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2 years ago

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Vendors not opening or NPCs leaving when approached

Hi everyone. For a long time i have an issue with sims. I think in every location that has vendors ran by NPC like during festivals or in cottage living where you can buy or sell items - as soon as i walk up or interact with the vendor - it closes and npc walks away or disappears. IF its even open. For example most of the time vendors in cottage living town are closed even though they should be open. Vendors in other cities are closed most of the time

Similar things happen with events. Inviting friends to my house or anywhere, organising events or not - sims show up and leave asap.

Cottage living - NPCs are replaced by other people which are not original characters.

I tried looking for solution but nothing works. deleted cache, tried fixing game, tried getting rid of mods, new save. nothing works or if it works it lasts for 5min.

3diita
2 years ago
So I believe I accidentally found a culprit of NPCs leaving the vendors. For some reason after deleting everything and making new save I discovered that there was one mod left in a hidden folder - a mod for ultra speed. I took it out and put it back multiple times and started the game and NPCs were tending the vendors each time the mod was out. None of them left it when approached. Seems like one issue is solved. I have also tried two different mods to speed up the time in a game and both did the same thing. Does anyone have a working mod to speed up the game ?

9 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
HI @3diita

Try the following

Close the game

Rename Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4_Old

Repair the game

Start the game. All your content will be gone now as the game created a new folder. All your saves/.. is still in the old folder so not to worry

Start a new save game

Check if you still have the error

Report back with your results for further steps on how to get your stuff back.
3diita
2 years ago
I've done all above and it was fine for about 30 min then it went back to the same situation, where npcs are leaving when approached and now pretty much all of them are replaced by random sims
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@3diita Do they still stay closed all the time ? Leaving and switching to new ones happens often also in cafes and bars but they should be someone new afterwards.

The cottage living ones have been replaced again ?
3diita
2 years ago
It happens with every vendor in game, just went to Casters alley, all vendors closed. After speeding up the time for about 2 days someone finally opened it but when I approached it - they closed it again and about another 20 times in a row. Strangely one of the vendors wasnt even tended by a ghost but normal Sim. I tried zooming inside the vendors (buildings in casters alley) and the ghosts are inside (?)
All NPC in cottage living has been replaced multiple times.
I don't know if anyone has that issue as well but it's been going for months now and nothing works.
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@3diita Would you mind sending me your save ? Instructions in my signature
3diita
2 years ago
So I believe I accidentally found a culprit of NPCs leaving the vendors. For some reason after deleting everything and making new save I discovered that there was one mod left in a hidden folder - a mod for ultra speed. I took it out and put it back multiple times and started the game and NPCs were tending the vendors each time the mod was out. None of them left it when approached. Seems like one issue is solved. I have also tried two different mods to speed up the time in a game and both did the same thing. Does anyone have a working mod to speed up the game ?
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@3diita Moving this back to mod issues then :D

Hopefully someone here knows something.
luthienrising
Hero+
2 years ago
@3diita So, the thing with game speed change mods is they all have limited uses before things in the game start to go wrong. There's one built into Deaderpool's MC Command Center, but it's recommended to use it only in limited circumstances because so many things can go wrong. I've not heard of a game speed mod that doesn't have these issues.
3diita
2 years ago
That's a shame! The game is so slow on fastest speed available, there is barely any difference between 2 and 3 too.