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3 years ago

Previous Saves of Same Household Reflects on Current Saves Progress

I noticed an issue where my previous saves are reflecting events from current saves. Sims I remove/add to households, show up in previous saves & once in a current save. 

I once added a sim to household and then removed them using MCCC. I saved my game and that sim still showed up in the household portrait on the menu screen catalogue as one of the family members despite being removed. I noticed when I went to “Load” the game or that particular save and saw them there.

Also, I went to a previous save to do poses and added randoms to take the photos. I saved with all sims still in household and went to my current save which was a few hours or days ahead and the sims I added in the previous save was reflected in the actual family in my current save. They were somehow moved to the household even though I never moved those sim into my sims family under that save. This happened with my sims who live in apartments and with another household in a different save of sims who live on the water in a house in Sulani. Both saves are fairly new and only a 2-3 months old.

I can’t replicate the issue without mods bcus it seems stuck that way in my previous saves and mods are updated. I don’t have any cc. Game is also current.

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  • @thecharsims  Are you quitting to desktop when switching saves, or just switching at the Main Menu?  Does this happen with no mods present at all?

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    thecharsims
    3 years ago

    @puzzlezaddictI haven’t tested without mods. If I removed the mods, I don’t think it’ll change what already happened but I can try to test but the saves are already stuck that way, the previous ones are but I can see if I can replicate the issue from the current save somehow. Idk

    I was only taking poses at the time so I used a previous save which was a current save at some point. I used the previous save to pose my sims and then I placed the pics I took into the current save that I had. The previous save was maybe a few hours behind the newer save. I save often, especially when building or taking in game camera pictures. So the save might be My Save Game 11 at 8:59p and the previous save might be My Save Game 8 at 6:30p but it’ll be from the same day, if that makes sense. During that time, I didn’t quit to desktop. I switched from the main menu. Though I have done that before but only when I’m not actually playing the game and only testing mods or cc in a new save game or previous one.

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    thecharsims
    3 years ago

    I went in game and took some screenshots really quick. I went into a previous save game where I had posed my sims and added random npc sims to the family the same way I did before. The sims I added are not the same sims from before.

    The original reason I did this was purely for needing someone to take the pictures so I can add screenshots to my current save for family photos. However, I later found a way around that by adding in the same sim to the family (Geeta Rasoya) who I saved to the gallery a while back and then changed her name. Hoping that doing that would avoid me having to add in random npc's in the future.

    I did try to replicate the issue but things don't work when you want them to. They only malfunction when you least expect it I guess. So I just settled for the weird things I noticed and captured them to post here. I wrote info on the images themselves but in the event, you can't read them, I'll try to be brief.

    * I took images of my sims trying to speak with the random sims I added to their household, 2 male sims. They both showed up with weird displays above their heads. Instead of a name, they had " wicked_w_Do not Remove".

    * The other issue is that, speaking to them didn't add a relationship to my sims panel, as if the weren't speaking to anyone. My own sims, however, their names were fine.

    * There was also the issue of random money that was added to their family in the amount of 9 million simoleons. I never gave them that.

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    thecharsims
    3 years ago

    The other images with the writings in them weren't able to post due to it saying the size was too big. Not sure how to make them smaller than what they are. So idk

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    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @thecharsims  Since this isn't a commonly-reported issue, I've been wondering whether it's the combination of using MCCC (or perhaps another mod) and also switching saves at the Main Menu, but of course that's hard to prove when the game won't cooperate.  At any rate, I'd strongly suggest making frequent backups until we can figure out when and why this happens.  That way, if a household gets more sims you didn't want added, you can just restore the unaffected backup and continue as if nothing had happened.

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    thecharsims
    3 years ago
    @puzzlezaddict Yea, it's a weird issue. Only other thing would be to give my save to the sims team but it's something that happened earlier in the month and the save isn't that old. Idk why ww showed up on the sims either, especially when all the mods was removed. That alone could have been an indication that it could've been an issue. However, it is updated, The only mods I'm unsure of which have been cleared is, "remove from conversations" and "control any sim". Control any sim is what I used to add and remove sims to the family. I've even redownloaded the mod just for the sake of downloading it again to be sure I had an updated version. However, both issues happened before and after the infant update but the mod was cleared as compatible. It's really one of those situations that's hard to figure out. For now, I'll just do work arounds so I don't end up having to add randoms into my family for photoshoots. I have plenty of backups for these reasons smh It's still a strange glitch tho. If it happens again, I'll be back lol

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