Culling Questions
Hey guys, I have a tricky question. I ran into such a problem in my game: I have a family that I play, and one of the members of this family has a child with an unplayed sim. Then the unplayed sim di...
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@justyniaok1 @SheriGR is right.
But I think you might be a little confused as to how "Played" and "Unplayed" works. The "Played" tag refers to the household, not the individual sims. If you play a house, the entire household will be tagged as "Played".
If you play any household, even for a moment, the entire household will be tagged as "Played". Now this is different than "Favorite" households.
Open up the household manager from the neighborhood screen. "Played" households will be the ones with the bright-green plumbob. The Favorites will be the ones with the solid heart.
I believe the ones tagged as "played" will never be culled.
Since families can be in different households, if one is played and one not, the one that's not tagged as "played" could possibly be culled.
The best thing to do would be, every time you move a family member out, go and play them for a moment after moving them out. This will tag the new household as "Played" and prevent them from being culled.
But I think you might be a little confused as to how "Played" and "Unplayed" works. The "Played" tag refers to the household, not the individual sims. If you play a house, the entire household will be tagged as "Played".
If you play any household, even for a moment, the entire household will be tagged as "Played". Now this is different than "Favorite" households.
Open up the household manager from the neighborhood screen. "Played" households will be the ones with the bright-green plumbob. The Favorites will be the ones with the solid heart.
I believe the ones tagged as "played" will never be culled.
Since families can be in different households, if one is played and one not, the one that's not tagged as "played" could possibly be culled.
The best thing to do would be, every time you move a family member out, go and play them for a moment after moving them out. This will tag the new household as "Played" and prevent them from being culled.
@Psychotps Thank you so much for your respond! I have another question on the topic, maybe you can help with this one too.
I have a family that is "played" one of the sim (SIM A) marries an "unplayed" sim (SIM B), who now becomes played. SIM B has a whole unplayed family that I did not make played- they are NPC.
So these two sims live together have children, and then SIM B dies of old age, and he gets culled.
Question: What was I doing wrong? Did he get culled because he still had part of his family unplayed?
I have a family that is "played" one of the sim (SIM A) marries an "unplayed" sim (SIM B), who now becomes played. SIM B has a whole unplayed family that I did not make played- they are NPC.
So these two sims live together have children, and then SIM B dies of old age, and he gets culled.
Question: What was I doing wrong? Did he get culled because he still had part of his family unplayed?
- @SqueamishNerd If that's the case, then that will work also. Instead of going and playing a moved-out household, just favorite them. Thanks! Personally, if I was playing a household and moved a family member out, I'd rather have them tagged as "Played" rather than just "Favorited" though. Played has other benefits.
@justyniaok1 Ok, Let's look at it like this...
SimA is a member of HouseholdA
SimB is a member of HouseholdB
If SimA romances and marries SimB, and you move SimB in with SimA, then SimB is now a member of HousholdA and not HouseholdB. (A sim cannot be a member of two households at the same time)
Since you were playing SimA/HouseholdA, HouseholdA will be tagged as Played. If you never played HouseholdB, then HouseholdB will never be tagged as played. You have to play it before it can be tagged as "Played".
If SimB dies and gets culled, it was likely because he was a ghost. I'm not really sure how it works, but I thought ghosts were automatically culled by the game at some point. I wouldn't expect it would be the same for "played" ghosts. I thought there was an option to "strengthen" a ghosts connection to the world?
I don't play with ghosts very often at all.To expand on what @Psychotps wrote. When a Sim dies and becomes a ghost it is no longer considered played and will eventually be culled.
The Tombstone/Urn has three interactions:
Mourn: Will decrease the Sims mourning period
Release to Netherworld: The ghost is immediately culled.
Strengthen bond..: Which will delay culling.
Not all options are immediately available. Kids will only have mourn available.
You may also befriend the Ghost and add it to the family at which point it again becomes played.
- @jpkarlsen Interesting, so when a sim dies, it's removed from the household? If so, that would explain why it becomes "unplayed" as it's no longer a member of the played household and can then be culled.
If you either build a relationship or already have one with the deceased, you can invite them BACK into the household, and then it's governed by the "played" tag and won't be culled.
Very good to know!
@justyniaok1 If Sim B died of old age it sounds like he never was culled? Are you saying that he was culled from the family tree? Or did you possibly move the household into the library and place them into a new save? When you move a household into the library the only part of their family tree that remains is the household members that were with them when they were moved into the library. If it is not one of these circumstances please clarify. Thank you!
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@justyniaok1 Did he get culled after he was dead? If so, please refer to the post where @jpkarlsen (comment #10) explained what happens in this regard after death. 🤔
Edit: Just curious... Your culled sim is not blacked out, right, like in this bug report? https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Sims-in-Family-Tree-Disappearing/m-p/7287642#M80659
