Sorry for the dramatic title but it explains whats this is all about. Maybe there are a thread like this alredy, then you can link me. I'm not so sure what to search for. Anyway I have been reading some threads an d know that some of you have experience in bringing back sims from the dead. Now I asking you for some help.

I have thought about it and decided that it may be cool to try it. My idea would be to bring back Claudio Monty http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Claudio_Monty and his wife Olivia http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Olivia_Monty the parents of Romeo and Mercutio. This action can, as I understand it, easeily be made using the genie lamp. (The word used on the webpage is "resurrected" but I did not find any translation for the word). But there are some questions I want to have answred:

- Will this action be dangerus for my game? I mean, will it in any way currupt the neighbourhood? Many things can so I don't want to take any risks.
- What will be the effects on the gameplay itself? Afterall, many sims have the memories of the sims as dead so will "waking them up" mess up my game?
- Will Romeo and Mercutio accept Claudio and Olivia as their parents or not? Acording to sims wiki, I have to restore the marriage (and try for baby in order to restore Olivias pregnency) but what type of connection will the teens have to the new sims?

Hope you will help me whit this. I don't try to bring the sims back before I know what's going to happend.

It depends upon the individual sims who are being resurrected. I believe that all of the Monty sims are safe. However, I recommend making a backup first, just in case.
In general, I haven't had any gameplay issues. I haven't tried resurrecting the Montys, but you shouldn't have any problem unless their character data is missing.

You may want to consider adding back some of their missing memories using SimPE.
Again, it depends on whether the family ties and relationships are intact. If not, you can add them back using SimPE.

My best advice is: BACKUP! Then try it and see what happens.

It may have been the way that I resurrected them, but the Monty Ranch majorly glitched after I used the Resurrect-O-Nomitrion to raise Claudio and Olivia Monty.

I used the unlockcareerrewards cheat to get the "bone phone" and then had Patrizio call to raise Claudio, and then had Claudio call to raise Olivia.

I kept getting error messages every 2 or 3 seconds on Claudio and Olivia so I exited without saving and let them stay dead from then on.

I'm not sure if you would have better luck using a different method. Claudio has 2 nice points and is pretty grouchy towards everyone so I'm not sure how well he would be able to rebuild his relationship with his sons. (Romeo and Mercutio were at college when I tried to raise their parents so they didn't have a chance to interact with them).

Last edited by Orilon : 20th Feb 2012 at 05:09 PM. Reason: grammar

If you want them, I'd suggest getting meetme2theriver's clean templates. The base game pre-dead are messed up in all sorts of ways and she's done the work to fix them up. Look here: http://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/75115.html

There are two things which will determine whether a sim will be "accepted" as family: whether the Family Tie exists, and whether the family relationship is set in the Sim Relationship record.

Both of those can be adjusted, if they are not what you want. However, in this case, things seem to be set up correctly, except that Claudio and Olivia are not married, which is as expected. The game breaks the marriage ties on death, so that the widowed partner is able to pursue other relationships.

A simple way to "fix" the relationship between Claudio and Olivia is to use the Sim Blender to set the appropriate flags.

Last edited by Mootilda : 20th Feb 2012 at 09:50 PM.

Sorry that it take so long to come back here.

Thanks for the feedback. As I understand it, the issue is not so simple as it sounds. Thought it would be easyer as this "bring (sim) back" is a option from the game itself and not a hack. I mean, If the programmet wanted it to be possible it must be safe to safe (read: uncomplicated) to try. Oh well, after reading your replys I decided to let the two Monty's rest in peace. Thanks again.

BTW, why did "ginrouken" delete her reply. There was nothing wrong whit it. Maybe a little off topic but not mush.

Who knows why anybody does anything?

The thing about the original families being problematic to bring back is, that the capacity to resurrect was not implemented in the game until University; so the people making the base game characters had no reason to go to the work of making full character data for everyone. And, corporations being what they are, it was nobody's job to go back and create it when the functionality was created. Given that the company never seems to have realized how badly the functions for deleting characters and moving them among neighborhoods breaks the game, this should surprise no one.

Oh, I did not know that the possibility to bring back the sims come in so late. I thought the option was there from base game or so and I just missed it. Okey, then it make sence.