I have a large legacy family I remade for The Sims 4. The family consists of three YA siblings, their spouses and one sibling's teen son.In the CAS demo, I made all the YA and set their relationships fine with no problems but when I added the teenager to the household in CAS when I got the full game, I had issues setting his relationship with his father (his father's wife is not his biological mother). The father's relationship list on the side showed his son as being his son, but the son's showed his father as being a roommate and it would not change when I tried to set it to father.Eventually I gave up and moved the household into Oasis Springs. I looked at the relationship panel for the father and somehow, his son was showing up as his brother. I evicted the family, pulled my saved copy of them back out in CAS and tried to redo the relationships. This time, I couldn't set the father's relationship with his sisters. Same issue as before where I would click on Sister but it would stay as Roommate.I'm really frustrated because there's no way I can play a legacy challenge with relationship issues like this. Any help or suggestions would be most welcome. This is the first serious problem I've run into with the game. I've been playing almost 24/7 since September 2nd and it runs beautifully with no serious bugs but this one is serious and I just ran into the problem today.

I made a post about this yesterday but got no answer. It's been happening to me as well and I'd really like a fix for it because as you said, it's really frustrating.

Same issue for me. I noticed it when I moved out a few Sims from their parents house (all YA siblings as well) into different houses and those Sims then went to have children and the children did not show up as the grandchildren of the parents of the YA siblings. Then later one of the YA siblings had their mother listed as their sister. I really wish this would get fixed as its stopping one of the parents of the YA siblings to achieve his aspiration (one of the family ones requires four grandchildren). But I have a hunch it has something to do with moving families around. Hope this gets more vision will watch this thread! Edit: In the meantime I've found a fix (hopefully) haven't tested it yet but if you use Shift+CTR+C to get the cheat bar up and type testingcheats true and then press enter and then type cas.fulleditmode and then enter again and shift click on a Sim you can edit them in CAS with full functionality and edit the relationships. I will test when I get the time and post back on the results. Good luck!

I've had issues with this as well. You can create a child from two male sims, and set them both to the father, but when you get in game it sets one of them to either a brother or roommate. Also thanks 3mmagreen for the cas.fulleditmode. I didn't know that one existed.

No problem, but I've tested it and it doesn't solve the problem for me sadly. The option is still grayed out or doesn't select properly and wont change their relationships. It says can't change Sims that have already been created (or along of the lines of that). Tell me if it works for you though. Will keep looking for a fix in the meantime.

This is going to be really problematic for legacy players yikes. Bumping this again because this NEEDS more attention so we can find a fix.

Problems setting relationships in CAS

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rkchick
10 years ago
Well randomly even tho they are not in a relationship at all it just let me propose so I guess that takes care of that. I appriciate your help!!
EmberDahl
10 years ago
With the seperate and re import method I used- it seemed to remember the marriage bit anyway so I didn't have to alter that bit, it was just the son/ mother etc part that I had to change. It worked on 10 lots of different relationships without giving me any any unselectable options- hopefully the same will happen for you
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the kids clothing seemed to be remembered too when I aged them back down which was nice.
luthienrising
Hero+
8 years ago
"Plazy_Octopugs;15599810" wrote:
Hi I'm having this problem I think?? I didn't read all the way through so it may of been answered. So I'm doing a Greek Mythology legacy thing. I'm having Gaia (first generation) and Uranus (first generation) have Titan children which if you know involves eventual incest (certainly to get to the main third generation like Zeus). I don't have the incest mod so with the first two children (Tethys and Oceanus if you were wondering) I tried changing their relationship in cas from brother/sister to roommates but nothing happens?? I don't know if it's because they were born in world not made in cas or? If someone could help me solve this problem that be great. Also I used the cheat cas.fulledit mode so that's not the problem, and they were twins if that makes any difference.

You can't change siblings to roommates unless you delete their relationships with their parents.
undiluted
New Spectator
7 years ago
Reviving this thread as I've just run into this issue as well -- have a gallery household (father + 3 daughters, and an unrelated father + son) originally with the correct relationships, and then suddenly two of the daughters broke off and became roommates to everyone else (while remaining sisters with each other).

Gave TwistedMexican's cheat a try and had absolutely no response from the game. In addition, when I try to edit the two sisters' relationship with each other, both "Sister" and "Roommate" appear as valid options in the dropdown but clicking "Roommate" does absolutely nothing. They stay sisters no matter what I do. The "relationship.destroy" cheat doesn't work on them either.
tahjwoods
7 years ago
GUYS PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK AND SEE IF YOUR SIMS ARE THE SAME AGE!!! This just solved my issue. I made the family from the bates motel and Norma's (The mom) son Dylan was switched from being her son to her roommate. I quickly grew frustrated that's how I ended up here Lol. After about 20 minutes of scrolling, I remembered when I created the family I saw these little orange triangular exclamation points next to Norma and Dylan's name but I didn't think anything of it, and I kept creating them. I made Norma a young adult, and also just about everyone else in the house expect Norman who I put as a teenager. Not realizing she can't have a kid the same age as her :( moral of the story lol, double check everything before you jump into the game <3
tahjwoods
7 years ago
"dogbunny;c-16685384" wrote:
Reviving this thread as I've just run into this issue as well -- have a gallery household (father + 3 daughters, and an unrelated father + son) originally with the correct relationships, and then suddenly two of the daughters broke off and became roommates to everyone else (while remaining sisters with each other).

Gave TwistedMexican's cheat a try and had absolutely no response from the game. In addition, when I try to edit the two sisters' relationship with each other, both "Sister" and "Roommate" appear as valid options in the dropdown but clicking "Roommate" does absolutely nothing. They stay sisters no matter what I do. The "relationship.destroy" cheat doesn't work on them either.

Make sure the dad or whoever the parent is, isn't the same age as them! Hopefully that works!
Sirkingjamz101
6 years ago
I found a fix considering its almost 2020 and the EA/Maxis STILL HAVENT FIXED THIS ISSUE SINCE 2014!!!!! Back up the family on the gallery and delete the broken one from the game, redownload from the gallery, enable the cheats (testingcheats true and cas.fulleditmode) and boom fixed... if not do what i did and delete the WHOLE GAME AN START OVER CUZ THERE IS NO FIX!!!!! STUPID GAMES ALMOST DEAD AND WERE GONNA HAVE TO RELY ON THE COMMUNITY TO FIX MAXIS' MISTAKES AGAIN! Do the creators even play this game anymore? do they even send this content though playtesters anymore? clearly the "masters" at Maxis believe that theyre fingers are gold and only make non buggy code when coding but you guys are a bunch of yahooos!!!! the community has told you now for OVER 5 years this needs to be fix... along side MANY issues and today of all days i got a 1.5GB update.... did it do anything usesful? no.... just pillar heights not matching the roofs... clearly a NOTHING issue that we ALLLLLLLLLLL looked past but some how it made it to the top of you bug hunting quest.... WHAT A JOKE MAXIS LATELY!!!!!
Sirkingjamz101
6 years ago
Still no fix for this huh? I made a family recently and as i was changing sometraits that i didnt like i wanted to add a relationship for 2 sims in the house hold but i clicked the wrong wrong sim altogether now apparently and now two of them are sisters and i cant change them back now either so instead of the one person being the the great grand mother to my child sims shes now an aunt. and i cant change it back.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"Ashleigh825;d-778593" wrote:
I have a large legacy family I remade for The Sims 4. The family consists of three YA siblings, their spouses and one sibling's teen son.

In the CAS demo, I made all the YA and set their relationships fine with no problems but when I added the teenager to the household in CAS when I got the full game, I had issues setting his relationship with his father (his father's wife is not his biological mother). The father's relationship list on the side showed his son as being his son, but the son's showed his father as being a roommate and it would not change when I tried to set it to father.

Eventually I gave up and moved the household into Oasis Springs. I looked at the relationship panel for the father and somehow, his son was showing up as his brother. I evicted the family, pulled my saved copy of them back out in CAS and tried to redo the relationships. This time, I couldn't set the father's relationship with his sisters. Same issue as before where I would click on Sister but it would stay as Roommate.

I'm really frustrated because there's no way I can play a legacy challenge with relationship issues like this. Any help or suggestions would be most welcome. This is the first serious problem I've run into with the game. I've been playing almost 24/7 since September 2nd and it runs beautifully with no serious bugs but this one is serious and I just ran into the problem today.

I kept running into the message 'can't edit a previously made Sim'. That was truly frustrating and very close to what you're talking about. I solved my issue by taking the household into cas.fulleditmode and from there I saved them to My Library (see the folder on the top right in CAS). Then I clicked on new family in my game save and added them anew, placing them back in their previous lot. Took them back into cas.fulleditmode and I was able to reset their relationships. Hope this helps.
Sirkingjamz101
6 years ago
> @GalacticGal said:
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> I kept running into the message 'can't edit a previously made Sim'. That was truly frustrating and very close to what you're talking about. I solved my issue by taking the household into cas.fulleditmode and from there I saved them to My Library (see the folder on the top right in CAS). Then I clicked on new family in my game save and added them anew, placing them back in their previous lot. Took them back into cas.fulleditmode and I was able to reset their relationships. Hope this helps.

I did this and it still wont work, So now one of my sims is married to his great great aunt. it wont let me change it at all it shows the option to make them roommates but then snaps back to sisters... idk im so over it

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