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

chanelkeane
10 years ago
I'm having a hard time trying to catch my suspect. I have 6 clues and this is the first time this has happened. I always successfully catch my perps.
The clues are
female
materialistic
Elder
Wearing long sleeve shirt
wearing slacks
Has grey hair.

I have issued several APB'S and i don't ever see anyone matching the description. I have tried arresting others but loose job performance because it's not them.

I'm so confused and i don't know what to do as this is the first time it has happened to me.

Any ideas or help?
Rudiarose
10 years ago
I had this happens and it was the red haired girl who was my partner sorta. She was tampering with evidence it was her all long. Look or a sim that keeps looking around really suspishishly even if it is a coworker.
Rudiarose
10 years ago
Its your coworker in the lab just did that quest. Look for who ever comes with you from work when you go to the APB. That's who did it.

"Chanel;13890990" wrote:
I'm having a hard time trying to catch my suspect. I have 6 clues and this is the first time this has happened. I always successfully catch my perps.
The clues are
female
materialistic
Elder
Wearing long sleeve shirt
wearing slacks
Has grey hair.

I have issued several APB'S and i don't ever see anyone matching the description. I have tried arresting others but loose job performance because it's not them.

I'm so confused and i don't know what to do as this is the first time it has happened to me.

Any ideas or help?
Barbara917
10 years ago
Never had the false clue problem. On the topic of clues and evidence collected from previous cases - they can be used on the next case. Collecting evidence is similar to collecting rocks or gems. The evidence isn't actually tied to the case. If you have a large enough collection you can start a new case and solve it without ever visiting a crime scene if you have enough evidence in your inventory.
ExtraAMinor
9 years ago
I've just encountered this issue as well. I think part of the problem for me was using old clues on a new case. About to quit the career and start over, but my list of "clues" is spectacularly bazaar, so I thought I'd share the frustrations.

My APB is looking for a blonde teen female who is clumsy. And she's wearing a skirt and blouse. Easy enough. By the way, she's also self-assured. And wearing a jacket, nope, a tanktop. She's also a materialistic loner who has red hair? Oh, and she's insane. And wearing shorts. No. Slacks.

Yeah... I'd screenshot it, but can't post that madness yet.

It's like I'm Johnny English describing his first suspect after the crown jewels are stolen.
Glimmer50
New Spectator
9 years ago
"Cinebar;14682078" wrote:
"CptJayne;14671840" wrote:
I've just encountered this issue as well. I think part of the problem for me was using old clues on a new case. About to quit the career and start over, but my list of "clues" is spectacularly bazaar, so I thought I'd share the frustrations.

My APB is looking for a blonde teen female who is clumsy. And she's wearing a skirt and blouse. Easy enough. By the way, she's also self-assured. And wearing a jacket, nope, a tanktop. She's also a materialistic loner who has red hair? Oh, and she's insane. And wearing shorts. No. Slacks.

Yeah... I'd screenshot it, but can't post that madness yet.

It's like I'm Johnny English describing his first suspect after the crown jewels are stolen.

Using the CAS cheat in game also messes up if what they wear etc. is the correct Sim. If you have a hard time finding the right Sim, you can skip that day and go out on patrol, then go back to finding the suspect. But using CAS cheats in the game and or deleting Sims out of homeless list somehow messes up finding the right Sim. Don't ask me why it would be it does. Also, if you finish one case always delete your old clues before starting a new one.

I had this happen to me too. I wonder if I had somehow deleted the Sim- sometimes I will go in and delete elders or just Sims not in the world. I found my exact match except he was an Adult instead of YA and they said he was not the right person. I finally had to quit the job and go back in. It cleared the case so hopefully I will have better luck next time. I am not going to be deleting Sims in the future.
rosemow
Hero
9 years ago
Hello.
Simmers have been posting about this issue in this AHQ EA site thread link.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Incorrect-suspect-traits-Suspect-doesn-t-show-up/td-p/4486122
rosemow
Hero
9 years ago
"keekee53;14770504" wrote:
I noticed I usually ran into this problem when I kept clues from an old case. I make sure I delete all old clues before getting a new case assignment.

I have also seen this issue when I had more than one Sim in the world in the detective Career. I usually make sure my detective is just starting a new case before I rotate to another Sim in that career.

I hope this makes sense and helps..lol

Hello.
Thankyou for posting your helpful information :) It will be helpful for other simmers to do to try to avoid the issue.
belaIV
8 years ago
Throw away all the files in your inventory at the end of each case, before you gather new clues, and you will not see this, I had this problem but noticed the description was similar to my first case, so I managed to arrest someone, then tossed the items after each case and finished the career without this happening again.
Clybu7
8 years ago
I have the same issue but the suspect match perfectly. I get an unlawful arrest.