Complications changing family tree
Hi! So I have a 7 sim family. I recently decided that I wanted to add parents to one of the already adult sims, so I enabled testingcheats and cas.fulleditmode to create the sims and the relationship...
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Wow, thank you both for putting so much time and effort into trying to solve this! I greatly appreciate it.
@JonaO703 I think I did save the whole family (with the father) and then later separated him in a different save to be able to put him back.
I think I deleted that specific family after I separated him from them, because I see no family close to him in my gallery.
@Psychotps I tried saving the family to my gallery, deleting them from the world and then putting them back. I added the father but unfortunately still couldn't create the "father" relationship. The only person I can add it to is the spouse of the sister for some reason, but of course I don't want him to have it, haha.
Maybe there's something else wrong with my saves, I have no clue!
At this point I'm pretty much ready to give up with this, so I don't blame you both if you are too! It's definitely a mystery.
@phoenixjklin Oh man, it's too bad you didn't keep a copy of the whole family with the dad! Like I said before ... what a mess! :-( I really wish I knew something else that might help. The more I think about it, the more this seems like a bug. I wonder if you'd consider starting a new topic on the bug reports board. Maybe give it a specific subject like "Deleted Sims Leave Empty Slots In Genealogy" and just include the part where you deleted the father and the steps you took to add a new one. The only reference I could find to this issue was in an old reddit article from a couple years ago. There are bug reports about sims disappearing from family trees but none about these empty relationships or the effect of not being able to add a relationship because of it. I guess I just assumed that, when a sim is deleted, all traces of their existence goes with them. We don't have empty slots in the relationship panel. The only thing I've noticed leftover from deleted sims is their personal inventory items added to the household inventory. Although, I've only played a couple "legacy" games and I never deleted a sim from those so the genealogy problem hasn't been an issue for me. Anyway, I definitely know that point of frustration when you wonder if it's worth the effort. It's totally up to you of course.
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