how is this bug still a thing years after release? surely the dev team isn't placing the burden onto the players and expecting us to deal with it/sort it out...
i just realized, after a REALLY long play session, that i have this bug.
the only time my sim almost aged up, i bought and took a youth potion. that was hours ago.
now since the potion (used to prevent aging 3 times actually)... my sim has mastered several skills and almost maxed out the career path...
and now i want to save and quit, but my entire game session is just void??
is there no solution to this stupid bug?
edit: the bug happened recently, because i used build mode a lot, even recently. the only thing i can think happened of note since then was max my gardening and make some perfect plants, idk what else.
update: amazing, i reload old save, which set me back to almost the beginning. then i start learning skills and such for 2 more hours... then again.... out of nowhere... i get this bug again. i don't get it. how can bugs like this still exist. all i did since the last time i entered build mode to buy something was dig some rocks and do some fishing.
why doesn't this game have an auto-save feature, to go along with the manual saves? that way we can at least go back 10 minutes or so and not be completely devastated because we aren't constantly manually saving like lunatics to prepare ourselves for the inevitable, that this game is a broken mess, just like it was years ago when it launched. this is pathetic software quality assurance.
next update: since this is turning into a full-fledged beta/bug report...
so i tried to play the game with aging completely turned off...
so what happens instead?
the symptom that presents itself is every once in a while (10-20 minute intervals for me) the game randomly opening up the "take a picture" feature, on its own.
i had this happen a few times in less than an hour with aging turned off.
the 3rd time it basically bugged out and apparently thinks its still taking pictures, i "can not save/build while taking pictures"
so there are no more work arounds for me, on the players' end. this is something the dev team should fix.
i'm playing the basic game, no extra paid content. no mods.
a bug like this is 100% worthy of a full refund. it breaks the game. i can't possibly be expected to stop playing to manually save every 10 minutes, because:
1. the devs choose not to add an auto-save function
2. the devs refuse to ensure they're fixing bugs that are easily producible.
