Child Stuck Aging

Good idea on the reverting and doing the age up yourself. That issue can be really stubborn sometimes.

Role Sims like store clerks are a bit different. OW will detect and report on their being age stuck, but often cannot grab them away from their assigned stations to force the birthday and sometimes doing so will make them unable to continue working in those slots such as if they were about to become an elder. The Register mod tends to help, but this still happens sometimes. I usually subtract a whole bunch of days from their age with MC (MC Cheats module required) if I wanted them to stay on duty or get rid of them with Total Annihilation (TA) if I had no idea who they were anyway and let a new one be assigned.

I have encountered age stuck sims, the ones I am actively playing but more commonly inactives and NPCs, many dozens of times. I have always been able to fix them with some combination of MasterController and DebugEnabler commands or just letting Overwatch do its thing. At the very least (not the best solution) I bring them into MC's version of CAS and bump their age up myself, if it's possible to get them in. The resulting sim may glitch and produce some errors for a bit, but they usually sort themselves out.

Sometimes the old fashioned trick of evicting the household in Edit Town, making a copy of their residential lot, bulldozing the original, placing a copy, and moving everyone back in also helps.

Back a couple years ago when I was doing my 100 baby challenge, I often came across that glitch. What I was able to gather, it was from using CC on child female sims (it never effected my male child sims). I don't use cheats to take sims into CAS unless MC is considered a cheat in the games eyes, because I always only use MC CAS to change clothes/hairstyles.

I did find a solution, in the past, but with my age... memory isn't the best.

This time, I did try evict the household. At which point, the little girl was missing from the portrait. Then I couldn't put them back in a house. I didn't try saving them or bulldozing the lot (wish I had thought of that). I ended up just reverting back to a older save (How I save is: Save as Same name with either A, B, C, or D at the end. That gives me four older saves to go to if glitches occur and if I'm trying something different that I might not like or want the results I use A1, B1, C1,D1 etc), then the day before her birthday I took her in CAS with MC and turned her into a teen. Since, when she was glitched, there was no way to take her in CAS... neither thru MC or cheats.

If I happen to remember what I did, or if it happens again (cause I worry with her YA birthday coming up in a couple days) and I find a solution, I'll post it here.

I know, 2 uears on - My child sim was stuck, she could not sleep, she bounced off the bed, she could not age, the game would crash. I tried NRass but the other sims were frozen but she could do most other things. I decided just to play her anyway. Until tonight, I took the whole family to France and there she changed back into a normal playable sim. I took no chances and saved the game immediaetly with a new name. Then I decided to return home. It worked. I let it play for 2 sim days and then joy of joy she aged up. Thank you to France.

I have had a sim stuck aging too. There was one who was really stuck and no matter what I did she wouldn't resume aging. So I used master controller to make the whole town to stop aging and then changed it back to make the whole town age and that fixed her. She's aged properly ever since.

@igazor thank you for the tip for MC reset - I was finally able to age my stuck ones in my large saves. I don't know why I never thought that before but now I do and my day (and saves) are saved lol :smile: Also, sorry for waking up a very old post. Just had to thank you.

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Since you already have MasterController, try doing an MC Reset on the sim. Overwatch tends to be on the lookout for age stuck sims and fixes them as it finds them, but that can take a sim day or two to happen by itself.

I reset her with MC and it completely changed her looks but didn't allow her to age up or go into CAS. But I didn't give it a day or two, either. I just reverted back to my earlier save, the day before her birthday and aged her in CAS before her birthday happened.

I have overwatch and my alchemy consignment store clerk has been stuck on aging (both in this save and in the last save in a different town) through pretty much 6 sim years (1 year = 1 full set of seasons/7 days a season). It gives me the notice every night at 3am, but it's never aged them up yet.

I have another issue with mods (it's actually with Nraas, but I have another mod, too, so it can be a conflict) but I'd like to message you privately about it. Would that be okay @igazor?