Haven't noticed a problem in my games but here's hoping MasterDinadan gets his mod working! I will surely be installing that one.

I stopped playing out of paranoia. I get easily attached to my sims and if they disappeared on me, I wouldn't know what I'd do. ; n ; Playing TS2/TS3 for the time being, checking EA's website for patches every single day.

This mod should theoretically turn off the genealogy pruning which is fundamentally flawed and can kill player sims.
The max population pruning is still enabled, but as far as I can tell this doesn't kill player sims and should be safe.
If a playable Sim disappears while you are using this mod please let me know.

Disclaimer: I haven't done a lot of testing on this, but it's a pretty simple change. It is entirely possible that removing the genealogy pruner could break something else, but I doubt it as the entire function seems totally pointless and kills sims for basically no good reason.

If some of you guys try it out and confirm you aren't having any issues after a few weeks in game, I'll be comfortable submitting it to the download pages.

Thanks!

Edit - Forgot to mention, this is a tuning mod, so you have to make sure you have an "unpackedmod" folder in your Mods folder, and that you have this line in your resource.cfg:
DirectoryFiles unpackedmod autoupdate

If you are not sure if you have correctly enabled tuning mods, please download and verify another tuning mod (such as Work in Everyday Clothes). If this doesn't work, it will be hard for me to tell if you installed it wrong or something wrong with the mod, but if you have other tuning mods working then I'll at least know your files are set up correctly.

Edit 2 -
The download has been moved to the following feedback thread:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...d=1#post4539042

I haven't had any problems but I'll put it in and see if it causes any.

Oh god, I had forgotten about that!

Thank you, MasterDenadan, I'll give it a try too.

The families I have played in my test world, I saved some of them and I hope they keep their progress. I will try your mod MasterDinadan in my test world after that. I won't be playing until later tonight. Thank you for looking at the issue. I am in the process of starting a new game with all the premades wiped from it and new build for homes, don't want to start it until we get issues fixed.

I'll give it a shot!

So just to understand, the problem is with having too many related sims? That would make sense I supose, as my vanishing act occurred when moving out adult kids and having them marry other adult born in game sims...Sucks though cause that's typically how I always play. I wonder if there were family trees would they just vanish from it the same as they do from memories?

That's basically it. Every time Sims get married or have a baby for the first time, everyone they are related to gets one (or more) steps closer to being deleted. (Additional babies after the first aren't really a threat, unless those babies eventually grow up to do things like get married and have babies, in which case the family is pretty doomed!)

I had Alexander Goth marry the girl from the house next door (Araceli, but can't remember what her last name was.) She lived with her brother, and the brother came to the wedding and came over a couple of times. Then he disappeared and the house was empty. I had never actually played him or his house. He didn't die, he's not in her relationship panel as a dead sim, and they had a pretty good relationship. He just vanished.

This definitely sounds like the Genealogy Pruner.
Did anyone else in the Goth family get married or have children?
Did Araceli and Alexander have children?

What I am getting about the Genealogy Pruner, EA has instituted how we can have families in this series and so what you have cultivated and grown the family members, that is too bad because the Sims team can't figure out how to optimize the game without deleting/removing regular Sims game features? Yet they keep saying the team is listening to us. Hogwash!

Testing it right now! I am so happy you've attempted this as I have been bereaving being unable to play my favourite sims. I promise to come back and let you know how it goes.

I don't think it is an issue of not listening to us or trying to force a certain playstyle, as much as a simple mistake. It seems clear to me that the Genealogy Pruner does not work the way that they intended to.
Really, it says more about the quality of their QA process which definitely should have caught this.

MasterDinadan - I have pm'd you regarding the file I have removed

Initial result is successful. The game has progressed further than before from my pre-deletion event save, without any of the deletions which always occurred beforehand. My entire town remains complete.

I will keep testing though it's late here and I will need to go to bed soon.

Yes, Cassandra also got married. She moved out of the house with her wife, who already had two children (the Lu family, townies.) Araceli and Alexander also had a child. I am going to try testing your mod as well, thanks so much for working on this issue!

Not sure if this is the same bug as everyone is talking about, the BFF family, Pancakes, Zest, and a few others all died of old age while playing other families as I have non played sims age on. I moved new families into those houses and everything was fine. However I checked today and noticed the deceased families where showing up in my unplayed families window, the description of the family was there but it showed no sims at all. So I simply deleted them. Then went in to play one of my families and noticed the house they lived at was empty. Take for example the BFF family. The neighborhood view showed no plumbob over the lot, and I could click to make a new family. The family that was living there was still in my played family tab, clicking on them to get them to move into the same house kept telling me they were living there yet I couldn't play them. Moved them to a new house and they were exactly how I left them, moving them back to the original lot worked but it was empty and all their belongings were in the house inventory.

Same thing happened to the other families houses that I deleted from the unplayed families window. Had to move them somewhere and move them back. I could still play them, but had to put all the furniture back.

It can happen regardless of aging. Basically if you don't play one family, it can still happen to you.

omg thank you! I can play again!

In Sims 2 if you kept say a founding legacy sim long enough they stopped recognizing later generations as family, so perhaps that was the intent here, it just went terribly wrong?

I'm scared to play now too. I restarted my neighborhoud after my sims started vanishing, and my first born in game sims are now teenagers so I guess they can't move out and marry or I'm going to have the same problem again.

@ MasterDinadan with the awesome Squall avatar.

Thanks for creating that mod, have it in my game now as well. I had not experienced have any disappearances beforehand, but still....better safe than sorry. So far my 8 (now 9) households have remained complete.

Never edited a file before.
I have downloaded the file and placed it in my Mods Folder, I also created a new folder and named it unpackedmod.
Now, I also have a file called: resource.cfg DirectoryFiles unpackedmod autoupdate
Is the above correct? Or should I have opened the resource.cfg and placed the words DirectoryFiles unpacedmod autoupdate at the end of what is in the file?
This is in the file (Priority 500
PackedFile *.package
PackedFile *\*.package)

Thanks!
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I don't think that's right. I gave up trying to figure it out. Sorry I can't be more help.