Corruption and crashes

"Kita5399;c-16306568" wrote:
What is a mini-sim? I knew in the Sims 2 which Sims to avoid moving in, I'm not totally aware in this case I guess. I did have my Sim marry one of the proprietor sims, would that have been one to avoid?

Basically a tourist, from a WA vacation world or any world your sim has traveled to, who is visiting your homeworld. They are not complete copies of the sim. Foreign sims you invite to visit your sim's home (in the homeworld) are also mini-sims. Asking any of those sims to move in or marrying one into the family can cause corruption in your game. It's best to go to the foreign world to add the sim to the household and then return home. (Nothing wrong with tourists or foreign sims visiting, just with adding them to the household).

See the NRaas Terminology page (I don't think I can link directly to the mini-sim entry so look on the right side of the page for the mini-sim entry). The NRaas Traveler FAQ (near the end of this question) states:

• Foreign sims pulled into your world by Register or the game itself with no player involvement as random tourists are actually Mini-Sim copies of themselves, with the original full-fledged sims still back in their homeworlds. Asking or forcing a Mini-Sim to join your household or moving them into your current world will likely cause the sim to become damaged as a result of not having enough data to re-form the full version of themselves. Do not do this!
  
• If you have various NRaas mods with code that has been added to them to protect against the severe data loss that Mini-Sims present, you should be able to ask visiting sims whom you have invited over yourself to your actives' homeworld by MC or phone to move in successfully. Those mods would be Overwatch, ErrorTrap, Traveler, and RelationshipPanel. If you do not have these mods in play, asking or forcing visiting sims you have invited yourself to move into your currently being played world is risky -- some players have success with this, others find that the sims being moved in will become damaged.
  

When I marry or move in foreign sims I can usually use the 'ask to move in' option while in the foreign world. That works for Oasis Landing and the WA worlds. But not in University. When I want my active household to marry a University sim (which is fairly often in my games) I use MC's Add Sim command to add the sim to the household while at university, either right at the beginning of the term or just before leaving (and in that case I make sure the sim is actually no longer enrolled, if the sim is still enrolled for some reason then traveling back to the homeworld will fail).