I have a very weird and very devastating problem.
First, three of my sims went to university and came back after two terms. Upon coming back to the homeworld, my UI was entirely gone. I had access to some keyboard shortcuts, but not all of them. I could still select sims by right-clicking them and then they were able to interact with themselves and others just fine. To illustrate my point better, I have a screenshot:
And no, I wasn't tabbed out.
So I tried pressing Escape. I tried pressing F10. No dice. So I took myself over to
Crinrict's article on the problem, and the third fix (save, go to the main menu, and reload) did the trick. Mostly.
Now my UI is back in working order, but one of my household members is gone from the portrait panel. He shows up in everyone's relationship panels, in the household thumbnail on the main menu, and he's able to be texted, but resetting him won't do the trick and he's kind of gone but not gone and certainly not dead. I've encountered it before it previous dynasties, and the fix that Rica always approved was to go back to a previous save, since the other solution was to use Edit Town to move the household to the clipboard and back again. The problem is that a previous save won't exactly do me much good here. I tested to see if my earlier saves while in university would fix it. I had a save from a couple hours before my sims returned home, and it still spit out the same problem when they returned. I had one from halfway through their uni time, and I re-played their last week of uni only for them to return home to the same missing UI and missing household member.
This isn't a particularly important household member, not in the slightest, but I fear that he won't properly die if he stays like this, and he's sitting at 94 or so. I need him to die!
And for the record:
- Not once did I quit without saving. I made sure that I didn't overwrite any of the botched return saves either.
- I obsessively keep all of my saves, so I have plenty of saves I could restore this from, not just those two from uni that I mentioned.
