Hello again, all!!I'm experiencing a glitch. When I google it I can find several other cases of it but can't seem to find a solution. I called on the phone in game to adopt a pet - chose my kitten, had the pop up "are you sure, they're a lot of work..." and said yes, and re-named her. It said that the pet needed to be cleaned up and was on the way, but never arrived. It has been a few sim days and still nothing. I can't call the adoption place again because it's grayed out and says the pet is on the way and I need to wait for it to arrive. I also can't edit town, move, travel etc for the same reason. I've tried resetting the sims, re setting everything (resetsim *), all other NPCs are coming to the house when called (maid, paper boy...). I have all the major NRAAS mods. I already saved after the problem started so I can't go back :( Can anyone help??

1 - Testingcheats resetsim isn't going to do a thing in this case. Try using MasterController's reset on the residential lot instead. On the ground of the home lot or its map tag, NRaas > MC > Reset Lot. If that doesn't do it, try switching active play to another household for a few sim minutes and switch back again. And finally, if that doesn't work either, revert to Edit Town, evict the family to the clipboard on the side of the map, copy the uninhabited house down to the bin, bulldoze the original, replace the copy, and move them back in again.2 - Once you get that sorted out, forget about adoptions from the phone/computer. That entire pet social worker scenario is broken beyond repair. I had to work for three hours once to wrestle a puppy away from the social worker whom I eventually found spawning across town but disappearing seconds later each time -- took over a dozen tries before I succeeded. But I was being stubborn because I really wanted that puppy. :) Instead, click on your sim and NRaas > MC > Basic > Adopt Pet. Works the same way except the kitten will magically appear on your lot without the inept pet social worker.

"KWatson813;13401103" wrote:Hi @igazor ! Thanks for coming to the rescue again. I tried resetting the lot but had no luck. I'm not able to switch to another household or enter edit town to try the other two ideas. "You cannot enter edit town while the social worker is dropping off a new pet for your household." Ugh! I will certainly never make this mistake again. Any ideas? Is it possible to somehow get around the issue of not being allowed to enter edit town using MC or something?Wait, don't give up hope yet. You have a stuck scenario taking place, not necessarily a corrupt save.I understand that the game will not let you enter Edit Town. But seriously, if you use MC to switch households, you are blocked from doing that as well?As for Overwatch, it's not the nightly scan that would fix this. It's the startup scan. If the MC trick above doesn't work, can you save the game, quit completely, and reload to let OW do it's thing properly upon startup?

Oh I see...situation vs. scenario. I'm not sure that OW will see the pet adoption as "broken" when it does it's nightly run. But I do think it should step in and see it as "bogus" or whatever the designation is on its startup run. It's worth a try, anyway.Edit: Ah, and I've got another brilliant (?) idea. On City Hall, do MC > Sim > Advanced > Total Annihilation > (Filter to Type of Service) and see if you can rid your game entirely of the pet social worker.

Have you tried using MC to TA (totally annihilate) the pet social worker?

Good news!! I got this issue resolved. Wanted to post an update in case anyone has this issue in the future and sees this thread. I ended up opening a slightly older save from right after the problem started. (In this save I had NOT yet tried switching households or total annihilation). I went in and did TA, getting rid of the pet adoption social worker, saved and quit. When I opened that save back up today, the problem has been resolved!! I'm so grateful to not lose my game, to say that I'm attached to this family is an understatement. Thank you so much @igazor !!

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catchingkatie
10 years ago
In currently in the process of saving and quitting right now, then will restart with fingers crossed and report back!
catchingkatie
10 years ago
No luck :( I'll make a post on NRAAS tomorrow! Thank you both for trying to help!!!!
igazor
10 years ago
From the way you described things, I don't think your game was ever really in danger of getting lost entirely. We just had to find the right combination of creative maneuvers to break that stuck pet adoption situation thing.

Glad you worked it out and keep making those saved copies of games that are important to you as your story progresses! :)
TadOlson
10 years ago
It's great to have an older save to go back to if something goes wrong.
ntomp2014
9 years ago
I have had the same problem... But SOLUTION FOUND!! After hours of research throughout the game I found out that the pet is assigned to the house not the family when its arriving, so what you need to do is...

1. GIVE YOUR HOUSEHOLD A LOT OF MONEY! ITS GONNA BE NEEDED (100,000 - 999,999)
1. testingcheatsenabled true
2. moveobjects on
3. delete each sim in the household by clicking on them and pressing delete (note: you must exit build/buy mode after each person)
4. Then the house will become inactive, you will now be able to edit town...!
5. Once in edit town click on your household and click split household, move all sims to a new lot except one. (thats the catch you can't have your old house at all, even entering an exact copy wont work)
6. Then move the remaining sim to the new house.
7. Click on that household and start playing.

All fixed!!!! Note: please do not ever use the phone to adopt a pet again... instead go to the household directly and adopt pet from neighbor.

Happy Simming!
igazor
9 years ago
"ntomp2;15072059" wrote:
I have had the same problem... But SOLUTION FOUND!! After hours of research throughout the game I found out that the pet is assigned to the house not the family when its arriving, so what you need to do is...

1. GIVE YOUR HOUSEHOLD A LOT OF MONEY! ITS GONNA BE NEEDED (100,000 - 999,999)
1. testingcheatsenabled true
2. moveobjects on
3. delete each sim in the household by clicking on them and pressing delete (note: you must exit build/buy mode after each person)
4. Then the house will become inactive, you will now be able to edit town...!
5. Once in edit town click on your household and click split household, move all sims to a new lot except one. (thats the catch you can't have your old house at all, even entering an exact copy wont work)
6. Then move the remaining sim to the new house.
7. Click on that household and start playing.

All fixed!!!! Note: please do not ever use the phone to adopt a pet again... instead go to the household directly and adopt pet from neighbor.

Happy Simming!

I'm sorry, but no. :/

What you have described here would be a way to put your game in danger of breaking entirely. At no time should sims of any kind be testingcheats shift-click deleted. Doing so deletes their bodies while keeping their data in the game, thus causing the potential for all kinds of corruption. There are usually better ways to get out of a stuck pet adoption scenario.

For those not averse to using mods, as was stated on this thread over a year ago, a much safer way to adopt pets from the town's adoption roster is to use MasterController's Adopt Pet function rather than the phone. You get the same animal choices, just without the pet adoption social worker scenario that so often gets stuck.
igazor
8 years ago
"justme303;15339561" wrote:
Im sorry but this makes no since to me as I cant find the MoveObject On when I am in testing cheats and I am having the issue above, can you post a screen shot ? so I can see

You can pursue the suggestion the player provided if you really want to, but that was their first post on this forum and they haven't returned since. I'm going to repeat that using MoveObjects and testingcheats deletes on sims of any kind is a great way to break your game, not a safe way to get out of a stuck scenario.

If you cannot get into Edit Town, the solutions to get out of such situations are to use NRaas mods or revert play to a save from before all of this happened.
vaudeville12
8 years ago
Ok so I had this problem as well, tried everything listed here and more but the only thing that worked for me (to an extent, I'll explain shortly) was to

1. ctrl-shift c, motherlode until I had enough to buy another house (not needed if you are already rich).
2. I purchased another house from the neighbourhood using the menu that pops up when you click an empty residence. Off my sim went to the town hall and purchased the house, and then went to the new home.
3. I also sent the other family members "home" from the arrow on their box on the left.
4. I then got the options to actually move house from computer and phone and, although I would *never" use it again, the option to once again adopt a pet was no longer greyed out either.

I said to some extent - the reason being, I have not been able to get any services to work yet, including maid, butler or police. I'm working on a way to reset this from nraas or similar but I've not resolved it yet, although I may well just move to another neighbourhood and see if it clears everything, now that I am able.

Hope this helps works for all those other frustrated folk!
igazor
8 years ago
The underlying solution, which I admit is no help once a player get stuck with this scenario, is to not use the phone to adopt children or pets but to use NRaas MasterController instead. The in-game child/pet social worker routines are fragile and prone to breakage.

The other way out is to revert to a save from before the call to adopt was made and continue from there.
Jonas_80000
8 years ago
Pet on lots great idea