December 2015 - last edited November 2020 by crinrict
I'm playing one of the members of the pre-made Avant Gardes club, which has in its encouraged activities reading, writing, homework, video gaming, and drinking coffee. The Sim I'm playing (Maaike Haas, young adult) is a writer and needs to read books for career advancement. But during a club meeting, she keeps wanting to put down the skill books I'm trying to get her to read and go to the bookcase to pick up another book before finishing the first one. Another Sim in the club appears to be doing the same thing (reading one book for a short time then going to pick up another).
If it makes a difference, I moved Maaike into one of my other Sim's homes, and had the club meeting at her lot, not at the designated hangout, when I observed this. I've observed at other club gatherings Sims interrupting what they're doing to do one of the encouraged activities, but they really shouldn't if they're already doing said activity, even if it gets more points to start anew; that should be the player's decision.
I'm on Mac OS X (Yosemite), all expansions and packs, no mods or CC.
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November 2020
Sims in Clubs with a Read rule now finish the books they choose to read. No cheating, my friends.
Fixed in Patch 1.68.154/ 1.33
If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.
Good Luck
Crin
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December 2015
Sounds a lot like this: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-will-autonomously-stop-reading-books-befor...
Do you not have the issue outside of club meetings ?
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Crin
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December 2015 - last edited December 2015
I have experienced the issue you linked to before also, but I think this one is different because they are specifically stopping reading a book to read another book (which is one of the club activities). When I have them read skill books outside of a club they will sometimes stop reading to do something else but not to read another book.
ETA - Some time after the club meeting ended I had her read the same skill book. This time she eventually put it down, but did not add anything else (book or otherwise) to her queue.
December 2015
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Crin
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December 2015
We've had this same problem in Carl's Forum in the Rivalry Dynasty Challenge. The only way we know to work around it is lock the Sim you want to read in a room with nothing else to read in it. You can fill their inventory with books you want them to read, and even though they may put a book down, eventually they will read them all. Second way is remove the activity from the club list. You can then just have your Sim read as normal. This goes for pretty much all activities in the various clubs lists.
February 2016
February 2016
That is true but with clubs it seems even worse.
Your issue has a thread here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Sims-will-autonomously-stop-reading-books-before-the...
Good Luck
Crin
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February 2016
This is still occurring after the February 2016 patch. I tested in a new save and I deleted my cache files.
February 2016
Let see outside a club meeting a sim will read a book half way through and then put the book down. If you make the sim pick up the same book again to read they will finish up the book. If a sim has the speed reader reward trait they will read the book all the way through before putting the book down.
In a club meeting a sim will not read a book half way through before putting it down and will go and get a new book to read. Sims with the speed reader reward trait well not read a book all the way through while in a club meeting before getting a new book.
I have also observed in a club meeting that sims will ignore the other club activities or barely do them before going to read a book. Also sims will practically ignore their needs and almost starve themselves if read books is one of the club activities. Which is really strange. So this really needs some tuning done.
March 2016
This should be fixed in the March 22nd patch. Please test and give feedback if you are still having the issue.
Sims will now finish reading a book!
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/881695/march-22-2016-patch-notes