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Seasoned Ace

Re: The game is no longer spawning custom characters on lots.

@rookiebatman Also just to clarify: When you removed all mods for your testing, did you delete the localthumbcache file from your Sims 4 folder before running the test? I've heard that even after removing all cc/mods that bugs can continue in a game through that file. I delete it out of habit anytime I make any changes to my mods folder.

Yeah I hear ya. You get a game save working just the way you like and then boom something changes and it just kind of deflates you. The whims thing just about drove me insane. I even did all this:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/READ-FIRST-Troubleshooting-your-Game/m-p/3621199#Resetting

Of course then I found out others were seeing a whims bug too. /☹️

I started my current save right after the Nov. 12 patch disaster and I haven't seen anything like you are describing so I am mostly just guessing on fixes here.

I have one more experiment I want to try to see if I can effect a change on which Sims show up whenever I travel, show up at my house, etc. I'm going to make a few CAS changes to certain characters to give their data a newer date in my Tray folder & see if that makes them appear more often. It's a long shot but I'll let you know if it works.

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rookiebatman
New Rookie
6 years ago
You know, I actually had forgotten about the importance of deleting localthumbcache, so I tried it this morning removing all the mods and that file, but the results were still basically the same (the first character that spawned on the lot was a custom, but then all the rest where the usual regulars that have been showing up all the time since the change happened).
@RandomBuzziness wrote:
I have one more experiment I want to try to see if I can effect a change on which Sims show up whenever I travel, show up at my house, etc. I'm going to make a few CAS changes to certain characters to give their data a newer date in my Tray folder & see if that makes them appear more often. It's a long shot but I'll let you know if it works.
This sounds kind of interesting. I would be curious to find out if there is some way to "hack" or manage the way the game chooses who to spawn.