Tested this in several pools and everything is ok again. Also NPC sims use the pools as they should. Thank you for this!!!!
I guess I found a workaround to sims not swimming laps in pools.
FIrst I went back to the pool where my sim successfully swam laps the other day. It was actually the fountain at the Perfect Balance Spa that I turned into a pool. The measurements are only 7 by 3:
So I thought I would try a big pool. I went to Bathe De Rill in Windenburg. No laps. As described above, my sim attempted laps, but dropped the action immediately. No picture of that, we all know what that looks like.
So I thought I would try building a 7 by 3 pool at home as final proof that small pools work. But the same thing happened, my sim dropped the action! I remembered though that the pool at the Spa was built into the foundation, so I made a foundation and placed a pool on it. Like so:
That did not work either, my sim could step onto the foundation, but was waving as she could not get into the pool. THEN I remembered that the pool at the Spa also had a square of flooring next to the pool and I built this:
And finally my sim was able to swim laps again, without dropping the action! She kept swimming laps until she was exhausted again.
Surprisingly it did not work when the piece of flooring was at the long edge of the pool, only when it was on the short tile edge. It seems sims now need their pools to be just so.
I guess all of this will not be necessary if the issue is patched soon.
This didn't work for me. I messed around with downloading pools from the gallery though and a few of them worked for me, strangely, it seemed like it had to do with the shape. I then tried messing with that and found that if I used the octagon pool shape and dragged it out to roughly a square shape my sim swim fine but if I dragged it out to a rectangular shape the bug was there.
I've been having this issue, too. Sims used to swim laps all the time and now they just swim one arm length and stop! HELP!
OK, I was able to mess with this a bit more today and this is what I was able to find out. I was able to get a rectangular pool to work, but only if I used a raised foundation, also the foundation could not go all the way the around the pool. What I mean here is that the pool was 1 tile into the foundation with no foundation around 3 sides, the foundation actually will be placed on those sides at the edge of the pool. Octagon pool pulled out to roughly square shape would work at ground level, but with all other shapes, the bug returned. The foundation does not need to be as high as in the pic, just did that to make it more obvious what I was talking about.
