Laundry List April 11 & Patch April 18

"AalyahReed;c-18257101" wrote:

"Simpatsyann;c-18256180" wrote:

"AalyahReed;c-18255921" wrote:
As a few others have mentioned, I am very disappointed that the milestone bug is not being worked on. Milestones were one of the main features of the newest expansion pack, and they don't even work! As a rotational player, this prevents me from playing more than one household - what is the point of earning the milestones if they are just going to disappear? And it doesn't just cause an issue for rotational players; from what I've read, the milestones can disappear if you just travel with your sim to a community lot. So you're stuck at home indefinitely if you don't want to lose them.
I'll have to hold off on actual play until this is fixed...whenever that might be.
I never buy an expansion pack right after it is released - I always wait for a sale. But 3 days after its release, I broke my own rule for Growing Together, and now the milestones disappear. Lesson learned!

Of course the milestone bug is being worked on, but the devs don't seem to add bugs to the "laundry list" unless they're very sure they can be included with the next patch. I do wish we could get an eta on it though.

@Simpatsyann - I'm glad you're confident that the missing milestone bug is "of course" being worked on, but I remain skeptical. If so, why haven't they mentioned it along with the other infant update/Growing Together specific bugs? They already have a disclaimer at the top of every Laundry List, saying that these are the things they are aware of/looking into, and while they hope the fixes will be delivered in the next update, they can't promise they will get to everything right away. So with that disclaimer in place, and other infant bugs on the list, why aren't they saying, "Hey, we're aware one of the main features in the new pack is broken, and we will try to fix it"? I don't mean to sound negative, but if you think about how long the gardening bug has been going on, a main pack feature for Seasons, that has never been addressed, I am worried that is what will happen here with milestones. :'( But I'm sure it is a lot easier to fix a tag in CAS or a glitched shirt than it is to fix a core feature of an expansion pack.

@plumboy23 - I personally do not think milestones were intended to disappear, either. It's not like the gossip bug in the Sims 2 that could cause corruption. There would be absolutely no point in creating milestones for Sims to work toward if you couldn't keep the achievement at the end. As a rotational player since Sims 1, I know that not every pack in the franchise is super friendly to rotational play, but Growing Together encourages your Sims to get together with extended family & create lasting memories. But the bug makes it so that, when you do those things the game encourages you to do, you lose everything you've worked toward. :s This is one of the main features of the pack, but it doesn't work right. They've acknowledged they are aware of the missing tooth genetic glitch, and were, to their credit, super quick about freezing that feature to prevent further damage to player's saves, so why not acknowledge milestones? I would honestly be fine if my Sim kids never lost a tooth at all, as that was a small feature that didn't really influence my decision to buy the pack - I think the milestones, which are for every life stage, and all types of Sims, is more important.

But I do sincerely hope that I'm wrong and am pleasantly surprised with a milestone glitch fix this month. :)

99% of the time the Laundry List only contains the fixes we anticipate releasing within the next 30 days or so. It's not a comprehensive list of everything under investigation or even everything fixed as some lesser known issues are fixed each patch that aren't called out as well.