DJ.
18th Jul 2012, 04:04 PM
Hello. So, I'm back from my vacation, and I really missed my Sims. Yeah, it just couldn't go without problems! :(
So. I think it probably all started back at the beginning. I created two Sims in CAS (both in seperate households). I moved the first Sim (a guy) into the big mansion far away from the Sunset Valley (where the rich family with big house lived - I don't think that really matters). I played him a little bit (hired him in Medical Carrier and stuff). Then I switched households.
The EA Story Progression was ENABLED.
After I played my second Sim a little while (kinda like a storytelling mode, they're both new to the town, they've got the same job, they fall in love and have babies, she quits her job and becomes a journalist etc.) and since I got her all set up, I switched back to my first Sim.
Since I was so stupid, I didn't disable EA Story Progression. My Sim got her boss pregnant. I was so furious at that moment, I wanted him first to break up with her, but then, what kind of person would he be if he dumps a pregnant woman? So, I decided to delete my Sim. (I'm aware that if you delete a Sim in The Sims 2 you're doomed. But I didn't think that was the case with The Sims 3. Or it is?)
Anyway, I disabled the Story Progression from that point. Played the 'first' Sim only (didn't switch households), and married second Sim, reached top of the carrer and so on, had two babies, blah blah.
Since I'm making a 'replica' of a family tree from The Sims 2 (and in TS2 I made several households in CAS, not just that one), I created another household. I really like playing with (only the ones I find interesting) supernaturals, in that 'new' household (consisted of dad, mom, teenage daughter) I killed off the father with a fire and made the ghost controllable through Oh My Ghost opportunity. Didn't yet make him alive. Here's where the real thing starts (and yes, two kids from my first household are now teens). Again switching households.
The first thing I noticed is that the ghost from #2 household hangs out around #1 household's house quite a lot. In fact, he's there, haunts objects like crazy and won't leave. I even tried removing all the beds and espresso machines, because he used to sleep at my place. So I got an advice here (http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=480382), saying that I switch households and direct the ghost home. It works all the time, but switching households over and over again just to make the ghost away really makes me throw... a virus into The Sims 3 program folder! :lol: So, moving on. Everything starts from here.
My two teens (a girl and a guy) are excellent at school. Each day when they go home, one of them (always) brings a friend, who is (always) the ghost's daughter (the two households are best friends, if that matters). Also, the ghost's daughter is the girlfriend of one of the twins of the first household. (But personally, I don't think that would matter. Maybe it does, but I think not.)
Then one day (the day I got home from my vacation) I opened my game after a week or so not playing it. The father (first household) has a job in the Medical carrer and his salary is over $1000 (reached the top of the carrer). One day he got a big event at his job (something about a patient with an unknown disease, and that only my Sim found out what is the disease about), and immediately got a raise. Then, a wish popped up, saying "Discover 3 more traits of Karlo." Now, my "real" first Sim is named Karlo. And the one in the wish's thumbnail was the same guy! I was shocked. Immediately closed the game without saving.
When I cought my breath and courage, I opened the game again, and switched households. I selected the Jolina household ((don't know her name) Jolina was the woman my first first Sim impregnated). She got a son, and I checked the family tree - there was no father (because I deleted him).
But, DAMMIT!, she knows two Karlos. She invited both of them over, and I added both of them into the household to see, compare, yell at them for ruining my save.
It turns out that the 'fake' one has the same characteristics as the one I deleted long time ago. Like the game dug him up from the files' graveyard and just kicked him back into the world. He's a resident, and the second one (the 'real' one) is a World Reowned Surgeon. Didn't check the family tree yet, but I'm sure something bad's gonna happen (or, the 'fake' one will have an empty family tree, as he had an empty one when I deleted him).
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So there I am. A controllable ghost from another household is stuck in my house, I have two protagonists who are clones of each other, speaking of that a messed household and possibly, a big firey ball visible from space.
The clones are best friends with each other, the real one says that the fake one is his co-worker, and the fake one says that the real one is his boss. The real one's boss is Jolina.
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What do I do?! I don't want to recycle that save, it's the only one I have and my favorite one! Unfortunately, I don't have any backups. I don't use any mods for my game. I'm completely lost. First time after many years I put up this emoticon. :help:
So. I think it probably all started back at the beginning. I created two Sims in CAS (both in seperate households). I moved the first Sim (a guy) into the big mansion far away from the Sunset Valley (where the rich family with big house lived - I don't think that really matters). I played him a little bit (hired him in Medical Carrier and stuff). Then I switched households.
The EA Story Progression was ENABLED.
After I played my second Sim a little while (kinda like a storytelling mode, they're both new to the town, they've got the same job, they fall in love and have babies, she quits her job and becomes a journalist etc.) and since I got her all set up, I switched back to my first Sim.
Since I was so stupid, I didn't disable EA Story Progression. My Sim got her boss pregnant. I was so furious at that moment, I wanted him first to break up with her, but then, what kind of person would he be if he dumps a pregnant woman? So, I decided to delete my Sim. (I'm aware that if you delete a Sim in The Sims 2 you're doomed. But I didn't think that was the case with The Sims 3. Or it is?)
Anyway, I disabled the Story Progression from that point. Played the 'first' Sim only (didn't switch households), and married second Sim, reached top of the carrer and so on, had two babies, blah blah.
Since I'm making a 'replica' of a family tree from The Sims 2 (and in TS2 I made several households in CAS, not just that one), I created another household. I really like playing with (only the ones I find interesting) supernaturals, in that 'new' household (consisted of dad, mom, teenage daughter) I killed off the father with a fire and made the ghost controllable through Oh My Ghost opportunity. Didn't yet make him alive. Here's where the real thing starts (and yes, two kids from my first household are now teens). Again switching households.
The first thing I noticed is that the ghost from #2 household hangs out around #1 household's house quite a lot. In fact, he's there, haunts objects like crazy and won't leave. I even tried removing all the beds and espresso machines, because he used to sleep at my place. So I got an advice here (http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=480382), saying that I switch households and direct the ghost home. It works all the time, but switching households over and over again just to make the ghost away really makes me throw... a virus into The Sims 3 program folder! :lol: So, moving on. Everything starts from here.
My two teens (a girl and a guy) are excellent at school. Each day when they go home, one of them (always) brings a friend, who is (always) the ghost's daughter (the two households are best friends, if that matters). Also, the ghost's daughter is the girlfriend of one of the twins of the first household. (But personally, I don't think that would matter. Maybe it does, but I think not.)
Then one day (the day I got home from my vacation) I opened my game after a week or so not playing it. The father (first household) has a job in the Medical carrer and his salary is over $1000 (reached the top of the carrer). One day he got a big event at his job (something about a patient with an unknown disease, and that only my Sim found out what is the disease about), and immediately got a raise. Then, a wish popped up, saying "Discover 3 more traits of Karlo." Now, my "real" first Sim is named Karlo. And the one in the wish's thumbnail was the same guy! I was shocked. Immediately closed the game without saving.
When I cought my breath and courage, I opened the game again, and switched households. I selected the Jolina household ((don't know her name) Jolina was the woman my first first Sim impregnated). She got a son, and I checked the family tree - there was no father (because I deleted him).
But, DAMMIT!, she knows two Karlos. She invited both of them over, and I added both of them into the household to see, compare, yell at them for ruining my save.
It turns out that the 'fake' one has the same characteristics as the one I deleted long time ago. Like the game dug him up from the files' graveyard and just kicked him back into the world. He's a resident, and the second one (the 'real' one) is a World Reowned Surgeon. Didn't check the family tree yet, but I'm sure something bad's gonna happen (or, the 'fake' one will have an empty family tree, as he had an empty one when I deleted him).
---
So there I am. A controllable ghost from another household is stuck in my house, I have two protagonists who are clones of each other, speaking of that a messed household and possibly, a big firey ball visible from space.
The clones are best friends with each other, the real one says that the fake one is his co-worker, and the fake one says that the real one is his boss. The real one's boss is Jolina.
---
What do I do?! I don't want to recycle that save, it's the only one I have and my favorite one! Unfortunately, I don't have any backups. I don't use any mods for my game. I'm completely lost. First time after many years I put up this emoticon. :help: