[OPEN] Spraying for bugs loops infinitely
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Mac Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.48.94.1220 Wha...
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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? 1.48.94.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Luxury Party and Perfect Patio
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1. Plant a bunch of plants 2. Wait for one to have bugs 3. Try to Spray or hire gardener
What happens when the bug occurs? The Sim lags and doesn't finish spraying.
What do you expect to see? The Sim to spray the plant for about ten seconds and then be done.
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
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? 1.48.94.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Luxury Party and Perfect Patio
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1. Plant a bunch of plants 2. Wait for one to have bugs 3. Try to Spray or hire gardener
What happens when the bug occurs? The Sim lags and doesn't finish spraying.
What do you expect to see? The Sim to spray the plant for about ten seconds and then be done.
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
This happens with AI Sims as well (as in hired gardeners).
does this happen on all lots for you ?
There's already this report for community lots only: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Spraying-for-bugs-loops-infinitely-on-Community/m-p/7339136
I will probably merge the posts anyways but would be good to have your feedback first.
on which lots is this occurring for you ?
- @crinrict whoops; I added a whole comment instead of a quick-reply... Is the link above typed in correctly, because it goes to a "page not found" error, and I'm having this problem on my community lots, but can't find any info or answers or any threads other than this one (and one other that's not on this site ea.com, but still only has a few people questioning what to do)?
- @katyxbunny The link had indeed a space too much which made it fail but everything has been merged into this one thread anyways. All the info is in here.
- @crinrict ...wow, so this is all the info on this bug so far? The gardening aspect is so crucial to my game that I would start a whole new save and cheat my current legacy family's relationships back together (which would be a lot of work, and still a terrible loss of other information), because one of my big projects is a perfect plants park I've put over 20 hours into and I had plans for a community greenhouse.. .... My game is very heavy into gardening!! For me the issue was clearly on the park lot, but I first noticed it happening on a perfect greenhouse I'd downloaded from the gallery, which wasn't a park, but I forget what kind of lot it actually was...
Anyway, I did some testing last night only to get bad news... First I tried inserting my park into a new game, and I cheated a plant to being infested, hit "tend garden" - and just like with everyone else, she sprays for one cycle, then the cycle glitches; it continues to show her spraying for bugs but the progress bar and animation only barely begin to move before they reset in an endless cycle... It's even very difficult to get them to stop (I've tried several Sims), as I have to furiously click the X mark over the task upwards of 60 seconds before she'll actually stop. Then I started another new game where I bought a daisy with my phone, went to the oasis springs park and planted it.. I cheated it to age up and infest, and had the same result... That time I didn't insert anything from outside - even the test sim was new! I have every expansion pack... I've repaired my game - I'm at a loss... Does this happen to all mac/pc users on all community lots? Is it a glitch in the game that happens to everyone or is there somehow just something wrong with mine now? I don't have any mods, but it did seem to happen after I downloaded that infested lot from the gallery... I just don't understand why new saves are messed up too - I'm good with computers and willing to do some more testing if you have any ideas, but I can't bring myself to delete the saves I already have for testing purposes - although I wonder if that would fix it... Is there a way to move my saves to another folder and then put them back without consequences b/c I could at least try that.... I also still wonder if this happens to everyone and they just don't plant in parks and communal areas enough to notice or complain?
I really want to troubleshoot this, and find an answer even if it's a new save -- but no use if it's just a glitch in the game for everyone that has no answer b/c EA needs to patch it! Thanks for all your help... Katy
