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Blargian

I hated playing detective so much but then I realised that the game is just buggy, and bugs will correct themselves more often than not. Once I just learnt to be patient, the game started working. It might take like, 3 work days, for suspects to turn up, but if you try everyday they'll eventually turn up. Once the hair colour in my book was wrong though... but I took a punt and arrested them and they were guilty!

rosemow

KathrynPegelo wrote: »

I am going through the same problem I go to search for the person and no one matches the description so I go around and ask everyone if they have seen her. Female, Adult, Redhead & is wearing a skirt. They say yes over there & point towards someone that don't match the description but I ask them anyways if they have seen who I was looking for... She said No sorry can't help u ( Female, Adult, Dark Skin, Black Hair ) but as I started walking away from her she started to look suspicious like she was nervous. So I arrested her and it turned out that was the person I was looking for but she did not match the description. So I think what u really have to do is pay very close attention to the people u ask about suspect.

Hello Welcome to the forums!
You may like to post feedback or press " me too " on this thread on the AHQ EA site that refers to the issue
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Incorrect-suspect-traits-Suspect-doesn-t-show-up/m-p/4486122#M11815

Caro_robinson

The clues I found said my suspect was an adult female with red hair, I couldn't find any that matched the description for days, but I noticed this one sim standing some random place doing nothing everytime I tried to find my suspect. I just tried arresting him and it turned out he was the suspect, but he didn't fit the description...?

rosemow

Caro_robinson wrote: »

The clues I found said my suspect was an adult female with red hair, I couldn't find any that matched the description for days, but I noticed this one sim standing some random place doing nothing everytime I tried to find my suspect. I just tried arresting him and it turned out he was the suspect, but he didn't fit the description...?

Hello
Other simmers are also having the issue in their game that the eventual suspect doesn't mstch the clues given.
You may like to post feedback or press " me too " on this thread on the AHQ EA site that refers to the issue
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Incorrect-suspect-traits-Suspect-doesn-t-show-up/m-p/4486122#M11815

hypershadic247

So far I found that if the age and gender is always right. Just ask around till someone says "is that them right there" then try arresting the people of the right age and gender till hopefully you get the right one.

rosemow

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Simmer0602

I had a suspect that I couldn't find for days, each time I was at a lot this same sim kept coming, it was an alien sim but it was nothing like the description I was given but I decided to just try it because she had been at each and every lot and it turned out that she was the person I was looking for even though the description said teen male and she is an adult female. I think aliens become glitched so I would recommend trying to arrest aliens if you can't find anyone who matches your description.

BlkBarbiegal

I think sims point in the general direction of the sim you need to arrest. Also the sim I arrested I asked him about suspect but he couldn't help so I felt he was guilty, and sure enough it was him. lol

niamhio

If you have CC in your game it can cause a conflict. The game has the default swatches, say for hair colour, so sometimes CC creators won't change the swatches and just put their pallet in place of it but not change what it is classed as so the CC might be pastel pink but it's classed as being brown. Which means that the detective career would flag it as brown and not pink. Similarly CC clothes might be tagged as being say skinny jeans but they're actually mom-jeans and the detective career will flag it as being Skinnys. A good fix is to download the Sims 4 studio and follow this http://sims4studio.com/thread/1659/batch-fix-show-random-sims
Other than that the career is just very broken