Fix for pets disappearing
For eight days I have been trying to figure out what was making my pets suddenly disappear, and I may have found a temporary solution to use until the teams fix this bug. I was out of ideas and finall...
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"Paigeisin5;c-17565856" wrote:
@Kita5399 I got tired of all the NPCs hanging out at the community board which is right across the street from where one of my Sims lives, so I don't allow NPCs to vote for the NAPs anymore. The ones they always vote for are never ones that actually help the environment, such as the Sharing Is Caring one. All that one does is let NPCs take anything they want off your lot and any other lot they go to. It was fun in the beginning, but it got old very quickly.
When I enacted the Green Gardening initiative and my garden went bonkers, then the cat began disappearing again, I had a feeling those might be having an affect on the pets, too. Which should not be happening. And if I recall, my save with the dog also has that one as a NAP. If that NAP has the ability to reset all plants back to the just planted stage, what else can it do? That's a question only the teams can answer. I have a mod for the plants, but no one has created one for the pets. And if the pets are being manipulated by the environmental changes, of which there are many, the problem with them running off their home lot will remain. I didn't believe that was possible until it happened to me last night while I was playing. Or maybe it was the first time I was able to make the connection because I was focused on the training and lecturing being the reason behind the glitch. It's a mystery for sure. But now I have a better understanding of the situation and that will make it easier to pinpoint what is triggering the pets to leave their home lot for no reason. And I have an idea the pets' behavior is being pushed by more than one thing.
Yes it’s an interesting theory. I’m going to start a new save, and have all eco options off from the start (NPC voting & environment effects). I want to see if the pets have any issues at all, and if so what (if anything) seems to be a common trigger. I have those options disabled in another save, and I still have pet & plant issues in it. That save didn’t start with the options off, so that damage may have already been done in that one.
