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m4rch_har3
Seasoned Novice
29 days ago
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[DU] [HSY] Issues with Cafeteria workers at Uni & School

The Ubrite Commons Cafeteria was working fine until about a month ago (I've sent more than a dozen students through Britechester with no problem) - when it suddenly stopped working properly. 

I'm playing on PC, Windows 10, no mods, no CC, 35 add-ons.
Repairing the game didn't help;  bulldozing and replacing the lot (with the original or a gallery Commons) didn't help. 
It's designated as a University Commons and has all the required items.

The latest update neither caused it (as this happened before that) or fixed it unfortunately.

Details:
I decided to send a Sim I created in October (for the Grimm Event) to Britechester - only to find that the Cafeteria worker rarely spawned .

Also, the cafeteria object itself is rarely clickable. When it is clickable to indicate when the next service will start (e.g. noon), 12 noon arrives but the Worker doesn't - and the cafeteria station becomes unclickable again. I've deleted and replaced the station several times and that only worked once. 

From time to time, the Cafeteria worker did spawn - but when she did, *not a single student showed up* as they usually do to study etc. It was just my Sim and the Worker on the lot. 

Not a single Debate Practice session happened either, even when students were present. The Art Guild to which she belonged worked fine.

I sent her to to check Larry's Lagoon at Foxbury  a few times and it never had a problem at all - with spawning a worker during hours or between hours when the worker is there waiting for the correct time; the station is always clickable even when the Worker is not yet on their shift.
Other Britechester venues work normally - Librarian at the Library; Bartender at Pepper's.

This problem continued through all 12 weeks of her degree program and is ongoing; I check it from time to time and it's still broken. I was blaming it on Horse Ranch which I recently bought and installed but I did that around the same time that Life & Death (which I haven't bought) was released - so maybe that's the culprit (?).  Any help/input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

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14 Comments

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    11 days ago

    Would you mind adding  the worki around to the first post ?

    To edit your post click on the cogwheel all the way to the right under the avatar icon and choose edit.

  • LascusClyne's avatar
    LascusClyne
    Seasoned Rookie
    10 days ago

    It doesn't work for me. After changing the lot to Foxbury it works but later you come back next  day  back to same problem

  • LascusClyne's avatar
    LascusClyne
    Seasoned Rookie
    10 days ago

    Ok I try different approach and it worked. This time instead of my sim being at the commons while in build mode, I send my sim to another lot, in this case my sim was in Foxbury. Then I go to world map and select ubrite commons and enter build mode and change to Foxbury commons. Then return to my sims in live mode. Then repeat the same process and change to Ubrite Commons. The cafeteria was there when I arrive but other sims still spawn when my sim arrive though not many this time

  • m4rch_har3's avatar
    m4rch_har3
    Seasoned Novice
    10 days ago

    I'd be glad to do that but as of yesterday it isn't working anymore so I don't want to re-post something that no longer works . :( 

    It was consistently working fine for about a week - until last night. Same problems:
    Too many students spawned all at once - and no Vendor. I had to change to Foxbury to kickstart a Vendor - which worked - then changed back but on the next visit a few minutes later (I was hopping back and forth testing this) it was broken again. One thing that did happen which didn't the whole six Sim weeks my Sim was a student is that the Debate Club finally showed up.

    The optimist in me hopes this is because they are working on the problem to get it right.
    More likely it has to do with launching the second week of the Time Travel Event - which occurred yesterday as well. This whole thing started in my game after the Reaper Event launched. Coincidence? Who knows.

    I did notice something odd with the vendors. One of the Ubrite Vendors is/was Moira Fyres - but she is a Sim living in Willow Creek (with a family that includes twin infants btw). That shouldn't be right. So I went there and got her a "real job" and she is no longer a Vendor.

    So I checked out the other Vendors. Does anyone who knows more about all this know if anything is weird about the following list?
    I have the no. of Sims set to the recommended 200. I went to Manage Households and found that:
    1) Sergio Romeo - Paragons Club - is nowhere in the game in any neighbourhood not even "Not in World". He just doesn't exist.
    2) Lily Zhu -same as Romeo Sergio - is nowhere to be found
    3) Dani Davila - same as the above - nowhere to be found
    4) Nalani Mahi' ai - Exists - Not in World
    5) Alvin Slater - Exists - Evergreen Harbour

    It seems to me whichever status is correct it should be consistent either nowhere at all or Not In World but not a mix of the two.

    I'm going back in to work on this now. I'm tempted to delete Nalani and Alvin and see who shows up to replace them. Or give them a house together and get them real jobs. I am really not ready to give up yet!

     Cheers.





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