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babajayne
6 years ago

Re: [UNSURE] [DU] Moving multiple Sims between dorms fails

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
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? 1.58.63.1010
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Discover University, Island Living, Get Famous, Seasons, Cats & Dogs, City Living, Get Together, Get to Work, Strangerville, Jungle Adventure, Parenthood, Dine Out, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, My First Pet Stuff, Laundry Day Stuff, Toddler Stuff, Fitness Stuff, Bowling Night Stuff, Vintage Glamour Stuff, Backyard Stuff, Kids Room Stuff, Romantic Garden Stuff, Movie Hangout Stuff, Cool Kitchen Stuff, Perfect Patio Stuff, Luxury Party Stuff, Holiday Celebration Pack
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have 2 students living in university housing when their term ends. Enroll Sim 1 in the next term, selecting a different university housing option. Proceed with the packing up & moving out event. See them move into the new housing. Return to previous household to Sim 2. Be prompted to re-enroll immediately. Select the same new housing option you had for Sim 1. Proceed with packing up and moving out.
What happens when the bug occurs? When Sim 2 reaches the new housing, Sim 1 is no longer in the household. They can be found in the Manage Households bin and cannot be added to university housing because the game thinks they are not enrolled. On a separate occasion, Sim 2 could not complete the packing up and moving out event. It reset itself and was stuck in a loop. The only difference I can see with this test was that I saved the game after moving Sim 1 into the new housing. Neither bug occurs if I move each Sim to different new university housing, it only occurs when I attempt to move them both to the same university housing.
What do you expect to see? I expect to see both Sims playable in the housing I have moved them into. I don’t expect the packing up and moving out event to be stuck on a loop.
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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To get around this, I have tested NOT re-enrolling my Sims and moving them each to a bulldozed residential lot. Then I am able to immediately re-enroll them and move them into the same new university housing. Their merritt scholarships were not lost, even though I was warned they would lose their scholarships. 

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  • BooWolf1227's avatar
    BooWolf1227
    6 years ago

    I have experienced this bug 3 times with the same household and once in a new save with another household. I am moving from a renovated Drake Hall in UBrite to a renovated Wyvern Hall in UBrite. I do have some script Mods installed (MCCC from Deaderpool and Slice of Life 3.7 from KawaiiStacie). This save has always used mods.  I have removed the mods, repaired my game, and the glitch still happens. I have tried with a new save with no mods, and the glitch still happens. 

    I re-enrolled my first sim into a new dorm. Then I immediately got the pop up to do the next sim. However, I did not get an option in the housing menu to move anyone else between the households. It was just as if I was moving there blindly and unable to move money around. This is not how it is supposed to work based on what has been seen in Twitch streams, YouTube Let's Plays and the TS4: Discover University stream the Sims team did on November 8th. Also important to note that I split the money between the households when one sim moved out. They had about $ 15k simoleons, and I let the first one take 8k and the second take 7k. 

    The first sim moved to the new dorm successfully and was enrolled in classes.  The second sim was sitting at the new dorm lot as if she had traveled there normally, and was not part of the household. It shows that she is successfully enrolled in classes for the semester. However, it still listed sim 2's house as the previous dorm. I traveled back with this sim to the previous dorm, and it said she needed to re-enroll in the semester. I follow through the re-enrollment process, and it successfully moves that sim into the dorms. HOWEVER, it kicks my other sim to the Manage Households menu with NO MONEY and nowhere to live. Because of University constraints on combining households that are living on University Housing lots, you cannot go into Manage Households and simply put them back together. The only way I was able to get the sims back together in the same household in Wyvern Hall was by using MCCC to summon the sim to the lot ("Invite to Hangout at current lot" is not working). I then needed to enable testingcheats to use the "Add to Family" option. My game is very upset at me for attempting to add this sim to the household though, and it occasionally kicks me out to the Manage Worlds screen with an Error Code (that I have been unable to screengrab yet). 

  • CaityC17's avatar
    CaityC17
    6 years ago
    @BooWolf1227 wrote:

    I then needed to enable testingcheats to use the "Add to Family" option. My game is very upset at me for attempting to add this sim to the household though, and it occasionally kicks me out to the Manage Worlds screen with an Error Code (that I have been unable to screengrab yet). 

    I had the same issue, and changing the household to unplayed (in the "Manage Households" screen) seems to have fixed it. I've been able to play that household without errors since then.

  • Tuggummipop's avatar
    Tuggummipop
    6 years ago
    @babajayne This worked, thank you so much! The game even automatically pared my sim together again when re-inrolling with my other sim.

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