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Offline AlexWyatt

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Having to Remarry over and over
« on: March 23, 2014, 08:55:27 PM »
My son installed the main game and a lot of the add ons, so I have no idea which one is causing the glitch.  Sorry about the lack of technical information.
I created both sims and married them in the create household section.  They went off to college together and started a family. They have 5 children now.  Each time I save and quit and restart the game, their relationship drops to good friends.  I have to remarry them.  They have been remarried 3 times now in as many real life days of playing.  I would really care except he never works.  He still has 8 days off from work.  I'm afraid to reopen the game and see them not married again.
If I don't remarry them, will one of them run off?

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2014, 08:58:03 PM »
Do you have University Life? The "Kiss and Make Up" interaction that came with the EP is known to put married sims back at the romantic interest level.

Other than that, by add-ons, do you mean game mods? You could try taking them out to see if the problem persists in a mod-free game. If the problem isn't there without mods, it could be a mod conflict causing the problem.
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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2014, 04:53:06 AM »
Welcome to our Forum, AlexWyatt.

Are you saying that your Sims are no longer husband and wife?  They don't show the wedding rings as the relationship in the relationship panel?  And what about the relationship bar (in the top left corner)?  Is it well into the green and is it changing when you re-open the game?

@Trip:  I think maybe the add ons are expansion and stuff packs.

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2014, 05:52:51 AM »
Yes, extension packs.  That is what they are called.  Sorry.  I have the following loaded: Fast Lane Stuff, High-End Loft Stuff, Late Night, Outdoor Living Stuff, Seasons, Supernatural, University Life, Ambitions, Generations, Island Paradise, Master Suite Stuff, Pets, Showtime, Town Life Stuff and World Adventure.  As you can see, it is a lot of stuff.  He got bored with the game and there was no way I was letting that much money in stuff just sit there. LOL That is why I am now currently addicted to the game.
So it may be the University Life doing it?  I don't want to take that one off.  My kids need a good education. ROFL
They have their rings when I save and quit and then when I restart it, the rings are gone.  The first time I thought it was just a fluke and remarried them.  The second time I restarted and he got another date call and saw the rings gone I thought maybe I wasn't doing enough with them during the game other than trying for babies and made sure they definitely had their rings before saving and quitting.  But yesterday when I restarted, again, no rings.  When I start today and there are no rings, I'm leaving them as housemates.  That guy needs to get out of the house and work. 

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2014, 07:37:53 AM »
You don't have to uninstall University Life. It's just one, entirely non-autonomous interaction that could be the cause.
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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2014, 08:42:12 AM »
That's just an odd thing.  I've never heard of a married couple losing that status and relationship after saving and exiting.  What does the game show as their relationship?  Engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, best friends, friends, etc.  Is everything else saved?  I mean, things that you did in the game.  Like, if you bought a car, is the car still there when you open the game again?
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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2014, 01:38:33 PM »
It showed them as friends. Not even good friends.  Everything else seemed to be okay at the time other than a glitch where the family members stay 'selected' even though I have clicked on someone else.
They were still married this morning.  So glad because he really needs to get back to work to earn promotions and raises.
I will post back if it happens again and try to think of something I did differently that may have caused it.

Thanks for everyone's input.  It is nice to come to a place that doesn't look at me sideways about my game addiction. :D



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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2014, 02:14:31 PM »
It showed them as friends. Not even good friends.  Everything else seemed to be okay at the time other than a glitch where the family members stay 'selected' even though I have clicked on someone else.
They were still married this morning.  So glad because he really needs to get back to work to earn promotions and raises.
I will post back if it happens again and try to think of something I did differently that may have caused it.

Thanks for everyone's input.  It is nice to come to a place that doesn't look at me sideways about my game addiction. :D

We would never look sideways about that! Welcome to the forum! You'll find many people just like yourself here! :)

As for the glitch, do you notice anything technical happening asides from that (meaning, do you see lagging? Do you get weird Errorlogs?)? This is such a strange glitch, but maybe you should try saving a different way, try Save As every time and rename it to something different. Maybe that might help. If you use the "Save and Quit" function it can cause issues in certain saves, though I doubt they'd be that big of an issue.

The only thing I'm almost sure would fix it would be a Game Modification (Mod) by Nraas, but I'll keep looking to see if I can find any non-modification ways to fix this silly bug.
Also, have you contacted EA? When things get that buggy I would recommend asking EA for what their idea of a fix is.
That's all I've got at the moment though.

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2014, 09:31:05 AM »
I've had that happen several times since I installed IP.  For me it has been my seeded families; I don't remember it ever happening to a main family.
Took a townie family, had them have more kids and then let them grow up in the game.  My male sim went to flirt with one of the girls and she became upset with him.  Did the romance interaction, asked if she had a partner and one showed up, her sister!
Saved, went to edit town and checked out the family.  Parents were no longer married and good friends, two sisters were now good friends and partners and one of the boys was a partner to another sim in the town. 

Checked a previous save, was a family, so somewhere from one saved game to the next one they changed from being "blood" relations to a group of friends sharing the house. 

Has shown up in other towns also since I installed IP; two in MF (third one was what would be seen as incest, sister with sister, brother with brother), one in SV and one in DV.  I think it has only been seeded families, but not sure. 

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2014, 04:14:09 PM »
Janna:  could you explain...

IP?
MF?
SV?
DV?

And what do you mean by seeded family?

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2014, 04:17:16 PM »
Janna:  could you explain...

IP?
MF?
SV?
DV?

And what do you mean by seeded family?

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I'm not sure about Seeded Family persay, but I can help you with the others:
IP - Island Paradise (Expansion Pack) - also may refer to Isla Paradiso, the town that comes with Island Paradise Expansion Pack.
MF - Moonlight Falls, the town that comes with Supernatural.
SV - Sunset Valley, the base-game town.
DV - I believe this is Dragon Valley, a store town you can purchase at The Sims 3 Store.

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2014, 07:08:03 PM »
It took me a while to learn what the letters were for each game, I still have to go huh?  on some of them.

Seeded families is from where I was doing a project story and there has been for quite a while lack of children being born in the townies.  The kids and babies born in the town grow up, but very few marry or have kids.  So, when you play, it is hard to find a mate for your sim.

I "seeded" the town by going in before I started a game and took several of the married couples and have them get pregnant.  SV (Sunset Valley) I went in edit town and moved into a family.  After she has her baby I have her get pregnant again.  Moved to another family and had that couple get pregnant.  I stayed with married couples. 
Used a cheat to give happiness points so I could get the fertility reward and the Wolf had triplets.

In each town that I played before my sim family moved there I had several couples become pregnant, Singh's, Hoppencrafts (sp?) and MacDuff all became pregnant in SN (Supernatural, Moonlight Falls town).

RV (Riverview)  I married George Dean with one of the townies and they had triplets and the Ivanov's had twins. 

In the Hoppencraft family (SN, Moonlight Falls), they had two sets of twins, I left them with the first set at toddler and the second set just as they aged up to toddlers.  Two boys in first and two girls in the second.  When I started my family there, they went to school with them.  In one save they were friends with each other and one of my sim girls was flirting with one of the boys. 
Later I started the game up, played for about an hour, saving a couple of times.  Had one of my girls go and flirt with one of the boys, she had flirted with him two or three saves earlier.  All of a sudden, he rejects her and it shows in the relationship panel he has a RI.  Checked and it was with his twin.  They showed up as siblings, but also as RI, even had them kissing each other.  Gross, not that they were the same gender, but siblings.   

 

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2014, 07:25:13 PM »
Maybe try to run the superpatch?  Sounds like something is glitchy since you mentioned something wrong with people staying lit like they are selected.

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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2014, 08:56:27 PM »
I've had the marriage glitch before.  It was after one of the patches - I think the one just prior to the release of Island Paradise.  I was also running mods with the game (which I updated with the patch), and I started getting all kinds of other problems so I removed the mods. The marriage eventually "took," but I think I had to move the wife out and propose again (for the fourth time).
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Re: Having to Remarry over and over
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2014, 09:04:29 AM »
This happened to me as well  I just kept on re-marrying the person over and over again until I wiped the memory of it all so I could restart it.