[CoL] Multiple Sims fill grocery delivery role in HoB [ Edited ]

[BlazeBard]

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)
What is your current game version number? 1.92.145.1230
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Expansion Packs: Get to Work, Get Together, City Living, Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Island Living, Discover University, Eco Lifestyle, Cottage Living. Game Packs: Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Dine Out, Vampires, Parenthood, Jungle Adventure, Strangerville, Realm of Magic, Journey to Batuu, Dream Home Decorator. Stuff Packs: Luxury Party, Perfect Patio, Cool Kitchen, Spooky, Movie Hangout, Romantic Garden, Kids Room, Backyard, Vintage Glamour, Bowling Night, Fitness, Toddler, Laundry Day, My First Pet, Moschino, Tiny Living, Nifty Knitting. Kits: Little Campers, Desert Luxe.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play in Henford-on-Bagley, possibly specifically Finchwick, and keep an eye on the NPCs with pre-assigned roles as well as the signboard in Finchwick that gives you information about the local villagers. At some point, maybe after playing for a few Sim days, there may be another NPC filling one of the roles on the signboard, even though the NPC that originally held that role still has the title for that role.
What happens when the bug occurs? I started a new save file after the most recent update and moved my Sim into Finchwick. I played for two Sim days with no issues. On the third Sim day of my new save file, I had my Sim "Learn about Villagers" on the signboard in Finchwick and found that the role of the Grocery Deliverer was filled by another Sim than Rahul Chopra, the original Grocery Deliverer. However, if I hovered the cursor over Rahul Chopra, the information box with his name, age and NPC role still showed him as the Grocery Deliverer.
What do you expect to see? If a special role for NPC Sims is meant to only be filled by one Sim at a time, then the same NPC Sim should fill that role consistently, and no other NPC Sims should fill that role while it's still being held by the Sim who's supposed to have it.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

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I did experience the other bug in which multiple Sims would take on the Henford-on-Bagley villagers' NPC roles that was fixed in the most recent patch. The situation now is a lot better than it was, and I appreciate the work that went into fixing those issues. I just wanted to mention that there still seems to be some kind of problem going on.

Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title

[crinrict]

@BlazeBard Was it just the grocery delivery or other roles as well ?

Adjusted the title a bit to reflect the new issue better.

If you order a delivery, which Sim is coming ?

[BlazeBard]

It was just the grocery deliverer. The other roles have been fine since the latest update.

If I order a delivery, the Sim who's listed as the grocery deliverer on the signboard shows up.

[siirysiir]

Not sure if this actually is a bug. I think I had two grocery deliverers already before the mayhem started where important Henford NPCs would change about every day. It makes sense for the game to have generated a duplicate because the grocery deliverer can be pulled as a walkby in Henford neighbourhoods but then if you order a delivery and the guy (Rahul Chopra by default) is already in the neighbourhood then that's kind of a problem because he can't be pulled to fill the delivery role if he's already there as a walkby. So then the backup guy/gal is pulled and you can still get the delivery normally. I used to get either one of those two guys in my game before everything went crazy and I didn't mind it all, I just gave the other guy a makeover. I'll rather have the delivery person show up as a walkby and have one or two extra people for the role than to never see him unless I order a delivery. (Would be pretty tedious to get errands from him too if I had to summon him myself each time.. :D So all in all this is probably better for gameplay!)

Also you can test this just by ordering two separate deliveries and see who shows up.

[crinrict]

@siirysiir I always had multiple too but Rahul was the one showing on the board for me always. I think that shouldn't change.

[siirysiir]

@crinrict Ah yeah that bit, kinda forgot about it. But true, it would be good to keep him there. (I never actually look at that info board because it doesn't really.. do anything for gameplay doesn't it?) Just by looking at the hidden traits these delivery sims have, they don't seem to have any system to make Rahul (or anyone else) the "original" or special from the other sims in any way so maybe they'd have to implement something just to give him that "original delivery person" status somehow. Can't see that happening very soon though.. 😅

It would be helpful to us players if they added an interaction on that board so that we could assign those sims to the roles in case something goes wrong. This would be great if we wanted to make changes to them anyways, like not having immortal sims like the Crumplebottoms. (Now that they're just the same characters always, when I think they should be old enough to die in my game I'm going to cas.fulledit them to some other people just for immersion's sake!)