Detective career broken?

"relevanceirre;c-15769229" wrote:
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> Bump :'( Incorrect description, arrested, then isn't showing up at the station.
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> Hello.
> I am sorry that you have had these issues.
> Try having your sim leave work early, then when they go to work the next day, the suspect may then be there.

> @Andiratyme said:
> Supposedly if you arrest them and go on patrol or go back to the crime scene and come back the suspect should eventually appear. You might have to do that multiple times though.



I actually just solved it like 10 minutes after this post. So I tried the going home, and going back to work the next day (didn't work), so what ended up working for me was I memorized the name of the suspect, made friends with them outside of the job, and the next day after we had knowledge and friendship (no introductory options anymore), they appeared at the station.

Suspect did not match the description of who I needed to arrest at all... so I saved before I randomly arrested people. Had to issue APB's 3 times at different locations trying to figure out who was the common factor of all of them. At one point one of the sims was like "Uhh, isn't that the person over there?" where I arrested the sim, who turned out to be correct. But they did not go to the station with me. I restarted the game and went back to the same place, but now the sims kept leaving and would not let me speak to her.

Therefore I went back to the station, re-issued an APB and looked around for her everywhere. At one point, at the library, there was a book that was hovering around with no ghost. I asked one of the people if they had seen the suspect and he was like "Oh I saw a person like that over there!" Upon saving and restarting, the hovering book then revealed the sim that I needed. I then went to arrest, took me to the station, and she wasn't there. I restarted the game again to try to get back to that point, and then it was a different sim. (I tried to arrest that one to see if the game had auto generated a different criminal, but it did not). Upon several more restarts I just issued another APB...

That's when I just decided to see if I could make friends with the sim (my sim was a vamp so hard to meet them during the day. I tried to just invite them to the station before making friends but they wouldn't come since.. work is during the day). The next day, after a brief chat, she has now shown up.

In conclusion to the Criminal not showing up at the station after making the arrest: Finish your day, find the sim outside of work, make friends with them, and then they will show up the next day.

As for the APB description.. I tried not to use too many cheats, but I ended up saving before every arrest until one person didn't say it was unlawful. Haha...

Hello @relevanceirre
It is helpful to read the workarounds that you did to fix the issues. It is a great suggestion to make friends with the suspect outside of work hours! It will help other simmers who have the same issue.