What exactly causes the blank Want/Fear slots?
Cat Moonshadow:
Recently my Want/Fear slots have started to go blank, and I wonder if this is a "normal" part of the game or if it's because of hacks. I've had the Sims 2 since around January and I've never experienced the blank slots until this Sunday, which, coincidentally, was the day I loaded some more hacks into the game. However, by far most of these hacks are Pescado's. I also have a homework-goes-faster-and-sometimes-fun hack I got from someone on MTS2 and one called portalfix or something by crammyboy or something like that.
I can always do a "take out each hack individually and see which one is at fault", but this takes a long time and is rather tedious, and if it is a game glitch it'll drive me crazy if I can't fix the problem even when all the hacks are out of the downloads folder.
The slots don't stay blank all the time. They sort of come and go. Usually there is one Want slot available, and when that one gets filled, the rest roll up Wants, too.
Oh, and I love the phonehack. I don't know what I ever did without it. It drove me crazy how the stupid sims would just call to fill up their Social bar.
Ancient Sim:
I get this happen in my game sometimes, but as in your case they usually roll properly after a while. The Missing Icon bug is different, that's caused by a corrupt objects.package file, but I don't know what causes the missing wants. It's always wants that are missing in my game too, never fears, and it particularly seems to affect NPC's who have become playable.
Hairfish:
I have a LOT of missing Wants in my game. There are a couple of lots where, every time I enter them, one Sim will have all Wants empty (not just blank, but missing, unclickable), another Sim will be missing one Want, another two Wants. There's no rhyme or reason for it, no pattern, no commonalities among the affected lots. It's happening to former NPC's and Townies, and CAS and born-in-game Sims.
The do eventually roll up a new set, when getting up in the morning, or having a Want filled...if they have any Wants to fill.
I have Uni, and many fixes/hacks, but they're all JMP's. Hacked objects by Inge and Merola as well. This started about the same time as the blank career-related Wants (blank but clickable), but one of JMP's hacks fixed those. Don't know if that's at all related.
ZephyrZodiac:
Have you upgraded these sims using the debugger? If not and they are pre-uni sims, it might just unblock whatever is causing the problem. I've noticed with mine, they sometimes stick for a moment, like a fruit machine that needs oiling, but then they move on round and stop without going blank permanently.
Cat Moonshadow:
I don't have University (yet) and I don't have the debugger either. I played with a different family yesterday and saw that the blank Wants are indeed spreading. It's like the guinea pig disease. I find it a bit odd that only my female sims appear to be affected. And also that I never encountered a single blank Want until the last time I added some hacks to my game. It's really irritating. As good as these hacks are, I'd rather live without the hacks than put up with the blank Wants. As far as I can tell, once one of my sims has been affected, she stays affected, even if the Wants roll up again for a while it's only a matter of time before they disappear into the abyss once more.
At least I'm glad I'm not the only who suffers from this. :)
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