My Sims Keep Disappearing!

Someone over at Answer HQ has suggested deleting sims you aren't playing so that the game when it generates new townies on the Thursday doesn't wipe out your sims. I shouldn't have to do this but in the name of science I'll give it ago. I really don't want to delete 20 plus sims. I'll probably delete friends of some of the sims I've been playing.

"Jessabi;12695439" wrote:
I've had this happen to two of my sims and it's so frustrating. The first lived with Don Lothario, I was playing her brother's family for a while and when I went into household management, I noticed she was gone. I checked and she wasn't in the relationship panels of Don or her brother, she had just disappeared! And then last night, I decided to play Don for a while despite her disappearance and adopted a baby, then went out to the neighbourhood and noticed that the brother of the first sim to disappear was gone now too. He was gone from the relationship panels of his wife and kids too. I really hope this can be fixed soon!

I'm increasingly convinced that the Goth family and Don Lothario are bugged somehow.

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"ddgangel2009;12695474" wrote:
Someone over at Answer HQ has suggested deleting sims you aren't playing so that the game when it generates new townies on the Thursday doesn't wipe out your sims. I shouldn't have to do this but in the name of science I'll give it ago. I really don't want to delete 20 plus sims. I'll probably delete friends of some of the sims I've been playing.

Wow. Wouldn't that be a kick in the head if that's what's causing it. Regeneration should only affect unplayed homeless Sims.

I have "ageing off" for my unplayed Sims and have not noticed any new ones running around or old ones disappearing, so I'm hoping this prevents generation of new townies. I also turned off "fill empty houses." I'll have to take a more careful inventory of those Sims and keep an eye on them.

Sorry this happened to you but don't worry the Sims will be back.
They just wanted to explore an open world so they climbed aboard the loading screen & went for a ride.

I was looking over at the official thread, and someone named amandachloe found a partial work-around and has a good theory:

Seems i found a temorary solution.

I think that at every thursday morning 2 am, the game creates random new townies, but becuase the world has a limited number of spots, it creates room for the new ones by replacing other sims.

i have been removing random households from the household menu, to free up space by removing people.

seem sthis helps, now the game doesnt have to remove sims, because there is space for new ones.

i have only 1 person dissapearing last 2 ingame weeks
but that was only the first week.

seems i have to remove around 20 sims, maybe 25. for my other sims to be save.

Some people have tested it, with partially successful results--they are losing fewer Sims (maybe one or two). Still not acceptable, but maybe we're getting closer.

It's interesting. I need to make a list of my townies. I have not noticed any of them being replaced, nor new ones coming in, but I may just not be noticing. I have ageing off for townies and ageing on for the active household only, so I wouldn't expect new ones to be coming in, unless they keep populating up to a certain point and then start removing.

Update: Thanks to @HotKnife for this info:

User MasterDinadan of the modthesims site has identified the issue and created a fix. People have been claiming it works rather well, but he still needs people to test it.

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=535559

I think there must be a secret man cave somewhere and the husbands and boyfriends run away to it , talk about realistic lol jk

"MsPhy;12720105" wrote:
Update: Thanks to @HotKnife for this info:

User MasterDinadan of the modthesims site has identified the issue and created a fix. People have been claiming it works rather well, but he still needs people to test it.

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=535559

I'll give it a try. Playing a new save at the moment with ageing turned off except for the family I'm playing and the fill houses unchecked and so far I've had no new townies spawn or anything but then I haven't rotated right now but I will be.

Once they are townies,they are toast! :rage: they have to fix this quick!

help my sims keep disappearing off my family tree its hard to make a legacy with out important sims on sims 4 they aren't anywhere not even in household management. PLZ HELP!!!!