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diavolosims
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10 months ago
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High School "Exit" traits not saving to the Gallery

This issue is with the expansion pack, High School Years. I was saving a "fleshed out" sim character to the Gallery, testing it out before uploading it online (Gallery). The sim I made has the Valedictorian trait, meaning he is a graduated in Copperdale High School with as a valedictorian, or the highest honor, I suppose. I age him up to a Young Adult, have him go to the Foxbury Institute and graduate with a distinguished degree in Biology with high honors, then age him up to a fully grown Adult. Upon saving him with traits like the Valedictorian trait, I didn't think any of it. But when I load him to a different save from the local Gallery, I check his traits and the Valedictorian trait is missing. Almost every aspect of his progress in in-game life is saved except for two things: said trait, and his household funds being §50,000. I remember household funds catches upon saving the household to the Gallery, locally or online. So this might've broke somewhere down the line of many updates, and no one's noticed. But my concern is with his high school "exit" trait - it is how they're called in the codes - Valedictorian. I don't know if it also goes for the other exit traits like Graduated with Honors, Graduated High School Early, etc.

My sim's Biology degree is saved in the household, his milestones, his skills, his career... except for this one trait and his original household funds reverting to §20,000 like a new household. Even the reward traits like Sickness Resistance from becoming level 8 in the Doctor (active) career from Get To Work is saved, his character value trait, Good Manners, and the Romantic Sage trait from Lovestruck is saved. But not his Valedictorian trait, which is odd to me. Has anyone gotten this issue before as well? Is it addressed somewhere, or no? I wish - hope - it was, even if many are "casual" players who wouldn't actually care for such a thing. And I hope this wouldn't be dismissed as well. I would ignore this if I weren't to always cheat every time I add him, and I plan to upload him online to the Gallery for everyone to add him as well. So this trait being missing would be kind of a bummer.

5 Comments

  • Bumping this thread (if it's allowed). Is it not a popular enough concern to be addressed or looked into? 😞

  • Absolutely the same problem, and with all career traits from HSY (Cheer Champion, Chess Master, L33T Hacker, Star Player).
    As one user noted, "for some reason HS Exit and HS Team reward traits all have their allow_from_gallery tag set to false, not sure if this was intentional" i.e. fixing this error can take a few minutes, but at the same time it has been present in the game for over two years.
    I am really tired of being unpleasantly surprised by the fact that ordinary users and modders fix the game faster and better than the creators themselves. This is the level of support for a $5 indie game, created and supported by one person, and not the level of EA, Maxis and entire The Sims franchise.

  • _Z_X_C_K_R_S_'s avatar
    _Z_X_C_K_R_S_
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    Product: The Sims 4
    Platform:PC
    Which language are you playing the game in? French
    How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
    What is your current game version number? 1.115.253.1020 DX11
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? downloading a sim with the traits from the gallery
    What happens when the bug occurs? High School traits disappears from downloading a sim with the traits
    What do you expect to see? High School traits stay even after downloading a sim with them
    Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? The bug stays even if i move all mods/CC
    Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
    Please describe the patch or change you made. High School Years install

     

    Everytime i download a sim from the gallery that has every bonus traits from high school EP it dissapears and i have to enter codes to put them again.

  • classybananasala's avatar
    classybananasala
    Seasoned Adventurer
    17 days ago

    This bug means that teen sims who you save to your library after they've graduated early and started university as a teen will be enrolled in both High School AND university at the same time.

    It applies to the HS Exit traits AND the bonus traits from getting to Level 3 of the after school activities.

    This is clearly not consistent with traits from other packs (e.g. the Scouting Aptitude trait DOES transfer to the gallery/library, as do completed degrees from university).

    I swear I made a post about this in the old bug report system just before everything moved to the forums but I can't find the archived reports anymore - have these been deleted?