Fish and mother... both gone

Shaobun

I save often in my game. When I came back to play my sims I noticed 2 bugs:
1. my main sims collection said I had only collected 10 of 20 fish needed to progress in the aspirations.
2. My main sims mother (who lived alone on a separate lot) had died of old age and been removed from the genealogy tree.

I'm ok with losing fish, but it's annoying to no longer have any record that a now deceased sim was my sims mother. I don't know when she died and I haven't been able to invite her ghost over.

Shaobun

So I realised I didn't mention I still had 16 types of fish in my inventory. So it wasn't that the fish disappeared it's just that I have to go out and re-catch them to show that i've collected them. Weird.

joleaco

Oh no, I don't like the sound of deceased family members disappearing from the tree. Is she the only sim you have had die on another lot? Gee hope it's a one off.

Shaobun

She is, which is why i'm kinda worried about it. I was planning on trying to play one household only with everyone aging naturally so family members will be moving out, dying on separate lots, etc. I don't want them to get removed from the family tree though so I might have to re-think how I'm going to play. I want to keep aging on for the whole world because I've never played like that and I think it'd be interesting.

joleaco

Shaobun wrote: »

She is, which is why i'm kinda worried about it. I was planning on trying to play one household only with everyone aging naturally so family members will be moving out, dying on separate lots, etc. I don't want them to get removed from the family tree though so I might have to re-think how I'm going to play. I want to keep aging on for the whole world because I've never played like that and I think it'd be interesting.

I have all ageing switched off except the active household because I don't like sims dying and leaving no urn/headstone. But this disappearing from the family tree is a bigger concern. I haven't heard of anyone else having this problem .....yet.

Is it possible for you to go back to an older save to get her back again? Then you can muck about with it and see if it happens again.

Shaobun

Maybe I'll have an extra kid, kick them out and see what happens. I don't have an old save unfortunately. So they don't leave a urn? I just assumed I couldn't find it. That is so annoying. That was the only thing left I could think to do because I can't get in contact with her ghost (if she has a ghost). Where do all the dead sims go? I've heard they still count to the population limit.

joleaco

I think they do still count for a time, as they show in relationship panels. But I think they eventually disappear. The only way to see ghosts is to have a urn or headstone, as far as I know.

But I don't think they should ever disappear from the family tree.