Non-Existent Sim Showing as Daughter
Hi, I have a problem w/a custom hood. My married couple is showing a non-existent sim as their "daughter." I looked at the list of all the sims in town and she just does not exist. How can I get rid ...
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@Sonshine77 There's a known bug where when a World Adventures world needs a new sim, a sim in the active household can be used as one of the parents. The child just sort of springs into existence, no pregnancy needed. Is it possible this is what happened in your game? Normally the other parent is a resident of that WA world, but I guess it's possible that the process would happen to use both of your sims instead.
Anyway, you can try using MC's Total Annihilation on the daughter. If she doesn't show up on the TA list, try filtering to sims currently not in world.
@puzzlezaddictHi and thanks for the reply! When this happened, neither of the parents (so far this is the only family played in that town) had been to any WA location. This "daughter" just kind of popped up out of nowhere.
I just loaded the game and got a HUGE surprise! I thought it was a little strange that she appeared in the snapshot of the family when the house was loading and when it finished loading, the girl was standing in the house! She is 6 days old and the girl I thought was the youngest is two days from becoming a teen. So now she (the mystery girl) seems to be a bonafide member of the family now and she also appears in the list of sims in town. Her oldest brother had just come back from China so maybe the game glitch was cleared up w/that. I have no idea. 🙂
@Sonshine77 It sounds like Overwatch may have recovered the sim for you. It still doesn't explain where she came from though. Did you ever play a different household in this save? The scenario I'm thinking of is how sometimes babies and toddlers in inactive households get culled by the game, but it doesn't happen all at once, and mods can recover them if enough data is left over.
This is the only family that I've played in this hood. What might have happened is that the oldest son had an opportunity to do something in China. When he arrived, the quest was gone! That also has never happened to me. I wonder though, if this was a way that the game or overwatch or whatever prompted me to take action to correct the error. When he got home, the daughter was showing up in the snapshot of the family as the household was loading and I thought that was a bit strange, but when the household was finished loading there she was!
