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Re: [FIXED] Sim keeps getting 'Change phone color' action

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? 1.90.375.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All Expansions, Werewolves, Realm of Magic, Parenthood, Vampires, Strangerville, Bowling Stuff, A Few Kits
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Change Sims phone color and then load onto a different lot / go into manage worlds and come back,
What happens when the bug occurs? When you change your phone color, the color does change, but Sims still perform the "change phone color" interaction every time you load into the household or onto another lot.
What do you expect to see? For my Sims to perform the interaction once when changing phone color, and not again.
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? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. After the patch on July 26 that updated the phone ai.

After I changed my Sims phone color with the new phone ai, my Sims won't stop performing the "Change Phone Color" interaction every time I load into the household or onto a different lot. The phone color does change, but for some reason my Sims still perform the action to do so. I attached an image that shows the issue, and proof that the phone color did change, yet the interaction is still being performed by my Sim.

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  • ContSims22's avatar
    ContSims22
    3 years ago

    I finnaly found a fix made by a well known modder. It's the first one. Enjoy.

    [CM Edit: Link removed]

  • xzpyzix's avatar
    xzpyzix
    3 years ago

    EA support in a nutshell? Someone posts a fix and it gets removed -_-

  • Hey, I actually found the Mod fix for this bug, it's LittleMsSam's New Random Bug Fix: Stop Change Phone Color Obsession. (Sorry no url link because we can't link to other websites).

  • Citysim9997's avatar
    Citysim9997
    3 years ago

    Or just don't change the color at all, and you won't get the problem.

  • @Citysim9997 It's a bug I never manually change the phone case colors my sims changes it in their task menu automatically whenever I go through a loading screen.
  • GiardiniDiMarzo's avatar
    GiardiniDiMarzo
    Legend
    3 years ago

    Some things I noticed, the bug happens every time you:

    - start the game
    - enter and exit CAS
    - travel to another world/neighborhood
    - return from work

    It is also related to the calendar update (the bright yellow dot), and the fact that if more than one sim lives in the house and the active one returns from work, the other sims also automatically return home from the places they were.

  • valohim666's avatar
    valohim666
    3 years ago

    Not sure if it will be permanent or not, but I managed to at least temporarily get my sims to stop changing the stupid color every time they travel. I just opened the phone back up and changed the color to the first one in the upper left, and it seems to have stopped that crap. I'm hoping it is permanent, and won't glitch again unless I'm a complete idiot and try changing my phone color again. Of course this doesn't fix the issue itself, just stops the annoyances that result from it, but if it helps anyone else I figured I'd at least mention it.

    Oh, hey, EA. Um.... your game is really broken. Do you think you could fix it? If not, you think you could fix my computer so that I can at least play my old outdated version that doesn't have all these issues? Sure that old outdated version has its issues as well, but at least it's playable.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    Change Phone Color after queuing should no longer re-queue in the action queue after traveling, or saving and reloading the game.

    Fixed in Patch 1.93.129/1.66

    If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

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