Freelancer career, Digital Artist does seem to be impacted by recent patch. Last week I put a sim into the career and took the portrait gig first. He was on the poorer side so had him do the portrait, then go to a community lot with a computer to chat with client before submitting for approval. Gig completed just fine.
This week after installing the new patch, I attempted to do the same scenario in a different save that is actually on a different computer. The chat with client would not complete. I then tried adding a computer to the home lot after returning from the library but task still wouldn't complete. Saving, exiting and restarting didn't solve it in my case. I gave up and canceled the gig.
I then took the gig to create 3 logos for the client. It occurred to me that perhaps some coding in the new patch somehow now made it so that each task had to be completed in full, sequentially from top to bottom. Hence, I did everything in order, studied reference images, then drew all three logos, named them and submitted for approval. The gig completed just fine. I think simvasion is referring to the same gig I was able to successfully complete, making me wonder if perhaps the task list was not done sequentially, i.e. did one icon and submit it without having done all 3 drawings, intending to do the second drawing later. If it is the same gig and if that is what you did @simvasion , it lends credence to my theory about the need to now have to do tasks in full, sequentially, which wasn't the case prior to new patch. I also can't say for sure if travel played any role in triggering the issue with the gig I had to cancel. With whims, exiting and restarting allows whims to work again on the home lot in my game but it did nothing to help me with completing a task for what turned out to be a doomed gig.
