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Is cloning Sims with the cloning machine (scientist career) glitched?
Ayradyss
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I've recently experimented with this, and gotten some odd results. I seem to be able to clone my own Sim and other Sims in my active household, but when I try to clone any Sim from outside the active household, it appears to fail, after a fashion.
To explain further (the 'after a fashion' part): I know that, yes, it's -supposed- to fail sometimes. At those times, I see a red 'crackling energies' effect which, as far as I can tell, heralds a failure. But at other times, there's a green 'cascade of energy' effect that I believe is supposed to indicate success. But when I do this using a Sim from my active household, I have gotten a clone -- the 'red/failed' ones are the 'evil twin' variety with Evil/Mean/Insane instead of the original traits. When trying to clone a Sim outside of my active household, no clone Sim is ever generated. I just get either the green effect or the red effect and then nothing. The 'subject' Sim steps off the pad, then kind of flickers -- I believe it's being reset (arms seem to flick up to the 'neutral pose' for a brief moment).
Some things I have checked, just so you know: I have only 2 Sims in my household -- plenty of room before I hit the 8 Sim cap. I've tried this with both 'Played' (but inactive -- IE not from the current/active household) Sims and with 'Unplayed' (NPC townies) Sims. Seems to fail either way. I made multiple attempts at it with a Level 10 Scientist (if it matters -- it seems even non-scientists can operate the machine once built), seem to get the 'red effect' about one-third of the time, the green effect about two-thirds of the time, roughly. I tried this both with my mods and with all mods disabled via the menu option -- the same thing happened either way.
To explain further (the 'after a fashion' part): I know that, yes, it's -supposed- to fail sometimes. At those times, I see a red 'crackling energies' effect which, as far as I can tell, heralds a failure. But at other times, there's a green 'cascade of energy' effect that I believe is supposed to indicate success. But when I do this using a Sim from my active household, I have gotten a clone -- the 'red/failed' ones are the 'evil twin' variety with Evil/Mean/Insane instead of the original traits. When trying to clone a Sim outside of my active household, no clone Sim is ever generated. I just get either the green effect or the red effect and then nothing. The 'subject' Sim steps off the pad, then kind of flickers -- I believe it's being reset (arms seem to flick up to the 'neutral pose' for a brief moment).
Some things I have checked, just so you know: I have only 2 Sims in my household -- plenty of room before I hit the 8 Sim cap. I've tried this with both 'Played' (but inactive -- IE not from the current/active household) Sims and with 'Unplayed' (NPC townies) Sims. Seems to fail either way. I made multiple attempts at it with a Level 10 Scientist (if it matters -- it seems even non-scientists can operate the machine once built), seem to get the 'red effect' about one-third of the time, the green effect about two-thirds of the time, roughly. I tried this both with my mods and with all mods disabled via the menu option -- the same thing happened either way.
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Instead of disabling your mods, try moving your mods folder to the desktop. Then start the game and test to see if that helps the issues.
Repairing the game may help. To do that, right click on the sims 4 picture in Origin and click repair.
Try resetting your sims 4 folder and see if that helps. To do that, move your sims 4 folder ( that is in Documents -Electronic Arts - then the sims 4 folder is there ) to the desktop. Then start the game, and a new sims 4 folder will be generated. Exit the game and then add back the "options.ini" file and the "saves" , "screenshots" "tray" "custom music " and "mods" folders from the desktop sims 4 folder to the new sims 4 folder, replacing the new generated file/ folders with the old file/folders.
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
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs
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 made my own post on AHQ regarding the issue; at the very least, it should get me redirected to whatever answers may exist.
Such a strangely specific bug, this one!
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I will post the link to your thread so that other simmers with the same issue can press " me too" or post their experiences there.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Cloning-Machine-Will-Not-Clone-Any-Sim-Not-Of-The-Scientist-s/m-p/5253928#M23388
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