[EBN] Sim won't bathe nor catch frogs in own pond (active Want)
I have installed the Enchanted by Nature Pack yesterday and played for a while with one sim in Sprucederry Grove. Newly made sim, newly made world. By now she has her Natural Living Skill maxed. Her lot if the Fern and Frond Wading Pool. She should be able to bathe in her pond and look for frogs there, but she simply refuses. I've tried completing her wants, but that helped literally only once. The weather is cold, but with her Natural Living Skill at 10 this shouldn't matter according to the game. She DOES bathe in the river/stream in Spruderry Grove, so I know the cold isn't the problem. She can get to the water of the pond on the lot without a problem. I have no CC nor mods installed as I first wanted to try out this pack without any outside additions. My current packs, etc: Get to Work Get Together City Living Seasons Get Famous Island Living Eco Lifestyle Cottage Living For Rent Lovestruck Life & Death Small Businesses & Hobbies Enchanted by Nature (obviously) Outdoor Retreat Spa Day Jungle Adventure Cool Kitchen Laundry Day Nifty Knitting Home Chef hustle Crystal Creations Kitchen Clutter I don't know if this influences it: I have the base game through the Epic Games store, while I have my packs and kits all through the EA App. I play on Windows 11 Home Edition on my laptop. Tech data about my laptop: Device name ***** Processor AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics (3.30 GHz) Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable) Device ID A51EF246-E345-45A0-9231-8416C83DAD18 Product ID 00326-10000-00000-AA798 System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display Edition Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 Installed on 24/05/2025 (Latest update: 2025-06 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5060829) from June 29) OS build 26100.4484 Serial number PF2XRZ8G Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.128.0 Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX3080 I've attached the LastException report, but that's from a couple of hours ago. There's no later recent lastException report. Thanks for the help! Edit By Crinrict: Corrected pack tag
Staff ability stacking
There is an issue with staff ability stacking producing wild upgrades. So if one gets each of the three camp counsellor abilities (HC, OC & DC) to level III and applies them in PS1 for training camp, completing a mini game can generate huge numbers of XP - completing the bucket drop mini game to gold rewards you with 48,000 XP plus 2 skill points! I completed it with Cam Ward to silver and I was rewarded with over 30,000 XP plus one 1 skill point and was able to increase his overall from 72 to 83 in one week! And one can do this with every training camp game. What is worse, starting from 0, it takes roughly 1-1.5 seasons to gain enough coach points to get all three to level III so from season 2/3 one is able to have multiple players making huge unrealistic leaps, creating mega teams which very much takes away from the CFM experience - anyone joining late on is severely handicapped. And the option for dictating the speed at which one accrues coach points has been taken away so one can’t even slow it down to the point that users may not bother doing so and use them elsewhere. Please can you consider adjusting the abilities for the next patch - stacking is going to cause no end of issues and in particular camp counsellor should only be allowed for HC alone at most.[INFO] Unlock Endless Adventures with EA Play
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I've had this bug happening a few times in different locations (home, Netherworld HeadQuarters and the most recent at the Spicy Festival) after planning some interactions for the sim. The last was with the Spice festival. I got this error message (with thanks to the Better Exceptions Mod by Twisted Mexi, the only mod installed in the game) Exception in Sim Timeline: Exception running Element (AttributeError: 'JoinSituationElement' object has no attribute 'situation_type') I closed the game last night after getting that error. And upon opening the game this morning again I got the error immediately, I assume because the Sim was still in the same situation. I've played this particular save always without mods because I specifically only made it for the events and I wanted to make sure nothing would influence the events in one way or another. The only mod that is installed is the Better Exceptions mod from Twisted Mexi. What I was trying to do: - Planned some interactions for my sim to talk to the stall vendors - What I expected would happen: just normal execution of the tasks - What happened: --> Without the mod: the game would start to lag and then hang and I couldn't even get the game to close. I had to force close it through the task manager by ending bu several times ending the task (the task would pop back up several times in the task manager before it remained ended) --> With the Better Exceptions mod: I got the BE Warning and the report. I closed the game after that without a hitch. but.... I can't play this particular save file anymore until the bug gets resolved because now it pops-up immediately when I resume the game and my Sim and the world are loaded. More information from the Better Exceptions report: Possible Cause (Confidence: 10%) interaction_elements I have added the saves files from last night's session and from this morning and the Better Exceptions report to the attached zip-file. I hope that helps in finding out what's wrong. I don't know if this influences it: I have the base game through the Epic Games store, while I have my packs and kits all through the EA App. I play on Windows 11 Home Edition on my laptop. Tech data about my laptop: Device name ***** Processor AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics (3.30 GHz) Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable) Device ID A51EF246-E345-45A0-9231-8416C83DAD18 Product ID 00326-10000-00000-AA798 System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display Edition Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 Installed on 24/05/2025 (Latest update: 2025-06 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5060829) from June 29) OS build 26100.4484 Serial number PF2XRZ8G Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.128.0 Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX3080 Thanks for the help! ETA: I did attached a zip-file with everything mentioned above, but it's not attached to the forum post anymore? So I don't know how to fix that. ETA2: my packs are: For Rent Spa Day Seasons Lovestruck Life & Death Outdoor Retreat Nifty Knitting Laundry Day Kitchen Clutter Jungle Adventure Island Living Home Chef Hustle Holiday Celebration Get Together Get to Work Get Famous Eco lifestyle Business & Hobbies Cottage Living Cool Kitch Stuff City Living Crystal Creations Life & Death Bonus stuff Note from EA_Solaire: 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: https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/information-how-to-send-user-files-to-the-sims-4-team/5048472 Thanks!
