Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law!

"JoAnne65;c-16274031" wrote:

As I understood it the stolen goods left at home will be recognized as stolen again as soon as your sims gets home (which technically is nothing more than reopening an old save, nothing happened to it while your sim was gone and even the sim in there is a clone and not the sim you played abroad), but that’s not the case then? Somebody did a lousy job thinking this through when implementing it. Well, what’s new right...? But the only solution then is not travelling (or marrying) till the LTW is achieved? Or were you referring to the MC solution?

My sim had stolen 2 items worth about 200 simoleons which I left on the home lot, then traveled to university. While at university he stole ~40 items worth about 30,000 simoleons. He brought all those items home. On returning home the LTW counter showed 0 simoleons stolen. So, 2 things: (1) the 2 items worth about 200 simoleons which he stole before the trip were no longer counted as being stolen, and (2) the items he stole during his trip and brought home did not count either.

The solution (to put stolen items on the home lot and leave them there) posted in the Craig's list :p Carl's Guide thread didn't work for travel for me. It might work for stuff stolen in the homeworld and not immediately recognized as being stolen. However, all of the objects my sim has stolen have immediately counted so far.

My solution was to re-steal all those items. I put new versions on a lot across the street and had my sim steal them all again. To save time I used Retuner (not MC) to allow him to steal 40 items a day and then set that back to 3 items per day when he was done. Going forward he won't travel or get married until he completes the LTW. The MC command to change the LTW Tally did not work.

I confess I initially misread the 'solution' posted on that Craig's list post. I thought the OP there was just referring to issues with items stolen in the home world which were not being counted by the LTW. After rereading that post I see the OP was claiming their solution was a fix for traveling too - but that was not the case in my game.