[OPEN] Comedy routines being put up for sale at the Flea Market autonomously
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 expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get To Work, Get Together, City Living, Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Parenthood, Dine Out, Fitness Stuff, Movie Hangout Stuff, Perfect Patio Stuff, Luxury Party Stuff, Spooky Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? It's hard to test because the game will randomly select from playable and non-playable sims to be vendors at the Flea Market. Occasionally it chooses my high level comedian sim, who has over 20 written comedy routines.
What happens when the bug occurs? The comedy routines are apparently stored as invisible objects in your sim's inventory, and when they stock the Flea Market table autonomously while in NPC vendor role, they can choose to put their comedy routines on the table for sale. After the Flea Market ends, they can either disappear completely, or be dumped into the Household Inventory where they were previously retrievable but since a recent patch they disappear upon being placed in the world and can't be dragged directly back into my sim's inventory to be restored.
What do you expect to see? If my sim gets chosen to be a vendor, I'd expect comedy routines to be exempt from sale, or at least make them duplicates, or at least make them properly sellable and useable like books and I can live with my sim getting income from selling them.
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? No
I have a sim in the entertainment career as a comedian and while working through that, he built up quite a selection of various short, medium and long routines, and refined some of those too.
Today, after playing a rotation around the neighbourhood, I returned to this sim and clicked on the microphone to perform a comedy routine for his daily work task, but noticed it was greyed out, saying he needed to write a routine first.
I checked the comedy section of the computer and was surprised to see that he had no routines at all - they've all disappeared. It's like been reset as if he never wrote any at all.
I have no idea what the cause is, as I haven't played this sim's household for a few days. I was able to perform comedy routines last time I played him. Similarly, I have no idea when it might have happened.(see update post below - the cause is identified as attempting to sell them at the Flea Market!)
So far, it doesn't seem like anything else has been affected, like he still has all the stuff in his inventory OK, relationships are OK and learnt skills are still OK. He just seems to have lost his library of comedy routines written.
I am able to write comedy routines on the computer OK, so I've just started from scratch redoing them again. But it is a really strange and annoying thing to happen and I'm worried it could happen to my other comedy sims.