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7 years ago
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[FIXED] [GF] Skills/tasks for gigs and auditions don't appear

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
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? 1.52.100.1220
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get Famous, Seasons, Strangerville, Cats and Dogs, Vampires
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Go into the acting career and try out for auditions/roles
What happens when the bug occurs? The tasks or requirements for the role don't appear
What do you expect to see? A list of recommended skills or tasks that need completion which improve your performance
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

My sims are in the acting career and normally when you get a gig or audition, it shows recommended skills or tasks that need to be completed in order to give your sim a better chance at acing the performance. For some reason, the tasks/skills don't show up and my sims have only been doing mediocre and not been able to get a promotion or nominated for an award. How do I fix this issue? 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    6 years ago

    @mackretyunish Yeah, it's not there on console. They are still being checked off you just can't see them.

    Workaround for PC/Mac

    Drag the three lines at the top up until you see the task (credits to christheone88). Details and pics: https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2019/06/tasks-skills-for-auditions-missing/

    Workaround for Console

    There isn't a real workaround but you can still just do the tasks and they will fulfill. 

    Here's a list of all the gigs and their tasks:



    Last Town in the West

    - Friendship with Director
    - Fitness
    - Guitar

    ZBB: Apocalypse Rising

    - Fitness

    - Guitar

    - Perform Action Scenes

    Detective Law

    - Acting

    - Fitness

    - Friendship with Co-Star

    Valdislaus Hardware

    - Fitness 

    - Handiness

    Preclinical Pharmaceuticals

    - Research Playful Emotion

    - Comedy Skill

    Making Moosic

    - Guitar

    - Charisma

    VoidBop

    - Fitness

    - Charisma

    Salty Suds Commercial

    - Acting

    - Charisma

    Growing Up Crumplebottom

    - Research Angry Emotion

    - Handiness Skill

    Critters from the Mauven Forest

    - Guitar

    - Research Playful Emotion

     

    The Urbz

    - Comedy

    - Research Flirty Emotion

    Wild Flames

    - Practice Romantic Scenes

    - Comedy Skill

    Dead Sea Adventures

    - Acting

    - Fitness

    Residency of the Heart

    - Research Flirty Emotion 

    - Friendship with Director

    - Charisma

    Dignity & Decorum

    - Friendship with Co-Star

    - Practice Romantic Scenes

    - Charisma

    Of Tea & Treachery

    - Practice Dramatic Scenes

    - Charisma

    - Research Flirty Emotion

    The Sheriff from Alpha Centauri

    - Research Flirty Emotion

    - Comedy

    - Friendship with Director  

    Captain Sigma: Olympus Landing

    - Research Angry Emotion

    - Fitness Skill

    - Friendship with Co-Star

    Tournament of Honor

    - Practice Dramatic Scenes

    - Acting

    - Charisma

    Melodies of the City

    - Practice Romantic Scenes

    - Research Playful Emotion

    - Charisma

    Treasures of Aarbyville

    - Fitness

    - Friendship with Co-Star

    - Practice Action Scenes

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  • When you click on the Career tab, along the top border there are 2 small horizontal lines. If you click and drag those upwards it should show them all.. For some reason the game doesn’t let you scroll far enough if the tab is too small.

    Good Luck!

  • Product: The Sims 4
    Platform:PC
    Which language are you playing the game in? English
    How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
    What is your current game version number? 1.54.120.1020
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? I have all of them
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Make a sim an actress, get a gig after getting an agency. Look at the work screen for your audition, it will not show requirements to pass the audition, and once you pass it (if you are lucky not knowing what is needed) it will not show what is needed for the actual performance to do well on risky parts or any parts. If there is another sim in the household, you have to look at their work screen that does work, then go straight to your sims work screen and it will then show. But it will go away and you have to rinse and repeat the cycle to keep up with it.
    What happens when the bug occurs? You cannot see requirements to pass audition on the work screen of your sim, nor can you see what is needed for performance to go well if you luckily pass audition
    What do you expect to see? Requirements of what is needed for both auditions and performances in actor career
    Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
    Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

    C:\Users\amm28\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves\Slot_0000001e.save

    C:\Users\amm28\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves\Slot_0000000a.save

    C:\Users\amm28\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves\Slot_00000035.save

    I could not get print screen thing to work to show you the picture of what is going on, but those are the file save names if it helps any at all for you to get in and see, please help. I really wanted to level an actress, and as you can see I have a few trying to be one. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago
    @allykatz77 Merged your post with the current thread on this. Please check solution post for a workaround.
  • Thank you Crinrict, I am always having trouble getting that in the right place I am sorry.

    How do you do that? I am not very good technologically, I was not aware you could resize any bars.

    You all are a huge sanity saver! I finally found the lines you were describing above the green ( I was doing the green not above) and could get it to move up and see what is needed!!!! Thank you so much, I know it's not a fix, but at least a work around until hopefully it can be fixed again! Thank you all!!!!

  • Duchess_Morgan's avatar
    Duchess_Morgan
    6 years ago

    I'm also on XBox One, and that's as close as I've gotten. I can use the DPad to scroll down and see the context-sensitive-help pop-up that gives you a clue as to what the task probably is, and once - one time - I did something while doing that, and then, the next time I opened the career tab, it showed the whole thing, daily tasks and all!  But, now, I can't reproduce it for the life of me, and I'm starting to think I dreamed it. 😉

    And there's no excuse for this. We shouldn't need a "workaround" at all.  I'm quick to defend EA when someone incorrectly says beta testing should catch all issues on all possible PC configurations, but simply making sure you can see all parts of all game controls and dialogs...?  Especially when porting to another platform...? This is alpha testing stuff!  How do you miss that?

    I'm starting to think every time I consider buying an expansion, I should search the forums and see what about it just doesn't work at all, before I buy it. 😉

    (See... the little emoticon is there to say I'm not as mad as I may sound, but come on, y'all... An inaccessible control dialog?)

  • mackretyunish's avatar
    mackretyunish
    6 years ago

    The acting career was one of the main reasons I bought the get famous pack. I usually do some research before buying packs to see if it’s worth it and if there are any problems with it but I didn’t find anything detrimental. Now I just feel like I’ve wasted money with it. I’ve saw some people post work arounds using the 3 dots above the tab to make the window bigger the view them but as far as I can see it’s only on PC and not console as I haven’t been able to find it in my save🤷🏼‍♀️

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @mackretyunish Yeah, it's not there on console. They are still being checked off you just can't see them.

    Workaround for PC/Mac

    Drag the three lines at the top up until you see the task (credits to christheone88). Details and pics: https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2019/06/tasks-skills-for-auditions-missing/

    Workaround for Console

    There isn't a real workaround but you can still just do the tasks and they will fulfill. 

    Here's a list of all the gigs and their tasks:



    Last Town in the West

    - Friendship with Director
    - Fitness
    - Guitar

    ZBB: Apocalypse Rising

    - Fitness

    - Guitar

    - Perform Action Scenes

    Detective Law

    - Acting

    - Fitness

    - Friendship with Co-Star

    Valdislaus Hardware

    - Fitness 

    - Handiness

    Preclinical Pharmaceuticals

    - Research Playful Emotion

    - Comedy Skill

    Making Moosic

    - Guitar

    - Charisma

    VoidBop

    - Fitness

    - Charisma

    Salty Suds Commercial

    - Acting

    - Charisma

    Growing Up Crumplebottom

    - Research Angry Emotion

    - Handiness Skill

    Critters from the Mauven Forest

    - Guitar

    - Research Playful Emotion

     

    The Urbz

    - Comedy

    - Research Flirty Emotion

    Wild Flames

    - Practice Romantic Scenes

    - Comedy Skill

    Dead Sea Adventures

    - Acting

    - Fitness

    Residency of the Heart

    - Research Flirty Emotion 

    - Friendship with Director

    - Charisma

    Dignity & Decorum

    - Friendship with Co-Star

    - Practice Romantic Scenes

    - Charisma

    Of Tea & Treachery

    - Practice Dramatic Scenes

    - Charisma

    - Research Flirty Emotion

    The Sheriff from Alpha Centauri

    - Research Flirty Emotion

    - Comedy

    - Friendship with Director  

    Captain Sigma: Olympus Landing

    - Research Angry Emotion

    - Fitness Skill

    - Friendship with Co-Star

    Tournament of Honor

    - Practice Dramatic Scenes

    - Acting

    - Charisma

    Melodies of the City

    - Practice Romantic Scenes

    - Research Playful Emotion

    - Charisma

    Treasures of Aarbyville

    - Fitness

    - Friendship with Co-Star

    - Practice Action Scenes

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    Skills/Tasks are now displayed for every gig and audition in the career panel.

    Fixed for PC/Mac in 1.55.105

    Please check workaround post for help on console with this issue until it can also get fixed

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