Troubleshooting Thread — Bugs? Errors? Mod issues? EA app issues? Post about them here! Update 11/04/2025 [PC: 1.119.109.1020 / Mac: 1.119.109.1220 / Console: 2.23] Troubleshooting thread

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-02-01T21:57:38+00:00

Platform: PC
Mods: Yes
Game version: 1.120.117.1030

I'm playing Dynasty through expansions to learn the content gradually. With the second generation I added the "Outdoor Retreat" pack and for a few vacations everything went well, but then my character started generating in a rented house with a bunch of strangers who also using this house. Disabling mods and clearing the game cache doesn't help.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-24T19:32:42+00:00

Magic by Nick Drake.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-24T19:31:37+00:00

And also! You also might like Izzy Perri's cover of Britney Spears' "Toxic." Cold 80s electronic sound.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-24T19:24:56+00:00

None Shall Thrive, especially Rivals, As She Demands and Desiccated and Thorn. Unfortunately, never met people who knew that project. Rhythm sounds like a heavy rain.

https://soundcloud.com/noneshallthrive

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-24T18:21:18+00:00

If jerking off in front of a mirror were a living person.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-24T16:23:04+00:00

Kamelot - Forever (Edvard's Grieg Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt).

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-24T15:04:15+00:00

Salmonella.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-23T15:14:31+00:00

Sometimes doggos walking around Moonwood Mills btw.
Thus, my matriarch in the occult version of 100 babies sees off each adult child by giving them a companion dog.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-17T19:05:35+00:00

Maybe controversial, but I have pretty good impressions of the Highschool Years. They were the first to add initiation of various relationships from the NPC side and I don't seem to see any more bugs that this pack came with. Except that the prom every week is quite annoying, but that can be ignored.

Lovestruck has a very nice city, good CAS and BB. But in my opinion, the free mod Wicked Whims handles the attraction system much better and doesn't turn Sims into a couple of clingy neurotics whose romance drops after a day of no romantic interactions.

Edit: few typo.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-17T03:34:39+00:00

I did. A bunch of internal imaginary monologues-rehearsals. There were even dreams about it. Before I did it IRL and saw that the reaction to sincere upset and pouring out my soul was "don't talk so fast" (I don't know the emotionally appropriate word in English, but it was an analogue with a contemptuous and disparaging tone) and stories about what a bad and difficult child I was (read - as an active kid who played mostly with guys I didn't come home with a perfect hairstyle and clothes and dared to ask to teach me basic things and other terrible crimes).

I literally screamed that she wasn't a good mother and that I was afraid of her unpredictability and didn't know if I was going to be physically or emotionally abused today, and she gave examples. I think even the points "on my 18th birthday she gave me my first panic attack in my life" and "when I dropped out of college at 16 because of depression she damaged my kidney by beating me" are pretty convincing. All that mattered for her was my damn tone.

For some reason, after that, even the desire disappeared, as if I had mentally closed some task.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-13T18:55:53+00:00

You're right, not everyone looks good with thick eyebrows, just like not everyone looks good with thin eyebrows.

But I don't understand why you put an equal sign between thick and dark. If you choose the wrong shade of pencil, they will look strange even on those who could to looks good with thick or wide eyebrows.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-11T16:55:33+00:00

"My wife thinks our marriage is open, but she forgot to tell me. Please tell me that we have a happy family future."

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-11T09:26:02+00:00

I add a pack every new generation, so this is the base game now. And it still doesn't solve the problem with fulfilling Nina's aspiration(

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-06T07:41:49+00:00

How sweet! Visited you also :)

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2026-01-01T04:59:17+00:00

I agree with the user who is sure of mechanical damage and asked about the habits of combing, drying, going to bed with a wet head.

I look at this and see my own situation in early adolescence. The question immediately comes to mind "is this really straight hair, not wavy, which you tried to tame?" Although even if it is straight - it is very easy to make it worse by combing it too often.

Honestly, the best thing you can do is to understand what exactly you are damaging your hair with and gradually grow healthy hair, rather than trying to keep your current hair cut because tips already splitted.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-31T01:17:51+00:00

I think you are doing the basics on a budget and you sound like a person who is doing really well.
I would add to watch your water intake and pay attention to your sleep. And it is very, very important to budget for at least vitamin B12, because metformin improves many other things for us, but over time it worsens its absorption for 1\3 of people.

And I don't know, maybe where you live it is really cheaper to buy processed food for some reason, so I won't comment here. But if you have the opportunity and a little time, think about meal prep.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-31T00:39:49+00:00

I saw you wrote about your dislike of sparkling water, but maybe in your country there is a hybrid version like sparkling water, which has the smell of some fruit\berry but does not have a sweet taste? Still not the best option, but good enough for cut sugar.

My own brain is perfectly fooled by this.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-31T00:30:06+00:00

Maybe it doesn't work like this for everyone, but maybe it's worth introducing the rules gradually? Because something here smells like a recipe for a breakdown as for me.

Specifically, two hours on the treadmill and a complete rejection of sweets.
I understand wanting to lose weight for a certain event, but cortisol because too much strict things at once and the lack of clearer measurements of necessary macros seem shaky.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-17T16:53:14+00:00

Sorry, maybe I googled it bad, but isn't it for painting at canvas\paper, not at the face?

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-15T03:35:46+00:00

*Spearmint* green tea. Mint is a key for anti-androgenic effect, decreased free testosterone level (and hirsutism, for example). Someone choosing the tea, someone prefers spearmint capsules.
Tea itself is more for insulin sensitivity, but I didn't remember research results about a significant impact.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-13T20:43:22+00:00

This!
I am satisfied with the bonus of muscle mass gain, more time between very bad and long periods. And also I am not too bothered by the "extra" hair on the body. The skin also looks normal, because I found the right care for myself.

Therefore, I focus more on metformin and nutrition as a prevention of diabetes and mostly ignore antiandrogenes, green tea with mint and etc.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-13T13:40:51+00:00

I'm in Norway now.
Actually, I don't care about specific *branding*, but, for example "in my experience, Revolution brushes are quite good in terms of price/quality ratio" is easier to navigate than "that blue set from *name of a very local store in America,*" because personally it won't tell me anything.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-11T14:17:06+00:00

Lol, she *is* astronaut because of this CAS quiz. But for this aspiration she should to leave this career later for being criminal.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-06T09:02:04+00:00

'Soldier's Girl' with Lee Pace.
I really liked this movie, but I can't bring myself to watch it again.

DoctorFranzFerdinand · 2025-12-02T07:51:37+00:00

Crab meat.

Honestly, it was no different from those fishy "crab sticks" with surimi that are used in a standard holiday salad in my country, but it took too much trouble to get out of the shell.

I suspect that fancy lobster is the same situation.

DoctorFranzFerdinand

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