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9 years ago

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Households syncing time/day when they shouldn't

This is rather hard to explain but I am trying to be as a clear as possible.

Every time I save one household and go back to playing another household, the time of day and the day of the week where I left off the previous household transfers to the newly opened household. For example, if I saved Household A at 10:40 AM on Monday (Sim time), the game opens Household B at 10:40 AM on Monday even though I last left Household B on a Saturday night (again, Sim time).

This has caused the households to open up with glaring messages saying the kids are "missing school" and the adults are "missing work" because the game seems to have "proceeded" along the same timeline as the last active household. I left one pregnant mom in trimester 1 to go to another household, and when I returned she was in trimester 3, having advanced in time along with the household I had been playing rather than returning to the day/time I saved for the pregnant mom's household.

In gameplay settings, I have it set so that inactive households DO NOT AGE, I have always had it set that way. Please help! I have tried to repair the game through Origin with no luck. I have never had mods or custom content.

crinrict
9 years ago
Hi @Irene346823

I'm not sure I'm understanding your issue completely but pregnancies always advance if you don't play them. Aging doesn't affect that.

They also go about their daily life if you play another household. They don't get married or pregnant on their own but they will move to a different place (not as in move to a different lot about roam about)(

The missing work when you switch back to them is indeed a bug though which has a thread here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Late-to-Work-Issue/td-p/4472802/

3 Replies

jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
9 years ago
You are playing two different households in the same savegame.

To have different households in different savegames start a new game create a household and use Save as to save under a specific name. Then start a new save and create a new household use Save as to give it another name. You can then use the load button to choose which of your saves you would like to play.
crinrict
Hero+
9 years ago
Hi @Irene346823

I'm not sure I'm understanding your issue completely but pregnancies always advance if you don't play them. Aging doesn't affect that.

They also go about their daily life if you play another household. They don't get married or pregnant on their own but they will move to a different place (not as in move to a different lot about roam about)(

The missing work when you switch back to them is indeed a bug though which has a thread here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Late-to-Work-Issue/td-p/4472802/
Irene346823
9 years ago
Thank you! It looks like I wasn't fully understanding how pregnancies work in rotational play. Glad I am not the only one having problems with the late-to-work issue. Appreciate your reply! :-)