Re: [OPEN] Needs Not Refilling at Work/School while playing a different lot

But you have the flash back now but care for self doesn't do anything ? Is that what you are saying ?

No

They will care for themselves once they return home but while they are at work they won't take care of their needs. For example I have a sim who is a team mascot. She is also pregnant - this bug affect both pregnant and non-pregnant sim but pregnant sims suffer more because their need decay faster. She went to work, if her mother was at home she went to the toilet once and ate twice during her shift but if I sent her mother the park while she was working she wouldn't eat or go to the toilet during the shift and by the time her bladder need was in the red and her hunger need was orange and she had made less progress toward promotion. Once she returned home she started looking after her needs.

I'll add this.

As a reminder for next time (since I do not believe this issue to be related to the other bug), make one thread per issue.

I've tested this with the newest patch and believe it to be fixed.

Can you confirm this @Truet318 ?

It's still a problem, sims at work/school are unable to take care of their bladder and hunger needs if the active sim is not on the home lot.

It's very easy to take a screenshot of this problem.

I tested this yesterday with 4 Sim while working while my active Sim was in Granite Falls. I can't really test bladder as most of my Sims have SteelBladder. Hunger was not an issue though

Maybe Granite Falls vacation is different ? I had no issue, they all took care of their needs, not right away but no one got really miserable.

I'll test again on a community lot.

I know this is an old issue, but I've actually started experiencing it since the most recent patch - both for Sims at work and school. They won't take care of bladder or hunger needs at all until they come home. I keep using the fill needs cheat to get around it, but it's really annoying. I'm not using any mods or custom content - just the vanilla game with all expansions & stuff packs.

I am having the same issue but it only started recently.  I can send my active Sim to other community lots and even Granite Falls, but when they go to work and I follow them (the Doctor's career requires you to play the "I'm a doctor for the day" mini game in order to advance their career) the Sims left at home who have work later in the day don't care for themselves when at work.

For me it's only happening when I go with my Sims to a community lot, then go home with the one that goes to work earlier and leave the one that goes later at a community lot.

There's definitively something going on but it looks like it's a bit different for everyone.

Thanks for your reports

Are you using mods/cc in your game ? Does the same happen on a fresh save game for testing purposes ?

Hi @Chantel018

are you still having issues with this ?

I've noticed I can minimize this issue with multiple clicks of care for self (watching the needs UI to see which need is being fixed), although it's not perfect (yeah, duh me, it's not perfect, it's Sims. Lol)

@bookmaster325

does that only happen for energy for you or for all needs ?

I had this issue for a while now that I have to explicitly choose care for self for them to actually do that even though the option was already set. Did figure that was by design though ?

Are their needs really low when you get back home ?

For all needs, to varying degrees, the spamming of care for self works. They usually fill the lowest need first. Then the next click another need starts going positive, etc.so I try not to spam-click if the sim is asleep to assure the need is filled. The only time I've not seen it work is for toddlers being cared for when one parent/guardian is home (I think it was because the adult was asleep)

Hi @bookmaster325

I've merged this with a similar issue now.

Just to make sure it's clear - the expected behavior is that Sims should only auto-solve needs while at work/school if the needs go red (very low).  In other words, needs that are not red should not be auto-solved by Sims at work/school.

If anyone is seeing a Sim's needs go red and not being auto-solved while at work/school:

• Are you seeing this without mods/cc?
• If so, would you be willing to send your save files, so my team can take a look at them? 
  • Instructions here:
    • https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-to-Send-User-Files-to-The-Sims-4-Team/m-p/6065302