Re: [FIXED] Sims Showing as off-lot while at home

@SuperGirlGamerK 
As this is a new install I will suggest using the repair function.
Please find directions here along with other Troubleshooting Tips

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/READ-FIRST-Troubleshooting-your-Game/m-p/3621199

Hi! I tried repairing the game and it hasn't fixed it. I've managed to complete the aspiration without seeing the tasks, so they still complete, you just can't see them. I've switched career with my sim and she is still not going to work, thus not earning money. Bills have come in and everything has been shut off as she has no money left :/ 

I tried playing on a different family and that one did work and could go to work which was interesting. I then went back to play with the broken sim in Strangerville and she was appearing as 'at home' but not playable so I had to move her out then move her back in. Really frustrating, think it's basically Strangerville that's broken from what I can see at the moment. I've exported my save file from today (before I completed aspiration) in case anyone wants to take a look.

Thanks!

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@SuperGirlGamerK wrote:

Hi! I tried repairing the game and it hasn't fixed it. I've managed to complete the aspiration without seeing the tasks, so they still complete, you just can't see them. I've switched career with my sim and she is still not going to work, thus not earning money. Bills have come in and everything has been shut off as she has no money left :/ 

I tried playing on a different family and that one did work and could go to work which was interesting. I then went back to play with the broken sim in Strangerville and she was appearing as 'at home' but not playable so I had to move her out then move her back in. Really frustrating, think it's basically Strangerville that's broken from what I can see at the moment. I've exported my save file from today (before I completed aspiration) in case anyone wants to take a look.

Thanks!

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From your information it looks like you are saying this was a brand new Sim created in CAS by you.
And that you played another family in the same save and everything went as expected.
But returning to the original Sim you found her to still be 'broken'.
I have a recent save with a military Sim that seems to be working with that career,

One more thing to try... Is she on the gallery? Or do you have the freshly created Sim still in your library?
You can try placing her into a new save to test to see if the issue is related to that particular Sim.
If that does not work I will see if a save file is needed.

Keep in mind that that military career is a  play at home work career and you should get goals around the city you need to complete in order to progress in the career.  There are special and unique goals for the military career when the story is active, but other than that nothing mandatory.  Sims should get the alarm clock text message where you can choose to go to work in rabbit hole or work from home.

Also the blank asperation is caused by a get to work bug, sim was most likely saved in work state.

I chose for the SIM to go to work on the first day and that worked. But afterwards she didn't go to work. No alerts appeared at all, the time just rolled over and she didn't get paid. I switched to the secret agent career and the same thing happened, she didn't leave for work and there were no prompts to go to work and she didn't get paid. No 'Go to work' button appeared in the career panel and it didn't go red to say she was late. The time just rolls over and says 24 hours left. 🙁

Yes was a sim created by me in CAS. Do I need to upload to the online gallery?  Or normal do you mean the normal household management bit?

Hi @SuperGirlGamerK 

your symptoms are connected to this issue: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/WORKAROUND-Sims-Showing-as-off-lot-while-at-home/td-p/7181756/jump-to/first-unread-message

Could you try the workaround given there and let me know if it works again.

I'll merge your post if it does.

Are these the workarounds?

1 save had indeed a Sim from a different household still at the doctor career. The save was also throwing an LE on whatever lot I loaded. Sending that Sim home fixed the issue. Just waiting until the evening, I got a message that said Sim is going home and then reloading the lot also fixed it. That was Save of @Zoebuggie 

If I open my family and the sim is 'at home' but greyed out, I can't send her home. She's just totally unplayable, I can't click anything and the lightening bolt says 'Care for Self', 'Build Skill' and something else (but no option to bring home as she's technically at home?). I've tried to travel and she won't travel, so only option is to Evict or move her into another lot and she re-appears as normal until I save & exit and reload. She doesn't go to work because of the bug, so I can't bring her home from work either.

2 saves had Sims in active careers being at home while showing still at work. Only way I found for them to come out of work was to quit the job and re-join. That also seems to have fixed the issue for all affected families. @mtmtharden @lizzyrice2 

As mentioned above, I've changed career to the Secret Agent one and it doesn't seem to have fixed the issue. She still doesn't go to work ☹️ Also tried adding the 'Connections' reward from aspirations panel to start her at a higher level but hasn't helped. Thought it might be a military bug but apparently not!

Also, a side note, the careers panel keeps messing up and showing placeholder text, especially when I was trying to do the military career.

Def. the same issue as this thread so I merged your post.

Sending you a PM with what you need to do.

Thank you!! it all worked, hurrah :D 

No more blank aspirations and my sim finally goes to work again. 

Although one more odd thing, a toddler grew up while in daycare, and this brought the toddler back into the house while mum was at work. So a few hours left unattended (but controllable so fine) :P As soon as mum came home, icon was no longer greyed out and the toddler 'returned from daycare' and all went back to normal. 🙂

Hi, I can’t quit there job as I am unable to do anything with them as everything is unclickable. 

I’m sorry I don’t follow? All of my households in the sims are grey’d out and not clickable, all are unable to use the phone or anything else to actually quit the jobs or travel. The only way i have seemed to correct this, is by moving the family but then once i start playing again and they either go to work, school or i travel with them, this repeats again. 

This is totally random and out of the blue and i’ve checked every forum chat that i’ve been tagged in and looked on google everywhere and all the solutions are either, remove mods or click “care for self” etc and they are not working.

apologies as I frustrated by this as I keep getting the same answer and would really appreciate another alternative, thank you

Here is the link, 

thank you

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dirdiVEL4lMCm5uarJkLmM8tiKbUrIYz

There should be a saves folder within the saves, here let me try again

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1je6HicQwLrHfw99C7IU47MZ5HwAGfmu_

You need to go to Del Sol Valley and load the Simon family.

Adam Kiej is the one with the issue. Have him quit his job and rejoin. Everything should be back to normal afterwards and you can load your other family you wanted to play.

Thank you so much it worked!! 

Been speaking to EA all day and nothing. 

Can’t thank you enough