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hyfrdeanna
2 years ago
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Entire household disappeared?

Hi, sorry if this question has been asked before but I couldn't find a thread about my exact predicament. I was playing without any mods and everything was fine. Then I added a bunch of NRaas mods t...
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    puzzlezaddict
    2 years ago

    @hyfrdeanna  Immigration and emigration are controlled by NRaas StoryProgression, so if you didn't already have SP installed, you were working with the default emigration system built into the game.  This system is unreliable at best and will absolutely do things like remove an entire household for no reason at all.  With NRaas SP installed, emigration is off by default, although you can enable it, either in general or for a specific household, if you want.

    To be extra specific, NRaas mods would never emigrate a household or delete a sim without your permission, but the mods can and will clean up leftover data if they find it and can't resolve it.  So without the mods, you might have had some stray info about your sim's friend, whereas with the mods, that info is removed too.

    Regardless, all you can do from here is find another copy of the household, for example in a new save in the same world, save that household to the bin, and deposit it into your current save.  If you want, you can use NRaas MasterController to rebuild the friendship and any other data you care about, for example careers or money or other relationships.

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puzzlezaddict
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2 years ago

@hyfrdeanna  Immigration and emigration are controlled by NRaas StoryProgression, so if you didn't already have SP installed, you were working with the default emigration system built into the game.  This system is unreliable at best and will absolutely do things like remove an entire household for no reason at all.  With NRaas SP installed, emigration is off by default, although you can enable it, either in general or for a specific household, if you want.

To be extra specific, NRaas mods would never emigrate a household or delete a sim without your permission, but the mods can and will clean up leftover data if they find it and can't resolve it.  So without the mods, you might have had some stray info about your sim's friend, whereas with the mods, that info is removed too.

Regardless, all you can do from here is find another copy of the household, for example in a new save in the same world, save that household to the bin, and deposit it into your current save.  If you want, you can use NRaas MasterController to rebuild the friendship and any other data you care about, for example careers or money or other relationships.

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hyfrdeanna
2 years ago

Thanks for your response.

I feared that would be the case, but I was hoping I could recover the household somehow. I couldn't find a solution after hours of searching, so I ended up doing exactly as you said: I copied the household to the bin, placed it into my current save, and rebuilt their friendship with mods.

And, yes, you're right --- I only installed SP after the problem occurred. I'm disappointed that I couldn't recover the original Sim, but I'm just glad I can prevent it from happening again.

Very strange. I've been playing TS3 for years and I can't remember ever having an entire household just disappear like that.

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