Best Friends Spam Overload?

"Paigeisin5;c-18251773" wrote:
Am I wrong for assuming this BFF frenzy was patched in before HSY was released? But the ability to toggle that off wasn't included in the pre-EP base game update? I froze my game when Cottage Living was released and did not update it again until three weeks before Growing Together was due to drop. Then the laptop I had been using for Sims4 suffered a major meltdown and I lost everything, which forced me to start over from scratch. So, I think I may have missed reading many of the initial discussions about HSY and that pack's problems because I believed if I didn't own HSY my game would not be affected. Just one more reason why I think we should have a choice in which updates and patches we want to install. But that's a conversation for another day. And I am not going to buy HSY just to have a way to turn off what I don't want my Sims to do.

I didn't have very much time to play while rebuilding my mods folder after losing my laptop which is probably why I didn't notice the changes the HSY update had made. Then along came Growing Together with its own new compatibility features, and I thought those features were at the root of the problem. But it appears as though those new features only seemed to escalate whatever issues HSY had already caused. It's difficult to know which new mods to use when some problems are the result of a base game update and which ones are pack related. Especially when one doesn't purchase the new pack but was forced to update anyway. I should have done more research on HSY before I updated after so many months, but I was in a hurry to get my game up and running after losing my primary laptop. If I had taken more time with the process, I would have been more aware of which mods I needed to stop some of what is annoying me now.

I don’t use mods, but I have to say I have had no major problems with High School Years. Things seem to be running pretty normally. Prom went well. School goes well. I haven’t played since Growing together came out and I downloaded it. I have been reading about family dynamics, compatability etc. so I can set up likes and dislikes among friends and family first, and I have a big rotational main save and a smaller rotational scenario one. I have also had visitors, so have been out of my game awhile. I’m thinking of turning off autonomous NPC relationships now though if that’s a bug ( I hadn’t noticed that you could turn it off ).