

    Got all under control, don't worry.

    I check here daily.. no need to tag me 😉

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Ok then, this is another feedback thread. (and I have no idea how to move this to "game info" category)

    But current design is really BS. I don't know about other people until I talk to them.

    Currently npc sims *instantly* know what other people are doing.

    > "remove number from public phone-book"

    I need that option.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    8 years ago

    If you're unsure, maybe post in the general info from now on first. You can always re-open a new thread in the bug forum (and use the template)

  • SimGuruNick's avatar
    SimGuruNick
    Icon for EA Staff (Retired) rankEA Staff (Retired)
    8 years ago

    After talking to a few people, I can confirm this issue is by design. If you're getting an invite to go hang out on a community lot with a complete stranger, that would be an issue, but just a club invite is by design. I believe the intent was to help surface the new feature (just my personal opinion though). I'd recommend posting about this in our Feedback forum, as our designers/producers peruse this space: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-4-feedback

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