How to issue a citation

I just managed to issue a citation to someone who did not take a shower. :o

The citation step on the second day of the detective career was annoying as hell. No one was littering or fighting. I finally provoked a fight to be able to cite someone.

It was super annoying for me everyone was angry around my sim and put him in an angry mood his fiance fight with him and he ended up having to give her a citation. lol That was 3 sim days ago they have not spoken since he might be back on the market! lol

This was an unbelievably frustrating part. No one was littering or fighting, everyone was happy and going about their business. It was the second day of the detective career, so I guess it was a part of the tutorial, but I also couldn't leave and go to the police station to do something else. Instead I was stuck in the area the whole day with happy well-behaving sims.

At one point I invited to hangout on the lot a family member and another sim and had them get into a fight. My detective witnessed the fight, no citation options. Did it the second time with another sim as well, still no citation options. At least got the Mischief aspiration dislikes down, yey?

This needs some looking into, if not anything else, at least let us get back to the police station and actually work.

Ugh, I hated that part. I tried to be a good cop and stop the fights from happening, little did I know that you actually had to have a fight start in order to write a citation. It took forever, almost my Sims whole work shift in order to finally get one written down. But once you see a fight break out or something like that, then the citation thing pops up. Don't try to calm them down like I was. :)

You don't have to issue a citation. Just go back to the station and you'll get new objectives.

I thought you were asking how to cite things for a paper! XD I was like Oooo!! I know this!! *clicks* Oh... well.... okay *leaves* :(

First day patrolling and everyone was fighting. :grimace: Just gotta have sims constantly itching to fight I guess? Just kidding. I never had problems with patrolling, I love it. ...Though I love the detective career in general...

It's a little weird, but the interaction to give a citation only appears after they finish the interaction.
For example, if they're fighting, you have to wait for them to finish punching each other and at the point where they're just casually talking to each other after the fight (with one dazed and the other confident) in order to go up to them and hand them a citation. It usually won't appear during or before. I assume the same for the litterbugs.

The ones you should keep your eyes on are the ones storming about the neighborhood. Tail one of them to see if they would cross with another angry sim. The two angry sims may start yelling at each other enough to escalate into a fight.

If they don't fight or litter around the place and are generally good (or too good,) find an angry sim, punch them yourself and give them a citation for fighting back. LOL. Or, you can always just click on your cop and get them back into the station. It doesn't count against you.

it doesn't always work but i beat up a civilan then give them a citation for the fight.

Hahaha! My good sim just kept going around calming sims down so people weren't getting into fights, until this total rando walked in from behind and got into a fight with her. She was able to issue a citation after that.