Elder dies and goes to college (BFB incoming?)
spambi:
I loaded a house today with two elders and their three children. I notice that the female elder is no longer an elder but an adult. Hm. I exit without saving and try again. I confirm that on the loading screen she is an elder. In game, I immediately zoom to her and her age line says that she's in her junior year in college (though she looks like an elder.) I unpause and she does an age transition to adult hood. I take her to the bathroom mirror to change her appearance and the hair color choices she has are black, brown, blonde and grey. I exit without saving and try a couple more times. Same result.
I enabled testing cheats to see if there were any bug messages (there weren't.) I do remember, though, that the last time I played the house there was a weird incident with hula girls. The girls appears at the corner of the lot and I got the zoom window you get for important events. They disappeared quickly, though, so I ignored them, which I probably shouldn't have. They were probably Death's hula girls, though I didn't see Death himself. I can't remember if my sim was old enough to die. I don't think she was, but I use the age duration hack, so it's hard to tell.
So, my questions --
Is there anything I can do now to fix this sim?
If I can't fix her, should I just age her back up to an elder using the tombstone of L&D and hope for no other signs of the BFB?
It's like a bad Rodney Dangerfield movie.
professorbutters:
I don't have an answer, but I would be interested to know, as I had a similar glitch recently. The sim went from adult to YA, not elder to YA, but close. I had another who seems to have just graduated college, even though he has been out for a while. I am crossing my fingers, but I am also backing up like crazy, trying to figure out when the last unglitched backup is, and making careful notes of the whole neighborhood. Because while I try to be optimistic, I am prepared for the idea that it is going to blow.
(I had no bug messages either, and no error logs.)
talysman:
Quote from: spambi on 2009 February 24, 00:23:13
I can't remember if my sim was old enough to die. I don't think she was, but I use the age duration hack, so it's hard to tell.
At least you know what's causing it, then.
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Is there anything I can do now to fix this sim?
If I can't fix her, should I just age her back up to an elder using the tombstone of L&D and hope for no other signs of the BFB?
I'm guessing she's pretty corrupt and you should remove the offending hack and restore the hood from backup, but if you want to check in SimPE, why not? Look at the age, it's probably looped around or something. Check age category, too. I bet neither one of those will look even close to the other elder sim.
Zazazu:
I've used TJ's Age Duration Hack for at least the last three EP. This isn't a known bug of the hack. It's always hard to tell exactly how many days an elder has left.
spaceface:
This happened to a sim of mine and I have never used the Age Duration Hack.
He was married to a legacy spare so I just aged him to adult with the Tombstone. He was a bit glitchy after that and would jump and drop his queue when I clicked on him to direct him to Makro - do something. I had stopped playing my spares, I just plopped them all down into a retirement home. If my legacy hood turns into a BFBVFS then so be it.
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