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Bug HELP! - Jumping to Ultra Speed
PinkiePie618
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So I'm not sure why I couldn't post in the bug section...but here I am.
I downloaded the recent patch and my game was working find for about 45 minutes. Then all of a sudden it started jumping to "ultra speed". I would slow it down and it would work for about 30 seconds before going to ultra speed. I would pause and it would pause for 30 seconds before going to ultra speed. I went back to the town center and then back in, but that didn't help.
Any other work arounds? Is this happening to anyone else?
HELP! It's ruining game play!
UPDATE: Okay so I realize it's a maid issue after finding other posts about this. So new question: how do you keep your house clean without your maid?
I downloaded the recent patch and my game was working find for about 45 minutes. Then all of a sudden it started jumping to "ultra speed". I would slow it down and it would work for about 30 seconds before going to ultra speed. I would pause and it would pause for 30 seconds before going to ultra speed. I went back to the town center and then back in, but that didn't help.
Any other work arounds? Is this happening to anyone else?
HELP! It's ruining game play!
UPDATE: Okay so I realize it's a maid issue after finding other posts about this. So new question: how do you keep your house clean without your maid?
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Personally, I don't find it hard at all for my Sims to keep their houses clean on their own (not to say that some of them don't have maids), so they tend to just clean up after themselves. They get through chores pretty fast.
But if you're looking for a quick workaround to not using your Sims for it, maybe you can add your own "maid" to the household, as a playable Sim, and direct them to clean up messes instead, while your other Sims go about their day-to-day lives.
I only had maid service with my one sims family because they lived in a modified Hound's Head and there were all sorts of weird places where plates and glasses would end up - some of which I couldn't see with walls down. That and my first generation of cats were scared by the laser litter box.
But since the bug (which completely messed up that save - can't even fire the maid to get it fixed - so I transplanted the family to a new save) I just let them take care of their own mess, and they generally do a good job. That and I don't mind dragging the occasional pile of dishes into the sink for them.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
Wait, what? That certainly would explain it. I only had my Sims hire a maid this afternoon! That's when the game went bonkers. Tell me, if I fire him, will the game go back to normal? Or do I need to roll back a game save, yet again?
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
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> So is it when the maid is there or what? I thought maybe it was when all my kids and hubby was at work that sped time but the wife was home with the toddler so I didn't understand. This is a bad bug. I have a big house with lots of kids and working parents that I need my maid. Plus I am too lazy to go around and make sure everything is clean.
What I've found odd, and a bit irritating, is when I go and play a different one of my households for awhile, several in-game days, then come back to my other one, pretty well everything that can break is broken. Sinks, toilets, showers, TV, computers, stove, stereos, etc... I even made sure to get a handiness skill on a couple characters nearly maxed out. Plus they have a couple million simoleons. They could just pay to replace it if they're too lazy to fix it all, lol!
Has anyone of you been able to fix it?
Firing the maid worked for me! Hope it works for you also.
Thank you! Does anyone know if the Butler is also buggy? This is a filthy rich family with over §500,000 in their family account. Seems to me, they should hire help. I finally decided to do it when I saw the Dad walking around cleaning up the dirty dishes that keep getting placed on just about any surface imaginable. Trouble with having four teens and a child, I suppose. Not that the teens don't do a fair amount of clean-up all on their own, but Mom is Erratic and spends her time telling herself stories and whatnot, plus she's busy painting excellent paintings when she's not busy entertaining herself. She's a hoot.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
I patched my game today. Frustrating!
Yes, there is a glitch with the combo bath/showers. There's already a thread on it at AHQ. You should try over there.
Yes, it worked. Found I could do without the maid. Phew! Thanks.
> Also got the shower glitch, but I expect it to be fixed soon (Friday?). It only occurs in some of the showers anyway.
Yes. I had to do the shift-click on a SIM character in the shower and use the "reset object Debug" option because of that shower/bathtub glitch. I never noticed the glitch until today, just a few hours ago. It was an NPC hired caterer for a birthday party (One of my controlled characters in a different household), but nearly an in-game day long after the party, she was still in the shower and making the sounds of being hungry and tiered, OMG! Not a serious glitch. But I removed that bathtub/shower hybrid for now in all my households, or at least sealed them off with walls. Heh!
As said Nick, also no hapen when your maid come and all your sims are at the lot
Go through the phone the way you did to hire your maid. From there, cancel services. That's what I did. Problem resolved.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
Since cancelling service didn't work for me (I still got the jump at the time the maid would appear) I prepared for it. I know the maid usually arrives at the mailbox and "checks in" before starting duties, so I pointed my camera at the mailbox with a household sim reading nearby. as soon as the maid arrived and the time jump hit, I mashed the pause key (0 - zero) while telling my sim to fire the maid and cancelling their current action.
Took almost 2 sim hours because of the high speed, but it worked.