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Seasoned Vanguard

3 years ago

Solved

TS4 - Everything works, but one household

I've spent the past two hours trying to understand wth is happening to my save, maybe you can assist this poor soul. Basically the game loads normally, the save loads normally, if I try to play any ...

YuleNorwood
3 years ago
So, I did some tests and now I'm 100% sure the editing caused the issue.

First I tried to age up the baby without editing him. I saved and went to Manage Worlds, loaded the family again, it worked. So it wasn't the ageing up.
Then I tried to edit the baby (now a toddler), whilst being careful to repeat exactly the same actions I did right before the issue occurred, and to save and try to load the family again after each action, to see which one specifically caused the issue.

I changed the todd name, his clothes, and I fixed his skintone. All these alterations didn't bother the game one bit.
The final one did: I wanted a sneak peek of the kid as a YA, so I aged him up briefly just to have a look, then I aged him back down before exiting CAS. I couldn't load the family after that, so that was it.

I have no clue why it happened. I'm a Legacy player and I must have done the same ageing up and down in CAS dozens of times. Either is a new issue triggered by the last update, or is because it's a family of spellcasters. Spellcasters can magically stop the ageing process, so technically it's possible to have same-age parents and children, the game didn't give me the little yellow warning icon as it usually does with human families. But it must have triggered something nonetheless.

So there you have it.

roberta591

Hero (Retired)

3 years ago

@YuleNorwood There is no Sims 4 save file edit that I know of. It seems once a save gets corrupted THAT save is gone. Did you try loading a previous save? Here is a link on had to restore a previous save - restore previous save

YuleNorwood

Seasoned Vanguard

3 years ago

So, I did some tests and now I'm 100% sure the editing caused the issue.

First I tried to age up the baby without editing him. I saved and went to Manage Worlds, loaded the family again, it worked. So it wasn't the ageing up.

Then I tried to edit the baby (now a toddler), whilst being careful to repeat exactly the same actions I did right before the issue occurred, and to save and try to load the family again after each action, to see which one specifically caused the issue.

I changed the todd name, his clothes, and I fixed his skintone. All these alterations didn't bother the game one bit.

The final one did: I wanted a sneak peek of the kid as a YA, so I aged him up briefly just to have a look, then I aged him back down before exiting CAS. I couldn't load the family after that, so that was it.

I have no clue why it happened. I'm a Legacy player and I must have done the same ageing up and down in CAS dozens of times. Either is a new issue triggered by the last update, or is because it's a family of spellcasters. Spellcasters can magically stop the ageing process, so technically it's possible to have same-age parents and children, the game didn't give me the little yellow warning icon as it usually does with human families. But it must have triggered something nonetheless.

So there you have it.