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ALittleBitAlexa
Seasoned Traveler
17 hours ago

Phone calls do not tell you who has died

Apologies if this is a duplicate, I tried searching for it and could not find anything.

This has been going on for awhile now in my game, but sometimes when I get phone calls about a sim dying, it fails to actually tell me who died. This combined with the dead sims not appearing greyed out bug makes it very hard to tell who has died sometimes, especially if your sim knows a lot of other sims. Sometimes I can guess based on if they are actually sad or merely "fine" now that that distinction exists but it is still frustrating.

Essentially what happens is my sim gets a phone call (often times it looks like it is from a sim who has called recently), I click on the phone to answer and then my sim has a sad or fine reaction to the death moodlet, there is no pop up saying so and so has died.

I am on Mac, I have not yet updated after the Nov 4th update but this has been happening in my game for ages. I do have a few mods (mccc, better build buy, ui cheats). I am trying to test it without mods but it's a bit hard to have something like this happen consistently since it requires triggering a phone call, open to suggestions on how to test this more efficiently.

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    ALittleBitAlexa
    Seasoned Traveler
    15 hours ago

    I'm on it! Setting the save to short lifespan to see if i can get some sims dying quickly, will report back when/if I get this to trigger

    Thanks

  • Hi ALittleBitAlexa​ 

    Please follow these steps to test  your game on vanilla game with no mods/cc

    • Create a backup of your save game
      - Move your mods folder to the desktop
      - Delete the following files from your user folder.
        - localthumbcache
        - Any lastException Files
        - Any LastCrash files.
      - Test your save (you will loose all cc on the save but since you created a backup you can go back to that afterwards) and see if the same error occurs, then report back.

    Once you get the message on a vanilla game, post a screenshot.

    Moving this to gameplay until fully tested on a vanilla game. Especially for issues that are hard to replicate it's important that the team doesn't waste time investigate something that potentially turns out to be related to mods.

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