I first noticed this issue in a household with 4 people - anytime they would sit around laughing and talking, their household funds would disappear in large chunks - 40k, 50k, etc. That was several game updates ago. I have made sure that all my mods are up-to-date and this keeps happening. I stopped playing houses with more than 2 people for a while to see if it would stop, but the same thing happens when my Sims hang out with their friends and chat. There is no pop-up message about where the funds are going, they just subtract from the household funds. Today, I was playing a house with 2 sisters. They were greeting each other after work and the entire 30,114 in their household funds just disappeared. Yes, I can do the money cheat, which I do, to replenish the funds but I think someone needs to look into why it's happening. Even if the Sims were autonomously giving their household members a large loan "ask for large loan", the funds shouldn't just evaporate, should they?

Try the following Close the game Rename Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4_Old Repair the game Start the game. All your content will be gone now as the game created a new folder. All your saves/.. is still in the old folder so not to worry. Be aware that your claimed event rewards will also be gone for the time being but you will get them back with your other things. Start a new save game Check if you still have the error Report back with your results for further steps on how to get your stuff back.

Thank you for your response, but I think you misunderstood my question b/c your response refers to "getting your stuff back" and it's not stuff that is going missing. It's Simoleons being randomly subtracted from the household funds in extremely large amounts just for Sims having conversations.That said, I followed your steps - old file, repaired, new game, and still randomly when the Sims are chatting, the money just deducts.

@anadultsimmer by stuff I mean save games, screenshots, mods, etc and the such which will be gone in the game if you do the steps above.To be sure, you just renamed the folder and started a new save and that still had the issue ? Nothing moved back (yet) (just making sure cause you're referring to old files)

Correct, yes. It took a min in the new save b/c it happens at random times.

@anadultsimmer Never seen that happen in my game.You say there's no pop-up but is there also no other indication ? It's just one sec it's x and the next it's y ?

When my Sims chat their household funds disappear

12 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
12 months ago
Try the following

Close the game

Rename Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4_Old

Repair the game

Start the game. All your content will be gone now as the game created a new folder. All your saves/.. is still in the old folder so not to worry. Be aware that your claimed event rewards will also be gone for the time being but you will get them back with your other things.

Start a new save game

Check if you still have the error

Report back with your results for further steps on how to get your stuff back.
AnAdultSimmer
New Rookie
12 months ago
Thank you for your response, but I think you misunderstood my question b/c your response refers to "getting your stuff back" and it's not stuff that is going missing. It's Simoleons being randomly subtracted from the household funds in extremely large amounts just for Sims having conversations.
That said, I followed your steps - old file, repaired, new game, and still randomly when the Sims are chatting, the money just deducts.
crinrict
Hero+
12 months ago
@anadultsimmer by stuff I mean save games, screenshots, mods, etc and the such which will be gone in the game if you do the steps above.

To be sure, you just renamed the folder and started a new save and that still had the issue ? Nothing moved back (yet) (just making sure cause you're referring to old files)
AnAdultSimmer
New Rookie
12 months ago
Correct, yes. It took a min in the new save b/c it happens at random times.
crinrict
Hero+
12 months ago
@anadultsimmer Never seen that happen in my game.You say there's no pop-up but is there also no other indication ? It's just one sec it's x and the next it's y ?
xochiquetzl_xkvn
Seasoned Ace
12 months ago
Silly question: are items appearing in their personal inventories? And if you watch their queue, does that provide any insight?
AnAdultSimmer
New Rookie
11 months ago
Not silly at all. Nothing is appearing in their personal inventory as new with a star to indicate it's new and unfortunately nothing is popping up in the notifications, which is where I first looked when I started seeing money popping up in red as being deducted. This has been ongoing about a year or close to it.
AnAdultSimmer
New Rookie
11 months ago
Exactly. One minute they have 36k and the next it's 0. What really intrigues me is the specificity of the amount. It's not always the same amount. If they have over 100k, it may happen a few times before they get to 0...but that one Sim had 36117 and that's the EXACT amount it subtracted. It's generally thousands, so it's not subtracting $1 at a time until it gets there. Sometimes it will be $3000 or $20000. No real pattern to detect other than it only happens when they're chatting with someone. A single sim who lives alone doesn't have money subtracted when nobody is there.
crinrict
Hero+
11 months ago
@anadultsimmer Could you maybe record a video and post here ?
AnAdultSimmer
New Rookie
11 months ago
Will do, but give me a minute b/c I tried to record this weekend, but I dozed off asleep and when I woke up my sim had $0 and I wasn't recording. So, now I gotta try again to get it.