Re: [OPEN] Rotational play causes Sims to miss work

I take it that is for all of the careers and not just the active ones ? Did this occur with patch only too ? Do you know that ?

@Hamsysincy 

Yes. It happens on both new careers and old careers.

I am not sure if it occurs after patch or after GTW expansion because i immediately installed GTW after the latest patch.

Also, i am not using mods.

Added to patch issues. Since it's not limited to the new careers it's probably a patch and not a GTW issue

Just a follow-up here, this issue is still occurring as of 9/8/15.

I will provide screenshots of this issue occurring next I change played lots...I'm currently expecting a new sim to be born on this lot.

- B

Haven't remembered to get a screenshot, but a few observations:

- Issue triggers reliably when accessing a lot where one of the sims has a job during the time the last time the game was saved/changed lots. (For example, if you change lots and it's 4:00 PM, and on the new lot you have someone who works from 2 PM - 9 PM, they will be considered late and will suffer a work performance penalty.)

- The issue does NOT occur if the lot is access RIGHT UPON the time that the Sim must work, merely signaling that they need to go to work, meaning you will have to select the sim and select "Go to Work."

- The issue does not trigger if it is not during their work hours, or on a day off.

The next part for me to test would be if I left a sim on a career lot, if that would affect them. That would be an interesting result.

- B

Can you please merge?  This issue is the same issue in this thread:  http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Loading-House-During-Sims-Work-Hours-Causes-Sim-to-Leave-Work/m-p/4718482#U4718482

Merged this

Is this actually still occurring ? I have switched households once to test this and didn't have the issue but it could have been a coincidence

While they still do stand in front of the house if they are not at work, the ones that were, still were at work.

This is still an issue.

Yes this is still an issue.

Confirming that it's still an issue for me.

Still occurring as of the February 2016 patch.

• When loading houses Sims who are supposed to be at work/school during the set hours are standing in front of the house and lose work performance because they are late
• Sims who are on a community lot while inactive/away don't automatically go to work/school and end up being late unless you switch to them and manually make them go.
• Sims still run down the street to work/school causing them to be late.  The workaround doesn't always work.
• Sims lose the option to be brought from inactive lots to the active lot during work/school hours.  This causes the Sim to be late to work or school unless you manually go to the lot and make them go.  This rarely happens when you are playing a Sim in an active career and their spouse has to go to work.

In the Sims 4 I play with multiple households en let life continue, so they are getting older even though I do not play with the household. I've noticed that if I want to play with another household, instead of the one I last played with, there's always a sim late for work. Can you guys create an update which makes sure the sim will go to work by its own? So when I play with another household at let's say wednesday 22:23, my sim is off to work when he has to. 

I play a single household, but whenever my Sims are at work or school and i log off (after saving, of course) or go to manage world. On retunrning the sims are at home and it is as if they have finished work/school. They have not made progress in performance, because they have not been at work or school long enough. I am unable to send them back to work or school.

I am not using any mods or CC

This issue started after the last patch and/ot the installation of Romantic Garden stuff pack. Not sure after which one it started, but was after one of these two.

I prefer to save and log off when it suits me best, instead of having to wait for them to be home from work/school.

I have added a screenshot where the adult left for work at 9 am and should be working untill 12.00 am. The child should still be in school until 3pm, but as you can see in the screenshot, both are in front of the home lot at 9.53 am (just after I logged in again).

Without switching families in between ?

I only see it if I play another family for a while.

Loading/reloading isn't an issue for me.

Did you try repairing the game ?

How can I repair the game crinrict? Does EA read these questions so they can make an update so these bugs go away?

Right click on the game in Origin and choose repair game.

They do read here but if and when a bug gets fixed is up to them. It depends on various factors such as severity of the bug and users affected.

It's always a good idea to hit the me too button on the first post so they see if something is widespread.

Weighing in on this issue.

This happens any time I load a game or switch households. It doesn't happen if I switch control between Sims in the active household.

It's really annoying because very often my Sims will be most of the way through their work day when I've switched and get a bad performance rating for the day as a result of this bug.

Same issue here. Just loaded in after having to save and quit yesterday while half the family was at work. Three sims that should be working are standing outside the house, the two who don't have work today are inside where they last were. Didn't play other families in between. The three who should be working don't even get the button 'send to work' nor realize they should be at work, so that's them playing hooky without wanting to. I wish the 'send to work' button was always there, and not relying on the game's perception, since clearly the game's perception is hugely flawed.

I have about 5 or 6 different household/families in my game and regularly switch between them during game play. However, what has been happening is that every single time I start up my game or switch households the sims (no matter where they were or what they were doing previously) end up in front of their house. Normally i would just deal with it however it has been messing up my game play. They sims get very unhappy (due to their needs not being met) and they are always missing work which has made my sims lose their job. Also if two sims from two of my different household are with each other previously either building a friendship or relationship and then I turn my game off and come back to it the data is normally lost. i've been searching the internet for hours trying to find a fix but every thread I have found has absolutely no fix! Please help its because very difficult to deal with!

Hi @imsuuchadreamer

I've merged your post with existing report.

It's by design that Sims stay outside your house if you play rotationally. The work thing is a bug (this thread). The need has also been reported.

Also relationship culling on acquaintances is also by design if you play rotationally. The decay being very fast now is something the QA is aware of. Here's some more info to that: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/892376/relationship-culling-has-led-to-baby-neglect

Just wanted to say this work bug seems to be fixed as of 15 June patch.  I've now tested in 2 different files, with and without mods, and the sims correctly go back to work or school if that is where they were when you saved and exited.  Not tried rotationally 'cause I don't really play that way.

Rotationally is what the issue is and I'm pretty sure it's still happening for me but I'll double check

I just tested and it was really the case that my Sim was still at work after switching.

I didn't play too long though with the other household

Tagging some people for feedback

@Hamsysincy @imsuuchadreamer @Lumiasta @JasonVega2

Did some fairly extensive testing and this is what happened:

Switched between three different households in the same game to determine what time they would go to work that day.

First household - two Sims went to work at 10 AM.

Second household - switched at 11 AM and one Sim was at home instead of work, the other Sim was visiting someone and not at work. Both Sims showed as late and took a work performance hit. Had to bring 2nd Sim home before sending him to work.

Switched back to first household. All Sims reported as being at home but when the home lot loaded, both Sims who had gone to work earlier were still at work.

Third household - switched at 3 PM. The only Sim who was supposed to be working was at home and showed as late. Sent him to work.

Switched back to 2nd household at 4 PM. Both Sims still working.

Switched back to 1st household at 4:15 PM. One Sim had returned home - other still at work.

I'm not quite sure what to make of this. At *no* time were the Sims gathered in front of their house like they used to - but it seems I had to *send* them to work. They didn't seem to go on their own - but stayed at work once I had sent them there.

This is a big irritation for me. I am fed up with having to tell them to go to work or to school although I haven't had any actual detriment to either happen to a sim yet. I also sometimes have sims which need to be told multiple times to stop doing what they were doing when I loaded the house in order to go to school/work.

I don't have the jobs EP, nor any mods or CC. It happens in my regular game pretty much every house switch and as all the jobs have different work hours it is impossible to avoid switching during those hours (and shouldn't have to...?)

It is maybe unrelated but when I switch across the house occupants also almost always have very depleted needs which maybe adds to their reluctance to go to work/school? The game doesn't seem to take good care of them in my absence :/

And one other thing which relates to this rotational issue. I once went to a house and found the toddler stranded on the roof, in an area where there were no doors and there was no access point for him to have got there by any reasonable means. I had to rebuild the roof to get him out safely :/ All these things relate to oddness that goes on when you rotate out and in, so I think they must all somehow be linked?