The elders revenge (or why a sim is elder on CAS and young adult in live mode)
Hey.
So I’m trying to help somebody that have this Sim who is visibly an elder in CAS… but still a young adult in live mode.
No mods related to aging. Trait debugging shows nothing unusual.
Anyone ever seen a Schrödinger Sim before? Is this a potential bug ?
That was indeed her initial issue, and while trying to help her through the MCCC Discord, we ended up creating this now-infamous 'elder-but-not-really' Sim. She had let her Sim age up naturally throughout her life, which is what surprised us in the first place.
After digging deep from every angle, it honestly turned out to be a bug I had never seen before - and one that didn't seem to be documented anywhere.
I asked her to send me her save file, which allowed me to take screenshots AND (bonus !) fix the bug.
The fix was surprisingly simple in the end : return to CAS a second time, set her age to YA (or whatever age the Sim's blocked into), and then manually age her up using birthday cakes.
The first time she tried this method, it didn't seem to work - which probably added to the confusion... or I might be a Grandma whisperer.
Since my game is in french, the first four screenshots show the Sim with the bug : Elder trait, YA appearance EXCEPT in the relationship panel where they're correctly (or not...?) shown as YA ; and the Sim when I edited it in CAS.
The last screenshot shows the bug resolved, after applying the fix I mentioned.
Hopefully this can help others (or maybe even be addressed in a future patch)