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[GRO] Teens/Kids getting stuck in phases | EA Forums - 12224932
@SimGuruIcarus wrote:Hi everyone!
So, we are trying to trigger this issue to no avail. We managed to see the 2 phases in the save, but it went away after aging up.
It also sounds like the SimGurus are trying to reproduce the wrong thing. I play with aging permanently turned off. This isn’t about the phases not going away when they age up. It’s about the phase getting stuck while they are still in the child or teen life stage.
The phase buffs all have a timer that lasts for a couple of days, which means phases should last only a couple of days max – not for all of their child or teen lives.
Also, the parenting options to remove the phase stop working when the phase buff expires while the family is not being played as they active household (while you are off playing different households in your play rotation). When you return and the buff is gone, but the traits are still on, for example with bear phase the child will still want to wear their bear suit, but parents have no option to wear a suit when clicking on their child (which they normally have while the buff is active).
None of this sounds like intended gameplay by design.
The phase and phase buff need to either pause expiry timer while the family isn’t active and then resume when you return to playing that house, or the phase needs to be properly removed even while sims are off-screen and not currently the active household.
