Impending BFBVFS? or Bad Pooter.... baaaaaaad
ZephyrZodiac:
Scratch, have you checked all your hacks for compatibility. If you have a couple of hack conflicts, then wierd things can happen. Just in case you haven't, there is a very simple tool over at Paladin's Place which does it in seconds.
I've recently been playing a hood which was created similarly to yours, although with a far smaller group of townies, and I did notice that in two cases the "parents" kept their memories of being married and having the kids, and the family trees were intact, but in one case they disappeared and I had to go into Simpe and replace them as I'm gradually moving them into the game. Once I've moved a few in I shall probably create some more, and do the same sort of thing, but when I first started the hood I had so few sims for my sims to meet I did really just for quickness, rather than creating a lot of new playable families.
However, the lost memories and relationships that I replaced seem to still be there, so I think there must be something interfering with the proper saving of relationships in your game.
Scratch:
That was my first thought.... maybe a hack snuck in.... but i use HCDU almost everyday to check when i put new stuff in....
I thought it might be a conflict but if it was it should be a continuing problem.... My problem just happened once.... Mass Amnesia affecting the whole hood, playables and townies...
The thing is too.... it didn't affect the relationships they already had... it only deleted memories of completing class at college, created new mystery sim memories and deleted their cellphone....
just too wierd.... ???
ZephyrZodiac:
I don't know if this makes sense to you, but a short while ago this pc was in for an upgrade, and while it was waiting to go, and until it came back, I used my old pc, which only has 500mb RAM and a basic video card etc., but I thought, what the heck, I can play OMGPetz on the laptop, so I should be able to play base game and Seasons on this, if I use Jordi's empty G002 template. Well, it worked for a while, but I could only play for a short time before closing the game. Then one day I got careless and left it too long to save and exit, and when I next tried to play the game, all my sims were in aspiration failure. So I got out quick and investigated with SimPE. Now, all my sims in that game are still as playable as they were before, apart from the fact they no longer have any relationships, skills, personalities or astrological signs etc., and almost all of the adults are Grilled Cheese. I unfortunately never backed this particular copy of the hood up, but I have other versions so I can recreate all this stuff - but it takes sooo much time!
But it was fairly obvious to me (although maybe I'm wrong) that the PC just couldn't quite manage to save everything. Now, is it at all possible that you did what I did, and turned off your pc before it had managed to recover and tuck everything neatly away?
Scratch:
I'm beginning to suspect that's what happened.... it was a bad save
I played an elderly couple yesterday that i haven't played since the "incident" and they both have the want to go steady... so i think only part of their relationship is borked.... i can't load simpe at the moment to see what normal married CAS couple's memories would look like... would they also have the memory of getting enegaged and such? I've also noticed that some of the borken sims have high relationship points with some sims but not be friends or best friends....
..and you mentioned that all of your sims were in aspiration failure and the ones i've been fixing so far, thier asp bars are at 0... all of them....
an option on the debugger to fix relationships would be handy dandy... ::)
thanks for the help ZephyrZodiac... you got me thinking outside the game and i think that's where the problem started...
I'm sure i didn't turn off the computer too soon... i watch the flailing light until it stops and then i turn it off.... but it could of been one of the many times it spontaneously rebooted or the game crashed for some reason.... guess i'm going to have to make a habit of backing up more.... :P
ZephyrZodiac:
"I must back up! I must back up!" The saddest words in the Simmers' language, apart from "I wish I had backed up!"
If they still have all their best friend memories, it should be fairly easy just to max those relationships in SimPE.
Married couples in CAS all have the memories of met x, made best friends with x, kissed x for the first time, fell in love with x, got engaged to x, got married to x, and if they have CAS kids they'll also have did woohoo with x, had y, etc.
Any couples you've had who had kids in CAS but aren't married, the father will have none of those memories, so you could use the opportunity to give him the parenting memories and then go into Family Ties and sort out the whole family - not too hard as the make consistent option means you only have to do it once.
Same sex couples with CAS kids have the adopted x memories, so again, if you want (and particularly if you use TJs pregnancy for all mod) you can now give them the genetically correct memories.
Other than that, adults and teens should have the aspiration memory, although sometimes the game misses it out, and then sim initialised, which I think is quite important for you to put back in. They then all get the moved in memory (not the invisible token) although if you use the debugger option to clear trash, then there's no point as it will be removed.
Only bother with the best friend memories, not the met x ones, the debugger removes those too. If they've lost their cooking skills, then it's probably easiest not to bother with all those learned to cook memories, just let them start again, and that way there's no chance of a mistake - although they may not get the memories again if they are already stored elsewhere.
As for townies, leave them without any skill points, the game will soon generate some more for them! For your own playables, if they've lost skill points, or job points etc., then if you can remember what they were, put them back, otherwise just start them from scratch again, it won't hurt, and it'll give them the chance to generate aspiration points again. But I would set their ages back to the beginning of the life-stage if that hasn't already happened.
But be prepared for a lot of simpe time. When I've cloned a hood, I've just taken it one family at a time, otherwise it becomes too much of a chore.
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