Forum Discussion

New Ace

3 years ago

Skill List shows "Empty string" and closes skill tab

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)
What is your current game version number? 1.86.166.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All Expansion and Game packs excluding My Wedding Stories. The Stuff packs I have are: Fitness Stuff, Tiny Living, Paranormal, Bowling Night,
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? It happens if you try to modify any skill, or level one up. It is hard to find because it happens only in certain times.
What happens when the bug occurs? I tried to view the skill list, but shows "empty string" and closes.
What do you expect to see? I expect that every time the skill list would come up as normal.
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? Neutral/Not Sure

‌

So this started happening after I installed MCCC. I was modifying a skill to it's maximum level, to cheat. However after a few second the skill tab went blank. I uninstalled MCCC and still there. So I started a new save and it still occurred so I remove mods and, the empty string came up and closed in less then a second. I repaired Sims 4 and it fixed it. However a few days later it started happening again. What should I do? I also installed Vampires expansion when it started happening.

Edit By Crinrict: Fixed Duplicate Template

18 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
3 years ago
@LlamaOMama Best is to just go through your mods. I don't know which one could be causing it. UI would be most likely but I don't know most of the mods that exist out there.

Try starting by removing the ones you suspect and see if the issue goes away. Also delete the localthumbcache file each time.
LlamaOMama
New Ace
3 years ago
When I removed the mod and added a Child Sim to the game, it stopped appearing when the child(ren) was building skills. It worked on 2 kids so far.
kookookenzie3
3 years ago
did you ever get it to work? i’m having the same problem after trying to cheat skills too
LlamaOMama
New Ace
3 years ago
I actually think I made it work again. One of my screenslam mods caused the issue, called "No screenslam when developing a Skill", by meloekogirl. The mod comments says there skills been dissappearing too and info boxes caused problems. Probably the screenslam mod that caused the issue.
Do you have any mods?
kookookenzie3
3 years ago
i do have mods. it seems like it’s working for me now too, besides the original two sims that were in the household when i changed their skills. they have a toddler and her skills show up normally, same with my other households
LlamaOMama
New Ace
3 years ago
The problem, for me shows up when the Sim is a child and builds up his extra skills after the four main skills maxed out. Try with a child Sim, max their skills out, and build their adult skills when maxed.
Chelly5208
2 years ago
@LlamaOMama Hi, I'm having the same problem. Were you able to get it fixed?
EA_Solaire
Community Manager
2 years ago
Hey all,

This thread has now been locked- If you need further assistance on this, please see the guide here at the top of the forum for steps to resolve this.