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NAUGHTYPEACHY
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12 years ago
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My sims are unable to go to work!!

Hello, 

On the Sims 3, I have been having serious problems with the fact that my sims eventually are unable to go to work! For a while many of my sims have been unable to go to work. My Sims may be working at e.g.. A school for a long time and suddenly they will not go to work! They have not been given the absent minded trait, or anything like that, I am unable to tell them to go to work because the game automatically cancels it out! At first I thought it was a buggy mod, so I deleted the patterns that I had created and placed in my game, once I deleted many, the game was running back to normal but the next time I decided to play the Sims 3, it started all over again! I almost cried!! It does not happen with one particular save file but it does eventually happen with just about all of my save files it seems to happen to the ones I play a lot with! I checked all over the internet and youtube to see how other simmers are dealing with this problem, but with me, this glitch also prevents my teenagers from going to work, and the sim in particular does not have a work outfit but uses his own clothes and when I did try to change his work outfit, the career outfit does not seem to appear when changing his outfit in create-a-sim. I have tried to save another copy of the family to the game and delete the current, but the same thing happens! I tried deleting the work lot and putting another exact copy of the workplace in, but it made no difference at all! I honestly do not know what to do! If there is nothing that can be done that I will have to delete the current game but the same thing will eventually happen again to another saved game! The other family members go to work fine and can, it is usually just the one family member!   Please help me!!!!! I need help!!    Kind regards Millie Thornley!  

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I am having this problem as well. Two sims WILL NOT go to work. They will not go. I read you can reset a sim like this:

     

    "There are some times when you may want to, or need to, reset your Sim, such as when they become stuck or unresponsive do so, just follow these steps: First, open the cheat window by pressing CTRL + Shift+ C. Hold all these keys at the same time to open the window. Type "resetSim Firstname Lastname" and then hit Enter. Ensure that you entered the name of the Sim you wish to reset."
     
    However I have no clue if that will work. All the other sims go to work. Good thought by the player who answered but it's not a clothng issue, is not an issue, they do not change into work clothing, their sometimes is a slip glitch where they just kinda move a bit to a side, and the work option is gone, I drive them there, they won't work. I have quit their jobs, made them start over,they won't go. These two sims never went. They didn't stop going they never could go. It is darn frustrating, and I wonder if there is a patch that covers this. So if you read this Sim Moderators please report this problem, it is new, as I see the date on the other player's remark is, so new issue. Not cool. Thank you guys for fixing stuff like this. I will post again IF resetting the sim works, ok? God bless- Sim Audrey 
    It's frustrating. Good luck to us!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
    Hello I know you already said that you put their work clothes on, but in my experience when this happened to me it was because I would give them a different outfit to wear to work besides the one they are automatically given. So you nene to change their outfit to the original work outfit they were givin. For whatever job they have.
    You can try to give them a new dresser, or if you have TS3 ambitions you can buy the styling station and click makeover self and you will be able to click the clothing button, then the career button, you cannot change the 1st outfit but you can have two more outfits, delete any outfits below the 1st one, and click the check mark. Hope this helps.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I am having this problem as well. Two sims WILL NOT go to work. They will not go. I read you can reset a sim like this:

     

    "There are some times when you may want to, or need to, reset your Sim, such as when they become stuck or unresponsive do so, just follow these steps: First, open the cheat window by pressing CTRL + Shift+ C. Hold all these keys at the same time to open the window. Type "resetSim Firstname Lastname" and then hit Enter. Ensure that you entered the name of the Sim you wish to reset."
     
    However I have no clue if that will work. All the other sims go to work. Good thought by the player who answered but it's not a clothng issue, is not an issue, they do not change into work clothing, their sometimes is a slip glitch where they just kinda move a bit to a side, and the work option is gone, I drive them there, they won't work. I have quit their jobs, made them start over,they won't go. These two sims never went. They didn't stop going they never could go. It is darn frustrating, and I wonder if there is a patch that covers this. So if you read this Sim Moderators please report this problem, it is new, as I see the date on the other player's remark is, so new issue. Not cool. Thank you guys for fixing stuff like this. I will post again IF resetting the sim works, ok? God bless- Sim Audrey 
    It's frustrating. Good luck to us!
  • NAUGHTYPEACHY's avatar
    NAUGHTYPEACHY
    Seasoned Scout
    12 years ago

    Thank you for your help! It mus have been corrupted....I find that if I have a family that has a lot of data, has been played a lot, it often gets really glitchy and **bleep** like that happens....Its ridiculous!! It pisses me off!! But its the game I suppose....

  • shaylarae's avatar
    shaylarae
    6 years ago

    I know this was years ago, but did you fix it? I am having this problem in the Monte Vista world. My sim has a job, the carpool never comes, I click to go to work and the action box immediately disappears. I changed lot type, I moved house closer, I quit the job and tried to get it again but was unable to. In the map view, there is no work icon. I used the reset sim cheat. I uninstalled and reinstalled. 

    Nothing is working. 

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @shaylarae  Try deleting the work building and replacing it.  The other sims that work there will lose their jobs too, unless you place a second workplace on the map before deleting the first one.  You can delete the second when the first is back in place; the point is to always have at least one on the map at any given time.

    If that doesn't help, try evicting your sim in Edit Town and moving them back in.  This is a more thorough reset than the resetsim cheat.  As long as you do it in one Edit Town session, without saving the sim to the bin and placing that bin copy instead, the sim will retain their relationships, as well as their current job if they have one, but lose their promised wishes and opportunities.

  • EA_Lanna's avatar
    EA_Lanna
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    6 years ago
    Great stuff. I'll close this out here.

    For future readers, please try the steps shared in this thread. If the issue continues, please pop open a new thread.

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