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kylefretts
2 years ago
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[FIXED] Sims are not moving/Freezing/Animation problems

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Mac 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? 1.96.365.1230 What ...
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AmyAndrix
12 months ago

I'm slightly uncomfortable with the fact that my post was merged into an issue that started last year. Simply merging into an existing work-in-progress post is fine, but the fact that it's a year old makes me worry my game is just dead. 

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chaoticdandelio
12 months ago

I felt the same way. I just started having this problem today. After trying a few different things I realised that not only did other saves work just fine, the problem was just with one lot. I had tried to save the lot and household and play in a new save file but it was broken there as well. My problems started when a llama did not return after a fair, I figured it could be a problem because I lived on a residental rental but I have no backing for that. I tried removing everything that had been related to the llama and the fair (including the ribbons and the fridge, although I don't remember my reasoning for the fridge), but not until I also replaced the chicken coop did it work. I still don't know which object was broken and why replacing some stuff worked, but, fingers crossed, my save and the lot are playable again!

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    amjoie
    Rising Ace
    12 months ago

    @chaoticdandelion  Your problem with lagging is because you had farm animals on a residential rental lot. I just did extensive testing for another thread with this problem about farm animals glitching on residential rental lots and I found out that cows, llamas, chickens, and mini sheep, mini goats cause ever worsening glitches until the sims lag so badly that the game is unplayable.These tests were done in a vanilla game that had never been modded.

    It did not matter if the farm animals were held on common ground for all tenants or owned by a particular tenant. Either way caused the glitches.

    Farm animals cannot be kept on residential rental lots until this issue is solved by EA.

    The problem seems to be a question of who owns the farm animals. The game repeatedly changes ownership no matter who originally owned the animals. Even the owner of the property cannot retain ownership. The coding for ownership of farm animals is obviously not as clear as for dogs and cats.

    Even if you fixed your game, should you continue to own farm animals, it will happen again. I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but at least you now know that testing has been done that conclusively proves the issue is real.

    Check this thread for more info: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/HR-FR-Farm-Animals-in-Rental-Neighbours-homes-run-away/td-p/13531102/jump-to/first-unread-message

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