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serendipity38's avatar
serendipity38
New Spectator
10 months ago

Why does writing a song take SO MUCH LONGER

...Then writing an entire book? I had a best selling author Sim that could crank out a best seller book in one afternoon.

But writing a song requires going over the same chords repeatedly, repeated days in a row with VERY LITTLE progress showing each day?

Why? Just...Why!?!

*Head desk*
  • flauschtrud's avatar
    flauschtrud
    Rising Adventurer
    There's a bug about writing songs and books, you can click "me too" here if that's what you're experiencing:
    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Write-Song-Book-Lyrics-Loses-Progress/td-p/11680318

    Writing a song takes 12h, but it resets to 0 if you reload the lot (because of traveling or saving and reloading).

    My Sim recently managed to finish a song, but only because I made sure that I avoided any loading screens.
  • Oh thank you @flauschtrud for the reply and the "me too" bug report link! I'll try that, about avoiding loading screens and all. Thank you again!
  • "flauschtrud;c-18334656" wrote:
    There's a bug about writing songs and books, you can click "me too" here if that's what you're experiencing:
    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Write-Song-Book-Lyrics-Loses-Progress/td-p/11680318

    Writing a song takes 12h, but it resets to 0 if you reload the lot (because of traveling or saving and reloading).

    My Sim recently managed to finish a song, but only because I made sure that I avoided any loading screens.


    I thought EA said there was a fix for the song, inasmuch as you should now be able to resume a started piece? I use the QuikWrite mod to avoid this problem.
  • @GalacticGal Hey! I was actually hoping you might chime in to this, thank you! Given all your experiences with your Sim Eric and all *Nods*

    Speaking of, just HOW MANY songs has he written to date?