Hello again, all!!
I'm experiencing a glitch. When I google it I can find several other cases of it but can't seem to find a solution.
I called on the phone in game to adopt a pet - chose my kitten, had the pop up "are you sure, they're a lot of work..." and said yes, and re-named her. It said that the pet needed to be cleaned up and was on the way, but never arrived. It has been a few sim days and still nothing. I can't call the adoption place again because it's grayed out and says the pet is on the way and I need to wait for it to arrive. I also can't edit town, move, travel etc for the same reason.
I've tried resetting the sims, re setting everything (resetsim *), all other NPCs are coming to the house when called (maid, paper boy...). I have all the major NRAAS mods. I already saved after the problem started so I can't go back :( Can anyone help??
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2 - Once you get that sorted out, forget about adoptions from the phone/computer. That entire pet social worker scenario is broken beyond repair. I had to work for three hours once to wrestle a puppy away from the social worker whom I eventually found spawning across town but disappearing seconds later each time -- took over a dozen tries before I succeeded. But I was being stubborn because I really wanted that puppy.
Instead, click on your sim and NRaas > MC > Basic > Adopt Pet. Works the same way except the kitten will magically appear on your lot without the inept pet social worker.
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I tried resetting the lot but had no luck. I'm not able to switch to another household or enter edit town to try the other two ideas. "You cannot enter edit town while the social worker is dropping off a new pet for your household." Ugh! I will certainly never make this mistake again. Any ideas? Is it possible to somehow get around the issue of not being allowed to enter edit town using MC or something?
I understand that the game will not let you enter Edit Town. But seriously, if you use MC to switch households, you are blocked from doing that as well?
As for Overwatch, it's not the nightly scan that would fix this. It's the startup scan. If the MC trick above doesn't work, can you save the game, quit completely, and reload to let OW do it's thing properly upon startup?
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Edit: Ah, and I've got another brilliant (?) idea. On City Hall, do MC > Sim > Advanced > Total Annihilation > (Filter to Type of Service) and see if you can rid your game entirely of the pet social worker.
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I hadn't tried switching households using MC (duh!) so now I did, then switched back....and they now have a kitten listed, but it's a different one than they had chosen (both in look/breed and in name). I looked in the phone though, and the option to call the adoption place is still grayed out with the "wait for the social worker" message, and same in not letting me enter "edit town"!! The game got completely unplayably slow when I did the household switches so I had to quit and will now re-open and see what kind of madness greets me.
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If that's no help, then it's time to post this question at NRaas. We must be missing some other relatively obvious way to break through the stuck scenario.
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I ended up opening a slightly older save from right after the problem started. (In this save I had NOT yet tried switching households or total annihilation). I went in and did TA, getting rid of the pet adoption social worker, saved and quit. When I opened that save back up today, the problem has been resolved!! I'm so grateful to not lose my game, to say that I'm attached to this family is an understatement. Thank you so much @igazor !!
Glad you worked it out and keep making those saved copies of games that are important to you as your story progresses!
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1. GIVE YOUR HOUSEHOLD A LOT OF MONEY! ITS GONNA BE NEEDED (100,000 - 999,999)
1. testingcheatsenabled true
2. moveobjects on
3. delete each sim in the household by clicking on them and pressing delete (note: you must exit build/buy mode after each person)
4. Then the house will become inactive, you will now be able to edit town...!
5. Once in edit town click on your household and click split household, move all sims to a new lot except one. (thats the catch you can't have your old house at all, even entering an exact copy wont work)
6. Then move the remaining sim to the new house.
7. Click on that household and start playing.
All fixed!!!! Note: please do not ever use the phone to adopt a pet again... instead go to the household directly and adopt pet from neighbor.
Happy Simming!
I'm sorry, but no.
What you have described here would be a way to put your game in danger of breaking entirely. At no time should sims of any kind be testingcheats shift-click deleted. Doing so deletes their bodies while keeping their data in the game, thus causing the potential for all kinds of corruption. There are usually better ways to get out of a stuck pet adoption scenario.
For those not averse to using mods, as was stated on this thread over a year ago, a much safer way to adopt pets from the town's adoption roster is to use MasterController's Adopt Pet function rather than the phone. You get the same animal choices, just without the pet adoption social worker scenario that so often gets stuck.
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