My teen sim went to jail and didn't come back?

sil707

My teen sim was out past his curfew pulling a prank on his school and he got caught by the police and went to jail.His little portrait disappeared from the sidebar.It's been a few days and he's not back, Is he gone forever?

Rinoa666Angel

Ummm the police is suppose to take ur teen and bring them home....only older sims go to jail.....

SimsGuineaPig

Even if sims go to jail the portrait shouldn't be removed from the sidebar. A sim in jail should have options like talking to inmates and working out. I guess you have a glitch where your teen was deleted from the entire game

sil707

SimsGuineaPig wrote:

Even if sims go to jail the portrait shouldn't be removed from the sidebar. A sim in jail should have options like talking to inmates and working out. I guess you have a glitch where your teen was deleted from the entire game

Maybe.His little portrait still shows up in my other sims relationships tabs.

Chimark

Did you reset your Sim?

You can type

Ctrl+Shift+C and then type

testingcheatsenabled true

Then type resetsim "Sim's Name"

[or type resetsim *, to reset all the Sims in a game]

This is known issue. In fact, nraas has a mod for this, but it is a third party solution.

SammiWoof

I'm having this problem right now too. Except, I had 4 teens get caught out. The 2 females were brought home and lectured. The 2 males have vanished. Is there no way to fix this?

ZoeyGS

SammiWoof wrote:

I'm having this problem right now too. Except, I had 4 teens get caught out. The 2 females were brought home and lectured. The 2 males have vanished. Is there no way to fix this?

maybe the cop was sexist? I dunno. :roll:

Rinoa666Angel

SammiWoof wrote:

I'm having this problem right now too. Except, I had 4 teens get caught out. The 2 females were brought home and lectured. The 2 males have vanished. Is there no way to fix this?

I can't help but feel relieved that it was the females that made it home safely and that they didn't "disappear"

Funmonkey16

Maybe it was just a glitch :shock:

Funmonkey16

How do u even get the adults to jail???

Mackerson

Same thing happened to me! But I just figured it out
1. Go to Edit Town
2. Click on your household
3. Click on "split up household". Your jailed Sim should show up with the family in photo.
4. Move your jailed Sim to new household w/ an adult. They should both then be moved to the clipboard.
5. Click on those 2 Sims on clipboard, and "Merge" with your regular household.
6. Return to game, and voila! S/he should show up at your house, like they just got home.
7. Order a pizza, because, why not?

Damara

an easier fix:

simply go to "edit town", switch to a different household, then go back to "edit town' and switch back to the original household. I did this and my sim who'd disappeared was standing outside.

you lose your wishes, but whatever. better to have all your sims.

Coolcal

Well if your sim had an F or bellow in school they might get sent to a military school which makes them removed from the game.

igazor

Coolcal wrote: »

Well if your sim had an F or bellow in school they might get sent to a military school which makes them removed from the game.

Teens in the actively being played household in TS3 do not get sent to military school unless the player chooses to send them there. At least, I've never heard of such a thing. Boarding schools don't remove a sim from the game permanently, they are supposed to return home when they are finished with their schooling and ready to age up.

theFella

> @igazor said:
> Coolcal wrote: »
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> Well if your sim had an F or bellow in school they might get sent to a military school which makes them removed from the game.
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> Teens in the actively being played household in TS3 do not get sent to military school unless the player chooses to send them there. At least, I've never heard of such a thing. Boarding schools don't remove a sim from the game permanently, they are supposed to return home when they are finished with their schooling and ready to age up. :)

he is probably thinking Sims 1, where children sent to military school are gone for good.

igazor

theFella wrote: »

he is probably thinking Sims 1, where children sent to military school are gone for good.

LOL, I hadn't thought of that. Ah yes, those sim kids who never aged (beyond baby to child). Funny how I put that game out of my mind so soon, a mere 13 years after I last played it. In addition to being the basis of all that came after, it sure had its endearing moments about it though.