I patched up early this morning (Oz time) it took an hour or so to download. My household were all reset and doing nothing at all. Xander Clavell my Sim's hubby was in the library reading and now the book is in his inventory and I can't get him to put it away in the bookcase; it just goies back into his inventory. Oh well... I just acquired an expensive book.
Gardening has become a mega issue for me. All my Sim teens take turns gardening to build the skill. But now I have to micromange gardening. No longer will 'Tend Garden' work to tend the entire garden. The Sim will harvest one plant and stand bolt upright and lose the command. Click back on the plant and repeat 'Tend Garden' to weed the plant. Sims weeds the plant and then stands bolt upright again. I have to click on just about all of the plants individually to harvest, weed and fertilise. If I didn't have auto sprinklers, I probably have to do the same for watering. So not impressed with this new problem.
Also the Plant section in the new Collection Journal is completely blank except for the headings and some of my Sim family have the fishing page replicated onto the plants page.
Also random NPC's show up in my house. While my teens were doing their homework in the library, some NPC teen (not a townie) was busy teaching hemself potions on the Chemistry Lab. The next day with the family at school or work, another NPC appeared playing chess in my skill room when they returned home. That night another NPC appeared star gazing. That next morning yet another NPC just appeared and helped themselves to the leftovers in the fridge. All these NPC's now appear as acquaintances in their friends tab. Wow, I thought, I'm going to max my NPC's for this generation but the NPC's won't come over so my sims can befreind them.
By the way: I did have the gates 'locked to everybody but my household' but I had to unlock and relock them to stop this parade of strangers through my house.
Also my townies are dying off at an unprecedented rate - some to old age when they're not really very old but most of the others to fire or drowning. I expected Buster Clavell to go because he was already an elder, but Simis Bachelor died the same night and he had only recently become an elder.
Maybe I just need to start a new game.
