TBH, I don't really understand what this all has to do with Trashley ? What do you mean by Trashleys resetting options ? Do you mean the Business tutorial (aka discovery quest ?)
Unless they changed anything with NS, it's basically a two step thing.
As said, this shouldn't merge households, just move them in it's entirety (unless that was changed)
Did ever check on any of the neighborhood stories on your mailbox to see if any of the moving together happened ?
Hi! Yes, it has to do with Trashley's business tutorial, as noted in this thread: https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/s-stuck-on-select-season-for-several-unrelated-interaction-1-113-2882-09/11967917/comments/11969422
Saying yes to him when he asks if you want to turn discovery quests on reset quite a lot of my settings, including NS, autonomy, aging, season length, lunar cycle - all sorts of things like that which shouldn't have been affected. It was as if he actually reset all settings to default, not just discovery quests. I ticked off Neighbourhood Stories at the time and thought no more of it, but it seems NS was surreptitiously on since then - long before and long after my brief stint with MCCC. Post MCCC uninstallation, I confirmed that the postbox was giving fresh updates about pet and toddler adoptions etc. I've made the decision - just to be safe - to export my sims and just start again on a clean installation.
Thankfully I think @Intern_Waffle_64 has come to the rescue here in regards to why the families split. I had no idea MCCC was anything more than a sort of advanced debug mode. Installed it (to reiterate: long after Trashley messed with my settings) for about an hour of play after it was recommended to me, then uninstalled it. In that short time, it must've split those three households apart. Thanks for shedding a light on that!
