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FlamingSkull214's avatar
4 years ago

[IL] Unable to cook together with Sims who have the Sulani Mana trait

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? 1.77.146.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Island Living, Realm of Magic, Snowy Escape, Backyard Stuff, City Living, and Discover University.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have (at least) two sims in a household, one sim without the Sulani Mana trait [Sim A] and one with the trait [Sim B]. While controlling Sim A, click on an oven/fridge/counter and try to select the "cook together with..." option and try to cook together with Sim B.
What happens when the bug occurs? When trying to cook together with Sim B as Sim A, Sim B's icon won't appear in the cook together menu. Furthermore, if Sim A and Sim B are the only sims (that know each other) in the household/on the lot, the cook together option won't even appear.
What do you expect to see? Sims being able to cook together with any other sims they know.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

Note: If you try to cook together as Sim B with Sim A then it will work with no issues (that I've seen). However, even if you're controlling Sim B you still cannot cook together with any other sims that have the said trait. But, you can invite Sim B to cook and they will come over and give instructions or whatnot (at least I assume that's what it is because they're not holding a book or preparing ingredients but are still talking to the sim that invited them to cook). 

I've already tried the same save without mods in both the same household and a new household. I also tried a new save altogether without mods, and finally tried a brand new folder altogether that never had mods and without cheats (no cheats was probably a tad overkill but oh well). I've already tried repairing, updating, clearing the game cache, and clearing the origin cache, and still encountered the bug. 

For those who don't know about this trait:

Sulani Mana is a hidden trait that the Sulani Elementals have. The Sulani Elementals can be summoned by any sim who has the Child of the Island trait. The Sulani Mana trait allows the sim that has it to summon a volcanic bomb (like what you would see during a volcanic eruption if your lot has that trait) and the ability to use "The Gift of Sulani" on any plant which allows the chosen plant to skip to the next growth/evolution stage.

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  • I've found two more bugs with this trait.

    The icons/profiles of sims with this trait will not appear when trying to play cards and when trying to have a snowball fight. Once again, If Sim A and Sim B are the only ones on the lot then the option won't appear when controlling Sim A. In the case of playing cards, the option will still appear but will be greyed out and say "{Sim A} needs other Sims to play with". However, once again, they can be invited, join the activity themselves, or be the one to initiate/start it and both activities will occur with no further issue (that i've seen) other than Sim B still can't select other sims with the said trait.

    I've already tried the whole shebang as I did with the bug mentioned in the report.

    (Sorry if I'm supposed to put these in their own reports respectively, I will if I have to) 

  • kusurusu's avatar
    kusurusu
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    Can confirm. In filter_HasMet_CTAYE_AllowGhosts (which is referred by all cook together sim picker interactions and more) the following lines can be found:

     <V t="trait">
    <U n="trait">
    <T n="invert_score">True</T>
    <T n="trait">211645<!--Trait: trait_Hidden_IslandAncestor_Elemental--></T>
    </U>
    </V>

    same exception appears in other sim_filter files as well, btw

    edit: bug affects 57 sim picker interaction files plus some drama nodes and clubs.club_tuning

  • Oh nooo .... 

    My children have all the "Sulani Mana" trait if it is like you said then that may is the reason why "group activities" dont work ? But the mother is not showing up to - and the "Sulani Mana" trait would explain it  .... 

    I wrote on the german page that a lot of things arnt working for me, I am sorry all of my Screens are in German. 

    Rocking together...
    Cook together....
    I could not add them to any groups either

    Only singing together worked.

    Now I am really disapointed ☹️ Over Generations I formed perfect Spellcasters ☹️ 

  • Can we have any hopes that this get a fix ... to play with Sims with the Sulani Mana Trait seems pretty edgy/rare in the Player Base.

  • Seeing as how long it took for them to fix the female servo hover animation, probably not any time soon at the very least, if at all.

  • Developers can't fix this problem for two years!!! Freakin unbelievable!

    EA, for God sake, add this problem to next Laundry List, please.

    After two months. Still not fixed. Still not added to the Laundry List.

  • Dimus_The_Great's avatar
    Dimus_The_Great
    2 years ago

    Another two months. The bug, what can be reproduced easily... Still... In... Game! This is ridiculous.

  • Can we get fix for this bug? It's easy to reproduce in-game using the codes (traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_IslandAncestor_Elemental and traits.remove_trait trait_Hidden_IslandAncestor_Elemental) It's been over three years since this bug was reported and it's still in the game!

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