How to invite over an alien that used to be a pollination technician?

squirrelwithacup

I can't seem to figure something out. Using mods I went into the hidden households and made the Pollination Technician visible, and moved her into a house. One of my sims is in a relationship with her (long story) and everything works okay, but the one thing that bugs me is that I cannot invite her over or to any events. She is no longer a technician, she seems like a normal alien to me, so I'm not sure why this is. Does the game still recognize them as a special NPC? Is there any way I can make it possible to invite her over?

LaBlue0314

I do have one idea. Find the sim you want to invite over, but can't, also find another sim and move the two in together. Then merge the one in with your sim, while leaving the other one behind. Then do what ever it is you want for them to do. Then afterwards, go back into Manage Worlds, and move the alien back in with that other sim you had first merged. Now why said all that, is so you don't get an addition 20,000 semolians added to your sim's family household funds, but you can still have your sim enjoy the other sim's company.

Tiarella

I don't have an answer to your question, so I'm speculating about work-arounds.

If you're willing to play more than one household, have you tried playing Ms. P'Tech and inviting your sim over to her house?

If you don't want to play more than one HH, you can use a cheat to force P'Tech to appear. These are copied from TwistedMexi's cheats on reddit (ETA: the cheat code's now italicized for clarity):

1) Get sim ID: sims.get_sim_id_by_name <yoursimfirstname> <yoursimlastname> Note you're only interested in the long numerical string at the end.

2) Force Sim onto Current Lot: sims.summon_sim_to_zone <simID>

Good luck!

squirrelwithacup

Thanks for the answers guys, I actually figured out I could use the MCCC Summon Sim cheat on her and it surprisingly worked. But both of your ideas were good ideas too!