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babuchas01
4 years ago

Re: [ARCHIVED] Maid caught in a loop cleaning appliances (Neat Trait)

Same issue here, on pc. The maid keeps cleaning the grill for hours, even when it is clean (i have not even used it yet). It happens in a game without mods or cc, new save. It happens with different lots, different households. 2 different maids, but both have the "neat" trait. 

It cannot be so difficult to fix this, how is this bug still a thing after so many months? Does anybody know about a mod that fixes it, seeing that EA does not seem to think it is important enough to fix it?

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  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    Most of the "upgraded" traits they "improved" are severely broken now.

    Anyone with the "Neat" trait will do nothing but clean ALL THE TIME. 24 hours a day.

    Anyone with the "Perfectionist" trait will not finish crafting anything. They always scrap it and do another.

    Anyone with the "Genius" trait has SEVERELY OP skill gains. Cooking ONE meal will increase cooking skill from level 1 to level 10 instantly.

    It's best to avoid ALL the "improved" traits.

  • simvasion's avatar
    simvasion
    Hero
    4 years ago
    @Psychotps I don't think that's related to this bug though. As kurusuru pointed out on the first page, for some reason the grill cleaning interaction got changed to have a strange autonomy test that shouldn't be there (and wasn't there in previous patches), that makes any sim that the game is controlling as a NPC able to autonomously clean the grill even when it isn't dirty.

    Neat sims just happen to catch on to this and get stuck in a loop, because cleaning is fun for them. That's why other sims being controlled as NPCs don't tend to get stuck in a loop, it's no fun for them so they just get attracted by something else.

    It's like someone changed this interaction, maybe testing something for an upcoming feature or a different bug fix, and left something in there that wasn't there before and shouldn't be there.
  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @simvasion I haven't seen it be any different from any other. Neat sims tend to circle around the house cleaning constantly. Counter, Grill, tub, sink, grill, counter, sink, tub, counter, grill... etc... Endlessly all day long. Haven't seen any get stuck cleaning one thing more than any other.

    Whether they get stuck on one thing or not... I still stick to my original recommendation. Don't use it.
  • babuchas01's avatar
    babuchas01
    4 years ago

    Yes I have seen NPC without the neat trait cleaning the grill even when it is not dirty, but like @simvasion says they do not get stuck in a loop. They clean it one or two times and then they do something else. So yes, there is something weird going on with grills, and it is with every grill in the game (I have tried all of them, I even downloaded a couple cc grills to see if it worked different, but no difference). 

  • JMoon_gamer's avatar
    JMoon_gamer
    Seasoned Hotshot
    3 years ago

    I'm also seeing the problem. I use pc and the game version is: 1.89.214.1030. My housekeeper has a neat dash and after doing some chores she gets stuck cleaning on the grates brushing and brushing nonstop. The detail is that the grill is not dirty but  she still insists on brushing the grill as if it were dirty.😞

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