[OPEN] Sims return from Work/School early after loading screen

[crinrict · Accepted solution]

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• If a Sim is at work or school on the day of a holiday, they will no longer return home from work/school early if another Sim in the household travels somewhere during the holiday.

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Taking feedback if this is still occurring for anyone (with or without holidays)

Fixed in Patch 1.47.49

[khamseen_air]

If this is truly fixed in 1.47.49 I'll be so happy! I haven't been able to play for months because there was no point when I kept losing so much progress every time I decided not to be tied to the house all day.

[Ayalaine]

Since getting the patch, I've started having issues with children coming back from school early without anyone leaving the lot or having a holiday. I have five in one household, and currently they just come back one at time rather than all at once. I don't have any mods/cc running.

[crinrict]

How much earlier ?

[Ayalaine]

I think it started around 9, then continued roughly every half hour until all but one were home by 11:30.

[crinrict]

Could it be this: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Sack-Lunches-cause-Sims-to-return-from-school-work-early/m-p/7... ?

[sefned]

Currently having this issue on the PS4. 

I've tried 3 different times to send one Sim strawberry picking on Rebate Day while the other Sim was at work. I even sent him to 3 different lots. Every time she came home as soon as the loading screen ended. Every time she had worked less than an hour.

I've only owned the Sims 4 for 2 weeks and only got Seasons yesterday plus my PS4 is almost always connected to the internet so I could be running the latest patches but I haven't figured out how to double check.

ETA: Apparently the only save I had the last time was AFTER she left for work on Rebate Day. When I reloaded she came home early again, this time after just minutes (Sim time) of work. So she lost a full day of wages in the "furniture on the lawn" stage of my legacy run.

[crinrict]

Hi @sefned

could you please create a new thread for console. This is fixed for PC.

Thanks

[Iyasenu]

@crinrict

This issue seems to be back on PC.

As I loaded up my game to test the speech-watching issue, my Sim who was at work when I had saved and exited came back home early.

I loaded back in at 7:39PM in-game, and immediately got a notice that the Sim had come home from work, even though they aren't off until 9:00PM.

This came with a performance hit and of course only enough pay for the amount of time they had worked.

Here's the save it's happening in, just in case it's needed:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DSQHhGvRMMcHc7K_Id-8OajLRbQBTD88

[crinrict]

Was it a one off or does it happen every time you travel ?

There's still a few issues around (especially with lunch packs)

I'd say, if it still happens regularly, try different scenarios when it still happens and make a new thread.

The lunch pack one already has a thread and we also have this one: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Sim-wants-to-leave-work-early-message/m-p/7188759#... which is a bit different.