Detective Career: Accumulating 25+ active clues that contradict each other?
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.107.151.1020.DX9
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Everything.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I dunno.
What happens when the bug occurs? I get annoyed.
What do you expect to see? Less issues with the game in general.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
It feels like I'm beating a dead horse at this point, since the Sims 4 community (myself included) have just passively given up on 'Get to Work' actually working properly, but after returning to the game after a year or so hiatus, I thought I'd try my hand at the Detective career. But I should've known better. And that's my fault for thinking that maybe someone might have fixed it in my absence ... But no, the interactive careers seem to be just as glitchy as when I left. In fact, I experienced a new variation on the 'notebook descriptions don't match the culprit/no culprit shows up' glitch that I used to get constantly.
This new mutation also started at the detective level, when the goal becomes case-solving. Up until the point where I called the APB, it was going really smoothly. But the BS inevitably found me. At first, I thought it was the old 'culprit never shows up at the arrest site' glitch again. But the anomaly turned out to be my clues notepad! With every subsequent day of work, it added an additional several clues onto my target. By the third day, I had a list of 20 clues - most of which contradicted each other. Seriously. I let it go on for a couple of days just to see if the clues would continue to escalate, and SURPRISE!! - they did.
It stated my criminal was female ... and also male. They were a teen, but also a YA, and an elder, too. They had blonde and/or red and/or black hair. They had about 10 different traits, including being both 'evil', and 'good' at the same time (not like they cancel each other out! pfshaw ....). And then, I'm sure the crime I was supposed to be arresting them for, was robbing a department store, because my notepad said they were wearing ALL the clothes! By the end of the week, I was looking for a schizophrenic, rainbow-haired, non-binary time traveller, that must have been wrapped up like a bloody burrito with all the layers they were wearing.
Like, am I looking for Sims or searching for unicorns, here? WHO IS THIS SIM?!! I'm sure they're fun to party with, but I'm trying to make fake money, so my pixel family can keep their home! I can't accomplish that when the notepad is handing out clues all willy-nilly like this. I thought there was a cap on clues at like 5?!! When did this start happening, or is it just me that's chasing martians here?
(I use only a single mod, and yes, I did load the game without MCCC running, and it still had the issue. No, I don't utilize any other custom content in my game whatsoever.)
