Sims disappearing one by one
Sleepycat:
others have reported problems with sims going missing, no relationships to anyone anymore, nothing... as if they never existed.
I still think it is a game bug.
ZiggyDoodle:
I had that happen but the Sim was missing from the family portrait. SimPE revealed that Sim went poof; no memories, no relationship, no nothing. I backup weekly so the fix was to restore my game and I've not had further problems.
Shiny has more serious issues with missing families, once occupied houses now mysteriously for sale, and Albino Sims. Spooky.
Flamingo:
I've only had that happen when I use the lot debugger to delete Sims.
If you have SimPE, I would go look for traces of the missing Sims in the Neighborhood Browser. Look for their Sim Description. If these Sims are showing up and disappearing in game, maybe you could find one of their files, because their files probably wouldn't be randomly disappearing and reappearing. If the files are, your game is probably the least of your worries.
Anyway, you could try extracting what they look like using Sim Surgery, but I don't know of anything else you could do.
Arina:
Do other sims still have memories of the missing ones? Something similar happened to me, and other sims had their birth/meeting/best friend memories with a blank picture (could have been mystery sim, was a while ago) and, where the name of the missing sim should have been, it was $Subject; or something like that. I reverted to a backup and, for the month that I continued to play that hood before deleting it for other reasons, it was fine.
The first sims to disappear were new ones - babies and then newer CAS sims. Then it got more indiscriminate. I'm not sure if any whole households went missing though, so it could be a totally different problem :/
Shiny:
Well, I guess I'm stumped. I downloaded SimPE and used the neighborhood browser to look for the vanished sims. There is no trace, except in other sims' memories, where they will have memories of Unknown. Actually, the last I played the game, I did check memories and everything was as before - sims remembered the vanished sims, including their names, with the right thumbnails. When I look in SimPE, though, the names are definitely gone.
I figured out the missing sims ID numbers by doing that, but I don't think that does me any good. Does it? There are more missing sims than I realized - I think even some townies and dormies have vanished. I'm inclined to think there is some kind of catastrophic hard drive problem, but I haven't noticed any other kinds of files going missing! I did do a disk scan, nothing seems to have changed. It's not even my computer, it's my partner's. I'm getting a new laptop in a few days, so I guess I'll just use that one and get away from the computer of doom.
My last backup is a generation ago; I think I'd rather just start over than do all that again.
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