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maximalsims
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6 months ago
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[LD] Can't get gold in funerals

Posted this in the technical issues forum, but maybe I should have put it here. This has been a consistent issue for several months now. I have a goaled funeral, do all the tasks it gives, it will show 7/7 funeral activities completed, but the bar at the top will not be completely filled. Since there are no more activities populated, there's no way to fill the bar.

I was having this issue in a modded save file and figured it was cause by a mod. However, it still happened in that same save when I removed all the mods. So I started a fresh save file with no mods and the same thing happened. The max it will give is Bronze, I can't get any higher than that. 

I've tried to reply a few times but it keeps disappearing?? Below is the answer to your questions crinrict 

When creating the event, usually I add four or five. I never do the maximum since the minimum is listed as three. 

I tested it a few times this go... One time using seven selected tasks in the event creator which went normal: mourn(checked off,  gave 1 point), serve food (checked off, didn't give a point), give eulogy (checked off and gave 1 point), light candles (checked off, gave 1 point), moment of silence (checked off, gave 2 points), play instrument (checked off, didn't give a point). This all left me with 5/7 at silver level. When I say they didn't give a point, I mean in the Lead Funeral Activities counter. So I did two extra tasks and got gold.

Tried using 4 activities which is what I usually do: mourn (checked off, gave 1 point), give eulogy (checked off and gave 1 point), moment of silence (checked off, gave 3 points - it was one at first, then it gave two more a few seconds later), light candles (checked off, gave one point). At that point I was at 6 out of 7, but few seconds after the light candles tasks, it gave me another point, which bumped me up to 7, but had me still in bronze level on the meter like in the previous screenshot. 

Edit By Crinrict: Added Pack Tag to title

18 Comments

  • I have this issue too! When I first got Life and Death it worked fine. Ive only had a few funerals but I think it was December when I first noticed the issue.
    I'll use the funeral I had last night as an example- I selected five activities to do for my sim and their guests. As they did the activities they would complete correctly and the goal bar would move up, but once my selected activities had been completed the event didn't list anything else i needed to do, yet it was only at silver, so thatsas far as I could get. I will try another funeral with more activites and see if the event only moves your goal based on how many activities you plan! 
    Also Im on PC and Ive tested with and without mods and in a new modless save file. This test Im gonna do I will do a new modless save file, meaning I will turn the settings to disable CC and script mods. 

  • I don't know if there was a fix in the last update, but I've now gotten a Gold with three Funerals (copy of my regular Saves with no mods). 

    One thing I noticed is that Guests, Professional Mourners plus the Entertainer have a "Funeral" section in their Social Menu. It's not made clear, but you need to do some of those interactions to move up to Gold. 

    There are also Funeral related actions (denoted by a Headstone in the Sim's Social Menu) like "Play Music" on the Entertainer or "Listen to Eulogy" on a Guest that you can do to move the bar or complete event tasks. 

    My first couple of Funerals I focused on the task list and got Bronzes - may have gotten a Silver. It wasn't until I focused of the Sims Social Menu that I got the Gold. It may be the case that this was fixed in the last patch. (I'm generally terrible at Events, so.... 🤷‍♀️)

  • Mistyverse00x's avatar
    Mistyverse00x
    Seasoned Novice
    6 months ago

    If I'm understanding correctly are you saying that the meter will continue to progress even when the tasks list is completed and closes? Because I am completing all the tasks successfully, but once they are all completed it's still not Gold. In retrospect I do think when I get to that point I havent tried to continue doing various funeral tasks so maybe I will try that!

  • DizzyDee-K's avatar
    DizzyDee-K
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    Completing the task list seems to count for only some of the progress. Doing the "Funeral" interactions in the Sims' Social Menu seems to progress the meter even after all the tasks are completed. 

    Tasks + Socials seems to be what's required for a Gold

  • Same here, I don't even earn silver with all tasks completed. This has never worked since the üack was released.

  • Me too. I keep doing activities under the Funeral menu even after the ones I assigned were done, and the bar never progressed pass Bronze. I'm gonna try again when someone else dies to add even more tasks... maybe that'll boost the bar further?

  • Ah, I thought it was just me messing it up... I see it is a bug. Thanks team for looking into it.