Eternal Flea Market Glitch

[Playalot]

Just have to stay longer then @oshizu ..it will happen. The game is coded to clear and respawn items so I guess your sim will just have to stay there until it does.

Before the patched-in fix it could take up to 3 sim days...maybe something is broken again and it is back to taking that long. idk... I haven't had time to dive into game play for a while now so I can't check.

[oshizu]

Thank you Playalot. I'll try staying there longer.
And on its next regularly scheduled day, too.

[Joria]

I think that as we get closer and closer to a new patch and Get Famous, more and more of these annoying glitches are appearing with no apparent reason.  Are they kind of tweaking things behind the scenes do you suppose?

[oshizu]

@Joria
That is a excellent observation. I did follow with interest and dismay your sage of the gardener who wouldn't garden.
My legacy has reached its 9th generation so a bloated save might also be the issue.
I will gladly suffer this festival glitch until my legacy's end for a new neighborhood, LOL!

[Joria]

@oshizu : I don't think it's bloated files in my case.  I do have two longer lasting games as I relearn how to play, but my new, non-gardening gardener is doing just fine.  However, in her file, more and more things are "off" and just not quite right, like the build/buy mode is really all mixed up, some actions just simply don't want to happen at first, (a tremendous amount of lag and skipping), Sims walking off while in the middle of a discussion with them and a queue of more to be said and what seems to be a lot more evil oriented Sims.  She's changed her mind, by the way and is not gardening like all my Sims.  (sigh)  Just can't seem to not do it!

[oshizu]

Oh I mean, bloated files might be my problem.
I realize your gardener-who-won't-garden is a relatively new save for you.
But wow, so much lag and freezing already in a new save? Is it because of the size of your Sims 4 folder, rather than that particular save?
I'm thinking mostly of the Tray folder. To avoid larger than necessary Tray folders and to be able to with or without cc, I have separate Sims 4 folders.
I feel for you and your dysfunctional gardener. :/

[Playalot]

Saw a tweet from one of the QA devs on this issue. They know that the festival double/triple spawning issue is still occurring and were asking for files with it. Sadly I forgot to mark the tweet and can't find it again but least we know they are still working on it. 

[oshizu]

@Playalot
Thank you for keeping this weirdness in mind on my/our behalf!

My sims returned to the H&H Festival area a few more days but nothing happened.
But when they got the notice for it, they actually joined the Pranksters and what not. The festival stuff vanished by 1 a.m.
I can't share files because I use one mod and lots of cc for hair/clothing.

[itsnanac]

So my already glitchy game has come up with another problem, it's decided to make the flea market never go away...

The regular spice market objects are spawning in on top of the flea market, causing things like benches in foodstalls, the spice market food being covered by a painting sellers display, the bubble blowers having busking stations in them ect meaning nothing in the spice market where my sim currently is useable

Is there any way to fix this strange glitch? (Tried repair game, vising other worlds, switching households, turning it off and on again)

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[Playalot]

Hi @itsnanac  if you are still having this festival issue have your sim wait around on the festival lot until the game clears up the double spawning mess. This can take over night or even a day/night/day sim cycle so be prepared to camp out!

The glitch is (mostly) caused by leaving the lot when the game cycle of spawning in/out vendors and festivals hasn't completed, hence getting a pile up of two or more.