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mauvejinjo
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4 years ago
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[FIXED] Sims lose their first and last names

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.77.131.1030 Wha...
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    4 years ago
    Sometimes, in certain saves, Sims would lose their names when visiting some Lots - most notoriously the Goth’s Lot but it could happen anywhere. If a Sim has no name… does that Sim exist? I can assure you that the Goths were not involved, but this issue should no longer occur.

    Fixed in Patch 1.79.93/1.47

    If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

    Please not that already lost names will probably need to be edited in manually. You should no longer loose them again after that though.

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mauvejinjo
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4 years ago

@MickCasanova's suggestion of manually re-typing names seems to work, and restores names lost to living Sims. As for the deceased Sims, I haven't yet found a solution.

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    MickCasanova
    Rising Scout
    4 years ago

    Just discovered yet another issue tied to this name change thing. It would appear that the change is also tied to any sims made prior to the 1.77 patch. So if you used one of the original NPC sims as a seed for your sim creation, and saved it to your library before the patch, once it is deployed in a new game after the 1.77 patch, the name will also revert to the original. So this bug not only affects old saves, but more importantly it will also revert sims saved prior to the patch. This is a real game breaker since there are millions of sims potentially affected in the Gallery. Obviously, this goes well beyond the Gallery.

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