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home8896
4 years ago

Sims wandering off with no action queued to perform

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.77.146.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Everything EXCEPT Journey to Batuu, and kits: Courtyard, Country, Throwback.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I'm not sure. Baffled, in fact.
What happens when the bug occurs? The played sim, which I turned off autonomy for, doesn't have any action queued up or waiting in the active field, yet is wandering off from the actions I do have queued up. Example: In the recent case, the sim was feeding the baby, and I focused on, but did not click on, another sim to see where they were, and when I went back to my active sim to queue up a few more interactions with the baby, she started walking down the steps with nothing in the action box. The interactions I had begun to fill the queue with remained in the upper part of the box and did not descend to an action. She was going to get a drink of water, though her hunger bar was full, but it didn't show up at all.
What do you expect to see? My active sim should be waiting for my instructions on the next action I'm about to queue up. Or, alternatively, if there is some big event going on, like a sim dying, there should be an interaction present in the queue to tell me what is so important, as this has happened before, so I thought perhaps this time she was going to witness a death.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. It happened on both my laptop version and my desktop version of the game after July 27th.

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I turned off autonomy on my active sim but not the other sims. I haven't tested to see if I turn off full autonomy on all of the sims if it still happens.

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  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago

    I get this too on Xbox Series X.

    The first time it happened was on Xbox Series S and my Sim had just taught a yoga class at the spa. She ran out of the building and right to the end of the street. But I couldn't cancel it because there was no action in the queue.

    It's carried on randomly in my game and happened in Granite Falls yesterday when I wanted my Sim to be foraging and collecting. 

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 years ago

    Hey all,

    Just checking in to see if anyone is still seeing this on a modless game as we've been unable to reproduce it on our end.

    If so please share your save file with us (instructions: http://x.ea.com/74420) so we can take a look.

    Thanks!

  • PandoraTO's avatar
    PandoraTO
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    I've had this happen very infrequently with both my own sims and at least once with a service NPC (maid). Unfortunately, I use mods and there's no way to predict when it's going happen, so I can't share a save. But, the last time was just a day or two ago: the maid suddenly left the house and walked a couple of blocks away to... go fishing? Never had a maid do that before. When it happens with my own sims, the sim suddenly leaves the house to go all the way across the neighbourhood to speak to a rando or "See what's happening." (Spoiler alert: There's nothing happening!) The only way to stop the sim from wandering off is to reset them.

  • Bearpal64's avatar
    Bearpal64
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    In my game I've mostly seen this occur when a Sim autonomously decides they want to play video games on a computer sometimes trolling the forums too. The main problem is they will drop their entire queue to go do this activity that you can't cancel because their is no icon and even pressing the cancel action button (triangle on PS) does nothing.

    Back when Dream Home Decorator came out I used to see my Sims drop everything to do an invisible/uncancelable action which was eventually updated to be "Judge Decor"

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