Carbon Copy Sims

You have the doppelgänger effect happening. The same people living in the same town. This is a catastrophe in the game and in the theoretical scientific world can do the same thing in real life lol!

Unfortunately, you will need to go into edit town mode.

Click on the household that you want to keep.

Save them to the library.

Quit your game.

Delete your saved game.

Start a new game and select your saved family and move them to a DIFFERENT town.

I am sorry, but there isn't another way around this that I know of.

I will see if anyone else knows a better solution.

Okay I also found this to keep other sims in town from cloning

http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/03/bug-clones.html

I also have a problem when I went into Edit Town to move the weather stone.

It appeared at the school in the green space in the center of the school, where no one can get to it.

If I saved after I went into Edit Town, the game crashes

If I move my family out and start a new game, if I move them into Starlight Shore again, will there relationship still exist or will I have to start making friends with the other sims in the neighborhood.

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@trekkie78 wrote:

If I move my family out and start a new game, if I move them into Starlight Shore again, will there relationship still exist or will I have to start making friends with the other sims in the neighborhood.

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You will lose relationships with the townies. But I recommend not moving them back into the same town.

Do you use custom content/ any content that is not made by EA? Items installed from the exchange on thesims3.com often have CC with those items, sometimes unintentionally attached to the items.

Are you used to navigating the folders and files on your computer?

Are you using PC or Mac?

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@trekkie78 wrote:

I also have a problem when I went into Edit Town to move the weather stone.

It appeared at the school in the green space in the center of the school, where no one can get to it.

If I saved after I went into Edit Town, the game crashes

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Okay. Looks like you have faulty content installed in your game.

First, if you haven't done so, please save your family to your library by going into edit town mode.

-Click on the household and save them.

-Do not bother  saving your town since it will crash your game.

-You are going to close your game anyway. 

-Start a new game in a different town and select your saved family from the library.

-Save your new game and name it something completely different than your previous games...like Cupcakes

You and I are going to get this fixed so that you can go back to having fun. Okay?

It may be a lengthy process but it will be well worth it in the end.

I have PC

I know how to navigate thru folder and files on my computer.

I have three mod in my game, no mosaic, a wristwatch that is for adult is for teens, and no relationship with vehicles.

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@trekkie78 wrote:

I have PC

I know how to navigate thru folder and files on my computer.

I have three mod in my game, no mosaic, a wristwatch that is for adult is for teens, and no relationship with vehicles.

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Okay. You will need to remove them before cleaning up your game.

Go to my guide and follow all steps here:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/Help-Guide-All-in-one-fix-except-hardware-issues-PC-only/td-p/734448

Followed the step, the Test game in tutorial mode work fine, but the next game in a different town started to act like my last few games.

I couldn't get a athletic point, first day went to gym, worked out, and the meter won't fill.

Only a little bit of the meter would fill and that was it.

How long, in sim time did it take for the meter to fill a little bit? Did your sims mood meters drop? Usually, when the mood of a sim is up, they learn things faster. If everything else works okay, the skill meter may be a glitch.