Question About Culled Sims

Good question...

I have two guesses about that.
1. It will affect the family tree, replacing the culled ones.
2. The game won't let you create parents to them as there are already two.

The reason for guess number two is that:
If you create a sibling for a sim without creating a parent, save changes, exit CAS, and through manage worlds enter CAS again, you can only create one parent to both of them. Plus in the family tree, there will be "null-sim" assigned as their parent.

But I'll have to test it out. The test looks like this:

• Create a sim with parents.
  
• Have those parents die.
  
• Release their spirits to netherworld to delete them (which is like being culled).
  
• Enter CAS from manage worlds and see if I can create a parent to the sim.

I'll go test it out and share the results, assuming my computer doesn't blue-screen in the process...

The blue-screen overlords had mercy on me! I tested it out and here's my result.

The second guess was correct.

The game will not let you assign any sim as their parent, even if the sim you're trying to assign as a parent is older than them.
For some odd reason, the game will still allow you to create a parent from genetics. However, once you accept the generated sim, they won't be auto-assigned as a parent. In addition, if you initiate creating a parent when another sim is selected, the sim with their parents culled won't be in the selection.

So yes, you can't create new parents to them unfortunately, even though the original ones were culled.

"Brd709;c-17990860" wrote:
Please do let me know how you get on. Surely the culled Sims data must be retrievable some how? I know we could do this with SimPE for The Sims 2.

Ah yes, the test is already done and the results are here.
Edit. Ah, I see insightful reaction. Eh, I'll let it stay here.

"EgonVM;c-17990857" wrote:
The blue-screen overlords had mercy on me! I tested it out and here's my result.

The second guess was correct.

The game will not let you assign any sim as their parent, even if the sim you're trying to assign as a parent is older than them.
For some odd reason, the game will still allow you to create a parent from genetics. However, once you accept the generated sim, they won't be auto-assigned as a parent. In addition, if you initiate creating a parent when another sim is selected, the sim with their parents culled won't be in the selection.

So yes, you can't create new parents to them unfortunately, even though the original ones were culled.

Unfortunately, I don't know about how the data could be retriveable. Hopefully someone who knows the game more code-side could help.

This is why I turned off that evil culling nonsense with MCCC.

Thanks for testing that out. Surely the culled Sims data must be retrievable some how? I know we could do this with SimPE for The Sims 2.

I should take more advantage of the gallery more often and upload my families but that's what you get for leaving aging on and finding out about their death's via a pop up.