Re: [FIXED] [HSY] Cannot plan goaled events/holiday on Fri/Sat w. teen in household

These two should probably be merged https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/HSY-Cannot-plan-goaled-events-on-Fridays-and-Saturdays-with-teen/m-p/11686698

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
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? PC: 1.90.375.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All expansion, game & stuff packs. Missing a few kits.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try adding a holiday on a Friday or Saturday when you have teens in the household
What happens when the bug occurs? It won't let you, it says there's already a goaled event (see screenshot)
What do you expect to see? I expect to still be able to plan holidays. It allows pre-existing holidays on those days to remain, including custom ones I've created.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. It happened after adding the High School Years expansion pack.

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I can confirm that I see the same thing re adding holidays on Fridays and Saturdays to the calendar but only with HSY installed. I started a new save after the July 26 game update and I was able to add holidays on Fridays and Saturdays and after adding HSY I can't. I removed my mod folder, deleted local thumb cache and repaired my game before/after the July 26 game update and this is in a save that I started after the update, so has never had mods. I checked again today after the Aug 2 update and it's still the same. 

Here's a screenshot (just show the message for a Saturday, but it's the same for a Friday):

My custom holidays that are scheduled on a Friday and Saturday were set up before I added HSY to the game. 

Best regards,

Jennifer

PC: 1.90.375.1020 all packs but a few kits 

Thank you so much for your work and for taking care of all the bug reports, especially now it must be exploding with new bug reports... @crinrict 🙂

If that is intentional, then this is very aggressively interfering with the calendar options, because that would mean, that from now on friday and saturday - practically the weekend - is now useless space in the calendar, because it is all reserved for HSY. This might be ok, if someone exclusively plays with teens or the highschool, but for players who love familygameplay but use all the packs and the High School gameplay is just a little part of the game it is very limiting. No more own holidays on friday and saturdays like weddings and familypartys. And school breaks are now simply impossible to schedule in the calendar, because friday is always off limits from now on because of exam every week. The freedom is being taken away with this restriction, so players are forced to play the HSY system over and over again, instead of being able to play freely without these forced limitations.

Also, Sims without any kids and teenagers now have also the calendar cluttered up with all the High School events, even the elders...that makes absolutely no sense at all. I get it, the calendar is universal for all sims living in the world, but for example some things are just showing for the actively played family, like birthdays or work days. So I would have expected that exams and proms would just show on calendars with teens in the house.It would have been possible because the calendar already has the feature to distinguish what is personal information for the active family and what is universal for all sims.

Everythings with this is just so frustrating to me, because if this doesn't get fixed, then I would have to throw away my well thought out calendar system, that brought me so much joy over the years - different school breaks for every season, free days, familyparties, weddings and weddings anniversarys. So sad...that prevents me from buying this pack, although I would gladly buy it for some other stuff it offers.

In my eyes this is a bug, so I hope that this gets fixed, the sooner the better. It somehow doesn't feel like a expansion of the game...more like a limitation of what we already have. ☹️

@crinrict I had a custom holiday set up for the Saturday that a prom occurred, since I'm playing 7 day seasons you can see it returning in the calendar I shared in a previous post. I had set up the custom holiday after the update (since it was a new save I set up after the update) but before adding HSY. My sims were able to complete both the holiday and the prom successfully, they didn't actually conflict (I remember because I was surprised that they worked together). 

Thanks and regards,
Jennifer

@crinrict and @MapleSimmer  Are you able to schedule new costom holidays on fridays and saturdays in your vanilla game, after you installed HSY?

@MissLjupka Since installing HSY, I can only schedule custom holidays on Fridays and Saturdays in my vanilla game if there are no teens in the house, as the high school exams and prom don't appear for them. Same for the career days that happen on Wednesdays. If I have teens in the house I can no longer add custom holidays on those days, I've added a Me Too to the report already. 🙂

@crinrict That's good to know re events, I hadn't tested for them, just for the custom holidays (and I expect the same is true for standard holidays, like Love Day which takes place on Fridays) and they happened with no problems and didn't get cancelled by the prom, just were temporarily hidden by the UI and then it came back when the prom ended, since it ends before 2 am. 

Thanks and regards,
Jennifer