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burnished_dragon
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago

Since last patch _ Umbrellas

I find the umbrellas so annoying. Last night my one sim went to visit his girl and his son. It was pouring rain. When it was time to send him home, it was painful to watch and play. He would run a few steps stop put umbrella up, then down, run a few more steps - you get the picture. Took him forever to get to a load point.

Also has anyone noticed that energy is draining rather fast. It could be because we had a house fire and it was thunder storming, but I couldn't keep anyone's energy up. Almost had to age the baby up as no one could stay awake long enough to take care of her.
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  • Nyaonukusu's avatar
    Nyaonukusu
    8 years ago
    I haven't noticed a change in energy at all; in fact, my one musician sim seems to still have green level energy after coming home from work at 9:00 pm.

    But yeah, the umbrellas are pretty bugged, I've heard. I haven't experienced this but I know other players have, but it might be because I use like two mods/CC total in the game.
  • burnished_dragon's avatar
    burnished_dragon
    Seasoned Ace
    8 years ago
    @MaggieMarley the vampire umbrella thing is from the latest patch
    @Shinzen I only have 4 mods in my game MCCC UIextensions, (bad me, can't remember whose) all beds same energy and some phone dating app. I believe they are all uptodate but I can check.
    I have only played for a short time since the latest patch and this is when I noticed it. However as I said it could be the fire and the thunderstorm not helping.
    That and the washer or dryer being broken most of the time - the freaking clothes are never clean.
  • burnished_dragon's avatar
    burnished_dragon
    Seasoned Ace
    8 years ago
    "MaggieMarley;c-16653740" wrote:
    @verlainem yes, I know it’s from the latest patch. What I’m saying is that they did a poor job on it as it’s forcing my perfectly sun resistant vampires to autonomously use umbrellas constantly, unnecessarily and seemingly unpreventably


    That is what I have been hearing. I have not seen it yet in my current game but am not playing any vampires households and it's been raining of late lol
  • YorksRob's avatar
    YorksRob
    Seasoned Ace
    8 years ago
    leave the umbrella racks out . but if you rotate familes you have to get them to put away the umbrellas each time you play that family
  • rosemow's avatar
    rosemow
    Hero
    8 years ago
    Hello
    You may like to post feedback on this AHQ EA thread about the issue
    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-S-Sims-constantly-open-and-close-Umbrellas-while-they-walk/m-p/6924374#M68662
  • Wndblwz's avatar
    Wndblwz
    Seasoned Ace
    8 years ago
    Umbrella thing is so annoying. I waited forever in Granite Falls yesterday for a Vampire (sun resistant) Sim to cross the terrain to pick up herbs and such. Stop. walk a couple of steps. Pick. Umbrella. Up. Down... GAH. (Going to vote on the bug thread... )
  • Rai357's avatar
    Rai357
    8 years ago
    Umbrellas were bugged like this for me before the patch. It's why I don't place the umbrella stands.
  • snootypatooty2's avatar
    snootypatooty2
    8 years ago
    Put away the umbrella but not not delete the umbrealla stand the vampires will be fine grab a umbrella when it is raining then put it away after the rain, they will not generate a umbrella in the sun that way
  • elliebreton's avatar
    elliebreton
    Legend
    8 years ago
    I've noticed sometimes the sims umbrella-carrying arm will stay in the carrying position after the umbrella has disappeared into their back pocket. Makes for some very painful happenings:

    https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ql8ur4coizctl72/Painful.jpg?dl=0
  • paradiseplanet27's avatar
    paradiseplanet27
    Seasoned Ace
    7 years ago
    Your played Sims can still be given umbrellas without the umbrella rack so long as they're being chosen to walk around the neighborhood while raining. I know the game does this bc when I do place an umbrella rack in a household that didn't have one, I discovered that they already had one.

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