"faytheful;c-16634611" wrote:
from your last statement first:
I moved her and her adult son to Desiderata from Pleasantview. (2 younger boys still with her)
The older boy Dustin went to college from Pleasantview, but when I tried to send the middle son the game wouldn't let me, so
I moved them (back to) Desiderata Valley.
That said, not sure why resetting Pleasantview is the way to go because I moved them both & the family broke then.
Yes I want them to be family again. (Broke family)
Both households are in Desiderata Valley, but she only acknowledges her younger 2 sons & not her eldest.
Playing from Ultimate collection but not through Origin.
The way I saved my families, I packaged them to file, and put them in a folder on my desktop.
Can I use them ?
Unless you used SimPE and those families are saved as individual Sims, then not unless you want to corrupt the new neighborhood. And like I said previously, it could be 2 weeks or 20 years before you aren't able to play the neighborhood, but I just feel that you should know when you do something that is known to corrupt the game. It's easier to take it when you know one day it's going to be unplayable, than to be one day surprised when you can't play it.
This game is not like Sims 3. You can't move Sims from one "world" to another "world" without the use of third party programs unless you want to corrupt both the original and new neighborhood.
You would need to reset Pleasantview in order to get a non-corrupted Broke family with the family connections set correctly if you don't want to use SimPE. You would only lose the 4th child unless the 4th was a twin birth with the 3rd. Brandi's baby from the pregnancy that she has when you first load her house is always a male clone of her.
I can walk you through safely moving the Brokes from Pleasantview to Desiderata (you would need to play long enough for any pregnancies to be over and all infants to be aged to toddler if you wanted to keep the unborn 3rd child without having to cheat it back. It is possible to cheat this one back. If you wanted, I could tell you have to safely save the husband (assuming not made in body shop) and the 4th child if it wasn't a twin of the third baby.
