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.
First I owe an apology. I got confused a bit about whose post was whose, sorry @Psychotps ! Still, when I took the steps you mentioned, those missing parent slots still showed up.
Today, I had an epiphany. In my previous testing, I was so focused on adding an outside sim and it dawned on me that I didn't try playing with genetics again. So I saved my sim family and deleted them from the game, then saved and exited to menu. I loaded the game again and clicked create new household. Once in CAS, I played with genetics to create a father AND a mother. Creating them from the youngest did not give me an option to set the parent relationship for the oldest. I had to select the oldest sibling and play with genetics based on her. I got the exclamation point triangle warning related to their relationships so I was worried it wasn't going to work. However, I checked the relationships three or four times to be sure the right father-mother-daughter combo was set. I saved and played the household finding the genealogy now displays properly.
Eureeka! @phoenixjklin I'm hoping this will work in your game as well. If you do decide to try this, remember to play with genetics from the oldest sibling then double check the relationships across the other household members.
Edit: Now that I think about it, I think the reason I couldn't set the parent relationship for the oldest is because they were all young adult. In CAS, you can't set a parental relationship for sims of the same age; i.e. a young adult's parent must be adult or older. Perhaps double check that in your game as well.
- @JonaO703 Yea, that's always been a limitation. They need to be one age group higher (at least?). Not sure if that goes for teens as well. If the kids are teen and YA, and the parent is Adult, can the adult be parent to the teen?
Glad its working for you! It worked fine for me once I moved the sim to library and back. @Psychotps Yes, in my test save, one of the siblings is a teen, which I think was part of the problem for me. When I added the parents for the teen, they generated as YA but I didn't realize that at first. Then it dawned on me that adding parents for the YA sibling created Adult parents both of whom were set as parents for the siblings. I felt rather dumb afterwards but that's why I added my "edit" response to check for the possible age conflict. :-/ I think you mentioned we learn through the process. It's one of the reasons I started trying to help players here. I enjoy helping, even if it's not perfect, but I'm' also learning a lot. I really appreciate you and others for helping too. :-)
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