It is not a glitch EA made it happen ever since Valentines day. Yes, it is old news but that's ok.

I've noticed this, too. It started with the valentine update, presumably because neighbors needed to tap on characters. I guess they just never got rid of it.It seems to me that any random outdoor task can show up, so long as it doesn't require some building or item (e.g. Lisa will not appear to be cleaning up randomly, because it requires debris.) If a character has no outdoor task that doesn't require something else, they'll just wander around. Skinner is a good example; he needs a tree to birdwatch and the school for crossing guard. Even if those things are available, he won't use them unless assigned to do so.

I guess this thread should be deleted then! I remember clicking on buildings during Valentine's Day and having characters exit and then quickly return. I don't remember randomly assigned outdoor tasks for characters who were in buildings.

neuroheart wrote:It seems to me that any random outdoor task can show up, so long as it doesn't require some building or item That's good to know.

Pinpal00 wrote:If you're like me, you try to put your characters on outdoor tasks so neighbors have something to look at when they visit. I just discovered that, if you send a character to a task in a building, that character will usually appear to your neighbors as being on an outdoor task. For instance, you can send Selma to look for a date at the prison, and she will appear to your neighbors as either hula dancing or taking a smoke break outside the building; the Sea Captain can read up on nautical literature in the library but appear to you neighbors as practicing a standup routine, etc.. In each case, the buildings' animations worked, but there doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason for which task a character gets assigned. Also, in a few cases, characters wandered aimlessly about the town when they were on 24-hour tasks in buildings.Perhaps this is old news, and if that's the case a moderator should delete this thread. If it's a glitch, here's to hoping EA doesn't fix it! I've always had some characters permanently at the same tasks in certain areas since I view them as part of that area's decorations. This can be hard to pull off when a character's task lasts only an hour. That no longer appears to be the case.The irony is this ... If I want Agnes sitting on a bench, and I put her on that one- hour task, then at the end of the hour a visitor sees her wandering aimlessly around town. Same as it was before. If I put her on her silhouette night task (12 hours indoors) and EA randomly cooses feed the pigeons as her visible task, then a visitor will see her on the bench for 12 hours before wandering off aimlessly. I happen to like both of her outdoor tasks (feeding pigeons/1 hour and sweeping town/6 hours), so I just keep her on her 24 hour indoor task at the retirement home, and she is seen by visitors on one of the neat visible ones. :)

neuroheart wrote:I've noticed this, too. It started with the valentine update, presumably because neighbors needed to tap on characters. I guess they just never got rid of it.It seems to me that any random outdoor task can show up, so long as it doesn't require some building or item (e.g. Lisa will not appear to be cleaning up randomly, because it requires debris.) If a character has no outdoor task that doesn't require something else, they'll just wander around. Skinner is a good example; he needs a tree to birdwatch and the school for crossing guard. Even if those things are available, he won't use them unless assigned to do so.You sure? Ive gotten Agnes on her bench instead of indoors taunting old people. Only reason I noticed was that when I did my morning cleanup, she was on the bench with no thumb over her head even though I had assigned her to taunt old people... The bench happens to be outside the retirement home, but I doubt that's a factor. I'll see if I can recreate it tonight. I've also been trying to get her to go on a date with the comic book guy ... Wonder if that would ever happen. EDIT: I just realized that what happened to me was different than we were talking about. This bench and thing happened when I came to my OWN town. It still doesn't explain why she was outside, thumbless, after I'd put her on her 24 hour indoor task the day before, but it's not the same as the original poster's question.

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SAMCRO-0666
11 years ago
Sounds like a mess up on ea's behalf to me. Surely your friends should see everything as you want them to. Not randomly

A bit crap imo :cry:
NeoSEC28
11 years ago
Is a shame that this keeps happening, not sure whether it is being looked at or not as recently there have been more pressing matters they have been looking at like the iPhone4 update thing, but that being said hopefully this will be sorted
neuroheart
11 years ago
rocketdog222 wrote:
I was just wondering today how my neighbor got selma to hula outside the jail.

For what it's worth, it would be fairly easy to do this. Just send her on her task there, and once that's complete, immediately set her on her hula task.

(This is basically how I got Patty and Selma smoking right outside the DMV in my town.)
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t62/PRbackup/tappedout/501e708e-0eba-4efd-ae0d-029f3cd72597_zps1144d5f4.jpg
dill1785
11 years ago
I believe it is like that on purpose

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