Re: How to make Erwin Pries the Curio Shop Owner again?
Here's something you might try. I've never tried and don't know if it will work but I know that if a sim like Erwin or any of the new CotL sims like the Mayor, Creature Master, Pub Owner and Grocery Stall owner are ever made playable even for just a minute, they lose their jobs and the game creates a new sim for that role. So the key is to not make him playable at any time to have a chance of getting him back in the game. So that said, you can try this:
Find Erwin in Manage Households in a new save and save him to your library. To get him into a house, don't place him in a home alone or else he becomes playable and that ends any chance of him remaining in his job. So move at least one other NPC that you don't care about and move that sim into a house. That sim will become playable at that point since the game will probably load you into the lot. Exit back to Manage Worlds and open Manage Households. Find that sim and move him from My Households to Other Households so the sim becomes an unplayed NPC again by hitting the little heart button in the lower right corner of the household portrait. Then move Erwin in with him from your library. Evict them from the house. Back to Manage Households and split the household so Erwin is alone in his own household. You might have to hunt down the current stall vendor and delete him/her first so there is no other sim with the trait that makes them the stall vendor.
The thing I don't know about this is if a sim like Erwin is saved to your library is if he loses his special traits that make him the stall vender. So honestly, it might not work. Only way to find out is to try though.
Hope this helps.
