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thecharsims's avatar
4 years ago

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

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.77.146.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All, except ROM and the Kits
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game for a while, do errands for all 3 sims. Grocery guy, grocery lady and the mayor. Save, go back and play for a day or so.
What happens when the bug occurs? Villagers all lost their roles as the Grocery Stall attendant, grocery deliverer and Mayor.
What do you expect to see? I expect for the roles of the villagers to remain unchanged.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. The most recent patch that we got that was suppose to fix the issues that came with the last patch for the Cottage Living EP release. The patch mentioned fixing the grocery food delivery system where the food was not being delivered in some people's games, among other things etc. (which a lot of it was not fixed)....

The details:
I played for about a sim week. I introduced my sim to all the main villagers except for the bartender. She met up with the lady who runs the grocery stall, the mayor and the teen boy who allegedly delivers groceries around town. I have played cottage living for a good bit and saved my game several times before and logged off. When I logged back into my game all was fine prior to the 2nd patch. It wasn't until that most recent patch that we received, which was to fix for the grocery delivering issues with zoomers, that all of the villagers my sim was doing errands for had lost their roles. I even went to a previous save where they had their roles and by the next day, their roles were removed again. I didn't change the villagers nor did I play them or anything. I've tested this issue twice and got the same result. Meanwhile, my sim has all these errands that she was suppose to do for the original grocery deliverer, mayor and grocery stall owner and they are now null and void. I had to make new introductions to the new villagers who received those roles and it started me all over again, despite being in the middle of the original errands.

I don't have any pictures at this time but I literally saw the grocery stall owner walk away from her stall after closing up and her role just disappeared at random. She became a regular townie.

26 Replies

  • siirysiir's avatar
    siirysiir
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    @crinrictI was wondering.. but we could surely give them makeovers with the Get together wardrobes? I'm just guessing that wouldn't count since we're not actually loading that household even though the action takes us to CAS?

    P.S. if anyone else knows the answer, please let me know bc I'm sure Crin has enough stuff to do already! 😉

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @siirysiir I have no idea. Just try it. It does load CAS so I think it will strip the role anyways. Just test on a new save.
  • @thecharsims I am also having this issue. I play on console so there is no way that mods is the problem. I have never played in any of the villagers households so I don’t understand why this happens. I do still see Rahul walking around with groceries and he’s still seen as the grocery guy in the village board but he never delivers groceries to my house anymore ☹️ now it’s just some random NPC. JUSTICE FOR VILLAGER ROLES PLEASE.

  • xochiquetzl_xkvn's avatar
    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    @OttoTheSImmerThere's a thread here where someone reinstated Sara Scott with a hidden trait.  You might be able to do something similar with Kim.  https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Feedback/Premade-sims-losing-their-occupation-when-played/m-p/10693448#M55613

    A web search turned up the following cheat codes, which I have not tested. 

    • career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_GroceryOwner
    • trait_Hidden_CottageWorld_NPC_GroceryOwner

    I got them from here:  https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/900951/hidden-traits/

     (they're on page 14)

  • Knotwise13's avatar
    Knotwise13
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago

    This bug is back. It was fixed for a while after they did a patch after high school years but with the recent update in preparation for babies the bug came back. It’s a bummer Kim is no longer the grocery store worker it’s just some random townie and Sarah is no longer the bartender it’s just some random townie. It’s really annoying. im a Consol player so no mods no cc nothing to mess this up it’s just the game

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 years ago

    Hi all,

    This thread is older now, so it's been locked to prevent necro-posting.

    If you're experiencing issues with this bug again, please create a new bug report here so we can investigate further, thanks! 

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