[NEEDS SAVES] [CoL] Multiple versions of Agatha and Agnes Crumplebottom

[line123462]

I am trying to run a shop, and Agnes and her double-genger don't buy anything just hit me with her purse. 

[PipMenace]

Wait. Wait. I just noticed a pattern. A lot of people mention first noticing the problem - or at least have photos of seeing multiples at once - while at an eco lifestyle community lot or in a retail shop.

WHAT IF. What if the game’s essentially overwriting their “garden shop owner” tag with “customer” or “neighbor” or something, and then the game detects there isn’t an Agnes Crumplebottom tag anymore and creates a new one. Even if that tag gets put back after the special lot visit/event is over, by then you have multiples already.

Might also apply if you turned the pub into a restaurant and then visited the market stalls via that restaurant? Or if one of the Crumplebottoms showed up in your welcome wagon…

Just a theory though.

[mljones88]

I deleted the family from my world, but Agnes is still walking around.  If I go to manage my world, she is not there at all.  How do I get rid of her?

[crinrict]

Is anyone still having issues with this ?

If you already have duplicated ones, you'll need to delete them manually. It's more about do you still have them getting created ?

[ThatCraigGirl]

@thisisarealpainx I have not had a single game with this add-on where this was not the case. I'm unsure why they need saves. You really just have to open the game and you will find at least one black and one white one.

[imalumberjack37]

@crinrict Started a new household from what I use as my base save file after the infants patch and installing Growing Together and I am now seeing this issue.  It seems to be the same as this bug since it did generate new NPCs for all other positions, but duplicated the Crumplebottoms: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-ECO-CoL-NPC-Sims-not-filling-regular-positions/m-p/11668...

I have created new households to branch off of my base save many times and this is the first I've seen this issue.  I did edit the households more recently in my base save to give the NPCs likes and dislikes and then removed them from my played households, could that have generated multiple versions of the NPCs?

[crinrict]

@imalumberjack37 i don't know if there was ever a cause found why they started duplicating.

Thanks for the feedback

[vyvexthorne]

I think the problem is that the "originals" can't be found in the other households tab. It's like they aren't accessable but still have the neighborhood stories options applied. They then "move out" of wherever the hell they are and into the other household tab but under another last name (even though they keep their original name, the game seems to create a new last name household for them to exist in.) . The game then re-creates the original "non-accessable" versions to replace the ones that moved out.  

If we actually had access to the originals like we do with other NPC's like Father Winter, we could immediately turn off the neighborhood stories for them to keep them where they are.. but we don't.