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Entire families keep disappearing from my town...
So I'm playing one of the pre-made families in Appaloosa Plains and I go to edit town and I realize 8 entire families have disappeared along with some other sims! I thought there was a glitch or something but when I went digging around about this, I discovered this is actually common and not a glitch but happens because of the awful way the game handles story progression. Luckily I haven't gotten too invested in actual story progression, I'm just editing the premade sims of the town and making their houses look better right now. There is one family I have played a lot though and have gotten their relationships where I want them and advanced them far in their careers and with the life time points or whatever. I know that I can bring families back somehow using a mod I just do not know how to do this so can someone please point me in the right direction on how to do this. I want to bring all the missing families back to their empty homes. Also I'm wondering if maybe there's a way to reset the entire town? I have no idea what this will do though and if it will mess up all I've done with this one family? I have gone into CAS and dramatically changed the appearance and traits and just about everything with two families and I do not want all that work to disappear. Lastly, I want to know what mod can I add to my game so this never happens again and no I don't want to turn story progression off. I was lucky and didn't have too much invested in this town but I've read where others have made several families, played one for a little bit and then gone to another family and they're completely gone along with half the town. Evidently the game's idea of story progression is moving entire families out when the AI is left to itself. I know there's a NRASS mod that does something with story progression but I have no idea where to begin with that one and I would need some good instructions on how to set this up. I've messed my game up really bad once with NRASS to the point I had to delete my family, and the entire lot and re add the building back from the library. Anyways, in desperate need to get this fixed because I've spent days just reinstalling my files and I'd really love to just play the damn thing lol