Re: [FIXED] Sims lose their first and last names

I had a baby born in the hospital, it promoted me to give it a first name, which is normal, but couldn't leave it there, I had to make up a last name for him too, shouldn't the last name automatically be set for the parent as it used to be?

@LuvMySimz 

I came across this quite by accident while looking around the board.  There is indeed a Paolo Rocca in the original game.  I do (in part, among other things) exactly what you describe here, renaming people.  However, I also sometimes randomize the people themselves, even changing the gender, so that ever since this glitch appeared, I'll have, say, a male sim who is now named "Pamela Kjerstenson" because that is the name of the originally generated female NPC from whom I derived the male currently in my game.

Which means that unless a fix is released for this issue which reverts the names as per our changes, I am going to be deleting all those sims.  When I look at this guy and see the Pamela name, I can't remember (for the life of me) what I renamed him; he's an NPC in my game, LOL.  So for me, the logical response is to get rid of sims affected by this glitch, but I'm waiting a little while to see how the next update/patch/fix pans out.

I want to just work in build mode until the glitch is fixed, but I’m worried if I save anything, I’ll make the save file much worse than it already is. 

And yes, Paolo Rocca is one of the Partihaus Sims that lives in Windenburg. 

@goldengurl053

You guys are right! there is indeed a PAOLO ROCCA in the game in WIndenburg (PartyPeople), but why would the game name my Sim the same way. I did not even touch already existing Sims with homes, I only customized homeless Sims and gave some of them a home like I did with Owen Baker. I doubt that his real name was Paolo Rocca. The game was just lazy and grabbed already existing names lol.

I think we need to keep things in perspective here. There appears to be two (or more) separate issues. I had last names not working on new born sims. Turns out it was in fact a mod that altered names. Thanks to whomever pointed this out.. Another issue is sims in game missing names (first, last or both) Personally, I haven't experienced this one. And lastly, there is the seemingly random renaming of sims which is in fact not random at all. Any game NPC that was re-imagined in CAS prior to the last patch, their names will revert back to the original NPC names. This has happened to me frequently. On sims I reworked, and ones I downloaded form the gallery. The only way I have found to fix the last issue is to take the renamed sim into CAS, and change the name. It won't stick using a mod or command line. Unfortunately, there are tens of thousands of sims in the gallery that are affected by this. Not to mention those of us who have done this by reworking them.

I haven't had an issue with newly generated sims last names, but I when and send my sim to University, and all the newly random generated students, have no last names, but if you say it's a mod that alters names then I'll look into it first.

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@Citysim9997 wrote:

I haven't had an issue with newly generated sims last names, but I when and send my sim to University, and all the newly random generated students, have no last names, but if you say it's a mod that alters names then I'll look into it first.

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In my case it was a mod.. And the last names were specific to newborns. Not at all sure if it is a mod in you case, but it certainly is possible. But others have reported that it isn't a mod because they don't use them. So there's that. This is why I said there appears to be 2 or 3 separate issues.