[RL] Scandal Icon not going away after cleared scandal

I'm having a related issue- the scandal has reached the point where it should time-out (0 minutes remaining) but doesn't go away, the purple cloud remains, and the embarrassed moodlet has wildly changing time left (jumping from 8 days to 29 days and back again...)

Hello- I've seen other players having issues with the purple cloud UI but I've been experiencing additional issues with the scandal system. When the scandal should have timed out (reads 0 minutes left) it's not ending and keeps both the purple cloud and the embarrassed moodlet. The embarrassed moodlet keeps changing in time left from 8 days to 29 days and back again.

I have the same issue, I cannot rid off this scandal hovering over my sim :(

Bump! Experiencing the same issue, sim received moodlet "Unfair Affair" after being exposed in a cheating scandal. The original moodlet was 9 days, same in the notebook.  
Next day my sim travelled and the moodlet changed to a different higher number around ~16. The tooltip in the notebook stays correct. Throughout the course of the game, the number kept changing, especially triggered by travelling it seems. There is a third indicator I noticed much later on, which is when you hover over the sim and see the count there too. That one just does its own thing entirely; it's currently at over 300 days, but hit over 1.5k at some point. The moodlet itself remains smaller; still hit something like 80 days at some point.

The moodlet itself is fixed if changing the sim in the mirror, but does go awry when the sim moves anywhere. 

I have mods and I am not ready to get rid of them at the moment, though they are minimal, but on the sims reddit I saw quite a few people having the same issue, some confirming without mods. Posting this to raise awareness of the issue

My Sim's secret was exposed, and I received a moodlet that was supposed to last 9 days, the scandal. But when those 9 days ended, instead of the moodlet disappearing, it changed to 16 days, then 33 days, and it keeps increasing. I've already tried going to the computer to write apologies or deny accusations, but it only gets worse and keeps increasing, and the scandal never ends. This is happening to my Sim and other NPCs in scandals.

While we wait. If you use mods I have found a way to get rid of this in the meantime. If you use Sim Info Manager you can remove the hidden trait called: Trait_Hidden_Scandal_Secret_VFX :D That did the job for my Sim. 🤩

I haven't compared with unaffected sims, but I think the reduction in skill gain speed might be stuck even after the vfx trait has been removed. And even if that's not the case, the fact that no one thought to check that a new system switches off properly is just... baffling.

Hi Baron_Dragonclaw​ 

there's a couple of threads for scandals not ending properly so need to check with a CM what they want merged.

Meanwhile could you please add thread tags for your mod usage and platform.

Please make sure to remove all mods and test without them for a new scandal if you use mods.

OMG It works! Thank you so much. you saved my life.

same issue. no mods installed. is frustrating to keep having the stupid purple scandal cloud popping up. scandal cleared has ZERO minutes now, but won't clear off.