Re: [NEEDS INPUT] [V] Vampires can be Aged by Another Household using Cake

Since the cake are so thoroughly messed up right now, I'm tempted to merge with this thread: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/WORKAROUND-Several-issues-with-birthday-wedding-cakes/td-p/5686057/jump-to/first-unread-message

I'll do some self-test first though

Added as separate issue for now

I was able to age two vampire toddlers with the cake just fine within their own household. I just checked the two children and they also have the option to blow out candles. Maybe it's because they aren't fully vampires yet? I will try to remember to take note if they get the option to blow out candles once they become teenagers. 

Toddlers and children aren't a totally vampire yet do because of that they can blow candles!

They become a truly vampire after teenagers and after that age I can find these problems with cake! :/ 

All of this sounds as designed to me. When visiting an NPC household with a birthday cake, Age Up Sims is not supposed to populate with household Sims in the picker, it is only for NPCs, as household Sims can age up by using Blow Out Candles. 

In a household with humans and vampires I was able to age up humans by directing them to blow out the candles, and when inviting a human NPC over to a vampire household I was able to age them up using the Age Up Sim option.

But I can't understand why vampires can't blow candles or age up their own houlsehold even with humans living inside the house...

Is that a problem at all?

I'm a little confused about this! 😢

Probably by design. Vampires are immortal and generally don't age they stay the age they where when they became Vampires with the exception of teenage Vampires that can age to YA. This is likely to avoid a lot of teenagers in the game as it would give problems. Can't move out of the house or get married and would have to stay in school for all eternity.

The same with kids and toddlers. I played with my household for 20 days in normal lifespan and my toddlers didn't age up for children like  the humans so was necesary to bake a cake and blow it. With this we now know the unique way to age up vampires should be by blowing candles and that is not the problem at all. But why vampires can't blow candles in their own holsehold...?

If I'd like to play with a elder vampire? I need to create a new one instead of age my own Sim until that age?

It's not right.

I do think there's a bug here but the bug is not that the vampire can't age up in their own household but that you can actually age them up if you play another family, That's the part that I would think should not be possible

Either they are immortal or they are not.

Yeah I'm experiencing the same problem. I'm not even trying to age up my sim that is a vampire or human, but a alien! I don't even get the option to put candles on the cake. Sadly my only adults are vampires, but my alien child doesn't even get the option to put candles on the cake...

Children can not put candles on a cake. Teenagers and up can. While the Vampires can't blow out the candles they can put the candles on the cake. Your child can then blow out the candles.

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@Shirleylier wrote:

Yeah I'm experiencing the same problem. I'm not even trying to age up my sim that is a vampire or human, but a alien! I don't even get the option to put candles on the cake. Sadly my only adults are vampires, but my alien child doesn't even get the option to put candles on the cake...

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Hi @Shirleylier

that sounds like a different bug.

Have you tried moving the cake to a different place ? Maybe even put it in your inventory and then back on the table.

I just encountered this on PS4. I have a household of vampires and was trying to age them up to elders for testing another issue. They can place candles on the cake but can not blow candles out to age up to an adult or elder if they are YA already. They age fine before the YA life stage. Is this a bug? Why can't I age my vampires if I wish to using a cake?