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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
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? 1.62.69.1220
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? vamp, magic, celeb, go to work, strangeville
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? i have a full house of 8 sims, 4 toddlers 4 adults.
What happens when the bug occurs? toddlers needs cant be met
What do you expect to see? interactions failing, duplicating, being done in bizarre orders
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
I am having so many issues ONLY with interacting with toddlers (babies and kids are fine) it has been beyond frustrating.
My game is already slow and I've deleted as many household objects as I can as well as downgraded to a much smaller house. I'm having lots of glitches when it comes to interacting with toddlers and I'm always in a race against the child protective services as it takes hours for any interaction to finally go through.
First of all my vampire and witch sims teleport to the bed, potty, or high chair FIRST , then walk ALL the way back down to the toddler to bring the toddler back up with them.
Sometimes they don't even end up grabbing the toddler because by then a bunch of other sims are trying to also interact with the toddler. ( None of the interactions are ever addressing the toddlers immediate needs and it's always something like "talk" or "play" how about feed or bathe for once?)
My sims suck at taking care of their children, yet they all magically start queing actions when I already have one of my sims trying to take care of the need (potty training, feeding, putting to sleep)
Interactions sometimes don't go through at all and get taken out of the queue. Sometimes actions CAN'T be taken out of the queue and keep duplicating automatically.
I try to get my vampire sim to grab a place of food to place in his inventory to then feed to his kid, but for some reason he will start eating the food (my other sims wont ) despite him having the trait that makes him sick from human food.
Also forgot to add...
My sims will put down the toddler walk out of the room, go sit down wherever they can, and "talk" to the toddler from there... after the toddler is already in their hands...just to ask them to go to the potty or to be fed etc.
Also when one sim puts the toddler in the high chair to feed the toddler...another sim comes by and takes the kid out and puts them down immediately. so I'm stuck there trying to get rid of other sims just so one sim can feed the toddler.
Could you maybe add a video of what your seeing ?
This one seems the closest to what you're describing: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Parents-refuse-to-care-for-toddler/m-p/8030961 or for the high chair this one: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/TO-ADD-Toddler-keeps-asking-food-too-often-and-in-high-chair-too/td-p/6425471/
Could you also please enter your game version ?
Here's instructions: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-does-this-forum-work/m-p/8775353#M124496
Also try if repairing the game helps
- ldntown5206 years agoSeasoned Traveler
Hello! YES!! I read the posts under "parent refuse to care for toddler"
and I am finding many many many similarities with my issues.
Particularly this one nails it for me:
" A and B generally ignore baby E. The parents, C and D, simply will not do anything I ask them to in regards to caring for E. Interactions will queue, but they just don't run. If they do run, my sims do other random nonsense. If I leave them to run autonomously, C and D just fight over E in that all they do is take turns picking up E and putting her back down.
A couple of examples I remember: Parent C and toddler E were upstairs in a room with a high chair. I told C to feed E. She picked up E, takes her downstairs for some reason and puts her down, then picks up a bowl of food, takes it back upstairs and put its on the high chair, then comes back downstairs, picks up toddler E, and takes her outside. Interaction then drops from queue.
Parents C and D decided they both needed to bathe toddler E at the same time. C carries E into the bathroom and puts her down. D then comes into the bathroom, picks up E, takes her a different bathroom to do the same thing. D puts her down and the interaction drops out of the queue.
Another time, toddler E was sitting on the ground between the high chair and the potty. C comes in to feed her at the same time D tries to potty train her. They just take turns picking her up and setting her back down for several sim hours, accomplishing nothing.
Every time that her needs got low enough to need parental care, I ended up having to cheat her needs back to full because all of the adult sims are simply running amok. "posted by user KRISLW34
For a temporary solution, I have resorted to having toddlers care for themselves, and having my magical sim perform "delicioso" to create a plate of food next to my toddlers bed when they wake up.
I'll try to get some video
My game version is 1.62.69.1220
- crinrict6 years agoHero+@vivienhjames Merging your post then so all reports on this issue are in one place.
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