Re: Family Tree Missing Members [TS4] [Please help!]

Hi, @thecharsims! Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I don't have a previous copy of my save game ☹️ Guess I'll have to do this all again 😭😥😅

@braulyokoYea, no problem. So sorry about that. A tip of advice though, it’s something that I do in my own game as a precaution. For future gaming, every now and again, just save your sims to the gallery. I have so many versions of my sims saved to my gallery that it’s nostalgic lol But it helps in situations like this in the event you have to go back and grab a copy of a sim. I did this with my first heir. She and her husband was deceased and they were culled after a patch. Since I had a version of them in the gallery, I was able to add them back. I’ve done the same for their 4 kids who also went off to have families. I’ve saved every gen including toddlers on up. Even when the toddlers aged, I saved again when they were children... so on and so forth bcus you never know. It’s a pain but it’s almost to be expected. Good luck to you. I hope my advice helps. Oh! And definitely get Mc Command. They have an option that stop sims from being culled.

I just realized I didn't change the settings for avoiding culling at the MCCC 🤦🏼‍♂️ I thought it only affected families I never played with or ghosts, but keeping them in the genealogy records. I immediately changed it.

Thanks for the advice @thecharsims ! I have a question though, for example, if you save a family with a deceased generation in the gallery, do you keep the graves at the alive sims' inventory? When placing back, do the graves keep the deceased sim information? Do I make sense with my questions? lol 😅 Thanks in advance! :D 

@braulyokoYea, the culling system is such an annoying feature. I lost sims very early on thanks to EA due to a patch. The only way to avoid sims, both played and NPC sims from getting culled, is to place them in your played households category from "Household Manager". By marking them with a heart, you guarantee their safety. As for ghosts and their graves getting wiped, it'd be safer to still use MCCC, also. I haven't had an issue since. Actually, that's when I came to the realization that patches will clear out all ghosts even in your family tree, including their graves. I was upset about it but was thankful I had back up saves with the sims that were culled, though it meant having to kill them myself. Honestly, I have a whole other family tree issue with that same family I speak of. It's just so annoying overall, how badly the sims team really messed up when it comes to the family tree.

Anyway, you're very much welcome. Your question makes sense lol As for saving sims to the gallery, all of their inventory items will be purged. Honestly, if you put 2 very close friends in the same gallery save and place them down in a new world, their entire relationship drops a good 85%-90%. Like, introductions have to be made all over again if you place sims separately. Same thing goes for spouses and their children, except they will have a small amount of relationship. The only thing that sims keep when you save them to the gallery is, their skills and whatever job they had.