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SweetEmotion247
Rising Rookie
3 years ago

Stuck in pet mode

So I put my mouse pad on my laptop keyboard to play the game. I do this ALL the time and I've never run into this problem. As I was playing, I must have leaned on something and my sim disappeared from the controls and the only one that was still there was my pet. I of course could not control my pet. I have since recovered a saved game and that got it back to normal. Has anyone else seen this? I noticed when I went into load game, I didn't see my most recent saves. The one I recovered was from this afternoon. So I was sent back a bit, which is super annoying. If anyone has seen this before, can you tell me what I did to cause it, so I know to be more careful? Thanks

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  • 666_Carbide_666's avatar
    666_Carbide_666
    3 years ago

    @SweetEmotion247It looks like it has removed the Sim from the houshold in active game. Like when enable debug cheat and Shift click the Sim and select "remove from household" 🤔

    Do you have  a mod to control pets?

  • SweetEmotion247's avatar
    SweetEmotion247
    Rising Rookie
    3 years ago
    @666_Carbide_666 wrote:

    @SweetEmotion247It looks like it has removed the Sim from the houshold in active game. Like when enable debug cheat and Shift click the Sim and "remove from household" 🤔

    Do you have  a mod to control pets?

    Nope. I don't use mods. I didn't even think about the remove from household. I do use the cheat feature. Maybe i leaned on something and it somehow clicked on that without me knowing. 

  • SweetEmotion247's avatar
    SweetEmotion247
    Rising Rookie
    3 years ago
    @666_Carbide_666 wrote:
    @SweetEmotion247Okay, so I think it was more like an accident and not a bug in game.

    that's what I'm thinking too. I leaned on something on my keyboard. If It happens again I know now not to save the game. 

  • 666_Carbide_666's avatar
    666_Carbide_666
    3 years ago
    @SweetEmotion247 You have your mousepad on your Laptops Keyboard. Some Laptops have a Funktion Key, with this Key, and another Key it is possible to deactivate the Laptops Keyboardmouse and maybe the Keyboard. It works like locking the Keyboard with two buttons.
    Have you tried this?
  • SweetEmotion247's avatar
    SweetEmotion247
    Rising Rookie
    3 years ago
    @666_Carbide_666 wrote:
    @SweetEmotion247You have your mousepad on your Laptops Keyboard. Some Laptops have a Funktion Key, with this Key, and another Key it is possible to deactivate the Laptops Keyboardmouse and maybe the Keyboard. It works like locking the Keyboard with two buttons.
    Have you tried this?

    Yes there is a key that locks the keyboard mouse but I wasn't using it at the time. I'll have to start locking it for now on during gameplay. Thanks.

  • 666_Carbide_666's avatar
    666_Carbide_666
    3 years ago
    @SweetEmotion247 Yes, it is a good Idea, because it only deactivates the Laptops Mouse, not the Mouse that is plugged in via USB or connected per Bluetooth. 🙂

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