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imlividd
Rising Newcomer
1 month ago

Can't play as one of my household sims

My main Sim just had someone from the university town move in with her into another world. At first everything was fine, then after maybe 5 minutes of gameplay, I suddenly wasn't able to play as the sim that moved in with her. 

Both of the little icons on the left are still there I just can't select his to get his gameplay, it's just hardlocked on my original Sim.

I tried some of the tricks involving evicting and deleting the family and replacing them in, but it just hasn't worked. I tried splitting the household up and putting him alone on another lot and trying to switch to play as him alone, but it won't even let me do that, it just stays on the previous active household. He is entirely unplayable no matter what I do.

I do have Nraas story progression, overwatch, etc downloaded, are there any bug fixes in those mods that can help with this? All of the reset commands haven't fixed it either.

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  • imlividd's avatar
    imlividd
    Rising Newcomer
    1 month ago

    Because I don't think I ever found a solution on another thread, what I just found that actually worked really well really simply was using Naars master controller > sim > advanced > selectability > [glitched sim] 

    I guess maybe some kind of error happened with his selectability that got him turned off, but if other ppl ever have this issue give this a shot because it worked.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    1 month ago

    imlividd​  I'm glad you fixed it, and an MC reset is always an early troubleshooting step for me.  For future reference though, if you moved the sim in by inviting them to visit and asking them to move in (or using the Add Sim cheat), that could be the cause of the problem, and it's best to use a different approach.

    The problem is that tourist sims visiting from other worlds are really mini-sims: they lack the full set of data that resident sims have and that the tourists have in their own homeworld.  So when you make one of these tourists a resident, the game has missing data to try to create and doesn't always do a good job of it.

    After the fact, an MC reset with ErrorTrap in place is the best way to fix it.  To avoid it, either move the sim into your active household while you're playing within their homeworld, or when you're in your sim's homeworld, use MC's Add Sim command on an empty house or lot to add the foreign sim.  Either way transfers all the sim data properly.

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