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Nozladi
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3 years ago
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[FIXED] [HSY] Won't Travel to Prom

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PlayStation 5
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? 1.70
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a teenager on Long Life span and wait from the box to pop-up on Saturday about going to prom and select the one that takes you to prom.
What happens when the bug occurs? Absolutely nothing. The Sim just continues doing what they are doing and nothing happens. No map. No travel. Just nothing.
What do you expect to see? I expect for a brief break while the teen travels to the auditorium for prom and then for them to pop up outside ready to go in.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. I changed my game from Normal Life span to Long Life span.

The above pretty much explains it. Haven't had this issue at all. Prom always happened as it was supposed to (except for when that small issue happened where I had to turn off aging for their to even have a prom), I recently changed my game's lifespan because I love my current couple and want to play them longer. Suddenly, my teen can't/won't go to prom. Nothing happens. The game just continues and the invite/skip box disappears after I choose to travel with to prom. 

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    6 months ago


    • Teen Sims can travel to prom even if Principal Mei Prescott is not alive.

    Fixed in Patch 1.109.185/1.98
    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues 

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  • Having the same problem. Never had this before, only on my save where I play on long life span. Like you, I get the pop up, I select the teens I want to travel to prom with, and nothing happens.

  • grrrlonfire's avatar
    grrrlonfire
    12 months ago

    Hey! I actually just placed Mei Prescott back into the world from the gallery as someone on the thread suggested so I'm going to try that tomorrow, plus the workaround someone else suggested of having them travel to their high school first. Hopefully both of those things help. I got one of the most popular versions of Mei from the gallery, and I'm assuming/hoping she's still assigned as a high school principal. I'm shocked the game doesn't just generate one for you tbh. 

  • grrrlonfire's avatar
    grrrlonfire
    12 months ago

    So I had them travel to their high school and placed Mei back in the world like someone suggested, and it didn't work, but it did when I turned ageing off. Not sure if it was a combination of all of those things that did it or just the ageing, but either way at least they could still go to prom. Thanks everyone <3

  • Zayhbie's avatar
    Zayhbie
    9 months ago

    I saw in another thread that this could happen if the principal died? 

    So you need to travel to the school with your sim on one day, I would do Friday to be safe and this will spawn a new principal. Prom should work as expected after this.

    This fix worked for me.

    Thanks,

    Z

  • Thank you! I tried a LOT of different solution attempts and none of them worked, but going to the high school to spawn a new principal is what fixed it for me! I hadn't even realised our principal had died... It worked for me spawning the new one in on Saturday less than an hour before prom 🙂

  • BlondieWarrior95's avatar
    BlondieWarrior95
    Rising Rookie
    6 months ago

    I've been having this issue for a month. It started with getting the 123 error code when trying to travel to prom. I was only getting that error for prom and not anywhere else. After the latest patch, I never got the error anymore, but now my teen sims don't get the pop-up asking them if they wanted to go to the prom. For a couple of weeks ( NOT in game), I couldn't get them to make a promposal sign or ask another sim to the prom. It wasn't showing up on the calendar either.

    I started my game last week, and for some reason, prom is showing up on the calendars again. Sims can now ask others to go to the prom, but on Saturdays, they still don't get pop-ups to travel to prom.  Each sim automatically gets a resentful sentiment for no prom invite. I tried traveling to the auditorium right before prom was supposed to start. It's decorated for prom, but you can't do anything, and nobody is in there. Mei Prescot is alive and well. I removed all my mods and cc and started a new game. This did not fix the issue. I saw the laundry list just now, and it says, "Teen Sims will be able to travel to prom even if Principal Mei Prescott is not alive." That's great, but in my game, she's still alive. I hope they look more into this.

    I've also been having the same problem with graduation ceremonies! When my teen sim ages up, she automatically gets a "Graduated with Honors" pop-up. She should be valedictorian! I also got a notification in the mail that said that she would receive her diploma. I also tried removing my mods and cc and started a new game, and it still doesn't work.

  • JuniperWhimsy's avatar
    JuniperWhimsy
    Rising Veteran
    6 months ago
    @BlondieWarrior95 I'm having the same issue as you at the moment; there is nothing in my sim's calendar about Prom, they can't invite anyone to Prom as there is not even a High School section in the pie menu when clicking on the sim I want to ask, and at the time Prom is supposed to start I don't get the pop-up asking me if I want to travel there or skip it.

    These teens (they're triplets) are only 1 sim week old and are on a long lifespan. They aged up on a Saturday and I did get the 'Do you want to go to prom? pop up that day, and I said yes but nothing happened, they didn't go. I followed them to High School on the Monday and a new Principal has been generated as Mei Prescott is dead in my game. I played for 3 days at the High School and hoped that, as others have said, going to High School and generating a new Prinicpal would enable Prom to work, but as explained above on their second Saturday evening as teens I couldn't do any High School/Prom interactions with any other teens from the Pie Menu and no pop-up appeared asking if I wanted to go. It will be interesting to see what happens on their 3rd Saturday as teens!

    Incidentally, I am also currently playing a teen in a different save with aging off and she did have Prom in her calendar, was able to ask others if they wanted to go with her, and I was given the option to follow her to Prom when Saturday came around, so maybe this issue is also related to sims being on long lifespan?
  • BlondieWarrior95's avatar
    BlondieWarrior95
    Rising Rookie
    6 months ago

    @JuniperWhimsyI have my Sims' lifespan on normal, but I turn it off and on whenever I want them to start aging. I tried playing a new save with the aging turned off, but my teen sim still couldn't attend prom even though Mei Prescott is alive. Maybe if I have her attend classes at school, it might work.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 months ago


    • Teen Sims can travel to prom even if Principal Mei Prescott is not alive.

    Fixed in Patch 1.109.185/1.98
    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues 

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