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How much worse does piss-poor programming get? Before I could even start my Sim in the Criminal career I had to replace the warehouse lot as it had the well-known "cannot enter" bug. In order to even do that I had to use moveobjects to replace the lot as it would not place otherwise, giving me a constant "cannot intersect other objects" message even after clearing the lot completely.

Once started in the Criminal career I am having constant problems with the work hours. The career panel says my Sim should be at work but no carpool shows and the "send to work" button claims it is not my Sims working hours. The Sim goes to work about one in three of his supposed shifts and as a result is progressing at the rate of a paraplegic snail stuck in frozen treacle.

Headdesk. It's driving me nuts.

Strange! I haven't had any of those problems with it. I had a sim reach the top of the career. I'm wondering why it works for some people, and not for others.  ???

Just out of curiosity - Sunset Valley or Riverview?

I have a klepto on the thieft career path in Riverview (one from top now) and have not encountered the problems you are having.

However, I have heard of this before (discussed on official forum)...so now am wondering if only reason I have not encountered it is because my criminal is in Riverview as opposed to Sunset Valley?

There have been reported problems with criminal Sims being unable to go to work if a law enforcement Sim raids the criminal warehouse.  Did you, by any chance, happen to do this?

It is Sunset Valley and yes I did have a law-enforcement Sim (ironically the grandmother of the criminal Sim) raid the warehouse a long time ago.

I had this happen with an entry-level thief in Riverview.  She was unable to go to work at all, and I've never had a law-enforcement sim in the neighborhood to muck up the opportunity.  I haven't decided whether to fix the neighborhood or just abandon it, as she's only a second-gen sim.

This fix works. Go to edit town and click on the criminal warehouse lot. Enter build/buy mode, click on the warehouse and delete it.

Now go to community lots/objects (located in build mode) and replace it. Don't panic when the stupid game tells you "You cannot intersect other objects" just use good old moveobjects on to place the building.

Now save your game. Re-enter as usual and the problem is fixed.

It may been easier than that.  I deleted the Criminal building to replace it and found out that I don't have a copy, so I started another game to copy it to library.  When I went back to the neighborhood, the building had autoregenerated by itself.

It came back and appeared ok but it is still corrupted.  Disregard

I just had a similar bug with the Law Enforcement building in Riverview. My one family consists of a brother, two sisters, a sister's spouse, and one larvae. The two sisters were in Law Enforcement, while the brother was in Criminal. Brother was arrested and got out of jail an hour before the carpool came for the sisters. One sister got in the carpool just fine, while the other (who was pregnant, but valid for work due to using "backtowork") threw a script error. I tried everything. I teleported her right to the door. Still with the error.

She went to work just fine while pregnant with the first child, but her sister wasn't in Law Enforcement at that time. She also had an opportunity going on at the same time. That's what I suspect fixed it...I did some manipulating to get the opportunity off her roster. It was the one where you have to meet three neighbors.