I have some more information on this issue. It seems like this is only a problem with townie jobs (maid, food stall vendor etc), if a sage gets a non-townie job they are only away from the Realm at work hours, and some other sim become a temporary sage, but the original sage comes back after work. Though, imo, this is annoying. I wish the role as a sage was considered a job.
@SqueamishNerd wrote:I have some more information on this issue. It seems like this is only a problem with townie jobs (maid, food stall vendor etc), if a sage gets a non-townie job they are only away from the Realm at work hours, and some other sim become a temporary sage, but the original sage comes back after work. Though, imo, this is annoying. I wish the role as a sage was considered a job.
Oh? Interesting... 🤔
Katrus91 is quite right. The problem is that the sages do not have an occupation and are considered as "unemployed" by the game. Hence, they are free for the game to use as townie roles whenever needed. This then causes the sages to have a job and thus lose their status as sage. Culling the replacement will return the sage, but now (thanks to another bug) they will now always wear the role-outfit of that townie job, since they were never assigned a role outfit to their non-existing jobs as sages in the first place. (This is a massive oversight by the developers that should have become apparent after a few hours of playtesting.)
This can be prevented by using MCCC and flagging each sage to freeze their career status. The game will then not be allowed to use them for townie roles.
The team needs to create a sage occupation with a proper tag or this will continue to be an unpleasant and immersion-shattering bug.
@SqueamishNerdthe tuning file is called "unimportant_nocareer". It specifically only looks for unplayed non employed sims.
It has this section that specifically bans all three sage types from being included:
<V t="trait">
<U n="trait">
<T n="invert_score">True</T>
<T n="trait">212849<!--trait_MagicSage_Mischief--></T>
</U>
</V>
<V t="trait">
<U n="trait">
<T n="invert_score">True</T>
<T n="trait">212850<!--trait_MagicSage_Practical--></T>
</U>
</V>
<V t="trait">
<U n="trait">
<T n="invert_score">True</T>
<T n="trait">212851<!--trait_MagicSage_Untamed--></T>
</U>
</V>
And that also reappears in the filter file for baristas, so even if somehow one was selected as a valid employment candidate, the game is also saying "no sages allowed" if you're a barista too.
@simvasion Sorry, but that happened right after installing RoM while mods were disabled by default (and all cache files cleared). I like to play the game vanilla for a few days to check the current state of it before I add my mods back in. My sage also didn't become a Barista, but a Bartender (I think the title of this post should be adjusted). I know of at least six other players that this has happened to without mods. As I said, using the right mods will prevent it, not cause it. I don't suffer from 95% of all the hundreds of bugs listed here because of a carefully selected choice of mods from trusted sources. And while I totally appreciate your trying to help, insinuating that mods are at fault really isn't (as your comment might just make the devs skip over this thread entirely).
