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This problem is not fixed whatsoever.
I've had this problem happen recently (november 20th 2019), both that toddlers arent taken care of in daycare, but also that noone takes care of the toddler when i'm away from the home lot with one out of 4 able caretakers.
Please solve this problem, it's frustrating that you are chained to the home lot through the whole duration of the toddler age.
EA Staff (Retired)Anyone still having an issue with this? If so, could you share a save file where you've seen it happening? Thanks for the help!
@SimGuruNickI believe its still around, but better than it was before, but I found a work around, if there are active sims in the inactive lot that can do skill improvement it works. My sim was working late at the Police station but most of the family was home, the toddler was getting hungry, in the red, so I had the Husband of the female sim I was playing build his gourmet skill which after I switched building the gourment skill, the toddlers hunger need went up. My female sim I was playing was still at the police station.
Yes, this has been happening to me for a couple years now and I've had it. I just had my sims go get a free breakfast during that out on the town holiday, and the toddler just as usual was not taken cared for at the day care in the slightest. And I come back to levels of red that I'm soon to get the child taken away from.
Here is my google drive link to my save file. I wasnt sure which 'version' save file to give you, but they are all there if needed. My sims JUST got back from the breakfast.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iZW84YwdEL5Cvn4VwJkYmtJut7-Lt2RG?usp=sharing
I noticed every time i come or go from my home lot even if I'm just saving and exiting and returning my infants respawn close to where ever they were but on the ground and their needs are different. Most of the time i put them to bed and then save just to come back to the game and they are on the floor and their needs are not good. Almost like when i saved my sim woke up the infant picked them up put them on the floor n just stood there. Very weird.
On Xbox Series X with all packs, I had a Sim restocking her shopping mall yesterday which took quite a while with about 5 little shops to restock, around 48hrs of Sims time. I left her family at home together, Father, 2 child age Sims, their Dog and a toddler. She fed Rico (toddler) before she left and all needs were maxed. She'd only been at the retail lot for a few hours, all their needs were fine except Rico was starving again and in the red. I set all the other Sims to socialise with him but that made no difference. I had to travel back to the lot to feed him, put him to bed and then return to the retail lot.
Next morning Rico was at daycare as the family had gone to work and school. So I watched his needs again and the same thing happened. I had to just bring him to the retail lot to try and fix his needs, I gave him a toy to occupy him to watch him there instead.
It's really affecting family gameplay and the Needs of Toddlers and Infants just do not work in the same way as other age groups. I found myself wishing I could give Rico a Moodlet Solver because his mother was using those to keep on working.
In contrast I had another Sim family of Father, Daughter, Aunt, Horse, Cat and Dog all stay at home while the mother restocked her large gift shop. It took around 72 Sim hours and everyone left at home was absolutely fine. I checked a different household with just a Horse, adult Dog and Puppy and they were all fine for the duration (it was a busy retail lot check day). So I think I'm going to sell any Retail Lot that belongs to any household with an Infant or Toddler as a result, because it was just such a massive hassle.
This is not daycare but being left at home with a parent. I have a household of 2 parents and 1 infant. When I go to another lot with 1 parent for only 2 sim hours, when I return the infant is on the floor (was in the crib sleeping and all the way in the green) and nearly dead (ALL NEEDS NEARLY ZERO) and the 1 parent I left at home is dressed in winter-wear (it is winter in game, but the parent was in bed sleeping ... in PJ's!) and standing in the middle of the room with lowered needs too. Not as bad as the infant, but these people were completely in the green when I left -- TWO SIM HOURS AGO! So frustrating! Like others have said, I feel like I am chained to my lot if I have an infant (and so are my sims unless they are going to work). Additionally, different family, same save game - 2 sim parents go out and the nanny calls the parent to see if they want to go to a festival. Upon returning from work .. the kid is no where to be found! I do pick up child command from the crib and my sim runs all the way down the street and around the corner where the baby was left in the road by the nanny and the nanny is bugged out and no where to be found! I don't have growing together, just base game update. At this rate, I highly doubt I am sinking money into yet another broken pack.
