Sim Waking Up?

[justme13]

I need someone's help on a strange, and actually creepy problem I am having on The Sims 3 for console. I know this is the wrong session, but I need an answer, and I'm really creeped out.

So I made a family of 3 sims: 2 teens and one elder father. The father is your typical outdoors man. One teen is a stereotypical female nerd, and a bit of a loner. The other teen is who is creeping me out. She is an extremely pretty teenage girl, but she is snobby and a bit mean. First, I'll say that I made their mother and used play with genetics to make a template for the girls. After this, I deleted the mother, as in the story I made, the game started after the mother had died. As soon as the game started, I had the girls argue with each other until the snobby girl called the nerdy girl's mother a llama, to which I had the nerdy girl yell at her, the snobby girl apologize, and both of them continue on their way. That night, everyone was asleep and the karma evaluation ended up giving some karma. However, right after this, the snobby girl woke up, screamed in discomfort as she walked around her bed, then climbed into the other side and went back to sleep.

Every night after that, the same thing happened until one week later. On that night, she would not go to sleep no matter how much I told her, she just relaxed. After the karma evaluated again, she got up again. But this time, instead of walking around in discomfort and going back to sleep, she started crying in front of her bed, and... a picture of her mother's face crossed out appeared in a bubble above her. After this, she got up and took a taxi to the grave yard. Right when she got out, the police arrived and took her home for being out after curfew. When she got home, she went into her bed and went to sleep, not even scolded by her father.

Does anyone know what might be happening? If you do, please reply ASAP.

[Twinmum]

I'm going to move this to the console board. Maybe someone who plays on a console can help you.

[justme13]

No one has gone on the console board since april... Do you think you could help answer my question?

[Grim Reaper]

I've never experienced this.  It does sound creepy.  Maybe one of her traits is causing her to mourn her mother more than other family members.  The crying and showing the picture of her mother is the sim mourning the dead loved one.  Sometimes they do that randomly.

I'm sorry I can't help you.  I wish I could.

[Stormi71]

The console board is a lot quieter than the PC ones, but that doesn't mean nobody visits it.
Has anyone died on your lot? Sometimes ghosts appear at night and can end up waking up Sims. It's weird she would be mourning her mother, if she was never in the actual game.
Maybe try moving the bed, or deleting it and getting a new one. Sometimes objects glitch out and the Sims won't use them properly.

[justme13]

No, no-one died on the lot, it's only the first week. Also, I tried replacing the bed and it seems to have worked. I'll let you know if anything else goes wrong.

[justme13]

I've played it for a while today, and at the night the game is currently on, she got up, went into her father's room, mourned (cried) in there, and went back to sleep. Her mother did not pop up this time, but it still could be related.

[Stormi71]

What are the Sims traits? Also, just a thought, what is the Social need level when she does this? I think they cry when their social level is really low and they are lonely. Maybe the social level is in the red through the night, causing her to walk into her fathers room and cry, meaning she is looking for someone to talk to.

[JodySuzanne1305]

Yes, I was wondering what the rest of her traits are. Maybe take her to the graveyard in the daytime and see what she does as well to give us some more clues.

When I played the console version I had a ghost who would scare his family constantly. To the point where his family began to hate him. His wife was a ghost and she never scared anyone. I realized after a while and asking here, that the wife had the good trait so that explained why she didn't scare anyone. But why did he over scare? He wasn't evil or mean spirited. But he was ambitious. And, I honestly think that he was ambitious about scaring people. So I think traits can add certain things to the game you don't expect.


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[justme13]

Sorry I haven't posted for a while, I was focused on other things.

Anyways, after I returned to my topic I played the game for a few sim days. Each night, the game has been giving me a bad Karma Power instead of Karma Points, and the girl who is mourning her nonexistent mother has had her energy bar in the yellow since they started. However, the past 2 sim nights, it has not even been evaluating my Karma. Instead, at midnight the camera locks on to the girl's sister, and she walks into the sad girl's room, yells something in Simlish, and walks back to her bed crying before going to sleep and me regaining the control of the camera. Each time this happens, the girl wakes up and repeats the crying animation a few times before going back to sleep.

[Stormi71]

 Might be a glitch, sounds really strange. Generally they mourn for 48 hours if someone dies. Karma is based on their mood/happiness at midnight, if you've been using a lot of karma, this will give you bad karma. Maybe it is showing the sim at karma time saying they are too upset to get any karma points?

[justme13]

Any ideas on how to cheer her up? She made some friends at school on the first few days but ever since the karma powers started happening she has lost all of her friends except for her best friend Marie Idaho, who I am struggling to keep her in touch with. Would aging up and kicking out her sister help?

[Stormi71]

What moods does she have in the moodlet bar thing? Like the box where it tells you thing like "great meal" or "fatigued" etc? Sometimes those moods can glitch out and stay there, even though they are meant to be for a set time. That can give you a clue as to what is wrong. Also her traits can affect things, like if she has unlucky trait, for example.
You can reset a sim, but that involves using cheats, which in the console version means you won't get trophies and achievements. I'm not 100% sure the reset sim cheat requires you have to have that magic llama, though, been a while since I played on console. But you go to the letterbox, and I think it's L2 and x while on the mailbox, then a list comes up with things like set career, make friends for me etc. There will be a reset sim option, and that will reset the selected sim, sending them home automatically if they are not at home. This works well for some glitches, especially if they are stuck somewhere or they are stuck with a negative moodlet. Console version is known for being very glitchy, sometimes the problems can't be fixed. But generally the problems start after about 10 sim weeks, so if it's a newer game, you might be able to fix it.

[justme13]

The only traits she has most of the time are sleepy/tired and until recently, lost a friend. They all make sense, as she has been falling out of friendships and has not been able to sleep much, so her energy is always low. I don't want to use cheats.