[OPEN] [GT] Sims leave work early after loading lot (Club Gathering)

I have expanded on the information about the glitch, the expanded info will be in purple. I tried several tests on a new save and different methods. 

It seems the glitch only works if the Gathering is started on the Household's own lot as doing it on a Community lot canceled the Gathering and you can't start the Gathering on other Residential lots. Also if one of the Club Members are at Work/School, it will not allow the Gathering to start so therefore the glitch won't work.

Not only does saving and loading also cause the Sims to leave work/school early. It seems heading to Manage Worlds while the Sims are working (if their Club is in a Gathering) will cause them to go home when you load the household even if you didn't load other lots. I was asked on this thread if Manage Worlds causes it and it seems that it does.

How to avoid the glitch:

• End the Gathering before quitting the game or heading to Manage Worlds.
• Be sure the Sims are not at work/school when a Gathering is in progress.

Notes about the glitch:

• The glitch only works if all Sims in a Club are home. Attempting to start a Gathering while 1 or more of the Sims are at Work/School won't start the Gathering.
• The glitch doesn't work if the Sims are on a Community Lot because the Gathering ends if a Club member goes to Work or School. Furthermore, you can't perform the glitch on other Residential Lots because the game won't allow you to start the Gathering.

Original text

I have 3 Sims (Professional Athlete, Musician, and Scientist) who were at work and are in the same club (my Club's name is Art Lovers) which is in a Gathering. When I loaded, the Sims have left work although I didn't cancel the At Work action. You can notice the problem is that you suddenly gain money when the household is loaded.

I think what happened was that the affected Sims' club (Art Lovers) was in a Gathering when I saved. When I loaded the game with the Sims at work and their Club in a Gathering, the game sent the Sims home early probably because the Gathering is supposed to spawn the Club Members which I think how it works. However, one Sim is in a Club that wasn't in a Gathering so she was still working. This can be a major problem as it could easily lead to performance loss, as well as the Sim possibly getting demoted and/or fired due to bad performance.

Here are the steps to cause the problem

1. Have a club (e.g. Garden Gnomes) start a Gathering.
2. Have the Sims with the above Club go to work or school.
3. Save and then quit the game with the Sims at work but without ending the Gathering. You can also go to Manage Worlds and then load the same Household.
4. Load the game and play the Household you were using. After the game loads, the Sims in the club have left work/school early.

That means if those Sims are in a Club whose Club is in a Gathering, the Sims may leave work early if you happen to load the game. To avoid this, be sure you end the Gathering or end the game when those Sims are currently not at work.

I am on version 1.14 64-bit with all current DLC owned as of Jan 2016. Movie Hangout Stuff is the latest pack released for TS4 at the time of this post.

Added

@crinrict I have expanded information about the glitch which will be in purple in the original post.

Thanks

I can confirm that 1.15 doesn't seem to have fixed the issue.

@GothicSimmer

Are you still seeing this ?

I can confirm that this is still an issue as of version 1.36.102.1020

I was wondering what was causing this in my game; it's good to know! I guess I'll have to start ending my club gatherings before I exit the game 😞 

@ZeroArcana

could you open a new thread for this one ? This one doesn't use the bug template. I'll merge old into new once you have done so.

Thanks

Hi @ZeroArcana

We are having trouble reproducing this issue so we would need your help if you are willing!.

Can you please send your save files?  You can find the instructions here:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-to-Send-User-Files-to-The-Sims-4-Team/m-p/6065...

That would help us a lot!.

Thank you very much!

To me it seems we currently have multiple issues in here.

• Sims returning early when going traveling while a holiday is going on
• Sims returning early when a club gathering is going on

@MapleSimmer you posted the issue before you had seasons installed and there was no holiday for you, right ?

I might need this split up.