Blank want icons since OFB - should I worry?
Ancient Sim:
This happened to me when I reinstalled the entire game on my new PC. I just uninstalled OFB and reinstalled it and everythng was fine again. I would certainly try this before messing about removing mods or whatever, as it's far less time-consuming (about 4 minutes in my case). Whenever I've had problems with missing icons of any kind, reinstalling the last expansion has always fixed it. I've never been able to solve it by replacing the objects package, but reinstalling has always worked.
cwykes:
Thanks Ancient Sim, I'll try that. Maybe I just got a bad install - much more comforting idea than a soon to explode 'hood!
I guess SWAF is the Sim wants and fears? I've never noticed ownerless wants before, but I'll have a look at them in SimPE before I re-install.
ZephyrZodiac:
If you did a DAC, or got rid of any annoying townies by any means other than death and a tombstone, then even if you think you've removed everything from their relationship panel and memories, there can be the remains of their wants and fears left behind, and also in the list of relationships they can still be listed as an unknown. Easiest check for SWAFs is, say you have 400 character files, and 425 SWAFs, then you have this problem, as the numbers should match.
cwykes:
Nope never got rid of any townies at all. Without Uni they aren't really a problem. I got notownieregen into my game while the number was still reasonable and I'm sort of attached to all of them now. I used the tombstone of L&D to move most of them into lots and play them. One or two of the last batch had fairly serious missing wants problems at the time, that went away. Now they are some of my favourites and the townie kids are growing up like normal sims. I've only had two or three Sims die in the entire time I've been playing - old age while I wasn't paying attention. The only really stupid thing I've done is move an occupied lot into the lots and houses bin while I rearranged the 'hood and then put it back. (Well the only stupid thing I'm aware of!) I'll go count the SWAF files though - never looked at them before.
JM said it sounded like data corruption. Going from that I think that could either be corruption in my game files (clean up and panic) or in the game files (re-install and check for conflicts). Thanks for the help ZZ. I have a simmer friend on another board with a similar problem, so I want to get a handle on it for her as well. She has a toddler with no wants created using the tombstone of L&D.
ZephyrZodiac:
Oh Lord, if you moved an occupied house, check for duplicate files of all the acquaintances those sims had, and the sims themselves! They'll all be small files, around 50kb at the most, but they are almost certainly the cause of the data corruption that you have! I used to do it before I knew it was bad, since it was at the time the only way I could find to change a knowledge or fortune sim's LTW from Criminal Mastermind! (And these were newly created families, with maybe the postboy and one passerby as acquaintances) but boy oh boy, did it cause a mess! I still have to finish cleaning up that hood, which was one of my favourites!
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