Merging family's … problems or buggy?
JeanMaas:
Did a search on merging to find out if merging family's is known to be buggy, but could not find such a thing so maybe it has something to do with my game. So, I'll just tell you what happened.
Two lots, two sims each. Moved one household into the simbin and moved them into the other lot. Result: one lot, four sims. Clicked on the lot to look at the picture expecting to see four sims … Sam is missing. Loaded the lot to see what was going on. Four sims in the list at the left side of the screen, but Sam is nowhere to be seen on the lot. Paused the game, selected Sam and then there is a plumpbob above the ground near the mailbox.
Tried to let him walk, teleport or whatever. No face in the middle of the menu and he can't do anything. Tried to move him out by letting Binker taking him with him. Binker goes in the taxi, Sam can't. Game in an impasse. Rebooted pc and restarted game. All four are still on the lot, same situation. Moved all four of them to another lot. Same situation, except Sam now also lost his plumpbob. If I double click on his icon, the focus goes to the mailbox.
Left things for a while to figure out what to do. Tried to age Sam, no effect. Eventually I moved Jared and Justin out, coz those are the two I don't want to lose. Before all this Sam was extracted and cloned, so I can get him back. Binker I wanted to get rid of anyway. Tried to merge Jared and Justin into another household with four other sims … game crached while merging!
Deleted some new mods, deleted groups.cache and empyed thumpnail-folder. Game is running again, did have a hard time opening the simbin of the hood, but eventually it managed. Jared and Justin are ‘back' in the simbin. So now I don't know what to do, I don't want to make things worse. So now I have some questions, hopefully someone can give some advise.
1. Can I thrust merging households, or can I better not use it anymore.
2. Or is there something else wrong in my game, a symptom of something worse.
3. Can Sam be saved or can I better move him and Binker to the simbin and then in the trash.
4. Can I safely try to move Jared and Justin into a (empty) lot, or can I better extract and clone them before that.
Well, that's it … I think. Thank you in advance.
Jean
Skaven:
It happend to me once at University - when I joined a new sim into a house one of the two original sims was just gone, though his picture appeared, at least at first. I tried to save and return to the lot, but then he was gone without a trace.
cyperangel:
perhaps Inges teleporter can bring him back to the family, or JM´s debugger....
skandelouslala:
I haven't had any problems with merging families and do it quite often so I think you trust it for the most part, it sounds like something else is wrong.
The only thing I can think up, it try opening up the corrupted sim's character file in SimPe and see if by any chance there is that bug going on where sometimes sims of different age groups get reverted back to the game thinking they are a toddler or baby. I've had that happen to children, toddlers and even elders nonetheless and cleaned it up by ticking their right age group in SimPe and then restarting the game.
That might not be your issue at all but it's all that I can come up with at the moment.
JeanMaas:
Thanks for your reply's.
Well, so far he isn't vanished.
Tried to teleport him with insim. Hmmm, the debugger might be something, haven't used it before.
Yeah, wouldn't want to lose merging families. Basically they are all new sims, made in bodyshop and CAS. I'm filling up several lots with some good looking sims to meet and greet the families I play with. The lots are empty except for the new simmies. I made them one or two at the time put them into one of those lots and only checked them how they look in game.
It sure is a good idea to take a look at him in SimPE, then I an check out the others too. That is if I can recognize it when there is something wrong. But it sure is a good thing to do, although I haven't seen anything happen trying to age him, he might be aged anyway.
Thanks again.
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