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ScenariSimmer
New Scout
8 months ago
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Family Fortune: Bring the Family Home not registering all family members

I'm playing the Family Fortune Scenario on a save created after Life and Death release, so after the patch 1.109.207.

I have no mods or cc.

I have all packs and kits.

I play on PC.

I've gotten to stage 3 and it is titled: "The End of the Family?" The mandatory tasks are Bring the Family Home, Read Inheritance Letter, Engrave Grandmother's Urn (End scenario.)

At this point all 4 Sims are still alive but Bring the Family Home is stuck at 2/4. The instructions say: Make sure grandma and all siblings are home by clicking the Go Home button. I have done this with all 4 of them numerous times. I have taken them off the lot, to other lots, to other neighborhood. It remains stuck at 2/4. 

I repaired my game, and it still didn't work. Grandma is running out of time in her life bar. Any help on how to fix this would be appreciated, but also reporting it as yet another bug with this scenario. I've also looked it up and not everyone gets this mandatory goal in the scenario, where it seems to have a different title for phase 3: A New Beginning for the Family.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title to better reflect the issue

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    Can't really help as I don't play scenarios but it seems this might be a new tasks that you only get if you own LD (cause inheritance letter is tied to LD).

    To be sure, do you own the pack ?

  • ScenariSimmer's avatar
    ScenariSimmer
    New Scout
    8 months ago

    I do own Life and Death. This is a base game scenario and I found 1 reddit post with the same problem from a year ago with this step, but unfortunately there was no solution.

  • Maybe they added an extra step if you own the pack. I mean Read inheritance letter is not a base game feature.

    Is Grandma supposed to be dead ? 

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    ScenariSimmer
    New Scout
    8 months ago

    The Family Fortune scenario was created a long time ago in the base game. The premise is you play as a family that dislikes each other and the grandma is going to die. The goal is to either heal the family or not, and then at the end of the scenario there is a build-in mechanism specifically for this scenario where grandma sends each child an inheritance letter and it decides who earns her fortune and who doesn't once she dies. There are 3 phases, but phase 3 can be different depending on how you did in phase 1 and 2, because there are optional steps as well as mandatory steps, and there are multiple different endings.

    So I have a different phase 3 than pretty much every tutorial I've seen, but it did exist before. I've found a couple of reddit posts about it. One was they didn't complete this step before grandma died, and bringing her home as a ghost didn't work, but going back to an earlier save fixed it in that case. The other post is like the problem I'm having, grandma is still alive but the final 2 are not registering as going home.

    This was all created before Life and Death's Will system specifically for this scenario. I know the scenario and inheritance letters will not show up if I don't complete this step. So the bug is something is preventing this from registering and once grandma dies it will be too late.

  • therhythmicbabe's avatar
    therhythmicbabe
    Seasoned Adventurer
    7 months ago

    Can this be investigated? My saved game has it and dies not complete.  Also I've tried on my vanilla and it's stuck again on that one sentiments task. They are all bffs, and only positive sentiments. 

  • ScenariSimmer's avatar
    ScenariSimmer
    New Scout
    7 months ago

    For the sentiment bug, if you play on PC you can use MCCC to delete the relationship bits for sentiments. This is a different bug later on with it not completing Bring the Family Home.

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    therhythmicbabe
    Seasoned Adventurer
    6 months ago

    I've tried clearing the relationship and removing all negative relationships bits for sentiment. There were none there. I'm still stuck.

  • I also have this problem, I tried making them travel and then return home, moving them, closing and reopening the game, but nothing seems to work... After solving the bug from the previous task by having to remove the relationship between Eddie and his sister, I was hoping the bugs would stop, but here we are again... These simulations are really tiring me out, and now they're asking for more money for the expansion packs?? The things they already have don’t even work as they should, how are the other things supposed to work? Ugh.