Help 1.26 patch ?

[samoht04]

Odd. I did notice it took me some time to get my Sim to fish but he did fish with Alley Catfish after a while. I didn't play long enough to see if he caught anything but he can fish. He was also an Elder.

[MoMoll]

Glad they patched the photography!, So, for fun, my sim asked a Chinese Paparrazzi to move-in with her (she's a 5 star celeb). He's having a blast taking pics of her celeb friends!

[amyrose]

Just started a new game in SV, and the game has placed the Ambitions lots (consignment store, junkyard, salon) on different lots. They are now much more logically placed near the town centre.

[samoht04]

My fishing is bugged. He won't fish with Catfish. I'm going to see if maybe the fact that he had his bait before the patch may be the cause.

[cynicalgirl77]

He'll fish close to shore with whatever bait I want, but I try to get him to fish where the fish actually ARE and he won't do it any more.  SO, SO frustrating.  He's so close to completing his lifetime wish!

[Hosfac]

Just started a new game in SV, and the game has placed the Ambitions lots (consignment store, junkyard, salon) on different lots. They are now much more logically placed near the town centre.

I did as well, and they were dropped where they always were and with the same random orientation.  Perhaps that's due to Generations...

Things that I can confirm are fixed:

Photography:  That bug appears to be gone, and it's infinitely easier to get the various shots for photo collections.  I'm still investigating the one collection that was gimped.
Excavating:  Seems to be fixed after a fashion.  It looks like the spawners got moved onto lots and the spawners out in the middle of nowhere are gone.  I've only traveled once, so I might be mistaken.
Vampire bed:  Vampire Sims now sleep over the center of the Vampiric Sanctum.
Edit:  Babies:  They no longer require such a ridiculous amount of attention.  You can max their social need after one pass through all the options (might have been fixed with Generations patch)

Things that I can confirm that are not fixed:

Gym:  You still can't level Athletics in the gyms.  
Aging bug:  Tattoos and makeovers still reset age, however it seems to have spread to taking a sim back to CAS for modification (this may have occurred with the initial Generations patch).

Possible new bugs:

Weight gain:  Sims that are overweight out of CAS or at the start of the game seem to gain that weight back faster.
Freezing:  I have been experiencing intermittent, temporary freezes.  While this was common in Riverview (and Barnacle Bay somewhat), it's happening in Sunset Valley now.  Just not as bad.  It's possible that it may have something to do with how long I've had the game running.
Edit:  Photography (Nectary/Hotspot):  You can only get the "Nectary" photo for a sims photo collection on the first day of your first visit.  That evening, the Nectary gets designated as a Latenight hotspot and stays that way (even during the daytime).  Working on a possible workaround.

Bugs that I am in the process of checking:

Ordering Omniplant seeds.
The family inventory glitch.  (Edit:  Fixed)
Working on a possible workaround for the Gym bug.
The family tree travel bug.  (Edit:  So far, so good)
Vampire children's godly learning speeds.  (Edit:  Confirmed fixed by Seabody)

[Sportsfan]

Hosfac that is a great list, thanks!

The resetting the age when using the edit in CAS cheat has been around since the cheat was introduced.

[cathyknits]

I'm doing some research into the fishing thing. It only seems to affect pre-existing files - I tried with two existing saves, different families, different towns, and none of them could fish with bait on a spawner (including trying Thomas's thought that maybe you need fresh bait - no luck). I started fresh files with the same households, and they could fish just fine.

Looking for a workaround, cure, or fix: Moving sims to a different lot didn't help. Ye Olde Faithful Clearing Of Ye Caches didn't help. Resetting the sim didn't help. I haven't yet tried drastic measures (e.g. saving the household and lot to the bin, starting a new file, putting them back).

[amyrose]

I did as well, and they were dropped where they always were and with the same random orientation.  Perhaps that's due to Generations...

I have all EP's and SP's apart from Pets - it's not released until Friday in the UK

[Magz from Oz]

Very happy to hear the excavation will now work.

Patch took half and hour to upload.  There is  a glitch around 4:00 a.m. much like the one in WA, Shang Simla, China.  Lags for about 30 seconds.  Apart from the missing fish and the unusable carrots, so far so good.

[Seabody]

Vampire children's godly learning speeds.

As much as it pains me to say it... fixed.

[Vegangeekgirl]

I installed the patch and everthing seems to be working smoothly as long I don't let them travel.
If I try they seem to arrive but the "Arriving" icon never disappears. I can't change Sim, I can't check their needs or anything really and they have no money at all! The little icons of the family never shows up. I can point on things and make the active things use them, but can't make the Sim use the phone, change clothes and stuff like that. Then the game stops responding.

Needed to correct a can't to can

[Ricalynn]

Vegangeekgirl -- That sounds like something that I had a problem with during Generations.  Eventually the only solution to allow them to travel was to move them out of their house and then move them back in.  Then travel became viable again.

[Vegangeekgirl]

Vegangeekgirl -- That sounds like something that I had a problem with during Generations.  Eventually the only solution to allow them to travel was to move them out of their house and then move them back in.  Then travel became viable again.

Thanks I will try that!

[cathyknits]

I had a thought about the fishing bug - I'm not sure I can do this since I don't have WA (and I'm not home so I don't have anything right this minute), but would someone who can't fish and has access to the buydebug cheat please place a new fish spawner into their existing world where people can't fish (any will do, just for testing) and see if it works? My hunch is that, in order for cats to hunt fish, they had to change some programming on the fish spawners, and the spawners in existing worlds aren't getting replaced properly with new ones. It would be a pain to have to go through and replace them all one-for-one, but replacing just a couple of them (enough that every type of fish is available somewhere) could make or break a Dynasty or challenge file.

Also, I think Carrots were included in the patch by mistake - it looks like if you just have the patch, you can buy them at the store but they don't actually exist, but with Pets installed they work just like any other veg.