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8 months ago

Parental Changes on Sim Death After Adoption

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
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? 1.110.311.1220
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? growing together, high school years, cottage living, snowy escape, eco lifestyle, discover university, island living, seasons, cats and dogs, city living, get together, werewolves, my wedding stories, parenthood, vampires, spa day, my first pet, backyard, romantic garden
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? If 2 sims have a child and one of the parents dies, the living sim can find a new partner who can adopt that child (not just adopt as a care-dependant). The bug occurs when the dead sim has parents in the game, and the adopting sim does not.
What happens when the bug occurs? The parents of the dead sim (the child's grandparents) become the parents of the sim who just adopted that child. This is visible in the family tree and the sim also receives phone calls from the dead sim's parents asking why they never visit. The biological parent is also completely removed from the family tree
What do you expect to see? The parents of the dead sim should not become the parents of the adopting sim
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

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  • I don't have any screenshots of the tree before the bug, but you can see in the adopted child's (Levi's) and adopted parent's (Tasha's) genealogy that my dead sim's parents and sibling became the parents and sibling of Tasha. All I did for this to happen was have Tasha legally adopt Levi after his bio mom died. Bio mom is erased from the family tree, but I don't think that part is a bug because I'm not sure how the Sims would keep both parents in the tree anyway. But bio mom's parents/brother shouldn't have become Tasha's just because she adopted their grandson/nephew

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