Family Trees
I hope this post is not closed down because it is not a bug report but I am looking to engage other players on what they do regarding an issue I have found in the game. I play rotationally and have ...
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It is frustrating for sure. I have felt the pain of this myself. The only way for me to avoid that frustration is to use Family Echo website to make a family tree. It is free to use and very user friendly. It is too hard having to restart and using mcc (life saver mod for sure) to re-establish relationships for me. Still it is not a great solution if you like it to show in the game family tree as well. I wish someone would have a solution for that as it is so frustrating having to restart because of updates causing bugs, and having to keep doing a new save and trying to add back relationships. So I don't know if you will be satisfied using an outside source, but I don't know of any other way.
Thank you for replying. This is what I am thinking too - that it just isn't worth trying to make the game work in a meaningful way. It just doesn't and I just end up fighting the game constantly. It's just nice when family relationships are working to have them in-game. I think I will just keep track outside of the game or just not bother with family connections. At this point I've started a new save with one sim although I know I will be bored in no time.
I've had similar problems with assigning NPC jobs, like bartenders, mail carriers, etc. I want to control who is in my game and what they do. I have used mods to help me with this (cheats can work too but that is a tedious process). But ultimately things will break down and stop working. I think they've made some changes to bartenders recently that have messed them up so I can't get the ones I assign to show up consistently even though it has worked in the past. Making bars into small businesses allows more control over employees but it's a very different thing.
I think I just want too much.
