[Cottage Living] Villagers Lost Their Active Roles and Became Townies

If you are using mods that’s likely the cause, many mods such as MCCC will change the roles of NPC Sims (depending on settings), essentially any mod that changes how townies behave. You may want to test on a mod free new save, and remember to delete the localthumbcache file from your TS4 folder after removing mods. 

@Kita5399I understand that. However, MCCC has a specific module, "careers", that creates roles/new jobs for sims and I do not have that module in my game for that very reason. In the past, that specific module kept giving my played sims careers so I removed it. Since then, I have never used it and have never had sims or seen sims get put into careers at random once it was removed. This was years ago but I did update all my mods so I will test.

@crinrictHi, I will test on a vanilla save and see if the problem persists. Although, as I mentioned to the other person above, I don't have a mod in that would/should alter careers. I haven't had an issue with my sims played and unplayed, being removed or added to careers before. A long time ago, I used a module via MCCC that altered careers but I haven't used/added that to my game in years. And no, I didn't edit, change or play with any of those townies. It is strange though bcus prior to the 2nd update, the villagers still kept their roles when I saved and left the game. I have saved and exited the game and came back plenty of times to play and their roles were all intact until the 2nd patch. Maybe coincidence?
Anyway, I'll test it out. Also, I had asked in a different thread if there was a way to tag you in a post. I made a few other ones that haven't been seen and was wondering about those issues, too.
Thank you.

@thecharsims if it's about your family tree thread, I don't deal with those. There's too many different causes to this. Also, I don't answer everything anymore, doesn't mean I haven't seen it :D

Please see this for more info: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-does-this-forum-work/td-p/7368632/jump-to/first-unread-message

if you tag me I do usually see it but when it's really busy like right now, I might overlook but it can have other reasons.

QA probably picked it up already but they usually don't answer. They see everything. 

@crinrictAww, that's unfortunate. I feel like you all who are close to the gurus are more able to bring awareness to these issues where we're able to see results as opposed to someone like me whom they tend to ignore. Anyway, yes, it was the family tree post. I just saw someone had responded to it earlier. Aside from that one, I also created a post regarding my save files taking forever to delete. That issue was a result of the patch that changed the UI. The hairs in game load so slow with no cc added. My posts kept getting drowned in with the other posts and I didn't see any mention on whether or not any of the topics I created had been a known thing. I didn't know you weren't dealing with the family issue anymore. Apologies. I didn't know.

@crinrictHi, I just wanted to come back and inform you that I did test out all my mods on a previous save and none of them caused the roles of the villagers to change. I played 2 days throughout this test on every single mod. I even tested my cc alone to see if it had anything to do with the roles changing and I got nothing. It could possibly be that there was a fluke within the actual game. Should I create a new thread or something for the issue?

EDIT:

Well, I feel super slow lol I actually noticed that the villagers lost their roles due to them being placed into homes which is why their roles were longer available. However, I wasn't the one that placed them in homes. I suppose they moved in on their own or it could've been MC. I'm not sure. Thank you, anyway.

My Mayor, her son grocer deliver, and grocer owner, Kim have all lost their titles. Although new replacements have showed up in my game. But this is my own fault. I noticed that the mayor, her son and grocer Kim was not in the world. Didnt have a home. Unlike Sara the pub owner and her husband. Sara gets to keep her role and live in house. I felt that the mayor should have a home to. Once I placed them into home, they lost their titles, no jobs. But there are replacements, but I wanted them to keep thier roles, jobs. Down side is, I was in the middle of errand with the mayor and her son. I'm hoping I can finish this errand. 

I wanted them to keep their roles....  ☹️