Detective career broken?

Sorry to resurrect this thread but I have a question directly about this problem...and as this one exists...has the detective career been fixed since the last september patch or is it still borked?

I really like to let one of my Sims play a detective career but this has discouraged me.

Yep, it's still borked. That doesn't mean you can't have fun with it, or beat it. Colonel Lilith Vatore has solved 7 crimes so far.
Sometimes the crook won't match the clues. Sometimes the clues will contradict one another. If you Save the game when you arrive at the crime scene, you can arrest the wrong person, get out, and get back into the game without any penalty. Then just repeat till you get the right person (if they show up).
It does seem to get easier as you gain rank. Sometimes you'll arrive and the person matching all the clues will be standing right in front of you. You'll never know, which I think is part of the fun.
Some people say: "The game is borked. I'm not gonna play it."
Other people say: "The game is borked. I have to be more creative."

Just made a detective sim last week. I played it and my first arrest the suspect looked nothing like the description. I pretty much ignored the bug until I had to arrest someone else and there were no clues whatsoever that matched anyone on the premise. Ended up using cheats to promote my sim to the top of the career after several sim days of not catching anyone.

I hope they will fix this sometime soon, I haven't tried the cop yet but I'm hesitant to start it. Or this is a bug of a serious nature to me so I would like to see it fixed. It would feel less reassuring adding more careers and expansions on top if the older ones are not maintained.

Hope that it is just something that needs tlc and that they are working on it.

Still messed up. I started a save with a detective sim after the last patch and those same bugs are still there and I gave up and had her get another job.

"HeckinGodzilla;c-16068037" wrote:
Just made a detective sim last week. I played it and my first arrest the suspect looked nothing like the description. I pretty much ignored the bug until I had to arrest someone else and there were no clues whatsoever that matched anyone on the premise. Ended up using cheats to promote my sim to the top of the career after several sim days of not catching anyone.

The last time I played this career, which was fairly recently, I found out that I just had to keep going back for more clues. Analyzing the evidence, looking at the board, etc. When he went out for the A.P.B., the suspect was not a teen, but rather an elder. I took a chance and arrested the dude. But, when I played it through the very first time, this wasn't a problem at all. Either one of the GPs, EPs, or a patch broke it. I'm hoping that along with the new career, they'll have fixed this problem. I love the Detective career.

I'm hoping they fix this problem by the end of the year. But I'm not particularly optimistic.

"TheLibrarySim;c-16068030" wrote:
Yep, it's still borked. That doesn't mean you can't have fun with it, or beat it. Colonel Lilith Vatore has solved 7 crimes so far.
Sometimes the crook won't match the clues. Sometimes the clues will contradict one another. If you Save the game when you arrive at the crime scene, you can arrest the wrong person, get out, and get back into the game without any penalty. Then just repeat till you get the right person (if they show up).
It does seem to get easier as you gain rank. Sometimes you'll arrive and the person matching all the clues will be standing right in front of you. You'll never know, which I think is part of the fun.
Some people say: "The game is borked. I'm not gonna play it."
Other people say: "The game is borked. I have to be more creative."

Thanks. I will make a new save before heading out then.



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Just got my own little noobie-cop out on patrol. First time she went to the station she wondered to herself, are there only female cops, young female cops in this place. Some of them are sure pretty. Second day on the job she goes to say hi to her new boss.... Don Lothario.

Well, I think I can have fun with this. My little sim is a peaceloving little unflirty do-gooder. We will see what happens.

I had a whole string of clues today. Only one of them matched.

Clues; Adult, female, brown hair, evil trait, wears jumper, wears skirt.

The criminal: Yuki Behr! A teen, female, blue hair, good trait, wearing a tshirt and trousers.

I have a few community created houses and a few community created Sims, but Yuki wasn't one of them.

What's going on? :S

"INeedAVacation;c-16091035" wrote:
I had a whole string of clues today. Only one of them matched.

Clues; Adult, female, brown hair, evil trait, wears jumper, wears skirt.

The criminal: Yuki Behr! A teen, female, blue hair, good trait, wearing a tshirt and trousers.

I have a few community created houses and a few community created Sims, but Yuki wasn't one of them.

What's going on? :S

Relax, Yuki Behr is a walkby Sim. The game will pull Sims for different needs. In this case, she became the suspect. I learned the hard way that these walk by Sims aren't actual Townies that you can expect to appear in each game save in the same neighborhood. Unlike Sims 2 & 3, certain Sims were always there, no matter what. Unless they died. I lost my Founder's wife and my Founder on the very same Sim day, just hours apart. Their three sons carried on without them. My chosen Heir took the reigns, but I stumbled in my Legacy Challenge, when I didn't have a male Sim, who generated the chosen Trait, to make him the actual heir. I had the parents have a second child, another boy, but again lacking the Trait needed. I had them try again. Twin girls. Suddenly, since my heir's younger brother still lived with them, I found myself running out of room. Moved out the brother, moved out the eldest son. He could no longer be the heir, since I moved him out. Face/palm. Then I reread the rules for the Challenge and realized, I didn't have to move him out, nor did I need to have the parents try again. I could have just selected him. (Always good to check out that codicil. I could have saved myself a bunch of grief.) Then I got it into my head to simply go back, recreate the couple and have them have kids. Just restart with chapter Two, if you will. That's when it hit me. Since I couldn't find her anywhere, (and then I think I came here to the forums for confirmation) — the walk bys are randomized, unique. Only the ones living in the houses in the neighborhoods are in each new game save. Had I thought about it long enough, I would simply have used a photo of her to recreate her. But, I waited about a year and then started anew using the same Founder, complete with the same backstory. Unfortunately, the first story (mostly taken from what happened in the game), was quite a story!