Decreased XPs?

[SIMazing]

I was away from my game for a few days, and when I came back into it, my XPs for certain tasks were lower. For instance, reading pulp fiction used to be 36XP and now it's 24XP. I also noticed that the sleeping XP is different. Is this a glitch? If not, when did the changes take place? I'm searching through my tasks looking for how many many have changed. Any big ones that I should be aware of?

[Hufflepuff Karen]

Is your Sim in their own house? I get less if my Sim spends the night doing stuff at another house - a regular in-town neighbor, not one of the party boat neighbors. But I hate having them do things all alone, so I usually have a bunch of them gather at one house to watch TV or read or garden - but if it's not their own home, the ones that don't live there sometimes earn a little less for the same task that the resident Sim is doing.

[SIMazing]

Yes. Everyone was at home. I start every morning with the same routine. If they have a neighbor over, then the residents get 36 and the visitor gets 33. But this morning it was 24 and 22.
But I think my game has gone glitchy.
I finished my morning routine, and decided to try them all out again. They are back to the right XP.
BUT, every time I leave the game, when I come back into the game it takes me to a particular house, whether there are sims there or not, even if that isn't where I was at last. I'm going to reload my last save file and see what happens.

[JKCher]

I noticed my XP for tanning on the towels had gone down somewhat. I only noticed that one cause I'd use it when I was near the end of a level with 5 Sims tanning at a time cause it was a quick way to get XP. But other stuff I just don't pay much attention to the XP

[HordePrime]

Did you make sure the sims were "inspired"? - If their needs are low, they won't earn as much XP.

[SIMazing]

SMH Thank you, HordePrime! That explains it. It's been so long since I had had uninspired sims that I completely forgot about the consequences.