Family Trees
I hope this post is not closed down because it is not a bug report but I am looking to engage other players on what they do regarding an issue I have found in the game. I play rotationally and have been excited to create extended family relationships across many sims in my game (siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc). Obviously I cannot keep them all in one household to retain their relationships (and this doesn't always work anyway).
As I've played, I have been forced by updates to the game and various bugs to restart my save game file many times. This has required me to use MCCC to try to recreate and maintain family relationships among my many sims when I transfer them to a new save. Trying to do this without mods is very often impossible. I find myself constantly chasing my tail as relationships break, spouses become siblings, the relationships I set up just randomly change to other random relationships (most recently one sim's parents became her husband's parents instead when I tried to add her sister to the game and to the family). As soon as it seems I've got everything set up right, the family tree breaks somewhere else.
My frustration with this is, of course, immense. But that is not what this post is about. I'm asking, those of you who may experience this issue or try to play extended families - what do you do? Do you just keep track of family relationships outside of the game and just pretend in the game, ignoring the in-game family tree altogether? Do you just give up having extended family? I'm at the point of just not bothering with family or maybe just not playing the sims 4 at all anymore (again frustration). Are there any other options?
