Help me please. My sims wont move.

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Help me please. My sims wont move.

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I don't know how this happened but my sims just keep standing , dancing and wobbling around. Whenever I click to a stuff there's no command that pops out and when I click the simtracker there is a bar that shows they are busy but no action name is shown plus the progress is not moving at all.

Please help, Thanks :/
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Pyrobolt17 wrote:I don't know how this happened but my sims just keep standing , dancing and wobbling around. Whenever I click to a stuff there's no command that pops out and when I click the simtracker there is a bar that shows they are busy but no action name is shown plus the progress is not moving at all.

Please help, Thanks :/
This sounds like your sim is stuck in his action. Sometimes this happens to my, too.
You can wait for a while, and see whether he'll be free later.
Or tap the sim and use an LP to get him free. He will get the rewards.
Or cancel the action with the little red button with the "x". In this case you'll lose the rewards for this task.

Hope, this helps :)
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Mine are doing this too. I had one last week just jiggling in the garden, he wasn't doing a task, just standing there. All his commands were greyed out so I couldn't whistle him over or send him anywhere and couldn't click on anything to give him a task. When it was time to send him to work his briefcase flashed but when I clicked on it I was told I can't send a busy Sim to work. After a couple of days he suddenly popped free of his trance and functioned as normal. Now I have another one doing exactly the same thing. This time it's been for longer so am going to send a ticket in about it.
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Oh, and it can also be the "freeze" issue. Have a look at this topic
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This has happened to my sims a couple of times too and it started before the Saddle Up update, so like everyone is saying in that other thread it isn't just an issue with the horses. The last time it happened my sim got stuck right in front of my singing fish after she was done listening to it, so not only was it frustrating that I couldn't get her to move, but now she was also blocking the fish from other Sims using it. There was no action to cancel, no way to whistle her anywhere... As soon as the diamond would show above her head, it would immediately pop over the focus to another Sim. So I closed SFP... (Hard closed it, by swiping up on the Ipad, not just by going out of it), and it took a few times trying that, but finally she was released so I could send her back home. Another time when a Sim got stuck, that didn't work I had to hard close the app and then restart my devise. Thankfully it doesn't happen often, but it's a real hassle. One other time when my sim got stuck I was able to whistle him to another home, but I couldn't get him back to the home where he had been gardening. The whistle was greyed out to get him to that home for several days so just had him garden elsewhere.
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Simssarah wrote:Mine are doing this too. I had one last week just jiggling in the garden, he wasn't doing a task, just standing there. All his commands were greyed out so I couldn't whistle him over or send him anywhere and couldn't click on anything to give him a task. When it was time to send him to work his briefcase flashed but when I clicked on it I was told I can't send a busy Sim to work. After a couple of days he suddenly popped free of his trance and functioned as normal. Now I have another one doing exactly the same thing. This time it's been for longer so am going to send a ticket in about it.
Yes, that's my problem. I remember it occured after I planted beans, now all of my 7 sims do the same thing. And when I tried to start a new game my new sim does the same. I think this is an internal problem.
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I also posted this over on the horse freezing thread, but it is also relevant over here:

"I haven't done any of the horse hobbies yet because all of my adult sims want to dive for their orbs, but I've been working on repairing the stables. Just now, one of my teens froze up and I couldn't get her to do anything, couldn't whistle her anywhere, go to neighbors, have anyone talk to her. In an attempt to unlock her by moving the family to another house, I realized I had just put her mom to work repairing the vaulting paddock, and that the teen had frozen at the same time the mom started work. I canceled the mom working on the repairs, and immediately the teen was unfrozen. I guess I'm going to have to wait until the bug is fixed to finish the vaulting paddock."
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I have now tried everything. I just called his brother over (who is living out the apocalypse in the teen mansion) and gave him some planting but even when he finished...nothing. Nate is well and truly stuck....jiggling. Wouldn't be so bad but I actually want to wardrobe him so I can add another baby.
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I uninstalled the game -- Problem solved !

I wish it will be fine if I installed it again.
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This is happening to me too. I just put my sims parents to horse tricks, and the teen daughter froze. I tried closing and restarting, I tried saving and resetting. The only thing that freed her, thanks to the ideas in this thread (thank you!), was cancelling her mom's action (very specifically her mom). When I cancelled her dad's horse tricks, she remained frozen. I started and stopped them both several times, and it was definitely the mom who caused the daughter to be stuck.
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