May 2019 - last edited October 2020 by crinrict
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? 1.51.77.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? find a job for a sim, wait for the time they are supposed to go to work and they won't go.
What happens when the bug occurs? Sims stay at home and the job panel shows that their job starts in a minute.
What do you expect to see? Sims should go to work and the job panel should have the go to work button.
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? No
So I have noticed that all my households budget depleting and I couldn't understand why. Until I noticed that children have stayed at home for more days than they should. And also noticed adults stay at home more often. So I watched my sims closely and here is my sim, Taylor Johnson, at night. I expect him to go to his job as a gardener at 8 in the morning.
when he woke up at 6 am, I made him fulfill his needs and waited for him to automatically go to work but it didn't happen. So I clicked on the work panel and the go to work panel isn't their to give the command.
Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag
May 2019
Good Luck
Crin
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May 2019 - last edited May 2019
I think I accidently discovered the problem of 3 or 4 bugs that may be all related to each other. This was a pear accident.
I fill like have to do a new bug report for this strange bug. It all relates to GTW
If you save an Active work family while they are at their work, and switch households, if the other family is at work they never return home, if they are at home they never go to work or school, because the loaded active work lot tells your sims that a active work lot is active so they can't go to work or school. Sims can not go home to active work lots either.
Affect
Gigs,
Acting Career,
regular jobs,
I am going to see if completing the Active work job fixes it. I can't find the other posts, but it affects all jobs.
Edit: it worked as soon as the active work career sent the sim home that was saved on the active work lot, the other sims that where stuck at work, and couldn't go home was able to return home. This bug is caused by saving the game at the active work lot and switching households work around to get yours sims to normal don't save find the sims that is saved on the active work lot and finish working, when the game kicks the sim back home all the other sims will be unlocked and your free to change households again.
My test was by accident as I was tired and saved the game when the sim was on the active work lot, almost forgot about it, and changed households Everyone in Sigerworth households where at work, and the one that was home acted like he was away from the lot, The sims even returned home but no one was there.
Also I was able to test another lot and the sims where there but was missing school so I tried to send them to school, but the game just said they met so and so and the school thing dropped away and reset.
This could also be tied to the gigs in the acting career, or sims in the freelancer profession not clearing their gigs. The Science Career is the only active career I tested it on, so it could happen in other active careers even the Acting lot.
May 2019 - last edited May 2019
That's interesting
That must be a lot of people that do that cause you can't really switch out of the active career unless you save and quit the game.
I did test your theory with the save I got from this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-Showing-as-off-lot-while-at-home/m-p/7181756#M77450 and did find one Sim that was in the doctor career still on the lot.
Sending him home did indeed fix the issue.
What other bugs are you referring to ? The cancel gig one ?
EDIT: Hm.. I played some more in that save and it actually fixed itself after a while. As soon as end of the day arrived, the faulty Sim went home (although I didn't play with him) and all went back to normal.
Good Luck
Crin
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May 2019
May 2019
are you still having issues with this ? Does any of the suggestions help you ?
Good Luck
Crin
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June 2020
June 2020
I’m having the same issue with not being able to send my sims to work, but the issue goes further that I’m not able to send my sims to their university classes. When I hit the go to class/go to work button nothing happens, I’m not sure how to fix the issue.
June 2020
For me, the go to work panel is still there but nothing happens when I click it. What do I do?
June 2020
me too