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EnkiSchmidt's avatar
5 years ago

Batuu sims as suspects in detective career

As the title says.

When a detective travels to make an arrest, the game spawns one guilty suspect and one or more decoys. (Sometimes it doesn't spawn decoys, that is a normal glitch I've come to ignore.) The suspect will always be a newly generated sim, the decoys are almost always already existing sims.

As of today, the decoys are only ever Batuu sims anymore. They show their Batuu conversation topics and my sim cannot arrest them. In one case the decoys were Kylo Ren and Lt. Agnon. Fortunately the real suspect also shows up, so it's nothing gamebreaking, but for sure immersion breaking.

(This happened in a save where I didn't temper with my Batuu sims, just saying. I only went there once and played as intended, no mod shenanigans.)

Is it only me or is that a common problem?

EDIT:
- New saves seem to be unaffected. I created a new save, new sim, sent him to Batuu and then to work and he managed two arrests without Batuu sims showing up.
- Then loaded the affected save, but this time without mods (and localthumbcache deleted), and it still sent Batuu sims to the arrest scene.

6 Replies

  • No idea what went wrong, but things have calmed down again. I deleted all Batuu sims except for the plot important ones, and the next case my detective got everything was normal again. No Kylo, Hondo or Rey anywhere in sight.
  • I understand how that would be immersion breaking, and I'm sorry it bugged you, but for me it would be hilarious.
  • Buying Batuu was your first mistake. :p

    Joking aside, the detective career is notoriously bugged, I'm not even sure it works even normally.
  • Yeah, I think the Detective career is the buggiest one. I feel like it's always got something going wonky no matter what they fix.
  • Personally, I think the Scientist is the best career. :)
    However, I would love it if the devs combined the Astronaut career with the X-Wing & Falcon. ;)
    That would make it the coolest career ever. B)
  • @Isharell
    You know what's ironic? This is my only save in which Batuu isn't real, but just a theme park of Disney World. In any other plum save the bug would probably have prompted me to play an amazing storyline about the First Order conquering Earth. But I had to catch this in the Detroit save.

    @Aine and @LiELF
    Yes, detective is a finnicky career. I experience lag and lots of sim resetting whenever a co-worker talks into my active detective who is trying to use a computer. It's so common I hardly notice it anymore. And I probably made the cardinal error: rotating away to another household while Hank still had an unsolved case active. Then, when I returned to Hank, that case was hopelessly bugged.

    It's still my favorite career out of the active ones, mainly because I enjoy seeing my cops mingle in not just one but up to four different places (station, crime scene, patrol and arrest scene).

    @SERVERFRA
    Good idea about the combined career! I'd love to have one Batuu themed astronaut career and another one that is more down to earth, closer to what real astronaut life is like (that last one exists as cc, at least).

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