January 2020 - last edited February by EA_Cade
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.60.54.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them EXCEPT Moschino Stuff, Fitness Stuff, and Romantic Garden Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? When planning a wedding, hire the role for the caterer, bartender/mixologist, and musician tab (don't choose your friends to do it).
What happens when the bug occurs? The caterer, mixologist, and musician never show up. Even if you manually hire them by clicking on the fridge, bar, and piano. They never show up, but it says they are on the lot.
What do you expect to see? I expect for them to show up and do their job.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
I have tried the Von Haunt Estates, Club Calico, and Myshuno Meadows Center Park. I scan the entire open world, not just the lot, these sims are nowhere to be found.
Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag
CM Edit: Updated thread title from [NEEDS SAVES] Hired roles don't show up to [NEEDS SAVES] Caterer, Bartender/Mixologist, Musician don't show up.
January 2020
@GinaMarieOynohs I've found in my game that the hired npc help no longer seem to spawn at the places they used to. Once upon a time, all of them would spawn right in front of the lot they were supposed to work in at the same places your active sims spawn but now it seems they spawn at the spawn point the furthest away for some reason. It seems to happen in all the worlds and at all venue types too and not just with the hired help either. Summoned and necrocalled ghosts do it and some of the sims I invite over by phone or invite to parties held on one of my residential lots do it as well. How quick any of them arrive at your front door seems to depend on how far away the spawn point is too so in some worlds they do arrive faster than others. It has been going on for a while but I can't say for certain when it started. But in my case, they do spawn though and they do show up at some point. But it takes them so long to get to one of my events like a wedding in Myshuno Meadows that the event is nearly over before they get there.
January 2020
This makes a lot of sense. I played around with it all day yesterday, and one time I just went with it and let the wedding go on (I had replayed my wedding at LEAST 15 times at this point lol) and I realized near the end, they finally showed up. So yeah I suppose that's the issue. Thank you for your reply!
November 2022
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PlayStation 5
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur?Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? Sp.28.45
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Pretty much all packs, kits etc except maybe one or two. I’m on console so no mods
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I did it by clicking on a bar while running my restaurant, I also clicked the busker station and hired someone
What happens when the bug occurs? I click on the bar or the busker set and it charges my sim but no one shows. When I click on them again to try hiring a second time, it says there’s already a hired sim on the lot when there isn’t one anywhere. My sim owns a restaurant, and I have a second floor with a bar and busker set, kind of like an open mic type thing but they aren’t showing. I even tried this outside of when the business is opened, and at home and it never works
What do you expect to see?Bartender/busker should show up
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
November 2022
Good Luck
Crin
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February 2023
I built a huge mall in WindenBerg. Realized what a waste when it can only be one working entity (restaurant, retail, spa, etc). I thought I could at least hire the vendors for the booths I have scattered around so I feel like it’s a mall still and not a waste of many, many hours. Work with what I can, right. Well…insult to injury I guess cause vendors don’t show up. Food booths in the food court, flower booth, baristas, etc. just don’t show. I keep paying to hire vendors and I’m losing simoleans for nothing. I’ve tried moving things around thinking that could be the issue. I wait and wait before trying to hire again just to see if they show. Nope.
Im playing sims 4 on xbox. No cheat codes, no cc content, etc.
can I only hire them under a certain category? what can I do?
This post is probably in the wrong category, sorry. I clicked new post and no clue where this may show up. Tnx
February 2023
Good Luck
Crin
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Please only contact me via PM when asked to do so.
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March 2023
June
Hello All,
If anyone of you are still encountering this on the latest pc game version 1.98 and console 1.77 (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?
If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.
Instructions here: http://x.ea.com/74420
Thanks!
November
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Français
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? Last Build as 20/11/2023
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? A lot
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Ask a chef, a musician of a mixologist to come to your house
What happens when the bug occurs? The chef never comes, the comic/musician chat with my sims and the mixologist do the same
What do you expect to see? that they work
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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