Stories in Sims Mobile have a defined structure. Long shifts/hangouts/practices are first available when your Sims reach level 3 of any career, relationship or hobby. There is also a chapter event between chapters which can have a duration of 1 or 4 hours depending on the level your Sim has reached in the story.
Your Sim must complete the chapter event in order to continue to the next chapter.
Could this be the reason why long shifts seem to disappear sometimes from your game?
What stories and what levels/chapters are your Sims doing?
This chart shows the structure of the stories and the kind of shifts that are available in each chapter:
@SalixCatHi, thanks for the info. I’m still fairly new to it. My sim is level 13 at the moment and has already completed the chapter for the barista job. She knows a few sims but I’ve been focusing on a few at a time. She’s at a level 6 with a sim for the sports chapter but she was at the previous level during the time that I was having the issue. The other chapters that I’ve put some time into are Geek, at a level one and Music, at a level 1 with one sim and a level 3 with another. The level 1 sim for the music and geek chapters only had the quick hangout options available. Other sims are acquaintances and haven’t been given a story yet and they all didn’t have the option for the quick/long hangout, some didn’t have any options for those events at all, I’m assuming bcus i didn’t assign them a chapter. I’ve been mainly focusing on the sports chapter and that’s the one that I didn’t get any options from. At one point, there was a propose event that I noticed in the previous chapter, chapter 5 and even that event disappeared while still in chapter 5. Again, that was before I decided to level the sports chapter up to level 6 and I still don’t see the propose event. I read that there has been a glitch though with the events disappearing from sims so I tried the suggestions on that site first before coming here with my frustrations lol However, the long hangout did eventually show up once I said screw it, and continued to level up my sports chapter. Idk if that’s what you meant in your reply. I’m not sure. Again, I’m less than a week in having this app so I’m still researching and learning it.
There are lots of things to discover and learn about the game.
You mentioned that you have a Sim in the barista career. This is the shortest profession with a total of five chapters, so once you unlock chapter 5 you won't have to worry about events not showing when you need them for a quest.
There is a short introduction hangout between two Sims before you choose a relationship. It has a duration of something around 40 minutes. After this event, you will be able to choose amongst different kind of stories depending on what kind of introduction your Sim starts with. It can be either friendly, flirty or rivalry.
These 2 Sims will continue as acquaintances if you don't choose a relationship story immediately after this short hangout. You can repeat this short event again whenever you want and choose a relationship story.
The propose event appears after a relationship has reached level 4. Don't worry about this for now because it will unlock a new time limited event, the wedding quest.
I wouldn't recomend doing 2 quests at the same time 🙂
We have these threads with articles that can be useful:
Save your game progress in The Sims Mobile
@thecharsims I really hope you can complete this quest on time 🤞
Regarding the long events, you have probably already discovered that doing a relationship hangout between two of your own playable Sims halves the time. It will take 4 hours instead of 8. Also you can help them by using both Sims' energy. After an hour their energy will be fully recharged so you will be able to continue helping them after that time.
It is not possible to change relationship stories in Sims Mobile, unfortunately. That doesn't mean that you can't add a twist to the story 😉 Friends can get married. ❤️
You can't place a room inside another. Maybe one of the special shaped rooms could work.
