Missing child sim, please help

[maye_faire]

Hi everyone!

I have a family in Sunset Valley in the Sims 3 where the son recently asked a girl to move in with him. Since I have the room, I brought her mother as well. Once the two were moved in, I was checking out the family tree, and I noticed that the mother had another daughter. However, she did not appear on the list of available sims to move in, and I can't find her anywhere. She hasn't been moved to another family or anything. I've tried the resetsim cheat, as well as resetsim * with no luck. Is there some other option available I haven't found yet?

I also have the NRaas/Overwatch mod installed. Anything in there that can help?

Also, I haven't got an older version to go to, as I'm stupid and I don't backup my game - something I'm going to do from now on, not that that helps me now, however, lol.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! I really appreciate it!

xoxox

[MrsFlynn]

Thanks for making note of what you've tried, that is always helpful.

I've run into this before in one of my recent games where my lady Sim asked a man Sim to move in with her, and unknown to me, he had a daughter in his family tree, but no wife. So I had the man Sim call his daughter over, and used the add to family cheat, so I could have the daughter in the family.

This might help you?

[maye_faire]

Thank you for bringing that up! I forgot to mention in my original post that she appears in the family tree only. She doesn't appear in the relationship tab as someone my sim can contact. I can't call her or send her a letter or anything.

[Lisa46]

She might have moved out of town. The game sometimes does that.

[MrsFlynn]

@Lisa46 Oh, you know I didn't think of them moving out of town. As I play with story progression off to prevent that from happening. *Snicker*

If that's the case there may not be away to get her back.

She might have moved out of town. The game sometimes does that.

[maye_faire]

Can a child sim move away on their own?

[MrsFlynn]

Hmm.. You know, I don't think so. But if the game moved her in with a family or whatnot, the game can move them out of town or whatever it feels like doing with them really.

I was recently playing with Story progression on and some Sims that my family was friends with moved away. I hadn't played in awhile before that. So I had completely forgotten that the game does that now and again if you have story progression on. So now I play with it off.

[maye_faire]

Ok, I think I'll be turning that off, then! lol

Thanks for all the help! I really appreciate it!

[MrsFlynn]

You're welcome!!