June 2020 - last edited February 2022 by crinrict
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Deutsch
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.63.136.1010
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except for Seasons, Realm of Magic, Tiny Living
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? With much patience only. Load up any household with a sim who has neighbors living in their neighborhood (preferably ones the sim already knows). Enable free will, fast forward and wait for the "You are such a good neighbor" random event where your sim gets a gift from a neighbor. The bug may be related to Willow Creek only, I'm not sure.
What happens when the bug occurs? Instead of an actual neighbor, the sim who knocks at the door is a random one from a different world. In one case my active sim didn't even know the "neighbor" but the game had filled their relationship bar halfway.
What do you expect to see? The neighbor knocking being an actual neighbor or at least from the same world as my sim.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Either Eco Lifestyle or the patch before. The Good Neighbor feature wasn't there before.
First of, sorry for not testing without mods. The Good Neighbor event occurs so rarely that I would have to play for several sim weeks without mods.
The event and the bug occured twice in my game, each time to relatively new residents. Both sims had been played in other neighborhoods already, but split from their original households and moved to Willow Creek. When the Good Neighbor event occured, my sims already knew some of their new neighbors.
The first sim got the event in her second week in Willow Creek, the other sim at his third day there. In the first case the "neighbor" was a played sim from Del Sol Valley that I had created myself, in the second case the "neighbor" was a premade, played sim from Sulani, Lia Hauata.
Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title
June 2020 - last edited June 2020
Hm, interesting. Wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that npcs from any world can be counted as "neighbors" when voting on the community action board?
Actual thing of note is that the devs will not prolly look into this bug unless others experience it and come to your thread complaining of the same issue, or you test the game without your mods installed to see if the bug still occurs, as mods can be very well known to break the game. Make sure that when you test again you've removed mods, deleted your localthumbnailcache file, etc. I've not played a ton on account of a few other bugs making it pretty irritating.
June 2020
Good Luck
Crin
I don't work or have any association with EA. I give advice to the best of my knowledge and cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your computer/game.
Please only contact me via PM when asked to do so.
Important Threads
June 2020
June 2020
So Good Neighbor uses similar filters as the other call/invite/call out events? Too bad. I assumed the game would be able to recognize my actual neighbors, because it can do so during the Welcome Wagon Event. Should I hit "accept as solution", since the system seems to be working as intended?
June 2020
June 2020
Good Luck
Crin
I don't work or have any association with EA. I give advice to the best of my knowledge and cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your computer/game.
Please only contact me via PM when asked to do so.
Important Threads
August 2020
I just wanted to say that this happens to me too and I’ve never had any mods or cc.
August 2020
July 2021
I have had this happen. It has been another sim I have played before in another household in a completely different world saying they are my neighbor even though I have actual neighbors in the neighborhood (which never show up in this role).