my sim keeps running away from his house and he doesn't follow my commands. i reset him but he just keeps running away so i have to speed it and wait till he comes back which usually takes a few sim hours. its really annoying and it happens all the time. he just runs off even if his needs are down.

@2014201120082006 Before you go to the drastic step of deleting the houshold, try moving the sim to a different house and back. If that doesn't work, switch to playing a different household and back. Each time you move or switch households, quit to desktop and reload. Use "save as" to rename the save the first time, so you create a new save to experiment with; the old save will be intact under its previous name.

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17 Replies

Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@2014201120082006 Does he have some kind of task he's doing? What does it say? If they don't have a task, they shouldn't be going anywhere.
201420112008200
6 years ago
@Psychotps it says hes doing nothing. and when i give him a task it doesnt work. hes just running but it says he doesnt have any tasks.
Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@2014201120082006 That's odd. Have you followed him? Where's he going?
201420112008200
6 years ago
@Psychotps he just runs around the houses and places near his house? its really weird he doesnt really go anywhere
Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@2014201120082006 Is it only that one sim? Is he waving his arms around like there's a fire or just the jogging animation?

You can try moving the household to another house, see if that resets his actions.
201420112008200
6 years ago
@Psychotps its only one sim and its like hes jogging. i did move him and he still did it.
Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@2014201120082006 Unless someone else has an idea, the only thing I can further think of would be to bring the household into CAS, save it to your library, delete the household, then place them again from your library.

The only downside to that would be everyone in the household will forget all of their relationships with everyone outside the household.
201420112008200
6 years ago
@Psychotps ok ill try that, thank you for your help
Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@2014201120082006 Let me know how it works. I'm very curious what happened.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
6 years ago
@2014201120082006 Before you go to the drastic step of deleting the houshold, try moving the sim to a different house and back. If that doesn't work, switch to playing a different household and back. Each time you move or switch households, quit to desktop and reload. Use "save as" to rename the save the first time, so you create a new save to experiment with; the old save will be intact under its previous name.