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Re: Protecting NPCs from losing their jobs

Is it safe to edit NPC in cas? I have read that if you edit them even if you never load the household to play they will lose their roles. I have seen it happen when I edited the hermit in granite falls. She never showed up in the hermits lot again, and was no longer tagged as hermit, she behaved in the same way as a normal NPC. I have seen this happen to sometimes but not always with NPC in certain roles, for example DJ or Librarians. Sometimes when I edit them in cas They never work again in that rol, the game just generates a new random NPC instead. It does not happen always but often enough to be annoying.

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JonaO703
Hero
4 years ago
@babuchas01 Hello! I tested with a few of the NPCs with roles and I found that just editing NPC sims in CAS did not strip them of their roles. First, I used testing cheats to modify Sarah Scott in CAS. I also used manage households to modify her. Both times, she kept her title as the Pub Owner. I also edited a couple of the Sages from Realm of Magic and both kept their Sage roles. Editing did move them to "my households" though. As for the hermit, this character is randomly generated at the start of every new save and quite possibly you will see a new hermit any time you start a new game. This likely means the hermit sim has a different set of rules where assigned roles are concerned. I did not test for librarians and DJs but I think will be treated similarly.
I'm sorry I can't speak to your personal experiences with these NPCs. I'm just not seeing the same issues in my game. In general, if you want to continue seeing the same sims fill these roles, I simply suggest not editing them and most certainly don't load and play them. That will surely strip them of their roles.