The New Bug Thread

[J. M. Pescado]

I think your neighborhood is screwy, I have never seen this.

[DudeFromSimi]

I am having an issue with Lifetime Wishes being fulfilled without the Sim actually doing anything to fulfill it. This has happened 3 times now, once with a 6 and twice now with 12. First I thought it was because the mother was a gardener and had all perfect plants and that was the LW of her daughter, who was a 12, as soon as I accepted that LW to have so many perfect plants it fulfilled it for her. The son, who was a 6 at the time, wished for the Perfect Aquarium LW, same as his dad and his dad had just got it. I accept it for him and it fulfills right away. So I was thinking maybe they don't actually have to plant and/or catch the actual items like I thought, but then a 12, the son of the daughter, gets the wish to become a Celebrated Five Star Chef for his LW, or whatever it's called. A few seconds after I accept it for him it fulfills. So either that fambly/hood is screwy or is it a bug?

I also had a daughter of an avid gardener get her LTW for the Perfect Garden fulfilled after I made their household active.  It would make sense that the Perfect Aquarium LTW is also checking items on the lot to fulfill, but something is screwy if your game fulfills the 5-Star Chef LTW instantly.

[dolldrms]

I am not having the pregnancy moodlet appear in my game, as reported by a few others.  I've had 2 pregnancies, each in a different family, since the update was released to include a timer, which is a brilliant idea.  In the first family, although the icon did not appear, the pregnancy proceeded smoothly.  The stork icon appeared as it should have when she went to the hospital to have the baby, followed correctly by the pacifier icon after delivery.

The other pregnancy in a separate family did not fair as well.  Not only did the pregnancy moodlet not appear, she failed to deliver the baby.  She had gotten pregnant only 4 or 5 days prior to being due to age up to adult.  By the time I realized the pregnancy had gone far beyond where it should have, she had reached 0 in days to aging up.  Of course, being pregnant she wouldn't age up, nor deliver.  Thank goodness for falconpunch.  That command saved me from having a totally borked family.  After terminating the pregnancy the sim had her birthday party, aged up and conceived again the day after.  No pregnancy moodlet once again but this time she did deliver.

The only mod I have in game other than AM is the SuperComputer.  I did test removing it to see if the pregnancy buff would appear without it but it didn't.  I also tested with all cc out but that had no effect either.  The only thing that allowed the pregnancy buff to be present was to remove AM.   The first pregnancy took place with the 9/26/09 AM update installed and the second pregnancy took place with the 9/30/09 AM update installed.




   

[Buckets]

My game kept freezing at the same point, so I removed Awesomemod and it continued fine.

Not knowing what could be relevant, I'll give you some details on the situation.  It was at the point that my pregnant paramedic was to leave work with a promotion to intern.  She was to leave at 4:00 pm and the promotion would mean that she was supposed to be working until 7:00 that same day.  With awesomemod, the status immmediately becomes 'missing work' but without awesomemod there is one day until she is due back to work.  The freeze happens just before she is done work.  The other detail is that she is newly pregnant but still able to work.  Without awesomemod, she goes home after work and within an hour enters her pregnant stage with days off work.

I removed awesomemod to get past the freeze and then put it back on just before she enters her pregnant stage.  I am encountering numerous flagrant system error messages while playing, all with the title 'nullreferenceexception'.  I do not get the pregnancy buff.

[Inwe]

I used the "Drop Skill" cheat today so I could start over in a skill. I wanted to start over in guitar because I was never given my "Master Track". I thought drop skill would reset this. Spent 3 days getting skill back to 10 but now I can not re-learn the songs at the store. Says No Interactions Avail 

So, I'm now not only stuck with no master tracks but I can't get back up to 100%

[Inwe]

RE:  Lifetime Wishes being fulfilled without the Sim actually doing anything to fulfill it.

This is also happening to me as well. I'll just be standing there and get credit for nothing?

There is also a HUGE bug in the "Teleporters" This glitch also comes and goes??! I can "Teleport" anywhere but I can not use my cell phone to teleport home. At first it was working but now never. I am a handy sim and have upgraded all the teleporters to perfect and also unbreakable but when I use my cell phone to teleport home nothing happens anymore.

[Inwe]

RE: Game  freeze

This was happening to me A LOT  but only after the last patch. I almost could not play. I stopped this by not leaving the game in a window and turning off "Radar". It was running great last time I played after making these changes.

[myskaal]

 With the 9/26 version of AM I had one pregnancy. The sim received the pregnancy moodlet with the countdown timer, no problems.
Now playing with the 9/30 version, again one pregnant sim (conceived and now in the growing bump stage) with no moodlet.

I have no other pregnant sims in the hood to check at this time.

Update: Now 4 pregnant and bumped sims in the neighborhood. None of them show the moodlet.

[Absimiliard]

Here's a mixed bag of things I've noticed happening.

1. Service NPCs jumping though age brackets (Teen -> Adult, missing Young Adult) I already mentioned this in the requests thread, but now I also had a strange occurance of inviting a fresly-minted YA to move in only to turn 40 before my eyes once they did. ("Sorry baby, maybe we jumped into this thing too soon." <Break Up><Kick Out>)

2. Babysitters are going to the fridge, pulling out food (Quick Meal Items), placing them on the counter and reapeating this... a lot. At one point I had to clean up 8 items that the little bastard had littered the house with. This has happened in 3 seperate houses.

I am having pregancy issues also. I am basically playing one house with a perpetually spawning couple who are addicted to the Ambrosia.

3. After using the "dresser" command to swap outfits, maternity clothes and the bump are no longer appearing. Instead my pregnant sim wandered around the house with her hand in the small of her back and her pelvis pushed out like she was carrying a load in her sun dress. Pregnancy went as planned though, correct duration and predictable result.
ETA: the dresser command was issued pre-pregancy to set up outfits. Do not know if this happens without dresser command as everyone of my sims had ist used upon age up.

4. Their little children run off get married etc. I noticed a few of them got pollinated via story event pop-ups and waited... and waited... Then I recalled one of the household sim's siters came by like a week ago with a bun in the oven and I had seen no product from either. I checked their status via the Twallan's Master Controller and saw that they were all at 72hrs pregant (ready to pop). So I waited another day with no result. MC also reveals no babies in the city, so this has been going on for a while now.

[Lorea]

The autosave lot of times doesn't make backup file.
Now I quit the game and I have autosave0.sims3, autosave1.sims3, SunsetValley.sims3 and SunsetValley.sims3.new files and no backup file.

[J. M. Pescado]

With the 9/26 version of AM I had one pregnancy. The sim received the pregnancy moodlet with the countdown timer, no problems.
Now playing with the 9/30 version, again one pregnant sim (conceived and now in the growing bump stage) with no moodlet.

Should be fixed now.

The autosave lot of times doesn't make backup file.
Now I quit the game and I have autosave0.sims3, autosave1.sims3, SunsetValley.sims3 and SunsetValley.sims3.new files and no backup file.

This is normal behavior, the autosave is programmed not to make a backup, otherwise it would double the number of autosaves.

[Lorea]

Ok. Now I know this too.

[myskaal]

Most recent version installed: Still no pregnancy moodlet for existing pregnancies, I have yet to test a fresh one.

Also I seem to have lost the ability to nuke again. Voodoo. Nuke is working.

ETA: Moodlet appearing again.

[J. M. Pescado]

Yeah, if you lost the moodlet before, it probably won't come back. Falconpunch and restart all the existing pregnancies.

[catshirlann]

I used the "Drop Skill" cheat today so I could start over in a skill. I wanted to start over in guitar because I was never given my "Master Track". I thought drop skill would reset this. Spent 3 days getting skill back to 10 but now I can not re-learn the songs at the store. Says No Interactions Avail  

So, I'm now not only stuck with no master tracks but I can't get back up to 100%

The exact same thing happened to me. I've searched here and everywhere for a fix with no luck. I keep on hoping that somebody will come up with a remedy for this guitar problem.

[coconnor]

I noticed today that I don't get the green cloud from spoiled food nor did I have the clean out spoiled food action to choose. I have the 9/26/09 8:34 p.m. update.

I have a problem similar to coconnor's. The food in my refrigerators (not the reward frig, though) go bad but there is no green "stink" cloud and no option to clean out frig. I can still drag the putrid/spoiled/whatever plates of food to the simolians square and "sell" them, though. Also, I do not have RHOG enabled and never have.

Oh, and the expecting buff has disappeared in my game, also.

Okay, so far that makes three of us.  Hopefully, Pescado can take a look at this as time permits.

Pescado, can you include a debug command that allows us to purge the refrigerator inventory?  (I am using the latest - 10-01-09 6:23 PM - and still have this problem.)  Also, if possible, the family inventory?

[J. M. Pescado]

Should exist. Does CRTL-Shift-Click not include a "NUKE" command for inventory objects now? I added it awhile back.

[wizard_merlin]

There is also a HUGE bug in the "Teleporters" This glitch also comes and goes??! I can "Teleport" anywhere but I can not use my cell phone to teleport home. At first it was working but now never. I am a handy sim and have upgraded all the teleporters to perfect and also unbreakable but when I use my cell phone to teleport home nothing happens anymore.

I had this happen once, but went away after I restarted the game in a fresh neighbourhood, and no problems since.

I will double check, but I don't think it is possible to have both "Perfect Teleportation" AND "Unbreakable".  If I remember correctly, if you apply unbreakable after the perfect teleportation, the unbreakable replaces the perfect teleportation, hence if you upgraded/replaced with "Unbreakable" you would then have a standard teleport pod, which will not always work properly.  If I remember rightly, my problems with not being able to teleport home occurred after I had my sim's son change the upgrade to unbreakable, then back again so he could complete the unique upgrade, maybe changing it that way screwed with it somehow.  If I just do the "Perfect Teleportation" upgrade I don't have any issues with my sims going home.

Not sure why they did it, but most of the upgrades are like core mods, they are subject to the highlander rule, "there can be only one".  You can't have both self cleaning AND unbreakable, it is one or the other.  The same as all the upgrades on the cheap fireplace, one upgrade replaces the one already applied.

[J. M. Pescado]

It isn't possible to have two upgrades per item, although it's possible on a plumbing object to have both unbreakable AND another perk, if you break it and have a master plumber fix it.

[coconnor]

Should exist. Does CRTL-Shift-Click not include a "NUKE" command for inventory objects now? I added it awhile back.

Yes, it works from personal inventory.  But several of us have a problem with an inability to clean out spoiled food from the refrigerator.  I am also unable to drag those items out of the refrigerator inventory to either sell or discard.  There are no green fumes emitting from the refrigerator and no option to "Clean out spoiled food".  I can nuke the refrigerator itself, but, of course, when you replace the refrigerator it still contains the spoiled food.  Can you arrange it so we can nuke these from the refrigerator inventory?

Also, the ability to nuke from the family inventory is not working.  Thanks!

[Inwe]

The "Teleporter" Honestly is possessed! Not only can I not "Teleport" home from my cell phone but now it's allowing me to teleport from broken teleporters I have not fixed. It's smoking and shooting out little sparks but I am still using it to teleport!? lol

The Guitar Skill is very messed up and I also see someone else with the problem. My first Sim got two of the same Master track songs instead of two different songs. She was given two Katlin's songs and didn't get so epic it hurts. Now my other Sim was given none. It's happening at random because my other sim is fine she has "So Epic It Hurts" & "Ballad Of The Raider". I don't know any way to restart this maybe if he died and came back to life it would allow him to re-learn. If I have to kill him to restart his skill I am going to be stuck re-learning all his skills. Trying to get to a point to start a family which will never happen at this rate because I have to keep deleting Sims because of bugs.

International Super Spy Career was also bugged. I had to keep bulldozing the Outstanding Citizen Warehouse every time I wanted to "Raid". I would run to the back door to go in and raid and he couldn't get in as if something was in the way. So I had to edit town, bulldoze, each time I wanted to do an opportunity.

[Inwe]

Guitar Star is not working. This is a Challenge in the Journal. Play at 10 parties and venues in the town to earn the title.

I have played at over 70 and nothing so I gave up with that Sim. So much for the rock star career there are too many bugs.

[lsmithiii]

Guitar Star is not working. This is a Challenge in the Journal. Play at 10 parties and venues in the town to earn the title.

I have played at over 70 and nothing so I gave up with that Sim. So much for the rock star career there are too many bugs.

The Guitar star is linked to opportunity performances. I have only had 1 sim complete it and I had to cheat using http://www.the-isz.com/theisz/index.php?s=e56f263f2ec40bae9afb9658ea4808ad&showtopic=2787  to do it.

[wizard_merlin]

The Guitar Skill is very messed up and I also see someone else with the problem. My first Sim got two of the same Master track songs instead of two different songs. She was given two Katlin's songs and didn't get so epic it hurts. Now my other Sim was given none. It's happening at random because my other sim is fine she has "So Epic It Hurts" & "Ballad Of The Raider". I don't know any way to restart this maybe if he died and came back to life it would allow him to re-learn. If I have to kill him to restart his skill I am going to be stuck re-learning all his skills. Trying to get to a point to start a family which will never happen at this rate because I have to keep deleting Sims because of bugs.

International Super Spy Career was also bugged. I had to keep bulldozing the Outstanding Citizen Warehouse every time I wanted to "Raid". I would run to the back door to go in and raid and he couldn't get in as if something was in the way. So I had to edit town, bulldoze, each time I wanted to do an opportunity.

Sounds like it's time to start a new game in a fresh neighbourhood.  Obviously the one your playing has become horribly bugged, from whatever causes, who knows.

[FrickinIdjit]

My military sim reached Level 10 yesterday and his performance immediately dropped to -100.  Also, and I know it's experimental, RecipesInLibrary isn't working in my game.

ETA: 9-simweek-old save in a fresh, patched install.  Two different vagrant bosses, when invited over, immediately aged from YA/A to death.  Awesome-Indie, "Normal" lifespan.