[S] Excessive Snow shoveling

For the longest time now Sims have been OBSESSED with shoveling snow and it actually breaks gameplay flow.

• Sims in highschool will drop what they are doing to go shovel snow.
• Sims working at a "business" will interrupt your queued up actions to go shovel snow. This includes NPC Sims as well. Any kind of business is affected by this.
• Sims visiting community lots will go and shovel snow. Why? You don't work there, you don't live there. Just leave it alone lol.
• Basically if there is a pile of snow on the lot wherever you are there is a good chance your Sim and all the Sims there will want to shovel snow.

Hello all,

If any of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)? If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.

Instructions can be found here. Please also include a link to the thread the save is for.

Thanks!

... instead of collecting horse manure, although i give the order to her again and again.

Hi Karfunkel2​ 

merged your post with the excessive snow shoveling.

Could you please provide your save to EA: [INFORMATION] How to Send User Files to The Sims 4 Team | EA Forums - 5048472 

This happens to me constantly as well and I've had to completely turn off snow in order to stop my indoorsy loner sims or any sim for that matter from sprinting out of the house and onto some far away lot to shovel some random pile of snow in the area. No matter what they are doing they always stop to go do this. Not being able to experience winter properly is not fun. I also play on PlayStation 5 so no mods here.

Hi, just adding my voice to this issue. It started recently for me, but man, it's every Sim and it makes winters impossible to enjoy as they're constantly running outside to shovel a snow mound. Even after I cancel the action, it just pops up again and they're off. 

Just wanted to add that I noticed snow mounds seem to be overspawning. I made a brand new save, no mods, in winter, and in a couple of Sim days there were mounds all around the house, in the yard, even on the covered porch. My sims escalated with snow shoveling and making snow angels.