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vyanger353
New Adventurer
1 day ago

Hidden NPC being culled and became unknown in family tree

Hi there, I found some hidden NPC that I can't see in Manage Households being culled and became unknown in the family tree after playing for a while. I also set the limit sims at Unlimited and moved all premade households in my households so it's not being culled.

So far I can recover Ervin Pries by backup to gallery from new save and assigned NPC trait with mod after I tried to play through StrangerVille but the curio shop was closed all the time even the game generated another sim with the same role (conspiracy theorist), Roberto Crinkletop was also culled but I managed to fill in the ongoing save. These Sims are hidden from Manage Households, so I can't favourite to prevent culling in the first place.  

For severe case, Agnes was culled in my save and I can't connect Agnes to Goth family (see screenshot). I can only assign the relationship bits as Aunt-Nephew to Agnes and Mortimer with a utility mod for workaround but it does not recover the family tree and the family relationship bits are gone every time I relaunch the game. The Forge Family Tree feature also does not support forging two parents at the same time.

So my question is: Is there any way to recover this without revert the save? And how can I favourite hidden NPCs in Manage Households to prevent culling in the future?

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    1 day ago

    Hi vyanger353​ 

    the game culls Sims if you have a certain amount of Sims in your game and unless you have a mod that prevents this, you can't make them safe, as you said. You could try to delete some Sims that you don't need to get under the limit. The culling limit has nothing to do with how many you put in my household. It's around 800 and is all the Sims and pets you have in your game, in the household manager and hidden.

    If a Sim was culled, it's gone so you can only revert.

    Your best bet is to use a mod.

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