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elliebreton's avatar
23 days ago

Missing Ghost

Back in Winter in my game, I had been playing the O'Sullivan household with two elder parents, a daughter and her husband. The daughter and husband moved out, but before they did I made sure to make a will for each parent to leave heirlooms etc. Then I marked the parents as not being played.

Fast forward to the beginning of the following Summer and I rotated to play the daughter and husband again. They were going to visit the parents but then I found out the game must have killed them. The dad was still in their relationship panel as a ghost but no sign of the mum anywhere and their home is empty.

I can hold a funeral for the dad, but it's like the mum never even existed. I got no notice of their death, no heirlooms passed on, nothing.

Is there any way to locate the mum or is she gone forever?

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  • elliebreton's avatar
    elliebreton
    Legend
    22 days ago

    Well, thank you for replying and I'm sorry it happened to you too. It looks like I may have to go back to a save from long ago 😓

  • I play rotationally and  had a similar experience - except it was a single parent and I knew the Mom had died (laughter) while I wasn't playing her - all trace of her disappeared. However, when I got around to playing a Granddaughter - one day they got the Will in the mail and the heirlooms showed up in their inventories. Huh.

    This happened to me once before. Long, long, long ago the unplayed Mother of a Sim I was playing died and just disappeared. Her Family tree showed a blank portrait for her Mother. Not no portrait, just blank.

    In the first instance the Mother was from The Gallery. In the second the family was generated by the game. 

    I think it's a glitch in the culling system. I was never able to recover them.