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    Please Change it back

    meubanksmeubanks Posts: 445 Member
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    I'm not sure who on the development team thought that having kids/teens lose their homework all the time was preferable to just having them put it in their inventory like they originally did. This change is terrible. You can got to any park and see homework laying around because the SIms don't pick it up anymore. What steams me about this, is that there are plenty of legit bugs that the team could be focusing on. Why are they wasting the time and resources to change something that was working fine to begin with, especially when the end result is WAY WORSE than the original process was. Just change it back. This was a stupid design decision. Sorry for being so blunt, but having to buy new homework every day gets annoying.

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      CinebarCinebar Posts: 33,618 Member
      In some of my community lots they place homework on the only tables available, that is annoying to take another Sim there and no clean up system in the game.
      "Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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      shaposh2012shaposh2012 Posts: 760 Member
      This was intentional? Good grief!
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      CinebarCinebar Posts: 33,618 Member
      shaposh2012 wrote: »
      This was intentional? Good grief!

      Because it's a hybrid of open world and closed world there isn't a clean up system to clean up whatever Sims leave in the public spaces or on closed lots. If you see Sims doing homework you can bet it will still be there next week. I don't understand why it can't be cleaned up since this is basically a closed world system with not Story Progression to speak of and why the game can't clean those up. Or remind Sims to put it back in inventory before they leave. It's not TS3 system and shouldn't even resemble TS3 ( as in leaving stuff all over the world) since there are loading screens between lots.
      "Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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      Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
      What are you guys talking about?

      This is a bug. In the beginning sims would put their homework into their inventories right after finishing, after a certain patch they started to leave it in the tables when they finish it. If kids and teens do the homework on their legs, on the floor they put the homework right bak into the inventory, almost 100% sure.
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      CinebarCinebar Posts: 33,618 Member
      Sigzy05 wrote: »
      What are you guys talking about?

      This is a bug. In the beginning sims would put their homework into their inventories right after finishing, after a certain patch they started to leave it in the tables when they finish it. If kids and teens do the homework on their legs, on the floor they put the homework right bak into the inventory, almost 100% sure.

      It's by design because little kids in my game have been leaving homework on tables in my game since day one. Especially the library in WC if I got there but haven't in months, and on any of my own built community lots since then. Can't have come in a patch it's always been that way.
      "Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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      Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
      Cinebar wrote: »
      Sigzy05 wrote: »
      What are you guys talking about?

      This is a bug. In the beginning sims would put their homework into their inventories right after finishing, after a certain patch they started to leave it in the tables when they finish it. If kids and teens do the homework on their legs, on the floor they put the homework right bak into the inventory, almost 100% sure.

      It's by design because little kids in my game have been leaving homework on tables in my game since day one. Especially the library in WC if I got there but haven't in months, and on any of my own built community lots since then. Can't have come in a patch it's always been that way.

      Not for me it hasn't.
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      shaposh2012shaposh2012 Posts: 760 Member
      When the game was released, the teens would leave their homework around, but the children always put it back, at least in my game. Then it got worse. I don't see why they can't fix it so they always put their homework back in their inventory when they either complete it or stop working on it.
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      Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
      shaposh2012 wrote: »
      When the game was released, the teens would leave their homework around, but the children always put it back, at least in my game. Then it got worse. I don't see why they can't fix it so they always put their homework back in their inventory when they either complete it or stop working on it.

      I guess either way we can all agree that this is something that needs fixing. Hopefully in the next patch. :)
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      asouthernwriterasouthernwriter Posts: 1,041 Member
      shaposh2012 wrote: »
      When the game was released, the teens would leave their homework around, but the children always put it back, at least in my game. Then it got worse. I don't see why they can't fix it so they always put their homework back in their inventory when they either complete it or stop working on it. [/]

      Same thing happened in my game. The teens wouldn't put up their homework, but the kids did. Ever since the patch before GT was released, it started doing it for both.
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      sillyangel0906sillyangel0906 Posts: 5,406 Member
      My children have always put their homework back in their inventory. Teens didn't for a while but I noticed that they have been putting their homework back in their inventories again lately.
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      jackjack_kjackjack_k Posts: 8,601 Member
      edited February 2016
      @Cinebar wrote: »
      shaposh2012 wrote: »
      This was intentional? Good grief!

      Because it's a hybrid of open world and closed world there isn't a clean up system to clean up whatever Sims leave in the public spaces or on closed lots. If you see Sims doing homework you can bet it will still be there next week. I don't understand why it can't be cleaned up since this is basically a closed world system with not Story Progression to speak of and why the game can't clean those up. Or remind Sims to put it back in inventory before they leave. It's not TS3 system and shouldn't even resemble TS3 ( as in leaving stuff all over the world) since there are loading screens between lots.

      It has nothing to do with Open World or Closed World? What gave you that idea.

      And there is a clean up system. Every wednesday.
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      simplydawnsimplydawn Posts: 181 Member
      It happens to me all the time, too, but if my Sims lose a HW book, they're cheap to replace so I just buy a new one. If they're on a public lot (park, library, etc.) and I see an abandoned book, I just go in to edit mode and delete it. Easy peasy!
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      CinebarCinebar Posts: 33,618 Member
      edited February 2016
      jackjack_k wrote: »
      @Cinebar wrote: »
      shaposh2012 wrote: »
      This was intentional? Good grief!

      Because it's a hybrid of open world and closed world there isn't a clean up system to clean up whatever Sims leave in the public spaces or on closed lots. If you see Sims doing homework you can bet it will still be there next week. I don't understand why it can't be cleaned up since this is basically a closed world system with not Story Progression to speak of and why the game can't clean those up. Or remind Sims to put it back in inventory before they leave. It's not TS3 system and shouldn't even resemble TS3 ( as in leaving stuff all over the world) since there are loading screens between lots.

      It has nothing to do with Open World or Closed World? What gave you that idea.

      And there is a clean up system. Every wednesday.

      Sure it does. Sims shouldn't leave objects in community lots and not have a clean up system (closed world system) that cleans it up next time you load the community lot. See the difference? In open world Sims leave stuff in open world community lots. In the Closed world system a clean up system cleans up a community lot and resets it to be clean the next time it loads.

      ETA: The 'bug' I'm talking about is when townies or my own Sims on rotation leave homework in community lots. That is still in this game. Has nothing to do with putting homework in inventory at home. It has to do with others not being played whether your own or townie show up and do homework on a community lot and leave it. Happens everyday in my game if I play it.
      "Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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      LFBLFB Posts: 29 New Member
      I hate the HW books! My legacy sim family has a HW club that runs every afternoon for all the cousins to hang out and do HW. The whole dining room table is full of books after. Super annoying.
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