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[solved] Problem with family tree/relatives
LuvMySimz
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Hi. I hope someone can help.
When I start a new game and put all my Sims back into the game, my Sims lose their family tree affiliation. All my Sims are stored in my library.
Example: Grandmother and Grandfather now live in a separate household. They still have their relationship functionality.
If I now start a new game and put all my saved up Sims back into their houses, then family A are no longer the parents and grandparents of family B. I then have use "Manage Households" merge the families to reunite them to give them back their relation and then split them up again. This is very annoying, because if I bring the grandparents back to their property, then they have lost all the designations of home-cooked food and painted pictures, etc.. The name of who created/crafted what is gone. Is there another/better way to avoid all this?
When I start a new game and put all my Sims back into the game, my Sims lose their family tree affiliation. All my Sims are stored in my library.
Example: Grandmother and Grandfather now live in a separate household. They still have their relationship functionality.
If I now start a new game and put all my saved up Sims back into their houses, then family A are no longer the parents and grandparents of family B. I then have use "Manage Households" merge the families to reunite them to give them back their relation and then split them up again. This is very annoying, because if I bring the grandparents back to their property, then they have lost all the designations of home-cooked food and painted pictures, etc.. The name of who created/crafted what is gone. Is there another/better way to avoid all this?
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You can restore the relationships after placing them in your game using either cheat codes or a mod though. I personally use MCCC to do that, but if you don't use mods you can also use the console command (cheat code method) which is explained here.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Don't that s*ck?
Yes I thought I could do it without the use of MCCC. Do you happen to know the cheat codes?
follow the hyperlink in my post above by clicking the blue word "here". It's explained in that post.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Just looked at the thread It's from 2015. Is this still up-to-date? Just asking because of several changes made in the game over the years.
I've been playing rotationally the same save since the beginning. I think it would be impossible for me to move my families to a new save because the family lines have spread out so far. I think you've got a good situation because you can move them if you need to. Of course it would be nice if it was easier, but personally I've given up any hope of ever moving them.
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Wow nice work!
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I'm sure it still works. it's a cheat code...the same as bb.moveobjects and freerealestate on. I don't believe any cheat codes have 'changed' since the game was released...new ones were added, but the original ones still work too.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
What I did is:
1. Separate family tree into fragments;
2. Create each family tree in CAS
3. Move them all in, and use "relationship.add_bit" cheat to connect all three families in my case.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/997947/cas-qol-improvements
Actually everybody lose their names from everything ever created once starting a new save and re-add them back into game from the library. What sense does it make if you empty their Inventory & fridge goods to save it all if later on nobody knows who created it & the excellent goods then spoil? All the paintings on the wall incl. paintings from grandkids lose the creator name. That makes me really sad
Next time I start a new save I will first merge the families and fix their family tree BEFORE moving them back into their separate homes. Of course that does not fix the already lost names from everything saved on the lots.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Oh really?? I didn't know that! And here I am playing the sims over more than 20 years *SMDH*
That is a good question. I've read many times that sometimes it would be useful to do that because of some issues in the game. What is the actual difference between save as and create a complete new save? Say I have a "bugged save file" because of deleting stuff quit often like older CC for example or lots downloaded from the gallery. By chosing "save as" wouldn't that just be a copy of the same old save? Chosing "save as" wouldn't really solve the ussue if a save file feels bugged, I think, but I could be wrong.
In TS3 I believe it also helped with problems because just doing a save only updated the portions of the existing save with things that had changed, which meant you could potentially get a clean, un-corrupted copy of things if the old save files had some corruption, but I"m pretty sure in TS4 it only helps if the problem you are having is related to the file copy/rename process.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
I'm the kind of person who micromanage my game. Whenever I do changes to my Sims in CAS or houses, I reupload/save new copies to my library and delete the older ones. I create lots of stuff for my game and also delete lots of old CC or edit it for my game. So there is a lot of saving going on back and forth. Actually I create new saves just to be on the safe side. So not really sure if that is really necessary. If "save as" would do it, I will do that from now on
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
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