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The issue mentioned above is happening to me as well.
It doesn’t matter which city I’m playing in: the first exam works normally, but the second exam does not start. When I click on the school desk, the only available options are to cheat or to skip the exam.
The exam eventually starts normally at around 3:30, but by then a significant amount of time has already been wasted.
Is there any chance this bug will be fixed sometime during my lifetime?
This happens to me too. Happened to me once again just now actually. The exam officially ended and everyone’s still at it even though it’s essentially useless lol.
I had this too, but if I took my Zoi to the other classroom I could click on a bench there and start the exam. That started it for everyone.
It was a workaround for me and might help to solve what is wrong.
If I see this correctly, this is what I think is happening: The problem seems to be that the exam can now only be taken once in the morning class, and once in the afternoon class, where before the September update, you could take it as much as you wanted. However, the active tasks disappear a couple of minutes before the actual class ends, and everybody starts taking their second exam from the afternoon in the remaining minutes of the morning class already. Then in the afternoon when everybody needs to take the second exam, all the students have that tasks disabled because they already took it in the morning, so nothing happens for them anymore. Since I had my autonomy off at the time, I was the only one who could still take it. For the developers, the solution is either allow the exam to be taken more than once (which wouldn’t be bad if you play on longer than 48 minutes per day, as the students are just sitting there for an entire hour staring blankly into the void once their exam is finished anyway), or time the tasks better so they end exactly at 12 and at 4. But personally I think just allowing the students to take the exam more than once seems like the better of the two options and probably also the easier one to implement.
EDIT: Okay, I don’t really know what just happened, but I paused the game to write this post, and when I resumed, everybody sat down and started taking the exam (around 2.30 in-game time). The tasks were no longer available, so maybe that’s what made them start (just as they started their second exam in the morning when the tasks disappeared as well). But after I finished my exam, I had no option to take it again, so somehow that would probably mean that the students taking the second exam in the morning must have gotten some kind of a reset so they were allowed to take it again, and the reset seems to come when the tasks end. Since I was still taking my exam at that time, maybe that would explain why I couldn’t take it anymore, as once the students were finished around 3.30 in-game time, they once again sat still until a few minutes before 4pm in-game time, when apparently another reset was given and they all started taking the exam yet again.
ANOTHER EDIT: I’m just thinking of a third solution for the devs. Maybe just let the exams not end after a certain amount of time, but let them terminate by some other trigger (like at 12 the lunch time trigger, and at 4 the school is over trigger). That way no matter at what speed someone is playing, the exams fill the entire 2 in-game hours, and no students can start their next exam in an earlier period.
I’ve tested it on 48m / day, and things more or less seem to work as they are supposed to now, with the exception that they still try to start their exam just minutes before lunchbreak in the morning, having students arrive late in the cafeteria, and minutes before school ends in the evening, keeping the students trapped there for another few hours.
On 96m / day not much seems to have changed. Some Zoi now take their second exam at 2pm sharp, but a bunch still stand around until 2.30 before they begin. Also here, they take the exam a second time just minutes before lunch and minutes before end of day… but at least everybody does take it eventually
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