Sims with maxed manners will no longer queue up wash dishes repeatedly.
- Dang it… does this mean I have to wash my own dishes now?
This issue was fixed in Patch 1.40.61
I also am having this issue, but I disagree that it is caused by the new traits from Parenthood DLC.
The Sims in multiple save files also constantly stop what they are doing to wash dishes in random sinks (sometimes the nearest; sometimes the distance is irrelevant) when there are no dishes to be washed in the inventory or on the lot. This occurs mostly at venues where there is a Social Event or in one of the Get To Work expansion careers, but also happens at home lots and all venues. I have gone as far as clearing the inventory completely, but it still triggers. It starts by popping up to be a queued action, cancelling out the queued actions sometimes, and the Sim traveling to the sink to either stand at the sink 'twitching' with the action trying to queue or the Sim realizing that they don't need to wash dishes and they do indeed have to go fulfill a need and forget about the transgression entirely (but abruptly returning later). The Sims all have different traits and most of my Sims haven't aged up from Teen to YA to get any traits from the new pack.
actualy I have to disagree with your disagree :P because it never happened before they gave us the parenthood pre patch which effects all games not just the ones with parenthood. I wouldn't know how it effects ones without parenthood cause my collection is complete to date. All I can say is before the parenthood pre patch this didn't happen. and I've played over 14000 hours since game release. usualy I try to find away around their bugs instead of waiting because they don't spend enough effort on fixing. and even the most basic game comes with pieces and parts of all the packs only thing that changes is the amount of content and how it plays after you buy it. they all come with pre patches which is like a starter kick for the pack. That is interesting though that it affects basic games as well. makes me sad for the console players coming in cause it means they're going to bee in exactly the same boat in no time. It takes a certain amount of playing before this dish washing bug actualy appears. you most active sims and the ones that hang out around them are the ones that get effected. so unless you want all your sims doing it you'll probably wana limit the households you play the most.
