I have run across three Sims so far who died quite a while ago, but they are walking around in the flesh in my game. Here is Autumn Hamlin who had two children with a member of my 6th generation. My game currently has 9th-generation teenagers.
Below is a screenshot of the personal status of Autumn Hamlin, one of the walking dead.
These Sims do not show in either the living Sims or the dead Sims in NRAAS, so I can only reset them by using the console command RESETSIM or by clicking on them and using NRAAS > MC > Advanced > Reset Sim.
I am almost positive I went into NRAAS to reset her about a week ago. However, my game has crashed a few times while working on my blog, so it is possible that it crashed after resetting her without having saved my game.
I just reset her under NRAAS and checked the area. There was no tombstone in the park. I sent Regan to check the mausoleum. Autumn doesn't have a tombstone there, either. She does, however, show up in NRAAS under the dead now.
When I ran Bury the Dead, it recovered 11 tombstones, including Autumn's, so I was finally able to place her in the family cemetery.
Several questions:
1. What is causing the Sims to die but not pass on?
2. What can I do to fix this issue?
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Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
This is only a guess. I'm in no way an expert on how the Sims 3 works, but on the up side, think of the lore opportunities.
An old family ancestor back from the grave. How did this happen? What does this mean for the family? Was this intentional or is there something else at work? You got the beginning to a story plot here.
@Mantejackal
I would have had an interesting story if I hadn't reset her and did bury the dead. She now has a headstone, which I placed in the family cemetery on the Legacy House lot. She has made a ghostly appearance at least once.
A year or so ago, real time, Gobias Koffi died of old age. I had his ghost, and the ghost of his father, in my boarding school. Then Gobias's ghost vanished and I couldn't find him anywhere. I was worried about losing connections between his children and the only sim I still had was Gaylord Koffi's ghost. So I made Gaylord eat Ambrosia and he became an Adult. This preserved the link between his grandchildren (Gobias's children).
Then earlier this year I was trying to sort out my spreadsheet where I record where all of the sims in this Big Game are currently living. They are spread across 13+ worlds.
I sent a sim exploring through each of the worlds. I needed to move sims around as some worlds were over populated. I found Gobias's grave in Cake Island graveyard.
I was happy. I'd found him.
Then I continued with my quest of trying to work out where everyone was living. Then I found Gobias again in another player made world. He had managed to become a father again. While he was dead or something. I'm not sure what happened. I all occurred in the background without me knowing anything about it. The sims in worlds that hare not being played in my game are supposed to be dormant.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
If I didn't know any better I would almost say your Sims are starting to gain sentience.
They sure keep me interested. I never know what's happening with them. I can't remember now if I actually found Gobias in that world with his new daughter or not. I think the mother of the child was a sim from Dragon Valley.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg