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Tiarella4's avatar
6 years ago

Buggy stuff going on!

I don't have IL but I have everything else, thanks to sales. Since the last patch, my elderly, gray-haired sim suddenly sports a blonde hairdo in Live mode (actual sim plus portrait), though she's still gray-haired in CAS.

And when I was playing on a community lot & sent every sim in the household home via the 'go home' button, they all went home and...I didn't go with them. Instead of getting a loading screen & arriving at their home lot with the last of 'em to leave, I was left at the community center, watching all the NPCs do stuff. Since that was not supposed to be possible (all my household sims' portraits were grayed out & showed on mouseover that they were at home), I used the 'bring sim here' button to bring one back. This time I locked my view to my sim & this time I got a loading screen & arrived at the home lot with her. (Typing this, I have to say that after all the portraits grayed out, I did not search the edges to make absolutely certain none of my sims were still running for the exit. I sat watching the NPCs for some moments after all my sims' portraits grayed out, but I doubt I waited more than 45-60 seconds before I got worried and recalled one of my sims.)

I use MCCC & a handful of Little Miss Sam's mods, so I can't report these; I'd have to take out my mods and see if the same stuff happens. Honestly not worth it to me yet, as the game has been buggier without them than with them. But I thought I'd mention it here, in case anyone running a vanilla game has encountered the same things & might be inspired to officially report them now that they know it's happened to someone else. :)
  • Anyone having issues with Sims repeatedly visiting? I thought it might be the Friend of the Word aspiration that I've completed with several of my Sims, but it's even happening other Sims as well.
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    i have noticed that none of my sims like any food in Sulani. And I've also noticed any food they have spoils almost immediately.
  • I've been hanging out over at the bug report forum & think I've seen some of these...but not all. Going to try to find links for each one y'all have mentioned.

    Rouenpucelle - I didn't tag you 'cuz I didn't find a current bug-report on this, though I thought I saw something similar to this last night. Anybody see her issue here at the bug report forum?

    @Tan80 - Without more detail, I can't tell if your issue is the same as the ones listed over at the bug report forum. Is your issue this one ? --If so, please hit the 'me-too' button under the first post in that thread; the more 'me-too's' the more likely EA will prioritize a bug-fix. If not, is it one of the others listed under Get To Work/Doctor career here? If not, want to fill out a new bug report over there?
  • Something I tested yesterday with vanilla settings is an aspiration based bug. I had two Sims, both vampires, doing separate aspirations - the Master Vampire and Good Vampire ones. Objectives include:

    - Master Vampire: Survive for 20 days as a vampire
    - Good Vampire: Go 14 days without drinking with no permission

    When travelling with these Sims, any time that's gone by for these goals resets. They were both five days into these aspirations and upon returning home they'd reset to zero days.

    On a side note, I also had a Sim who had grown 9/10 Excellent plants for the final stage of the Freelance Botanist aspiration. After travelling and returning home later, that too reset and said 0/10 plants.

    I've seen another user mention the bug with the vampire related aspirations on the forums, I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced these?
  • Not sure if this is the right place, but here goes. Just finished another test. Sim went out to the opera with a friend sim, one of those rabbit hole 'I got tickets, want to come?' things. Sim walked off lot to go. Game speed stayed at 1, not speed up as expected. A short time later a shadow-like thing suddenly appeared in sim's living room, fluttered over to the chess table, and began playing with all the usual animations. Sim's portrait in the lower bar was greyed out, and had been once the sim left the lot. Shadow thing did various other things before going to bed, including gaining a skill point. Could hear sim's voice, but no sim seen. Decided enough was enough so bailed without saving, thinking that when went back in would start at prior save point. Wrong. When went back in the sim was back, and at the place where had bailed out. The gained skill point was there, too. So not only was there all that odd behavior, but the game saved when it should not have under ordinary circumstances. Something else the June patch broke?
  • @Oldeseadogge - that's weird! I'm no expert, so I couldn't say if it's a glitch or a bug, but the people over in the technical forum might (I doublechecked, & in the bug-report forum's 'How Does This Forum Work' post, it suggests going to the tech forum for troubleshooting). Here's the tech forum's 'read first' post, which includes the steps for troubleshooting your own game. Dunno if that's what you want to do?

    eta: Do you have an earlier save? I always use the 'save-as' feature, & rotate between 4 save-slots per game, changing the title each time to indicate the in-game day/season/time & HH I'm currently playing. I also save the entire 'save' folder before every patch (keeping the copy one level up, under Electronic Arts, named 'TS4..PrepatchSaves). That way if my game is broken the way it was a couple times in TS3, I can salvage something, even if I lose months of play. Got burned so badly with TS3 that it made me pretty cautious about savefiles for TS4.
  • Since the update, I can get open two-story basements to work. if I try to remove the floor/ceiling between two basements they get separated by a dirt floor instead of being open. several builds that did work are now broken and I can't make any new builds using this setup.