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Siluial
Seasoned Scout
3 years ago

Parenting Predicament - Can't stay focused for school

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.94.147.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Do the Parenting Predicament scenario
What happens when the bug occurs? So, I restarted this scenario because I figured the other one I was doing had its own issues. Like not getting credit for my teen where it's due... now, I am getting it in the child area, which was no problem the first time... SO. I have Sofia and Leonardo do focusing things. Chess. Focus decor, and the chem lab for both. Now... he goes to school daily - FOCUSED. Sofia, on the other hand, leaves for school FOCUSED only to immediately turn happy and/or inspired soon as she greys out (at school) and since it says: have kids go to school while focused, this part should be checked off. I've tried having her in a room with nothing but focused decore. Played chess before school. Chem lab before school. She's able to FOCUS at home... but the second she's off my lot.. happy! It's ridiculous. I mean, if I was not making her be focused, then ok, no check mark -- but I'm doing it all. I don't know if it's my game or the scenario that's broke, but it shouldn't be this hard when it says it's BEGINNER level.
What do you expect to see? I expect her to arrive at school FOCUSED and the tick mark to go so I can advance the bloody scenario!
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? Neutral/Not Sure 

I can't upload pics. Sofia can't seem to help herself. Sometimes, she's fully focused (it's purple) and she has 1 inspired or 1 happy... Sometimes it's just focused. The girl gets to school and it goes GREEN. I mean. Ugh. 

On a side note, I did recently put an issue up and I wanted to add this to that since it's all the same scenario, but I can't ever find my own previous posts here. 

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  • @Siluial Is she the only child you have issues with ? What are the traits ? Have you tested her in a fresh save for testing purposes to see if it's save game related ?
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @Siluial Could you put her in a fresh save for testing and see if she has the same issues there too ?
  • Siluial's avatar
    Siluial
    Seasoned Scout
    3 years ago
    @crinrict Probably - but it seems this scenario is very buggy. I've played it twice and the first time became unfinishable because my teen graduated early -- he had an A in class already and the game wouldn't recognize it, so I moved on hoping the college course would suffice (Nope)... and then Sofia was bugged as a child when she wasn't before. Meh. At this point, I'll take a long break and come at it again later... maybe.
  • I have a similar problem. I'm playing version 1.97.42.1230 on Mac without any mods or expansions and I've sent both kids to school focused multiple times but I can't get the check mark for some reason.

  • @Siluial For me it's both kids. This specific scenario seems to be problematic. Majority of the time I'm stuck with the focused mood sometimes when I'm super lucky and this works it will not recognise the completed aspirations. One time I got all the way to the end and I completed like 2 teen aspirations for each kid but the scenarios wouldn't update at all. Currently playing for the fifth time, without mods not even CAS cc. In fact I renamed my Sims 4 folder and started completely from scratch and stuck in the focused mood let again. I mean come on people complaining about this scenario everywhere and EA is looking the other way.
  • @Siluial I finally managed by using the spa options to give them baths with citrus soaks and make them play chess right before school! Hallelujah! 
  • Nicpud's avatar
    Nicpud
    2 years ago

    I’m still having this issue with both kids. Is there a solution?

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