October 11th Patch Feedback Thread

"Metior_Ice;c-18192668" wrote:
I am wondering if there is a connection between the social bunny app and the unusual development of mean interactions.

From what I’ve been able to gather after a sim day, the social bunny app seems to be active anywhere, all the time.

With merfolk, the phone has a number of functions that do not work in the water. The exception appears to be the Social Bunny App.

My merfolk can use the Social Bunny App while swimming, so I know it’s an active feature 24/7 as long as sims are awake.

In 2 sim hours, a post my merfolk made got multiple reactions. In fact, the constant activity from the social bunny app affecting relationships caused my game to appear to freeze then time skip.

I lost 2 sim hours as the game struggled to register all the social exchanges happening on the phone. I’m going to see if deactivating Social Bunny has any effect on lag and the function of the game.

From what I can tell, there are a lot of things happening on a sims phone and the volume of information seems to be overwhelming the processes of my PS4. It does seem to be a possible source of the unusual frequencies of mean interactions and lag experienced by other players.

Me too - the Social Bunny is CONSTANTLY pinging my Sims even when I try to turn off notifications so that I can view them all later. As it is, my Sims are getting flooded/spammed by the darn thing. (I actually walked away from my Twitter account but did not close it about 10 years ago because I signed up to follow way too many twitter feeds and the thing was constantly scrolling. Fortunately when I came back about 4 years ago, most of the flooders had stopped constantly posting updates to Twitter.)

Also, most cell phones are not waterproof...but smart watches can be. It seems like the kind of interactions smart watches would have are the ones that should be active underwater. Social bunny should not be one of them....call emergency services should be one of them ("help I would like to report a drowning....") Also, if there was some reason that a Sim needed a GPS map, this is one of the functions I use on my IRL mobile phone.