In Sims 3, me and my fiancee have settled with doing the change active household style of playing as discussed here (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/27351/multiple-users-and-households-in-sims-3)

Anyway, I have a feeling that some of the NPCs and the other Sim is getting stuck somewhere. Let me explain. Say i have Sim-A, and my fiancee uses Sim-B. I am currently playing my sim (Sim-A) and going about with my busy career etc. I do try to call on Sim-B to invite her over etc and she keeps saying sure, but 5 seconds later she says something came up. That seemed possible(even after 2 days of trying to call...my sim is lazy and busy so going to Sim-B's apartment is not really practical at the moment)

So, when I sometimes try to play for tips in front of the movie theater, I see a bunch of NPCs naturally go there and sometimes chat around, do whatever the want, etc. I do notice though that most(if not all) of them are complaining of lack of sleep etc. I noticed this too when playing Sim-A or Sim-B(when playing Sim-A, Sim-B keeps complaining of lack of sleep, and vice versa)

This also happens to most Sim-A's friends. They all complain and I had a suspicion that they're getting stuck somewhere. So the question is, is this a known bug, or is there a way to "debug" this problem without using tedious methods(like logging into every active household and checking them one by one)?

An added note: Sim-B invited Sim-A to stay the night over since they're both tired(and still complaining of lack of sleep). Sim-B proceeded to sleep on her bed, but Sim-A just stood there, waiting for something to happen(add to the fact that Sim-A was already RELAXING on the bed...he stood up to do nothing!). After an hour of just standing there, I finally got fed up and switched active household over to Sim-A. He certainly wasn't stuck and I had to manually ask him to sleep on the bed(which he did).

I am playing Late night btw and the only other major mod i don't have is fast lane(and i think that's even just a stuff expansion)

I hope someone can shed light into this. I have a feeling Im gonna have to reset all the sims in my town for this to work

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Have you recently changed the free will options? Because that made it really buggy for me once. – Zoe Aug 22 '11 at 0:53
i have been experimenting with it. i turned free will off completely because i was assuming they were "fighting" my commands. but then i noticed than when i switched from Sim-A to Sim-B, Sim-B would be totally hungry and sleepy and they're just staring at the wall! when i switch back to Sim-A, Sim-A is the one staring at the wall! Ive turned free will to high now. what did you do with yours? – corroded Aug 22 '11 at 1:06
I just made sure that they had something to do, but that sometimes doesn't work, they sometimes stand in front of a fridge for an hour (their time). It also helps to use your lifetime rewards on; Steel Bladder, Dirt Defiant, Carefree, Hardly Hungry, Moodlet Manager and Meditative Trance Sleep to keep them happier and in the long run save more time. You can also use Speedy Cleaner so that they take less time to clean anything so they have more time to do what you want them to do. – Zoe Sep 10 '11 at 23:57
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