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Anonymous
8 years ago

Stray Cats Problem

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Sims 4 Cats And Dogs Expansion Pack
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play Sims 4 Cats And Dogs Expansion Pack - Try to interact with stray cats
What happens when the bug occurs? - Icon will sometimes just stay above the bar, instead of dropping down to the active icon slot. Then the cat runs away and I have no chance of adopting a stray cat ;(..
What do you expect to see? Icon dropping down immediately to indicate that your sim is about to accomplish this task.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

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Sorry, no screenshots as I am currently not playing Sims but if you get back to me, I will make sure to send some proof.

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6 Replies

  • CMeki's avatar
    CMeki
    Hero (Retired)
    8 years ago

    @lionnala

    Was the cat already moving or not? If the pets already have an action of their own that in "go to this place", they won't acknowledge your action until after their own is finished. If their action finishes outside of the lot, your will be cancelled. :/

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    No, what happened was that I was in the starter house with a kitten and the kitten spent his entire kit life outside because they can’t go up stairs. But at that time, I didn’t know that you could pick them up and bring them inside.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Whoops. That was for a different one. This one I meant when I tried adopting stray cats, there were a few bugs and issues with the icon just floating instead of dropping down to indicate that my sim has started that thing.
  • CMeki's avatar
    CMeki
    Hero (Retired)
    8 years ago

    @lionnala

    Yes, but what do you think of my idea that I posted:

    Was the cat already moving or not? If the pets already have an action of their own that in "go to this place", they won't acknowledge your action until after their own is finished. If their action finishes outside of the lot, your will be cancelled. :/

    • For example if your sim is at a bar, and you click ´"Go Home". Right after another sim wants to interact with you. This would stack after/above the "go home" queue, and when you get home, that sim is no longer around, and the action will cancel 🙂

    If this is a case it's not a bug, just how the game works and an unfortunate event :/
    What you can do when this happens is enter testingcheats true, shift-click the cat and choose reset sim. Then the cat will stop whatever it was doing. If you do this with the game paused you can choose an interaction with the cat before it has had time to figure out what they are going to do next 🙂

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