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Re: Sims left at home do not care for selves, children leave school

There's several threads that fit your description

Toddlers: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Toddler-not-being-taken-care-of-at-daycare-low-needs/td-p/6582081

Everyone else: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Care-for-Self-for-Sims-at-different-lot-not-properly/td-p/6626155

As for the options for skills, Are the gone for everyone ? What kind of mods were you using. There's one that adds extra interactions that never never there in the base game. Have you been using that ? I'm not sure what's supposed to be there anymore and it also depends on age group

As for the leave early: Do you give you children lunch packs ? There's a bug with that: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/TO-ADD-PH-Sack-Lunches-cause-Sims-to-return-from-school-work/td-p/7166956/jump-to/first-unread-message

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  • tilia2's avatar
    tilia2
    7 years ago

    I have used MCCC in the past but haven't had it installed in quite a while. No one ever has skill options. I have given her lunch bags on occasion but she doesn't eat them, no matter how hungry she is when she leaves, so I stopped.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago

    Do the skills matter if you have a vampire or normal Sim ? I have them on my adults, don't have kids atm, not on the toddlers (by design)

    So you stopped giving them lunch packs before they started appearing on lots ? Do they appear on the lot your currently at or just at home ?

  • tilia2's avatar
    tilia2
    7 years ago

    I have both vampire and a human adult sims. Neither get skill prompts when the other is off lot. Strangely, the child sim does. SHe did not when she was a toddler and the need decay issue is universal. She appears to go from school to home the instant one of the adult sims goes off lot, though there is no notice to the active sim to alert me to this. I only know because her grades fell due to lack of attendance. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago

    Have you tried the care for self workaround for non-toddlers posted in the thread I linked ?

  • tilia2's avatar
    tilia2
    7 years ago

    Yes. Care for Self has varying results and always ends up deselecting itself after about a Sim hour. Regardless, when my sim returns home, the caring-for-self sim is out of bed at 2am or what have you. 

  • SimGuruIcarus's avatar
    SimGuruIcarus
    Icon for EA Staff rankEA Staff
    7 years ago

    Hi @tilia2

    Seems like you save is behaving a bit weird. Does this issue occur in a mod free, fresh save?

    Thanks!

  • tilia2's avatar
    tilia2
    7 years ago

    Yep! The only mod I've ever had anyway was MCCC and a single toddler hairstyle. Nothing that should cause this issue.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago

    Would you be willing to share your save with me ?

    If so, please zip your saves folder and upload it somewhere like dropbox,, googledrive or OneDrive and PM me the link.

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