[BUG] Overweight toddlers/children/teens

[oshizu]

Am I the only one with this problem?

When my nooboos age up to toddlers, they are chubby. Okay, chubby toddlers are rather adorable. I can live with that.

Even with maxed Movement skill, though, the chubby toddlers age up to chubby children.

On their teen birthday, even with maxed Motion skill, the chubby child becomes a chubby teen.
At this point, they drink an Insta-Lean Potion which instead makes them look anorexic.

I've noticed this happening since around mid-April.
It can't be their diet--as children and teens, they are in clubs and frequently use Rally the Troops.

Just wondering if my game is glitched or if I'm doing something fatally wrong.

[Franki]

Sadly, it's a known bug: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Children-age-up-heavier-than-they-should-be/td-p/4625683

[Playalot]

Probably just the usual bugs etc etc I have the opposite problem in a lot of my games. Dreadfully skinny teens after being fairly skinny kids. It just seems like each particular persons game seems to get locked into a certain RNG of weight or of townie presentation or of NPC family structure etc and that is that.

All my townie women look like twins of each other, all brown hair same noses, eyes, chins, mouths etc and all dressed in CL type clothing. After I do a complete uninstall/reinstall it improves for a while.... only for another equally annoying pattern to emerge.

I don't bother doing many reinstalls these days as it really is a waste of time when aiming to fix these weird patterns. but it is useful if the current 'pattern' your game seems stuck in at the moment is driving you completely bonkers!

*You bet me to it Franki 

[oshizu]

Thank you both for letting me know it's a known bug.
I was looking for a sample image to post, but you both beat me to it! Here's an image from mid-April.



Oooh, a reinstall! Maybe I'll just wait until they're teens to give them an Insta-Lean Potion (after which they look anorexic instead). *sighs

However, I'm really glad to know that I haven't been mistreating my bassinet burritos and cause the unwanted weight gain myself.
*cries anyway
Thanks for the link! I'm going to click "Me, too!"