So I'm playing the detective career in GTW and my Sim started gathering clues together to call an APB and go arrest the suspect. Her clues were that the suspect was both a teen and possessed the Ambitious trait, but this is impossible, since teens cannot have the Ambitious trait.I sent her to the APB thing anyway and tried to do my best with what I had to work with. The clues were1. female2. teen3. wearing tank top4. wearing skirt5. ambitious trait6. blondeWell the only blonde teenage female on that lot was not wearing a skirt or a tank top and she definitely didn't have the Ambitious trait because teens can't have that trait. I tried arresting her but because she didn't match all the criteria, my Sim took a hit to her job performance for making an unlawful arrest. There was no other Sim anywhere around who came close to matching the criteria at all, I nearly drove myself insane looking.Now I'm stuck because as far as I know, I can't just quit the case and start a new one, nor can I make an arrest because there is no such Sim in the world matching all the criteria, it's impossible for a Sim to be a teen and possess the Ambitious trait (and no, I have no mods that alter traits whatsoever, I don't have any custom traits, either). Is there any way I can somehow scrap this case or start over or something? The only solution I've found is just choosing not to follow my Sim to work ever again so her job performance will increase by itself, but that's a terrible solution because it totally kills the point of the detective career and the GTW expansion all together.

Just an update on how to "fix" this career glitch, though it's not really a fix. This is what I did to reset that completely borked case.1. Have your Sim quit their job with their cell phone.2. Pull up the cheat console with CTRL+SHIFT+C.3. Type in "Careers.add_career Detective" and hit Enter. This will put your Sim back in the Detective career.4. Type in "Careers.promote Detective" and hit Enter. This will promote your Sim to the next level.5. Repeat step 4 until your Sim is at the level they were at before.That's the only way I've come up with to fix that glitch. It would be so much easier if we just had an option to scrap the case and start a new one.

Oh no! That's terrible; hopefully they fix it so you don't need to cheat around it!

In real life, some of the "evidence" is irrelevant or incorrect, so I would think it should be that way in the Sims too! Plus, what about Cold Cases? Our sims should be able to drop a case and pick it up sometime later, with some little bonus for clearing a cold case :D

"enkeli63;13498860" wrote:In real life, some of the "evidence" is irrelevant or incorrect, so I would think it should be that way in the Sims too! Plus, what about Cold Cases? Our sims should be able to drop a case and pick it up sometime later, with some little bonus for clearing a cold case :DI wouldn't mind the incorrect clues if there was a way to fix the situation and eventually arrest the right person, like your suggestion of calling a cold case, then reopening it later on or something. The problem is, once you have an incorrect clue (especially if the clues conflict like being Ambitious and being a teenager), you can't arrest anybody and you're forever stuck on that case unless you use cheats to reset everything.

I understand having one or two false clues but usually all of them are completely wrong for me. My clues were Female Elder Grey Hair Wearing SkirtIn the end the culprit was a male young adult with black hair. I guess it's time for the police station to find new informants.

Glitch with detective clues, makes arresting the right suspect impossible

SnarkyWitch
10 years ago
Just an update on how to "fix" this career glitch, though it's not really a fix. This is what I did to reset that completely borked case.

1. Have your Sim quit their job with their cell phone.
2. Pull up the cheat console with CTRL+SHIFT+C.
3. Type in "Careers.add_career Detective" and hit Enter. This will put your Sim back in the Detective career.
4. Type in "Careers.promote Detective" and hit Enter. This will promote your Sim to the next level.
5. Repeat step 4 until your Sim is at the level they were at before.

That's the only way I've come up with to fix that glitch. It would be so much easier if we just had an option to scrap the case and start a new one.
laurastal
New Spectator
10 years ago
Oh no! That's terrible; hopefully they fix it so you don't need to cheat around it!
Starwing6
10 years ago
In real life, some of the "evidence" is irrelevant or incorrect, so I would think it should be that way in the Sims too! Plus, what about Cold Cases? Our sims should be able to drop a case and pick it up sometime later, with some little bonus for clearing a cold case :D
SnarkyWitch
10 years ago
"enkeli63;13498860" wrote:
In real life, some of the "evidence" is irrelevant or incorrect, so I would think it should be that way in the Sims too! Plus, what about Cold Cases? Our sims should be able to drop a case and pick it up sometime later, with some little bonus for clearing a cold case :D

I wouldn't mind the incorrect clues if there was a way to fix the situation and eventually arrest the right person, like your suggestion of calling a cold case, then reopening it later on or something. The problem is, once you have an incorrect clue (especially if the clues conflict like being Ambitious and being a teenager), you can't arrest anybody and you're forever stuck on that case unless you use cheats to reset everything.
Alistair32
10 years ago
I understand having one or two false clues but usually all of them are completely wrong for me. My clues were

Female
Elder
Grey Hair
Wearing Skirt

In the end the culprit was a male young adult with black hair.

I guess it's time for the police station to find new informants.
nonyabizznazz
10 years ago
The only time my clues were incorrect was because I had edited the townie in CAS but the game thought they were still in their old clothes.
vickigoh
10 years ago
> @Alistair_32 said:
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> You can ask people if they saw the suspect and if they did they'll point in the direction they saw him. I tracked him down that way.

Yes. Thank for this advice i manage to get the suspect and my clues given to me all wrong as well. None of the clues fix the suspect too.
Clue is Adult, hate children, Blonde hair, wear short sleeves and jear
Actual is YA, no hate children, brown hair and wearing skirt.

LOL..cannot believe the clues are totally wrong...
Buttonsginger
10 years ago
"asterravos;13618453" wrote:
"BUTTONSGINGER;13617165" wrote:
Has anyone been clearing out the old clues in the inventory after each case is solved? I haven't. I wonder if that can make a difference?

I always get rid of clues from the previous case before getting a new case (I feel like I'm cheating if I don't :tongue: ) I've solved about... 6 cases and my most recent has been the only one completely messed up (got the clues before the most recent patch and solved after the patch -- not sure if that's related to my issue but I do have a no sim culling mod).

What I did was ask sims about the suspect when they were clumped in areas then arrested the one who said they knew nothing when everyone else around them did.

The correct suspect (she confessed in interrogation):
https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7679/17460230202_607910d86a_b.jpg

My spectacularly wrong clues (the very bottom one was a trait clue that was also wrong):
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8820/17274651240_537a273ba9_z.jpg

@asterravos Very interesting!

I haven't cleared out my clues but I always collected new ones for each crime scene.

I'll try what you did. I have enough cases solved to get to the top of the career but I would like to get past this case.

Thanks for posting your success!
kaitalytic
New Spectator
10 years ago
"BUTTONSGINGER;13621088" wrote:
"asterravos;13618453" wrote:
"BUTTONSGINGER;13617165" wrote:
Has anyone been clearing out the old clues in the inventory after each case is solved? I haven't. I wonder if that can make a difference?

I always get rid of clues from the previous case before getting a new case (I feel like I'm cheating if I don't :tongue: ) I've solved about... 6 cases and my most recent has been the only one completely messed up (got the clues before the most recent patch and solved after the patch -- not sure if that's related to my issue but I do have a no sim culling mod).

What I did was ask sims about the suspect when they were clumped in areas then arrested the one who said they knew nothing when everyone else around them did.

The correct suspect (she confessed in interrogation):
https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7679/17460230202_607910d86a_b.jpg

My spectacularly wrong clues (the very bottom one was a trait clue that was also wrong):
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8820/17274651240_537a273ba9_z.jpg

@asterravos Very interesting!

I haven't cleared out my clues but I always collected new ones for each crime scene.

I'll try what you did. I have enough cases solved to get to the top of the career but I would like to get past this case.

Thanks for posting your success!

Good luck! :)
eikku89
10 years ago
you don´t lose your job progress, you are at that job level what you we´re when you quit.