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cwitt12
New Spectator
5 months ago
Status:
Under Investigation

[BH] Getting custom tattoo switches to Sim/Households

When coming out of CAS in Live Mode, a different Sim is selected than the Sim that entered CAS. This will switch households if a Sim is receiving a custom tattoo in Hobbies & Skills from the Sim giving the tattoo to the Sim that has received the tattoo.

The bug occurs when giving a custom tattoo to a Sim in a Played Household but does not occur when giving a custom tattoo to a Sim in an Unplayed Household.

As for the general CAS reset, it appears to occur with the aforementioned tattoo issue as well as any form I use to enter "Change Sim" CAS. When entering "Plan Outfit" CAS it occurs whenever there are multiple selectable sims (i.e. with dressers and mirrors, but with the not with the walk-in closet). 

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20 Comments

  • karoschmitz's avatar
    karoschmitz
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 months ago

    I'm not sure if my case is the same:

    1. I go with my active Sim (who has 4 more other Sims in my household living in Henford, but is NOT traveling with them) to the pre-build neon tattoo place in Nordhaven as a customer.
    2. My Sim pays entrance and asks Nia for a "custom tattoo"
    3. I land in CAS, choose a tattoo from gallery and accept
    4. Now I'm suddenly not in the tattoo shop anymore, but my active Sim's husband who is in the same household got loaded in Henford in their home. => Instead of this I'm expecting the wife in nordhaven should have been loaded and continueing the experience in the small business as a customer
    5. If i now select on the profile of the wife to switch back to the Sim who is in nordhaven, my Sim is not anymore a customer but seems like being loaded back as a guest of the household, and I have to load out of the lot again, then back in again to visit the business instead, and pay again entrance, just to complete the tattoo experience. => That doesn't feel imersive, wish it would have just loaded me back to the Sim who got the tattoo as customer
  • skylar917's avatar
    skylar917
    Rising Newcomer
    5 months ago

    When I do a tattoo entering create a sim and come out of it , it takes me to the other family that I did the tattoo on and not my tattooer . Its annoying and want to create custom tattoos for people but dont want to go to their family after I do it. 

  • ScottB9's avatar
    ScottB9
    Seasoned Traveler
    4 months ago

    After the customer tattoo is completed, the game resumes with the customer as the active household instead of resuming play with the small business owner. 

    Happens repeatedly after every tattoo, makes no difference if tattoo design is saved or not saved.

    When I go back to the business owner's lot via manage worlds the shop was charged for opening but the custom tattoo fee is not earned, so the business is only incurring losses. 

     

  • annh1996's avatar
    annh1996
    Rising Adventurer
    4 months ago

    I have this issue too. When I give a custom tattoo in B&H (as the business owner), I enter CAS, apply the tattoo, but when I leave CAS I am now in the customer's household. This applies to any customer from my played households (which is most of them alas). When I return to the business household the business has closed for the day and I have to reopen. I also have had the bug previous to this (still do, I think it started sometime last year?) of entering CAS in an active household, and upon leaving am no longer the active sim, but a different one in the same household,. Not really a big deal, I don't care, but the tattoo bug is a real pain since it really limits my ability to give my played sims custom tattoos.

  • This also happens to me.

    In my case I was taken repeatedly to the home lot of the sim that I had given the custom tattoo too.  These households were apart of "my households" not "other households" in the world organiser.  Not sure if that detail makes a difference but in-case it is important 🤷‍♀️

  • Want to bring more attention to this.
    1. I go as a customer to get a tattoo from a small business tattoo shop, get a custom tattoo and go to CAS for it, and when I return from CAS I get switched to another household member in their home lot.
    2. When I click to switch controlling the sim who was getting the tattoo, I return to the tattoo shop lot but my sim icon is greyed out and nowhere to be seen. I'm just as a player there watching the lot without anyone to control.
    3. When I click my sim's icon, there's no option to "bring sim here" or anything that would bring them back from wherever matrix they are.
    4. It gets resolved when I switch back to the other household member in their home lot and there click "bring sim here" on the tattooed person. They appear and have received the tattoo that I gave them, so the tattooing action was at least completed.

  • hibotan's avatar
    hibotan
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 months ago

    Hello everyone, I’d like to report an issue I encountered while running a small business tattoo shop.

    1. I opened a tattoo shop on the first floor, with residential spaces on the 2nd and 3rd floors. All members of the household work at the shop.
    2. After about 4 in-game hours of being open, a Sim from a played household visited the shop. I selected the “Custom Tattoo” interaction.
    3. In CAS, I designed a rose and pattern on the back of the customer’s hand and exited.
    4. After loading, the game unexpectedly switched to the customer’s household, not my tattoo shop household.
    5. When I returned to the tattoo shop household, the business was marked as closed, but the customer was still present.
    6. I reopened the shop immediately and ran it for another 4 in-game hours before closing again.
    7. The end-of-day summary appeared, but the stats were inconsistent:
      • Customer count: Only included the 5 Sims who visited after the forced household switch
      • Revenue & Tips: Counted from both sessions, before and after the switch

    Because the customer count was reset, I could not complete my aspiration goal that requires attracting 20 customers in one day. Only 5 were counted.

    Also, during the forced switch to the other household, 2 Sims in that household were marked as having skipped work without permission, which caused additional issues.

    As it currently stands, it seems impossible to apply custom tattoos to Sims from non-household families without triggering this bug.

    I would appreciate any fix or improvement to allow smoother gameplay with the tattoo shop system.

    Thank you!

  • Whenever I want a tattoo from the tattoo shop and I go to the parlor, after getting the tattoo the screen goes back to live mode, but I can't play my active sims. They disappear despite it saying they are at the active lot (the parlor). I have to go to world mode and back to the household to play them again. 

     

     

  • LadyAriancia's avatar
    LadyAriancia
    Seasoned Vanguard
    28 days ago

    Was playing with the Spilled Neon household, gave Dina Caliente a custom tattoo and after leaving cas I was in the Caliente household instead of the Spilled Neon household with Nia the tattoo artist. I'm playing with all original townies for each world so both households are "played" with.