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NameGani
New Adventurer
13 years ago
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Moving out (splitting active house) stuck in processing

I am running into an issue where I cannot move out one of the kids who just turned into a young adult (after they graduated, of course).

I use the phone or computer after making sure there is an empty house available.  At that point I am able to select the vacant house as well as confirm which part of the split house will be the active one.  Then it sits on processing, for hours, until I give up and give my computer the three-finger salute (ctrl+alt+del) and force the program to end.  The town I am currently playing in is Moonlight Falls and I am playing with epic life spans active.  I do have a large house with a lot of bits and pieces on display which, I read somewhere can affect the moving process, though I do not know why when it is splitting the house and not moving the whole household.

I have had this issue before (in another town) and found that the only way I could kick the kids out once they graduated was to marry them off.  However, this particular brat is a diva with commitment issues so getting them in a relationship to the point of proposing marriage, let alone it being taken seriously, doesn't happen.  I also shouldn't have to marry the kids off to kick them out.

I have read several people having similar issues and the only solutions given were to use the edit town and split the household that way or restart them game.

I have tried to have them move out via the cell and the computer and, as stated above, it goes through the motions then gets stuck in final processing.  When I try to split the household through edit town all it does is make the active family inactive.  When I make the family active again the YA I've been trying to kick out is still a part of the family.

My computer exceeds the min system reqs, I have most of the EPs and am running the current patch, I do use Twallan mods and they are all up to date.

Any other ideas or help with this is greatly appreciated.  I currently have a full house and want to start making room so I can get the heir married and working on the next generation.  Preferably without pulling any hair, real or digital, out.

  • Then it's probably the axe.

    Backup the game, move it to the family inventory, then move.

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  • NameGani's avatar
    NameGani
    New Adventurer
    13 years ago

    With the axe from World Adventures being the only thing that caused my problem I, personally, have no idea what else could be causing your issue.  I would suggest opening up a new thread, being sure to mention that you do not have the WA EP so the Pangu's Axe could not be the issue.

    The primary reason I suggest opening up a new thread is that this one has been marked as solved and therefore is not looked at by people much more knowledgeable than I am.

    Best of luck, I hope someone is able to help.

  • I cannot believe that's all it was!! I put the axe back in my family inventory and was finally able to move my sim out!! lol omg....

    Unfortunately, this means I killed off another sim in my household unnecessarily.... I tried to make it a kind, jellybean death...

  • Ugh I swear this is so frustrating because I just had a sim move in with my household and it’s been stuck on the split household and move screen for ten minutes.

    I also forgot to save so I’m gonna have to do everything all over again.

    This really sucks I’m moving the sim in with cheats next time.

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hi all,

    Since this thread is now a bit older, I've locked it to prevent any necro-posting.

    If you're still looking for help on this topic, please feel free to create a new thread so we can take a look with you 🙂 

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