I'm not sure if this is in fact a bug. I see where you're coming from but I think it's always been this way.
I'm going to put this on unsure. As it's XMas break time, it will be awhile until I can get more info on this.
I suppose it's also worth noting yes- I have redesigned my Police Station lot, but take it from me this was happening before I did so.
it is also worth noting that all the Sims specially generated for the Police Station role, or not-in-world Sims for that purpose, I have redesigned entirely in CAS. All Sims in my Police Station lot are either played by me or edited by me- the introduction of a new Sim in any role (which happened in this case) is something I would recognise.
I haven't played the career in forever as it was broken for so long, so I'm really not sure. I will need to get some info first.
Just tested it and confirm that there's a second chief at the station.
Last time I played my active sim who's the chief of the police station, this would not be the case. He would be the only sim there in that role. I also strictly manage townies and made sure he was the only level 10 detective in the whole game, including NPCs.
I last played him on 2 November before the Cats and Dogs patch. So some time between then and now something changed and now the game feels the need to have its own chief there too? It has randomly promoted one of the unplayed unemployed townies to chief level.
The whole role system seems pretty messed up since they changed the household manager. Might be connected
Thanks for confirming. I'll leave it on unsure for now anyways though.
Could be related to the recent fixes they made to the detective career. My current workaround for this is not playing my Chief sim as an active career. If I don't follow him to work, I don't think it generates a second chief.
I haven't tried yet, but if I can get another playable detective to level 10, would it just use him as the second chief instead of randomly assigning one. At least having another sim I know and play would be better, and I could pretend it was some weird job sharing situation or a Deputy Chief or something...
...until they hopefully fix it?
And when my active Detective Sim is a different one, not the Chief, it works perfectly. My Chief is 'the' Chief and all is as intended.
However while in this state, the Relationships panel still shows this second Sim as the Chief profession, even if they're not present on the Station lot.
It doesn't
Issues in the bug forum only need re-checking after a patch.or adding more info if available.
I made it to the top level of the detective career (yay, all suspects matched their clues!!) and can confirm this bug, I am also quite sure that in the beginning of GTW your top level Sim was the only police chief and could use the chief office.
EA Staff (Retired)@BrassedoffDan1 I can confirm that this issue is definitely a bug on our side, and a newer one too, I'm guessing this has been happening ever since the Cats&Dogs patch. Anyway thanks much for the report, super appreciated! 🙂
Thanks @SimGuruNick
I've added this to the list as well.
Just wanted to check if anything had stealth changed with any of the recent patches since January and can confirm that this is still an active bug.
Tried sending my Police Chief to work again today and the game had spontaneously generated another NPC chief there occupying his office.
I’m guessing they decided not to fix this since it’s been over a year?
Not really, it takes time they got to duplicate it and try to figure out what broke it. Also on top of that they got to make the new content that keeps bringing in money so they can break older content and create new bugs.
Edit: If you select overtime you may see two chiefs, as new sims come in to take over its called shift change. Also sometimes when you follow any of the active careers you can sometimes see the ones leaving from the last time the lot was active. This is pretty common with the hospital when someone is pregnant goes to the hospital you can see the people leaving from the work status and if you go into the hospital for active work career you can see the sims that was their from the progeny use live before the true ones come in.
Still broken in 2021 lmao.
And it's apparently still broken in 2022. Frustrating.
