[IL] Signed Fishing Spots Not Working in Sulani

I had a problem after the update where my Sims living at Reef Finery in Sulani would not use their own house to do anything. They threw the garbage out all the way on the other end of the place (by a food hut), ran all the way around the little bay to paint, and ran who knows where to use their portable computer. I reset my Xbox and it stopped doing it. Have not tried fishing yet.

Also unable to fish in Sulani.  Knew I should have stayed offline to avoid the update but needed it for something else.  😒

I’ll give this a test run to see what I can find out. 

Question: In Ohan’Ali Town, there is a Fishing Competition every Saturday from 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 

I wonder if this bug is affecting that event? 

The Event spawns near Lagoon Look on the dock. Sometimes, the Island Festivals are bugged.

Same issue 

I am experiencing the same issue

My Sim is having issues with fishing in Sulani as well, except on a sail boat, she wants to swim to the one nearby.

Same bug here. Not able to fish in Sulani. Annoying as my legacy sim is a fisherman & can't leave Sulani as part of the legacy rules. No mods installed.

Same here. I can't fish

Same here, they keep waving with the little bubble that says they can't get to it - every fishing spot in Sulani, but can fish fine in other worlds. 

I'm going to share everything later to the EA help site, but I want to get screenshots of the UI first. The screenshots I'm sharing are from the fishing contest. I took screenshots from both with mods and mods turned off. Given that the game had the same issues regardless of the mods, I'll get the screenshots with the user interface while the game is modded.

Modded Test

The following screenshots are the modded versions while the Fishing Tournament was active. The Fishing Tournament causes a lot of sims to appear on lot and a lot of unplayed households as well as townies take part. This is helpful for finding the cause of the bug because it allows you to see how the townies are affected and increases the chances of identifying the bug. There are simply more opportunities to see the bug.

I was able to confirm that using the Mermadic Ability Aquatic Lure and Examine Water interaction from level 3 fishing work. Fishing, Fishing with Bait, Fishing with Others, and Angling for a big catch are all bugged though.

While the game was modded, I did notice sims that were not in the active household were fishing from boats. Again, the Fishing Tournament in Sulani tends to have many sims participating. It's entirely possible that I was able to get this screenshot specifically because of the Sulani Festival being active.

Whatever is affecting the active households is also affecting the non-active households. 

UnModded Test

While mods were turned off, certain things became much more noticeable but were the same things that happened while the game had mods active. This will help me know what to look for when getting screenshots of the UI.

I arrived at Lagoon Look before the Fishing Tournament.

I had Stevie use the Aquatic Lure. I was trying to repeat the same things I did during the Modded Test.

When I had Stevie try to fish, that's when I had a very noticeable behavior that might be related to the bug.

It started with Stevie running away from the fishing spot.

And then he went into the ocean and started swimming.

Fortunately, Stevie is a merman and swims faster than a human sim. It at least saved time while waiting for him to get to his destination.

And where he went with the Fishing Sign in his que was kinda what I was expecting based on what I saw Caleb doing, but he did go farther than I expected him to.

I was trying to get screenshots with the UI here, but they didn't get captured. With the fishing sign in his action que, Stevie began fishing from the boat.

Clearly the fishing from the boat was working, but it was interesting to see that this is where the sim went when I directed them to fish from the fishing spot he swam away from.

When Sulani Festivals start, Ohan'Ali town changes. I watched for the behaviors Stevie displayed when other sims arrived to fish for the tournament.

Sure enough, Rio did what Caleb did during the modded test. Instead of fishing where the active fishing tournament spawned, he went to fish at the same boat Stevie went to.

Since Stevie couldn't go to that boat when I qued the fishing action again. He went to the boat he swam past.

It was hours into the Fishing Tournament and there was no one by the fishing sign. During the Fishing Tournament, 4 sims line up on the dock and fish. They actively run back and forth from this spot to the shack that sells bait. No one, not a single sim I created or randomly generated did anything here. I would assume that players will not be able to stop fishing poachers, because I do not think the Fishing Poachers will be able to fish on Mua Pel'Am either.