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sjmilay
7 years ago

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

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.52.100.1220
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Laundry Day
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves?

1. Have multiple played households with sims who attend scheduled jobs or go to school

2. Manage Household A while Household B is left to care for themselves

3. Revisit Household B during the sims' scheduled job/school hours and notice that they are marked as "late for work" because they never went in the first place.
What happens when the bug occurs? I rotate and play multiple households regularly, and sims that I'm not currently managing don't go to work/school like they're supposed to. When I revisit a household, the sims are notified that they are late for work and school, but they never went in the first place (because I wasn't there to manually make them go). They are always around the house doing other activities. Their performance levels get damaged and it's extremely frustrating.
What do you expect to see? When rotating through households, I expect that the ones I am not currently managing would continue their regular schedules of going to work/school in order to keep their performance levels up while I am not able to attend to them.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

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  • Pichu250Plus's avatar
    Pichu250Plus
    7 years ago

    June 27, 2019. Same issue, and it's really, really obnoxious. Is there any way to fix this? Makes it impossible to focus on anything but one family.

  • Tiarella4's avatar
    Tiarella4
    7 years ago

    Chiming in because this continues to be an issue for me.  I play a largish rotational game, and can't remember whose job starts/stops when.  I have to stop playing &/or switch households around 4-5 am simtime or sims with night-hour jobs (bartender, criminal) are forced home too early, teens in the barista job miss work, or kids/9-to-5ers miss school or work.  This means I sometimes stop playing earlier than I would have, because I don't have enough time to play through a full simday so I can stop at exactly the right simhour.  I remember a time when I could stop playing whenever I wished, switch households whenever I wished, & sims would stay at school/work (or instantly return if they briefly showed outside the homelot).  It's been months/years since it worked as intended. ( --oh, iirc the simkids tend to lose grade-levels while I'm playing other households, but there's such a large timegap between my 'visits' that I can't say for certain, nor, if this is correct, am I sure it's a connected issue.  eta:  I see others are experiencing grade-loss also.)

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