July
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? 1.107.151.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have contacts in your social bunny app
What happens when the bug occurs? Start spamming flirty/friendly messages non-stop and you will see there's no limits applied to it so you can max out friendships in just a few clicks!
What do you expect to see? I expect the game to not allow the player to cheat through gameplay and for friendship gain to stop after a click or two.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
Modder Bricklion has made a mod to fix this issue so it's worth looking into it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/social-bunny-107069341?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&u...
And no, this is not feedback as there have been bug reports for exploits like this like the camera friendship, which got taken seriously and was fixed.
July
You can also do this on Harvestfest Day (in Seasons) by sending a thankful letter to sims - spam the letters a few times and you become besties. I admit I use both these exploits when I want to quickly become friends with someone but I totally agree that it feels cheap, like cheating.
August
I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but contacts with sims added on Social Bunny continue to progress and stay at full indefinitely EVEN IF I have deactivated Social Bunny. I think this is because the sims are continuing to send my sims friendly messages on Social Bunny, even though my sims are no longer on the app. While this is not a *problem* per se, it is sort of cheating and I assume *not* an intended feature.