Toddler Disappeared due to Neighborhood Stories
Hi. I have come across a weird problem with neighbourhood stories... My sim's toddler has disappeared! Please help!
It's a slightly complicated explanation, so here goes...
My Sim Jeff had a daughter with Cora, a sim living separately as one of 'my households'. The toddler, Jolene, lived with her mother. I set Cora and Jolene's household to use neighbourhood stories. All was going well until I left Jeff to his own devices for a couple of sim weeks, whilst I controlled his sister's household. But when I returned to control Jeff's household, I found that neither Cora nor Jolene were in Jeff's relationships panel. I went to Jeff's family tree... It turns out Cora died in a fire and her face appears greyed out in the family tree. Jolene the toddler, however, is not greyed out and it does not say she's dead, so I assume she survived, but it's like she's not in the game anymore, even though she's still on the family tree!
I have looked at ALL 'other households' in household manager (and there were a lot) to see if she's been adopted by someone; no sign of her!
I got Jeff to try and adopt on the computer, hoping Jolene would appear in the list of possible adoptees - no luck there either!
I got a random household to try and adopt, hoping that as they were not related, they could find her in the list, then I could transfer her manually - no luck there either!
I don't want to go back to the last save before Cora died (2.5 weeks of in game time - including another 2 babies being born - would be lost if I did).
The only other workaround I can think of is to copy Cora and Jolene from the old save game, and merge Jolene into Jeff's household in the newest save game and have him become her official carer... But that would create a DC Comics Flashpoint style anomaly in the family tree, as Jeff would still have the 'original' version of Jolene in his family tree, as well as this 'new' alternate timeline/parallel dimension version of her as well. It's by no means an ideal solution, but could be my only workaround...
Please can you help me rescue Jolene from being lost in the space-time continuum? I'll use whatever cheat I need if you can give me some clue as to how to do this please...
edited title after splitting thread. -puzzlezaddict
