It's been a long time since I got an invitation from a NPC.. restaurants, gym, their house, whatever. Are you still getting them? Is this on purpose? The game seems dead without the world trying to get you out of the house. It was so nice when you got promoted and a friend invite you to a restaurant to celebrate it.
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https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/978384/no-more-text-invites-to-events
https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/995329/is-there-any-mod-that-bring-back-the-invite-calls
It's also been reported as a bug.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-No-longer-getting-invites-rabbitholes-parties-going-out/td-p/10678816
I also liked the idea of the one you mentioned although the sim, who called my sim about going out to celebrate her promotion, was someone she didn’t even know instead of one of her friends, so that felt a bit weird. But if it had been one of her friends, it would have been grand. Unless I’ve missed it, there doesn’t seem to be any way for our sims to tell their family or friends when they get a promotion and it’s rather sad that there isn’t an option to celebrate this beyond the moodlet our sims get. Yes, we can of course just take our sim’s family and/or friends out to a restaurant or bar or whatever to pretend a celebration, but it was nice when the game kind of acknowledged it as well.
But alas after the Eco patch these calls are now a thing of the past, and it’s just rather frustrating that we can’t do anything about it.
Thankfully, we still have the City Living festival invites as others have mentioned. It doesn’t matter too much that every now and then it’ll skip these invites in my games, because one of my sims will usually get an invitation to the following festival. My sims also get the invites to visit a friend’s house, and if they’re in a club, they also seem to get invitations to hangout at different places, I think bars and night clubs (although these might very well happen if your sim isn’t part of a club, I just can’t remember if being in a club at least ups the chances for an invite) - but especially at the rave party locations, which are not to be mistaken for the actual rave party invites. They are not!!
Currently I’m doing a Neighborhood Stories test save which means that I also get the calls about coming over to admire a newborn or adopted baby or a cat or a dog. But as with quite a few of the calls, these, unfortunately, do seem to pop up at less opportune moments. And to get most of these calls, you need to allow for these options to be active in Neighborhood Stories, and that can lead to it’s own kind of mess or fun depending on how you like your game to behave.
As I’m still on the werewolves patch mainly due to wants and fears replacing whims (I’ll go whine about that in another thread), I’ve no idea how much phone calls from newer packs have influenced the chance of getting certain older phone calls. I hope that every type of call, no matter how old it is, has an equal chance of happening, but of course that also means that when more calls are added to the game, the chance of getting a particular call becomes smaller, and some calls just seem much more persistent than others. As is I’m constantly going out of my way to keep my sims’ reputation from going above good, because if it does, that’ll just set off the influx of job offers and charity donation calls. If I knew for sure that these calls have no effect on the likelihood of receiving other calls, that these were calls my sims can get as a sort of extra calls, I wouldn’t mind them as much, but the way they seem to overtake my sims’ phone lines is extremely annoying. The charity calls seem to serve no purpose beyond raising a sim’s reputation which hardly drops anyway, unless you really make an effort, and never seems to drop on its own. The result: my farmer with a pristine reputation ended up getting spammed with job offers six days out of seven and some days more than once. It felt as though they overtook some of the more fun calls that makes the world surrounding my sims feel alive, but as I said, I’m not 100% sure that that is actually the case, it just felt like it.
The best game play to me (in any kind of game) is the unexpected. That hardly ever happens in the sims. You have to make things happen.
oh and birthday calls too. :O
It's very frustrating they removed that feature from get together. I use to love those invites and never thought it was too much. I just clicked no when I was too busy but I knew I would get another one.
They got rid it because of people complaining they were tired of the invites and phone calls ☠
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THIS ^^
I agree. Although it may feel 'annoying' at times, there is no penalty to not do it.