The March 26, 2015, patch notes say:
"Non-played Sims (sometimes referred to as townies) now have jobs!"
But I've had played Sims be given jobs, when I was rotated away from them. Other Simmers are having this happen too, and some are having their played Sims lose their jobs. This is game-breaking for rotational players.
Is this happening only in save files that existed before the patch, or just in new save files, or both?
I'm not sure how relevant that is to troubleshooting, but I am genuinely curious.
Good question. I'll start a new save - one where I don't care much about any of my rotationally played Sims! - and find out. So far everybody posting on the official forums is playing an older save.
I have not started a new save to test this, but the fact that it's affecting older saves almost invalidates those saves from further play. Not exactly great for my long-established legacy. Please fix the indiscriminate nature of this new "feature" from affecting all families rather than just townies, as was promised in the patch notes.
Just for more info:
This thread - http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/822435/criminal-presence - includes reports of jobs being changed for dead Sims (as seen in genealogy) and of the Grim Reaper being given a job. Both of those seem to me like they shouldn't be happening either.
I can check the jobs of my other played households in my game as well. I started a new save file after the patch, so hopefully the new save files don't have this same bug. Hopefully.
Yes, it happens in new games. It made Barbie a painter; I had her unemployed. So far, with 12 played Sims in 8 households in this new game, it hasn't touched existing jobs, though, just unemployed played Sims.
I've added this.
Tried yesterday in my abandoned game where I play rotationally but I could not duplicate the issue. My stay at home mom was still a stay at home mom and many others didn't have jobs or kept the ones they had.
Everyone that reports, please add if you had mods in when you first started your game and also if it occurs on new games to. Does it happen right away or only after playing a family and then switching. Does it matter which jobs they had ?
The Sims given jobs: Does it say they are unemployed or something else (for my Sim it said she was a stay at home mom.
The more info the better.
I patched mod-free, so you can rule out "patching with mods in" as a cause.
I'm playing modded; I can't recall how many people said they were playing unmodded on the other forum. As I recall there were some players encountering this unmodded, though - I think fullspiral plays unmodded. I had no culling or career related mods in when it happened on an older game. I'm asking on the forums if anyone with this problem is playing unmodded, but I'll also pulling out all my mods and start a new game again to test.
(edited to add: These two Simmers had the game take a Sim's job away, playing with no mods: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/823067/my-sim-lost-his-job-in-the-patch and http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/13472349/#Comment_13472349)
Yes, it happens in new games.
It happens only gradually, not right away. In my current game, it was 2 or 3 Sim days of playing another household before unemployed Barbie was made a painter. My other unemployed played Sim that I'm rotated away from is still unemployed after 5 Sim days. In 5 Sim days, I didn't see a Sim have their job removed or changed, only given when they didn't have one.
Re. "stay-at-home mom/dad": that's the same as unemployed, but is the label used for unemployed adults who have children living in the house. You won't find any of those Sims labelled "unemployed".
So that explains why some of my unemployed sims now have jobs. I don't care what they do to the townies, but I have plans for my played sims that I don't want messed with.
Follow-up:
I tested with a completely vanilla game (CC/mod-free) with 19 played, housed Sims in 15 households, and with 6 of those Sims unemployed on Day 1 of the game.
On Day 3 of the game, two played unemployed Sims had been given careers. (If anyone is curious, Vladimir Putin is now a Painter level 4, and Leonardo Di Caprio is an I-don't-know-yet level Tech Guru. I didn't need any Painter Sims, as that's the one career I hadn't put any played Sims in, so nobody needed colleagues.)
As of Day 6, I haven't seen a played Sim whose job was taken away or changed. I might play this save a bit longer to see if that happens, but I know it's happened for Simmers playing on not-new saves CC/mod-free.
