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tokidoki123's avatar
6 years ago

Glitches with repairman, jobs, and actions queue after update (April 2020)

Hi All, 

I wanted to know if any of you were having this problem too because it’s making gameplay really frustrating. Ever since the update my game has been super full of bugs. 

1. during a date, even though my sims talked and interacted and all date requirements were filled, the interact w your date 10 times never updated. 

2. when I call the repairman for my broken computer and broken tv, the repairman doesn’t come because he says there’s nothing to fix on my lot, even though there are.

3. My sim’s in the political career and even though she should get off work at 4 pm and got to work on time, the game did not recognize that she was done until 3am~ and ofc there was no additional pay for all of those hours. If I tried to leave work it said she would be leaving work early. (When I quit and restarted the game, it still wouldn’t recognize that she was done) 

4. my sims are having tons of actions stuck in their queue and will not complete other actions. My sim initiated woohoo w her husband and although it never happened Bc she went to sleep, the woohoo has been stuck in the actions queue for both, if I try to cancel them out it shows up again seconds later, and it’s preventing them from doing certain actions like cooking. 

If anyone has any fixes for any of these or has also been experiencing these please let me know 🙂

2 Replies

  • @tokidoki123 
    Are you playing on PC/Mac or Console?
    Do you have any mods or cc (custom content) in your game?
    Here is what I recommend.
    Go to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4
    Rename The Sims 4 to The Sims 4.old to preserve your saves, tray, screenshots and mods folders/files.
    Run Repair from Origin as described in the troubleshooting guide.
    Start the game without adding anything back as a test.
    The game will automatically create fresh versions of all the folders/files.

    Source

    Troubleshooting tips
    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/READ-FIRST-Troubleshooting-your-Game/m-p/3621199

  • LeissaMyst's avatar
    LeissaMyst
    Rising Veteran
    6 years ago

    I've had the repair man problem a couple of times, No Mods on my End, No CC either (just pictures/etc in my Gallery Uploads being flagged because of the fact they were "created" in-game :P).

    It seems that the repairman problem is specific to not owning "City Living" to me (don't ask me why I had an repairman come by in April BEFORE I owned City Living - and it messed up; but AFTER I owned city living I called the Repairman from Lin-Z and he worked fine twice). It may also have to do with the timing; I've noticed the Repairman tends to show up almost immediately after the call.

    As far as game-play interactions; and I don't mean to get too far off-topic here, but do you have any idea if the repairs you ordered were on a "off-the-grid" lot? I think off-the-grid alters the way repairmen work (because it calls it "Call for Emergency Repairs" instead of "Call a Repair Man") which may indicate that off-the-grid repairmen only repair the specific device you called them on...