Sims Private Investigator actions cancel immediately

[Blaza]

Anyone know a fix for this? It worked fine, until winter came and then I couldn't do anything related to the P.I profession. The actions just cancel as soon as I give them. I've tried reseting Sim and everything, and everything but the P.I actions work.

[Lemons]

I have this exact same problem. I don't have seasons though, it happened after he reached level ten. I visited a household (countering the breaking in glitch) and low and behold, it would cancel every time i tried to dust for finger prints around the house, even teleporting me to the backdoor. I thought it was a fluke and just canceled the opportunity and got a new one. Now though, I can't even go through people's mailboxes. It cancels IMMEDIATELY. It's an old topic I know, but it's definitely a problem. Reseting the sim didn't work for me either.

Edit: It might be handy to note that he also had a birthday recently AND went into a mid life crisis, but I don't remember if the fingerprint incident happened before or after his b day. I've done several things so far to fix this. I tried resetting, I reinstalled, and i even had him quit his job and rejoin. I've cleared out the cache (typical fix to a lot of glitches). To test if it fixed anything I'd have him do a stakeout, but as soon as he's about to start the stakeout it looks like he resets right on the property. Really frickin annoying as I have 25 out of 35 cases done right now.

[cruinne]

Try resetting the sim (in the Cheats panel type: resetSim Firstname Lastname -- that is, if your investigator is named Sam Spade, you'd type: resetSim Sam Spade).

If that doesn't work, go into the Edit Town mode and evict them from their household, then merge them back in and see if that helps.

[Lemons]

I think we both me and OP reset our sims. I'll try and evict though. Although i think it screws with their wishes I suppose it doesn't much matter by this point.

EDIT: evicting did nothing. Maybe I'll copy them from the clip board. REALLY didn't want to have to do it but hopefully it fixes it.

Second edit: Well, copying them from the clipboard works of course. I would MUCH rather find another way though. I mean I'm losing ALL the relationships my investigator made in the first place. Plus I'm losing those 25 cases. There are others in the house that i think their wishes aren't affected, but my investigator was really my mary sue. I think I'd rather start another game than redo all his casework. I guess i could do the complete opportunity cheat... 25 times.

[cruinne]

Hrmm. Those are the suggestions off the top of my head. Usually when a Sim pops like that, something is interfering, though I cannot guess what it might be in this case.

Sometimes, mods like Overwatch help out (by just doing general clean-up routines that keep the game from getting out of control with stuck sims, pathing problems, and such) and ErrorTrap can help sort out other game issues.

Perhaps looking around NRaas[nraas.wikispaces.com] would turn up something promising?

[Lemons]

Unfortunately none of that worked. It should make my things less buggy for my next playthrough though. If I try to think about it in a positive fashion, I searched for DAYS about this problem and this one forum post was the only time i found anything that spoke about it, so maybe if i make someone else a PI with a different life goal i won't be too jaded about it.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Most of the ambitions professions are broke to some degree, and as usual EA said they're never going to fix it because Sims 3 is done and they aren't wasting any more money on it. The firefighter is basically unplayable 99.99999% of the time, and the ghost hunter and investigator are bad for their cases to simply clear completely when you click to go find the next step. Not as bad as the firefighter, but almost.

[Lemons]

Yeah I hate that such a good game is made by EA. Even Valve (who has betrayed my trust several times) doesn't abandon their customers so badly and is no where near as money grubbing. I just got the sims 3 and about half the expansions for real real cheap so thats how i succumbed.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Yeah, I got most of them for 2-3 bucks a piece on Amazon on sale, and except for ITF which had a interesting sounding pre-order bonus, have never paid anywhere close to full price. So my hatred is less then those who did, but I still dispise companies that do this to their customers.

Blizzard-Activision, EA, and Ubisoft are my top hated companies of all time, and have ruined everything they touch in recent years. If not for indie development, I wouldn't play computer games at all anymore.

I mean seriously....I'm currently playing an early access alpha, on a similar scale to Sims 3, on an old engine about the same age as Sims 3, and it runs INFINITELY better then Sims 3...despite having no optimization at all yet. It's disgusting that a company with EA's resources is allowed to do this.

And keep in mind. Vanilla 1.0 Sims 3 ran near flawlessly...every problem with the game since has been added by EA themselves via patches or poorly made expansion worlds.

The only way they MIGHT redeem themselves in my eyes, is now that Sims 3 is finished, go through and fix EVERYTHING so it runs perfectly without needing any mods at all to do so.

Mods should be about adding new interesting content or customizing the playing experience, not doing the developer's jobs for them, for free.