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Offline xakzen

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Limit of 5 or 6 foreign kids per sim
« on: February 05, 2011, 09:26:31 AM »
So my heartbreaker (Marc) is in china setting up 2 girls. This first is the Relic Merchant who is always on duty so will never commit to anything, but she can be invited back to the hometown later with no problems.  Marc can get the other to commit and later breakup fine. The problem arises if they "Try for a baby" Marc already has 2 Egyptian & 1 French ex's with a total of 5 kids by them. Already you can tell something is a miss in the game engine because the town view icons disappear only for Marc and he has to zoom in to select the academy etc to visit them, but the real bug appears after he returns.  Everything looks okay with his out of town families until exactly 12:08 the day after he gets back (i.e 12:08 AM Thursday). At that time all the family icons flash as though some update routine has just run and all but Marc's most recent foreign ex and her twins disappear from the game. I can still see them on Marc's genealogy, but when you click on the kids, the screen is blank with no kid or mother or even a link back to Marc. Furthermore Marc gets no credit for them in his lifetime wish and he is back to 2 ex's (the last girl in China and the 1 local girl and her son are fine).  Unfortunately I stupidly gave him the fertility treatment so I can't determine whether the limit is 5 or 6, but the bug is completely reproducible or not from the save.

I searched the forums, but couldn't find any discussion. Has anyone else seen this behavior or know a way around it?

Offline AriaGirl77

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Re: Limit of 5 or 6 foreign kids per sim
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 10:41:45 AM »
I haven't experienced your exact issue, but there are a TON of bugs related to having children in foreign locations.  If you do a search of the forum for Family Tree Bug you'll find a huge thread about it.

Good luck.  At this point I purposefully avoid World Adventures content.



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Offline xakzen

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Re: Limit of 5 or 6 foreign kids per sim
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2011, 03:43:38 PM »
Thanks for the search. I checked the rest of the single travelers including Marc's teenage sister and there was a problem with his Aunt Elizabeth.  She is completely divorced from the family with no connections at all.  Fortunately I save as often since my first fam game was irrecoverably corrupted with error 12's & the langolier travel to the place were no one is bug.

Do the travel's have to be married or just unattached, i.e. can they have girl/boyfriends? In which case I can have them scout out the girls (which is even more despicable and creepy than LTW).

Offline xakzen

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Re: Limit of 5 or 6 foreign kids per sim
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2011, 08:18:34 PM »
Turns out this was completely the Family Tree Bug. Marc has had more future ex's visit after being scouted by the married folks with more kids not problem. It's not exactly realistic, but he is well on his way to complete the LTW at his Adult birthday he has 3 more to go. After that I'm going to have him settle down with the first girl in town and move out!  No more singles traveling for me and now I have 1 more thing to check before saving (the Family Tree).

Thanks,

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Re: Limit of 5 or 6 foreign kids per sim
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2011, 09:06:20 PM »
The Heartbreaker LTW doesn't have anything to do with having children, as far as I'm aware.
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