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Sims standing outside waiting before each game play.
maplelily
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I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem or if this problem has already been talked about. And if so, I apologize for the repetitiveness. I didn't know where to go to find the answer. For some reason--and I think this happened after the update this December--every time I go to play a household, a box pops up where I have to click on a particular sim, in like a household of 5, to play. I press one randomly and then it sends me to the house where every sim in the household is standing outside idly waiting for command, as if I had just left them there in the last game play--which I didn't. They are always left doing something when I leave the game when saving and exiting. I'm not sure what the problem is and I'm not sure if my work is even being saved anymore. And I know for a fact that I've been pressing the save button and then the exit. Please help.
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I don't get the pop-up to select a Sim though.
I am having this problem as well since the December patch. And I also have problems with saving the game, my game already crashed 3-4 times during the saving process. When I restart the game, I noticed my sims (a family of 4) were standing on the sidewalk instead of doing something. Drives me crazy!
Its so strange that bugs seem to be effecting peoples games in different ways, the sidewalk thing is something i have experienced from day one. And long before the December patch yet other people have bugs that i haven't come across myself. Very rarely have i come across a bug in my game i have one that effects the cheap stove, sims get leftovers out and will go and eat it in front of the stove and one of the hobs/rings/burners on the stove will light up as if your cooking but there is nothing on the stove top.
I also have the issue with the cheap stove -- I figured that's the sign it's cheap, it takes a long time to cool back down or something.
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Simmer since 2001
The popup making me pick who I want to play, only appears if the game claims one (or more) sim is not at the home lot. As long as I pick to play one that is at home, there are no issues - it loads the home lot with everyone there. If you choose to play as one of the sims that is supposedly at a community lot, the community lot will load, but my sim won't be there. This is an annoyance when trying to enter a single sim household, which of course only lets me pick that one sim, and forces me to the empty community lot and an extra load screen before I can click the sim and choose "play as" to get sent to the home lot.
The sims that are "supposedly" at a community lot, or visiting neighbours, are there because when I have played another household the game has chosen those sims to populate the community lot I visited at some point, or were either visiting the lot I just played previously (or just in the public area around that lot) and as such are "away".
Simmer since 2001
Hello.
It occurs after you have been to manage world, and when playing another household. It is part of the game design and intentional that it is happening.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
I do encourage anyone that thinks this a problem is to first have sims do something yo stop standing then exit the save and game and return directly to the save to see if the standing ocurr again.
That only happens to me when I go to play a household after playing other households or after making changes to that household in the Household Management screen.
Is it happening when you go to play the same household you were playing before you saved?
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What exactly is the point of it though? I don't get the logic in it.
After you move around between households, the game loses track of what everyone was doing, so it leaves them standing outside the house to give you a chance to look at their needs and stuff and assign them to whatever you think they should be doing. Or give them a chance to decide what they need to do next. I just look at it like they're waiting for some stage direction before they actually start playing.
Annette Thayer butts heads with the late Eric Lewis on her first day as steward.
Ah ok, thanks for the explanation.