sims 4 households and sim panels not loading

Hey Crin,

Thanks for the speedy reply. I looked through the thread you linked and I do not use any adult mods. The only tuning mods I use are up to date (or so I believe; I might end up removing them all as they are mainly to do with City Life and managing the random situation outfits the game loves to generate (sims4me mods but I thought hers were all up to date)). I did pick the game up again recently in December and noticed that there were some broken mods and went through my folder to try and clear them out/update what I could. I did not have any issue with the different save I started with (that had more broken stuff in it) but only started having issues in this newer save. I'll load an old back up and see how that goes and try and salvage what I can. I appreciate you help!

As for the similarities between my issue and the one you linked, I (thankfully) have not had any households disappear or be replaced. Everything is playable but the household icons won't load mainly in Sulani, leading to me not being able to save the game or do any 'manage worlds' actions on that world. I'm not sure if NPCs in that world got some bad cc that I have since removed (cuz I did a massive purge out of sheer frustration) or what. Would it only be a tuning type mod that would cause this or could clothing/hair also be a culprit? 

I genuinely appreciate the feedback and will come back with an update once I have time to get into my game again.

PS Is weather being glitchy/not properly adjusting between worlds a thing? I know this is most likely due to some bad cc that I need to find but I'm curious if this is something others have run into. Would umbrella mods (ie keeping sims from using the things cuz they are soooo annoying) or anything affecting NPC walkbys during weather events cause this? Or is this mainly because that save is borked?