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Countess_Peacoc's avatar
3 years ago

[S] Scheduled premade Holidays don't start

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Sony Playstation 4
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.69
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except Luxury Party and the CAS kits
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Calendar
What happens when the bug occurs? Holidays on the calendar fail to start on the day of. The festivals in Cottage Living, Snowy Escape & City Living are still working so far. However, for example Skills Day that appears on the calendar fails to start so you can't get experience points for this holiday. Winterfest and Harvestfest also failed to start on the day of so far.
What do you expect to see? I expected the holiday to start so that I could complete the tasks and earn experience points.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Most recent update

Honestly I feel like ever since I purchased and installed Seasons my game has been super glitchy, I've experienced lag and crashes.

Unfortunately on PS4 you can't just uninstall one pack you have to uninstall the entire game; losing all saved games in the process. For whatever reason Sims 4 save games can't be backed up on the PS4 external hard drive ever since Cottage Living released.

I have all my builds, my multi generation save and other live stream series saves so losing those would be devastating to my game experience.

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  • Product: The Sims 4
    Platform: PC(Win10,EA app)
    Which language are you playing the game in?: English
    How often does the bug occur?: once
    What is your current game version number?: 1.95.207.1030
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed?: EP: All excluding HightSchoolYears; / GP, SP & Kit: OutdoorRetreat, SpaDay, Dine Out, Vampires, Parenthood, JungleAdventure, StrangerVille, DreamHomeDecorator, Werewolves / Spooky, Backyard, VintageGlamour, Toddler, LandryDay, Moschino, TinyLiving, Paranormal / IndustrialLoft, Desert Luxe
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves?: Experience the Seasons Pack event
    What happens when the bug occurs?: Event does not start
    What do you expect to see?: Event starts as specified
    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?: After update Jan/31/2023

    Events that have been started have sometimes disappeared, but after the latest update, as with the OP, the Skills day event did not start.

  • @Countess_Peacock 

    Hi there

    Is the problem of holidays not starting still persisting?
    In my case, among the holidays in the Seasons pack, only New Skill Day does not start, but I was able to complete this holiday and I am writing how to do it.

    ・After 6:00 AM (normal holiday start time) on the morning of the holiday, level up the low level skill.

    ・Then travel to another Lot.
    ・When the loading of the move is completed, the schedule for the holiday is completed and the holiday task appears completed in the upper left corner of the screen.


    ・At the normal holiday completion time of 2:00 a.m., the holiday is over and points are awarded.

    Apparently, the game recognizes that the holiday has started, simply because the start panel does not appear.
    I can't confirm that this is valid for other holidays in Seasons packs, as they start fine in my case, but you could try clearing the event task you have set up and then moving to another Lot.
    I hope this is a workaround that works for all Seasons pack holidays.

  • Seems to be Season Expansion pack only. I tried traveling to other lots but still nothing initiated the holidays. It sometimes works and sometimes doesn't but there is no way to know until the day of the holiday, if it would start or fail.

    I found a "work around" I ended up deleting the preinstalled seasons holidays and added my own in there place with similar tasks on to the calendar. And it seems to be working so far.🤷

  • Pick-a-boo_doo's avatar
    Pick-a-boo_doo
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago
    @Countess_Peacock
    Hi,
    Thanks for reporting back on the current situation.
    I am glad to hear that you were able to find a workaround on your own.
    It sounds like your problem is a bit different from mine, so perhaps your problem has a more complex cause.
    In any case, I am glad that you have been able to avoid it.
    Let's hope this problem will be fixed.