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Rising Novice

10 months ago

Sims are gone & missing from some households

Hey all, I've never posted here before, so please bear with me if I do something incorrectly. I play on MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1 on a 2020 MacBook Pro with the Apple M1 chip. I do play with mods, so I tr...

gameplay issue

PipMenace

Hero

9 months ago

@Dipwad_OmegaHmm... but it wouldn't be all mods, it would be one specific bugged mod... and it might even not make them disappear until it's removed... but it's hard to tell what's going on if there's no pattern to who disappears. Did you look at what each Sim was doing when you saved and exited? Or what relationships they had with each other? Do you use any gameplay mods that might have affected any of the missing Sims' panels at all (custom traits, fears, milestones, aspirations, etc)?

Edit: Asked around if anyone had heard of something similar. Did you have the Hybrid Occult mod?

Dipwad_Omega

Rising Novice

9 months ago

Apparently I did have a Hybrid Occult mod installed that seems to have been causing the problems. I forgot that I have an Alien Spellcaster and that I couldn't do that in vanilla TS4 😅 I believe it was a hybrid mod by Iced Cream, and in retrospect, there was actually a pattern because all of the Sims I who went missing were also occults of some type. (Don't know how I didn't pick up on that earlier lol, my bad)

I went to check out if there was an update for that mod, and there...kind of was? I think what they ended up doing was merging their mod with another one called Occult Hybrid Unlocker & Stabilizer by TwelfthDoctor1. (The included screenshot is of the old mod that I deleted.) So I deleted the old hybrid mod and downloaded these instead:

- https://modthesims.info/d/643617/

- https://modthesims.info/d/647863/all-in-one-occult-hybrid-stabilizer.html

I went poking around to make sure everything worked correctly, and it everything seemed to be fine. I checked to make sure my Alien Spellcaster Sim still had both occults, and sure enough, she did. I haven't noticed any Sims still missing, so it seems that problem has been solved. It did, however, create ANOTHER problem...because of course it did. (Because apparently, we as TS4 fans aren't allowed to have nice things.)

Now I can't open CAS without it freezing on the loading screen, making me have to Force Quit the game. I even tried going to CAS on a non-occult Sim (one of the 2 that DIDN'T go missing from that same household), but it froze again. So now my Sims are back, but now I can't edit them or create any new ones...excellent. 😮‍💨😭