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Sid1701d9
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago

Anyone else report bugs just for them to get buried.

I tried to post bugs in the new bug report and they just get buried and locked, so I am asking if anyone else is having that problem.  Than I find the location of the bugs and it won't let me upload it to the forum, and when I past part of the content of the LastException file it gets access denied.  No matter what I do my post get jacked up.  I thought they wanted the LastException files, but I guess not when the lastException file points to the location of all 3 bugs that need to be fixed.  So I don't know what I am doing wrong, so until they get over the marking and locking my bug reports with possible fixes, because I had to find the location of them on my own because it goes nowhere when it is sorted and grouped in a list and most likely drowned by other bugs of higher priority.  My question is how do they know my bug is a duplicate?  I been debugging software programs like IRC servers ever since I started college.  Though it was C I am finding out with AI that C++ ain't that munch different its just more of an object oriented script language when C is a system level language.  I thought I didn't know any programming languages, but I do.

Bugs are tricky though that decide its wise to group together simular bugs might be surprised to find that 2 different bugs cause the same thing.  Or better yet that the 2 bugs that are simular that is grouped as one bug might be causing another bug in the saving system of a game.

And here comes the next question after an update comes and an Expansion Pack all the current bug reports are now obsolete because the core game changed and so has the gameplay.  So how many systems interact with the system that caused the bug in the first place.  I just looked at my last exception the bug finally went away when the infant learned to situp.  I seen it call the posture graph finally because its needed down the line if the sim wants to ride a horse and to change postures.  How can it be that simple.  It is because infants are considered special objects until they learn to situp, they are no more than jelly babies, that lay around kick and scream and wiggle their hands and arms, head and stick fingers in their months along with their toes.  though they look cute they are completely helpless.  So why the posture check?  Because of the horse riding DLC and the related skill attached to it, the game tracks how long you are carried on horse, all that was is a check to see if the sim being carried was on a horse, so the scheduler calls the carriedsim interaction for both when parents pickup infants, toddlers and when horses carry a sim, so it does a posture check first to call the animation of the sim getting on the horse, if the sim is fat they will have more trouble, if the sim is skinny they will have an easier time.  The game than calls the horse riding skill to make sure the game ques that right animation for the right skill level, the horse itself also gains a level.  The posture system is also used to change positions such as laying down in bed sitting on a chair or standing up.

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  • Sid1701d9   Bug reports are marked duplicate and locked when there’s already a bug report about the issue. Bug reports are also locked if you report multiple bugs in one post, as they need a thread per bug. If you think you’ve found a reason for an already posted bug report, please add that information as a reply on the existing thread. If you have found bugs that no one’s brought up before, please post one at a time.

    If the forums aren’t letting you include LEs, try  copying everything but the opening & closing XML tags, or uploading as a txt file.

  • Sid1701d9's avatar
    Sid1701d9
    Seasoned Ace
    10 months ago

    PipMenace  I have tried all of that and my LE files get removed tried zipping them, tried posting the bug as seperate bugs nothing is working they all just either get marked as duplicate, or access denied.  Than I complain and all I get is we see more things you do things that you don't understand.  If that is a justification of this madness I want nothing to do with it.  They won't even look at what I have found and they claim they want to fix bugs this place is worse than Answers EA.  They could have had the infant bug fixed if they looked at my last exemption file, it explained exactly what is going on.  Why it calls the carried sim for horses and the carried sim for infants and toddlers is a complete mystery to me.  I would have at least use a different action, so that you don't get bugs when you interact with infant because actions are both used for carrying sim for both Horse Ranch DLC and picking up infants and toddlers, so a script that was checking the posture graph it was trying to find that on infant, but the infants don't get their first posture graph until they situp, this also affects the saving system as it can't remember where the sim is located and what the lastposture was before they can spawn the infants into the game where they where last at, so in some neighborhoods you would have a infant sim sent clear across the neighborhood, because the game did a reset on the sim.  So I checked my LE file right after the sim learned to situp and I got calling posture graph generating posture graph, and after that the bug was gone.  Than I saved and exited the game and the infants showed up exactly where I left them.

  • Sid1701d9I understand your frustrations. Yes, Maxis hasn't fixed or addressed several bugs that are years old. I have reported bugs with the LE, screenshots, video, save file, and code where it has occurred. The same bugs are not fixed. I stopped reporting as many bugs because it is a time-consuming process. I have identified over 100 bugs in my own game. Most of them have reports, some don't.

    Here are some solutions to the bug report forum:

    1. Use the code option to insert the code for the LE. Pasted code outside the code editor and upload files don't work.
    2. If your bug report is locked as a duplicate, they got your report. Duplicate just means there is already a master thread for the issue. Your issue will be added to the master thread. If it is locked as a multi-report, you need to report the issues separately.
    3. You might get access denied because you are trying to view or edit a thread that has been locked or moved.
    4. If you want to upload files that are not images or videos you need to use a service like Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive.
    5. Make sure you include your save file(s) with your report. 

    You stated your bug was fixed in an updated. If your bug is fixed, you don't need to report it as fixed.

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