[OPEN] [HR] Ranch Hand Stays Past 7 pm

by pearlbh
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[OPEN] [HR] Ranch Hand Stays Past 7 pm

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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? 1.99.305.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except a few kits.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Hire a ranch hand. During the day, make a Sim go off lot with you following them (to a community lot, in other words.) Come back to the household lot.
What happens when the bug occurs? Ranch hand stays past 7 pm on any day when a Sim in the household goes to a community lot. The ranch hand appears to stay until they have been on the lot for a total of 12 hours while the lot is active.
What do you expect to see? The ranch hand leaving at 7 pm regardless of how many hours the lot was active, i.e., if the player had a household Sim at a community lot for some time during the day.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

Whenever this bug occurs, it also results in the ranch hand not showing up the next Sim day and needing to be rehired. 

 

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★★★ Guide

Also having this issue in conjunction with the bug of having to rehire the ranch hand every few days. She basically does not leave for several days, does random stuff like make coffee and drink milk from my fridge, then after several days of doing who knows what on the ranch, she leaves and never comes back unless i re-hire.

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EA Sims Team
Hello @pearlbh!

Could you please check if this issue is encountered without mods too? Also please make sure you delete the localthumbcache file after removing mods.

Thanks!


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★★★ Apprentice

My ranch hand has decided she lives in my Sims house, she tried to take over my Sims bed at 11 pm instead of going to her own home.

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★★★ Apprentice

I've been doing some testing in a vanilla game and the problem exists there too. Exactly the same as with mods. 

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Champion

My ranch hand stayed up late just dancing in my cabin - she didn’t leave until nearly 3am

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I'm having the same problem and, in addition, the Ranch hand seems to spend a great deal of her time baking White Cakes.  I find them all over the house whenever the ranch hand is there.

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Ranch Hand Has Never Left

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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? 1.79
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Not sure
What happens when the bug occurs? Ranch Hand hired and never left
What do you expect to see? The Ranch Hand to fulfill shifts
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

I admit, I almost do not want to report this at all. From the moment I hired my Ranch Hand, she has never left. She has lived with my Sim family for a few Sim months at this point. She really has never left. She does her job. She's good at it. She is great with the horses and goats. Even the rabbits I put on the ranch. She was good with the chickens too, until I sold them all. She cleans my house and takes care of my dog. So, on one 'hand' I don't want this fixed. lol  I also worry, because if it is fixed, how much am I going to owe this woman when she leaves her shift for the day. The only thing my Ranch Hand doesn't do is take care of the infant. Which, I'm glad about or I would be irritated. And she does have a habit of dropping apples. I had started having apple trees all over the place, but I found a solution to that, so that's resolved. lol Anyway, figured ya'll should know (but I actually would love for it to stay this way). 

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Champion

Whenever this bug occurs, it also results in the ranch hand not showing up the next Sim day” - interestingly, my experience has been the opposite. When the ranch hand stays late and doesn’t take her pay, she does at least come back at 7am the next day. When she takes her pay and leaves at 7pm, she never comes back and needs to be rehired.

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I have exactly the same issue, I don't use any mods (not installed, not used). It's just so annoying because I like my sims to go to the town to sell their crops and milk, especially during the fairs, when the selling price is 10% higher. It just stops me from going out because sometimes I forget to re-hire the ranch hand and my goats were extremely unwell because no one took care of them.

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