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Nightgypsy
Seasoned Ace
7 months ago
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Under Investigation

[CL] Can't play duets with household members

My households cannot do karaoke together at venues. When I say households I mean two people from the same household, regardless of relationship. I have tested with multiple households and here are my findings.  I used at least three different households to test.

So two people living in the same house cannot go to Planet Honeypop or any other karaoke venue and sing duets together. I tested different venues because of old information I found on a previous problem having to do with festivals. As far as I can determine, my current problem has nothing to do with that as I have tested on festival days and non-festival days. 

Spouse and his wife - partner does not show up as available for duet. Took two brothers who live together and whichever tries to do a duet the other does not show as available. Took another sim and his wife from another household and same issue. 

Yet, I can take any one of them and click travel and select a friend or family member that does not live with them and go to the same venues and they can do karaoke duets just fine. 

I put in a karaoke machine into their house and they are able to sing a duet together at home. BUT, I took them to their friend's house who has a karaoke machine and they cannot sing a duet there together either. 

So the problem seems to be due to being in the same household. I loaded up older games, not saves, older games, and tested with sims who have nothing to do with my current game and the problem exists across the board. 

The only mods I use are Mccc, littlemssam mods through Curseforge and one venue mod by Zerbu on Curseforge. I did run a game repair. So the only thing I have not done is remove mods to see if the issue still exists. Not sure why it would as I don't use anything crazy and I will go out of my mind without mods to stop autonomous flirting and my butler from making infinite piles of clean clothes.  I don't use any mods to get items for the game or aspirations or stuff like that. any houses or sims I download come from the gallery. The only mod I think could possibly be affecting this in some way is the mod by Zerbu because it allowed me to change a special venue type and turn it into a residential rental so I could put in the Sulani Super Yacht. I just don't know what would happen if I remove that mod and then load the game. So I decided to come here and post first and see if anyone has any ideas. I had zero issues with this prior to the most recent game update and yes, I updated all available mod updates as well as Mccc. 

I really need this problem resolved because the current game I am playing all of my sims are into music, art and karaoke together. So this problem just kills the whole game :(

I appreciate any ideas and I will remove all mods and test if I have to. Just hoping not to have to go through that mess. Thanks!

Oh, and I play on a PC. Own and running all packs and such. No game issues or slowness or anything. 

Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title

30 Comments

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 months ago

    I've uploaded them to my gallery (crinrict). I did not try them in a new save though.

    Family: Stone

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    7 months ago

    I got them and tested in a new game and then I added them to my main save and there is no problem with them doing duets together. Non-ghosts do fine and the husband and wife can even sing duets together. This is all with my game still being mod free since reinstallation. I have some ideas and I am gathering some data and will post back once I feel like I have something solid. 

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    7 months ago

    Today I decided to play a new household I had made for testing that has just been sitting there. Still fresh game install that I have not added any mods to. The household could not sing duets together when I took them out for Night on the Town. Both singing skill 3 so should be no problems there. I switched over to my save with your family and the mom and daughter could sing duet together just fine. Switched to my main game save and my two brothers household could not sing duets together. 

    One thing I will say is when I loaded up the household with the brothers, they were not at home. It showed them to be at the, umm, Starlight Lounge. I think that is the name of it. The karaoke place in San Myshuno that is on the top of a building. Logging in and finding my sims in random places is a new thing and it has been happening a lot. I always put my sims to bed, save, then quit the game or move on to another household. Thought I would mention this and I am going to leave it at that since it is rather off topic and may or may not be pertinent. 

    Basically the singing duets problem has returned, is not consistent across saves at the same time and is in no way related to mods (that I can see). With that said I do not see what more I could test. It is all above my head now. If there is anything I can do to help expedite a resolution let me know and I'd be happy to oblige. 

  • Just wanted to post an update that I am still having this problem. Hopefully something is figured out soon because it is really stopping me from being able to do a story I been working on in one of my households. With that said all of my households are friends or related so it's just a huge issue all around for them all getting together since the problem exists at a venue and private homes. My sims need their household duet karaoke back pretty please!

    hmm and i just realized something. A father and son were able to duet while at home yesterday, but they cannot at Planet Honeypop. It seems hit and miss whether it works at home or at a venue. Husband and wife team were able to do it a few days ago and then went again and could not. I'm still running a clean install that is mod and cc free so I don't understand what could be causing it to happen, resolve and then happen again. I guess that is why the fixer folks paid for college degrees so hopefully they can figure it out. 

    They look so good together when dressed up in suits when I took them out to Planet Honeypop, only to find out the problem was back and they couldn't sing together. Yeah, I'm trying to pull some heartstrings if it will motivate someone to dig deep into this problem because my whole game revolves around all the households being artists and musicians :)

  • sleepwalkerxp's avatar
    sleepwalkerxp
    Seasoned Novice
    5 months ago

    I have the same problem for half a year and I'm tired... My sims can't sing together or even playing darts ;////

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    You should see if anyone has reported that about the darts and if not open a bug report on it. I love darts and not sure why I haven't gotten one for my sims. Now I will have to test it out and see if that is affecting me too. Let me know if you make a report and i will add to yours if so and there isn't another report already active. 

  • Displaced_Salad's avatar
    Displaced_Salad
    Seasoned Adventurer
    5 months ago

    I've NEVER been able to sing a duet with a date, household member, or SO.  EVER.  Household members, both with singing level 10 and all they get is an option to sing a duet with some random jerkwad.  

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    The strange thing about it is that the problem comes and goes for no apparent reason. Since my sims karaoke quite a lot, I probably notice the problem more than people whose sims only do it on occasion. It is beyond exasperating when I think it is working and plan something only to find out it is not working again. Truthfully I feel many game issues/bugs are related in some way, by some game mechanic, because they come and go when nothing has changed in my game. 

  • I also have this issue, and I can only get my sims to actually use the karaoke to duet immediately upon arrival on the lot (I have MCCC and I enabled the "Pause on Zone" setting, so that helps), but when they actually start using the karaoke machine I immediately get a last exception notification. At least I could get it to somewhat work I guess 🥴

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