Expecting parents will once again be able to “Take Family Leave” via their phone to take time off from work.
Fixed in Patch 1.51.75
This is the first time I've had a pregnant sim since the November patch, so I encountered this too. My sims are in the culinary and tech guru careers. After they received the notification that they could take family leave, I checked the phone and there was no option for it under the work tab.
I checked the tuning file for this phone interaction and there seems to be this erroneous section under test globals:
<V t="career_test">
<U n="career_test">
<V n="test_type" t="career_reference">
<U n="career_reference">
<V n="career" t="specific_career">
<T n="specific_career">189135<!--career_Adult_Active_ActorCareer--></T>
</V>
</U>
</V>
</U>
</V>With that career test in there, it means that the family leave option will only show up on your phone if you have the actor career from Get Famous. For everyone else, it would make the option disappear.
I made a mod which changes this section, and when I tested it in my game my pregnant sim and her spouse could now use the phone to take family leave again. If anyone else wants to test this too, I uploaded it to my wordpress site, which you can find if you google for my username and "wordpress" or "facebook".
So I first noticed this bug last week and was very confused. I been playing this family for a long time and finally the daughter had grown up and was starting a family of her own. Her and Her husband are Celebrities, He is a Global Celeb and she has just been upgraded to a proper Celeb. He was in the Actors career but after reaching the top and really not progressing any further, he got a call to become a secret Agent (As you do) So now he's in the Secret Service area now. His wife on the other hand is a very important and successuful Busniess woman. Eventually she fell pregnant (took a little while but all good) and she entered her third term I got the normal notice saying that "Emily is now able to family leave" and "Nathan is now able to take family leave". Unfortunately, Just like everyone else on this thread, I was unccessful, and couldn't find it on their phones or computers. I had recently discovered that throught a previous patch that EA had made Whims adjustable, and so after months of no whims (which was indeed nice I will admit) thought that EA may have done a similar thing with the leave or any other previous features, but alas nothing. I really hope that the devs see this issue and fix this soon because poor Nathan and Emily later on had twin boys and were unable to take family leave (fun times....) and had very little unpaid time off from when they had to use it when they had their first child. The kids are all toddlers now and I think that particular couple are finished having kids but I have a few other families that I am hoping to start having children soon. Like Emily's younger brother just got engaged and well I kinda want them to have their kids before the grandparents peg out but because they've been NPCs their time off has been reduced to like 1 or 2 days. Not enough. I think with this amount of people on this thread, its bound to get their attention. Let's hope.
Seriously EA can We just officialize Simvasion's "mod" patch and be done with this? Because he seemed to (possibly with others help) figure out the problem and create a solution so yeah, just maybe check it over then throw it into the next update or something? Because this is now going on to 3 months. For people looking for a fix in the mean time (since I know how helpful EA is 🤨 ) here is Simvasion's Wordpress page https://simvasion.wordpress.com/portfolio/family-leave-fix/#more-1844 but don't forget to hit the Me too button on the first page of this thread ( at the bottom of the first post)
