Walking dog takes too long
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? 1.77.146.1230
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Add a dog in your household. Direct sim to take dog for a walk.
What happens when the bug occurs? The length of in game time it takes to walk a dog has been consistently long since Pets was installed and across multiple households and save files. Completing the go for a walk interaction takes too much time in game. A short walk takes 4+ game hours to complete. When selecting a long walk, the sim and dog will walk around for 10+ hours before they are prompted to return home, which could take another few hours. Go for a jog seems to take the same amount of game time as going for a jog without a dog. If the player directs the sim to interact with the dog or an automated interaction with the dog comes up during the walk, the sim will stop like they normally do periodically on a walk and stay there indefinitely with the new interaction in the queue and the walking dog interaction active with the dog leashed. This can only be fixed by cancelling the walk interaction.
What do you expect to see? The go for a walk interaction should take much less game time, perhaps 1 hour for a short walk and 4 for a long walk. If you direct the sim to interact with the dog while on a walk, they should stop to complete it, and then continue on the walk. If it is an automated interaction, it should do the same, or, depending on relevancy to the walk interaction (ex: ask to go potty), wait until the walk has been completed to take place.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Installed Pets Expansion pack where this interaction was introduced to the game.
This may be intended, but the go for a walk interaction with dogs takes much too long in game time. Even the short walk option takes 4+ hours. I would expect it to take maybe 1 hour and the long walk to take 4. I have yet to test the long walk option to see how many in game hours it takes to complete, but it is not realistic to spend possibly an entire day walking your dog.
Do other players experience the go for a walk interaction taking this long?
Update!
I tested the long walk option. My sim walked the dog for 10 hours and only stopped when she passed out from exhaustion.
I cheated both the sim and the dog's needs and tried again. "Return Home" popped up after 10 hours of walking and it would have taken probably another two hours to get back to their home lot. It took several attempts to get to this point because sometimes she would stop to tell her dog a story and get stuck standing there with the dog leashed. I would have to cancel the walk interaction and start it again.
