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jbp496029
Seasoned Newcomer
23 days ago
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Sims disappearing upon arriving to university

Hi everybody! I am having trouble when it comes to sending my 2 young adult sims to university. I enroll them both using the laptop and once they leave their home town and the game is finished loading my sims are nowhere to be found and it is on the screen where you can create a household, pick a household, etc. additionally, when this happens I’m unable to quit my game and have to quit by force quitting via task manager.  I do not play with mods and I have very few expansion packs installed. Please help! 

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    23 days ago

    jbp496029​  This is a relatively common issue with traveling.  The EA version of the travel transition is somewhat unreliable and prone to breaking.  I can try to help you get through it, but it's possible that you'll run into the same issue on the way back.

    So if you're willing, I'd instead suggest that you add NRaas Traveler, which replaces the travel transition with one that's much more stable, along with ErrorTrap, Overwatch, and Register.  You can find more information about them here:

    Sims 3 - Common Game Fixing Mods - Hero Approved | EA Forums - 8291748

    If you don't want to add mods, and you want to try to travel anyway, let me know, and I'll write out what to do.  In that case, make a backup of the pre-travel save now, so you have it if you need it later.

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    23 days ago

    jbp496029​  This is a relatively common issue with traveling.  The EA version of the travel transition is somewhat unreliable and prone to breaking.  I can try to help you get through it, but it's possible that you'll run into the same issue on the way back.

    So if you're willing, I'd instead suggest that you add NRaas Traveler, which replaces the travel transition with one that's much more stable, along with ErrorTrap, Overwatch, and Register.  You can find more information about them here:

    Sims 3 - Common Game Fixing Mods - Hero Approved | EA Forums - 8291748

    If you don't want to add mods, and you want to try to travel anyway, let me know, and I'll write out what to do.  In that case, make a backup of the pre-travel save now, so you have it if you need it later.

  • jbp496029's avatar
    jbp496029
    Seasoned Newcomer
    22 days ago

    going to try to download and add the NRaas stuff now! thank you for your help (: 

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    21 days ago

    DivinylsFan​  Register manages role sims and some service sims (e.g. strays and wild animals).  I started suggesting it for broken travel transitions because when I've tested players' saves, with Register in place, I've sometimes seen a pile of errors from Register at the end of the travel transition that was broken for the other player, AND the transition works on my computer.

    Sometimes adding Register isn't enough to help the user, but it has enough times that I always list it.  And it's another one of those NRaas mods players can install and forget about, no need to learn anything.

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