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I've just experienced this bug and after searching here found nothing about it so I thought I should report it. My teen was out after curfew and got caught by the cops, I followed the cop car back home and then my teen disappeared from the playable list, similar to how toddlers can be abducted. I googled and found a couple of other reports of the bug, so it's not just me. :-\ I guess until it's fixed it'll be safer to keep the kids at home.



Note to moderators: Sorry if I posted in the wrong place, I looked but none of the existing threads seemed right. Please move it if necessary.

Quick question: did the teen have low relationship with one or more people in the household? In my experience, it seems teens can still run away from home, but the game neglects to tell you. A teen of mine disappeared from the side bar when she went to work. She did return, though, when it was time for her to age up.

He was best friends with both of his parents and in a great mood. The cop car actually went back to his house before he disappeared, so I don't think he ran away. I didn't keep the save either so I can't check again.

One of the cases I googled waited in game for 2 weeks and the Teen didn't return, that's what made me think 'Bug'.


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Just incase someone may not know how to work around this bug.  Type in the cheat box: resetSim firstname lastname  This should reset the sim to their house.  This goes for babies too.  The game is a glitchfest!

Of course it is, it was made by EA.

The reset sim thing did not work for me when my baby got kidnapped.

However when I moved sombody else into the family the baby appeared on the lot again as a child.

I suppose its possible this could work for your teen.

That save is long gone now, but it sounds like a likely solution. If it happens again I'll give your suggestion a try and report back here. Thanks.

I actually like bugs like this to an extant in order to make interesting story fodder.  You could consider the teen as a troubled youth who ran away from the police and your neighborhood altogether.  Perhaps he had some terrible secret or just needed to get as far away from the hood as possible.  There's lots of interesting ways to use such bugs that add drama to the stories.  It would be cool if he popped up later on but it sounds as though he's a goner.

With that all being said, bugs like this are certainly annoying and hopefully this won't happen on a regular basis for you and others.

Why would EA provide a patch for the pirated version of the game?

Never mind, I read that wrong.