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trshipes's avatar
11 years ago
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[FIXED] 'Edit in CAS' cheat messes up relationships

I noticed it being weird in CAS first, it wouldn't let me make some sims another sims parent. For example: Sim A and B had sim c. Sims A and B say that C is their child, but C says only one is the parent and the other is their roomate. 

In game, it was fine.

However, in the relationship panel, every sim that my sims have together, it says that the relationship between them is "sister" instead of "daughter"... or it will just say aquaintance. 

I even went to manage households, deleted the children and remade them with the right relationships but when I went back to live mode, it's all crazy again.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Apparently they've eliminated the original problem by preventing updates to the relationship flags after they've been set for any pair of sims therefore you can only insert new sims and add new relationships to the family tree. The new problem is that if you add more than five sims to the household, options become unselectable based on the selections for the first five. The options are grayed out and on hover the popup indicates that 'pre-existing sims cannot be edited' regardless of edit mode. Effectively, family relationships can no longer be updated in any way.

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  • Cinderellimouse's avatar
    Cinderellimouse
    Seasoned Ace
    11 years ago

    I've only been working on this one family lately.  I'll let you know how I get on.

  • Cinderellimouse's avatar
    Cinderellimouse
    Seasoned Ace
    11 years ago

    When I started to play with the family, I checked the family tree and it said they WERE married!  So it looks like the issue is just recognising the relationship in CAS.

  • Since the Newest Update only days ago, I am now having this issue too. I wanted to create a mother and father for an already existing sim. In 'Manage Worlds', I clicked on the household and used the 'Pencil' button to go to CAS. However I used Genetics to create a Parent, a mother and the only options for her relationship is Sister or Roommate. I deleted the mother and exited CAS. I tried again with a father this time and the same thing happened. No options for the parent(elder) to be a parent to my existing sim. I even accepted it as it was(Created a parent in Genetics) and then clicked okay to see if it was a CAS glitch. But in the game they were just acquaintances. I have made parents and siblings for existing Sims before with no problems, before the latest update. All my other families and there relationships appear to be fine. Thank-you.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Apparently they've eliminated the original problem by preventing updates to the relationship flags after they've been set for any pair of sims therefore you can only insert new sims and add new relationships to the family tree. The new problem is that if you add more than five sims to the household, options become unselectable based on the selections for the first five. The options are grayed out and on hover the popup indicates that 'pre-existing sims cannot be edited' regardless of edit mode. Effectively, family relationships can no longer be updated in any way.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    10 years ago

    Ok, Now I don't know what to do with this.

    The initial problem was fixed but not the way people will like it.

    I'll mark it as solved though as the problem itself was fixed then.

  • Mselite5's avatar
    Mselite5
    Rising Rookie
    9 years ago
    I just saved the parents that I wanted to keep together to the gallery. Then deleted the old ones. I had to rebuild their relationship but at least they have the same skills and everything just not the family tree anymore ...

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