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rostsit's avatar
rostsit
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

[OPEN] [DU] Bike in an inventory overrides any other means of travelling

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Русский язык
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.58.69.1010
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a bike in the inventory of a sim that has different means of traveling, especially with an option to ALWAYS travel the chosen way.
What happens when the bug occurs? A sim will ignore the chosen way of traveling and will always use bike instead.
What do you expect to see? Bikes should not override anything
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

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This is sooooo annoying! I just wanted my sims to have bikes to ride them FROM TIME TO TIME. My vampires and mages can travel MUCH faster using their "Always teleport", "Vampiric running" etc.

Instead, they will put out a bike from the inventory, sit on it, travel, than put it back to the inventory, then reach the target at last. Takes TONS of time. I had to throw all bikes away to prevent this.

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  • ayushima's avatar
    ayushima
    6 years ago
    Yup. Super annoying. And then sometimes they take out the bike (half the time inside the house, when at the student housing that's on the ground floor) and then start walking or jogging, after I tell them to bike somewhere.
    And yeah, taking the bike out and putting it away take ages! It's super annoying.
    And then for whatever reason they don't go onto the bike paths behind the buildings, when told to bike somewhere, but instead get up to the stairs, put the bike away and then walk the rest of the way, or sometimes jog to the stairs and walk down the stairs and THEN get the bike out...once they're already near the place they're going anyway.

    The bikes are just super bugged.

    Sometimes they leave the bike somewhere random and I can't find it. Then, luckily, it gets returned to their inventory when they travel to another lot.
  • MarleyTheWizard's avatar
    MarleyTheWizard
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    at first, I was confused as to why my sims suddenly had the option to walk and go places. seems like one of them is meant specifically to use legs and the other whatever the game seems as default beside legs. However, it doesn't seem to be consistent. 

  • 360_poser's avatar
    360_poser
    Seasoned Novice
    6 years ago
    @Andrea058523 I did the same thing because the sim would try and pull the bike out in random places and would cancel my "go here" interation because the bike wouldn't fit. She would also bike from front door to side walk to go to work.
  • SqueamishNerd's avatar
    SqueamishNerd
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    Sorry that this is a bit off topic.

    @MarleyTheWizardFor me, as someone playing TS4 in Swedish, this is so annoying, because we have only one word meaning both walk and go, so in the menu we have two "Gå hit" ("[Go/Walk] here"). I mean, the feature isn't bad per se, it's just something that annoys me. xD

  • KeitaDarkwolf's avatar
    KeitaDarkwolf
    Rising Rookie
    6 years ago

    This continues to be a stupidly annoying problem. My Sims bike even when I select  "Jog Here". initially I could force them to jog if I was quick enough to cancel them getting the bike out, but after his latest round of dumpster diving, my Sim simply selects the second bike in his inventory and uses that instead, forcing me to either let him abandon the bike, or stopping the interaction, go back to get the bike and then try again.

  • Saihyou's avatar
    Saihyou
    Seasoned Vanguard
    6 years ago

    So many things mentioned here are why I sold the bike and haven't bought one since in any new save. How the closest thing to a vehicle we'll likely ever get somehow makes you lose time 9 times out of 10 is beyond me, yet here we are!

  • filipomel's avatar
    filipomel
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    Just wanted to give my input, bikes are extremely buggy and unreliable. Sims place bikes inside buildings before riding them resulting in failed routing, sometimes the bike is placed and then its not used, there are inconsistencies when sims automatically decide to use bikes or not, sometimes my student will use the bike to get to class, sometimes they won't. It took nearly five years to finally get some form of transportation in the game and it's not even done right. 

  • MightyEvilDoom's avatar
    MightyEvilDoom
    5 years ago
    @rostsit Me too. If a Sim has a bike in their inventory they will ALWAYS use it (unless inside) even if they have to walk like 6 feet. I wanted a bike to ride around San Myshuno sometimes but I had to delete it because the Sim would use it even I I told them to specifically Walk.
  • Kahuann's avatar
    Kahuann
    2 years ago

    I wish they would fix the whole gameplay affecting things, like bicycling (for example in Foxbury when they get the bike out for travelling to so many stairs near by and everywhere cycling inside house). Also sims get their bikes out, hop on and off multiple time without ever going anywhere. Many times eventually they leave their bikes (I can also find other sims bikes lying around everywhere). Whole cycling thing is bugged! I thought biking were supposed to be faster way to travel, but the bugs slows them to unusable state.

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