Zoi Goes to the Office on a Holiday and Won’t Leave

    • Game Version: 20260727.14099.W

    • Platform: Steam Windows

    • Mods: - Custom hairstyles - Custom objects - Self-created Mod Kit objects (not published)

    • Hardware Specifications & Operating System Windows 11 Pro, AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core Processor, AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, 32 GB

My Zoi is an active reporter. She had just been at the Spring Festival with her boyfriend when they decided that going on a date would be nice. They were supposed to meet at a restaurant.

Both of them left for the restaurant. I teleported her there first, then switched to her boyfriend and teleported him there as well. However, by the time he arrived, she was already walking past him and heading away.

She went straight to her office, even though it’s a holiday. I also can’t get her to leave the office manually. She simply stays there. All actions that would cause her to leave the lot are automatically canceled.

Meanwhile, her boyfriend is sitting alone and sad at the restaurant.

Something seems to be wrong with the calendar, schedules, and events. I went back to an earlier save and didn’t have her schedule a date. She went home normally at some point and stayed there.

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I hope these are both save files: one from before they scheduled the date and one from when she gets stuck at the office.

And even with direct control using WASD, you couldn’t make her leave from there?

Only up to the property line, then her movement gets blocked. She just refuses to go any farther—and on top of that, she doesn’t even get paid. :smiley:

@Sephrenia Oh wait!!! She is working at the Press, right?

There is a strange glitch with the entry / exit which sometimes happens. Even with WASD it is not possible to get over it sometimes. To me this happened on both directions to the office and out of the office a couple of times. Then only thing that helped was to wait until the time is over and then use the “move now” button.

@Sephrenia just checked your save file where she is at the Press. I am able to leave normally. It is very strange with this entry… Sometimes this happens, somtimes not. And it seems even that it is not tied to the save file but somehow random.

@EllaEstella Thanks for checking! I’m glad it was the right save file.

I play with 96-minute days—could that be a potential source of the error? It’s noticeable that events tend to cause problems for me. She is going to work normally again now; I kept playing and the issue didn’t happen again. Also, it only occurred after they had arranged the date. It’s all very strange.

@Sephrenia I am also playing with 96 minutes day. So not necessarily… I did not run into this strange Tuesday workday bug like you so far. But what I also have is that Wednesdays and for some Zois also Fridays are removed from the schedule even in the seasons where there is no holiday at that day. And I haven’t notice this strange behavior in conjunction with other events like dates or the fitness meetings. So not sure.

This happens in my save with holidays as well. I have an adult zoi who works at Unit Plan, a teen, and a child. I tried having them all go to the Spring Festival together. Since I mainly play as the teen, I was on him when I set them to travel together. When they got there, the child was basically stuck. She couldn’t do anything but stand at the spot where you got off the bus. The mom, was there briefly, but when I switched to her, she was leaving to go to work. The only one without issue was the teen. I ended up reloading and only going to the festival with the teen.

When I visit zois from my other household on holidays, they will sometimes leave for work/school too. It seems the calendar is very glitchy, especially if you swap between households.

Yeah, none of this works very well. There are also problems with working from home; that doesn’t work properly either. At some point, they just run off to the office. I’m not playing the active careers anymore either because it just annoys me too much.