Thanks for your help, I appreciate it! Now my whole population maintains its full relationship between each other

After what you wrote I decided to try again and pack the whole neighbourhood at once. So I used NRAAS master controller to reset the whole world and then packed all the sims at once.
I then unpacked it into the world that I moved the population 1/3 at a time into (Also where 1/3 of the relationships of the town were lost between each other) and then all when all the unpacking finished all my relationships were kept and there were no duplicate sims!

But the first time I tried to unpack the whole sim population into a new town it crashed though, but I only tried once... might have been unlucky that time.
 
I also found this on the NRAAS site "What sort of issues should I be aware of ? 3.Do not attempt to export your entire town in a single family. The game will run out of memory attempting to create the file and either hang indefinitely or crash to the desktop." I think that's what he was referring to at the time (I wasn't sure I just assumed, but now I understand its not), so that's why after I decided to move the population of the town at 1/3s at a time.

 

I couldn't find a way to maintain the worldwide relationship beside moving the whole town at once :/ Please explain how.

Just a solution for people out there

If your game takes ages to save it might be worthwhile to do it. I've heard people's games that save for hours at a time and if it takes maybe one to two hours tops to save all the lots you want and move them to another world than its worth it to decrease the save time (mine decreased from 30 mins to less than 2).

If your game takes 5 minutes to save don't bother doing all this.

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Oh and this is still a trial... if I find any errors after moving I will post them

^ Sigh. Of course I tried searching before posting. Does it make you feel so important when posting that reply? oh your such a big boy! I wanted advice not some stupid no one to complain about my post.

Anyways I will share my solution which helped me a lot ^_^:
Currently my save game is.... 35mb (from 500mb)!!! With my WHOLE sims population! And it takes less than 2 mins to save.

I found using the NRAAs Porter to be of much use. http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Porter
This mod helps you to transport sims and numerous households at a time across to different worlds.
I moved my whole sim population at a third of a population at a time to my newly made world. The move included the sim's inventory, lifetime points/rewards, jobs and relationships between the sim's that have been grouped together when moving. I'm not quite sure about the family tree working properly on the move however.

The downside is that you have to use a completely new world, however you can easily just save a certain lot from you old world that you want to keep by saving the lot and placing it in the new world.
And since I moved the population in 1/3's at a time to the new world I lost the sim's relationship between the other sims that have not moved within the same 1/3 population at a time.
You also need to make sure you have enough lots for sims to move in or you will be stuck with a lot with 50 sims and you won't be able to move them out!
I have crashed a few times as well trying this method, mainly by trying to go back to main menu from playing a saved world.

Note: ALWAYS back up your saves in another folder before trying this out as it could stuff up your game.
Do this at your own risk! I am not responsible for you if you try this method.

And to keep the save size low, try not to play all the households in your sim world.

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Other stuff I tried:

*** Deleting Cache, it didn't do anything for me (I tried it but didn't mention it before because I didn't think it was too relevant ...I am now adding it just to clarify)
***Going into the save folder and deleting theTravelDB and other (China, Egypt, France)DB... this didn't make a difference to the saving time at all for me.
***Using TS3 Recompressor (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15129.0.html) the s3rc function helped get rid of about 30mb and the time on the save didn't make much difference, however if you have a smaller save file it will most likely be a significance to you.
+ I did not try the decrapify function as I was unsure of the risk it came with and it seemed a bit complicated fiddling with mods.

(Sorry noticed I posted on wrong board)

My saving times have gone upto 30 mins and it's really starting to annoy me because before it only took a few minutes and its creeping up. I have tried taking out my unused mods. I have tried culling off 50 sims yet it hardly makes a difference. I also tested culling off all the NPC's sims through NRAAS master controller which was apparently 700 sims and that didn't make a difference either.

I saved the files and noticed the size of the saved sims game files did not decrease due to any sim culling but increased after each save. Save sizes started at 450mb, to 520mb (after sims cull) to 523mb (After 700 npc culled). Which brings me to the point, is there anyway to make my sims 3 save smaller? My saves are humongous now at 523mb.

I have turned off the memory function recently to try help it too. I have all the expansions up until pets, I don't have pets. I noticed that there are large files in the save folder related to WA, are there any files safe to delete in there? I don't mind deleting the vacation worlds.
I have a decent computer running 4gb ram with quad core processor at 3.6GHz.

Please let me know if theres anyway to change the saving time without getting a better computer, because its the large sims file making it long to save.

Thanks guys!

Hmmm I have also found out that when changing around the active families there is usually one person who is starving or close.
I looks as though in most families that there is one person in the family that gets ignored by the computer.

Maybe they are falling to death because the work pusher mod has been removed?

Ok I accidentally saved while someone was about to expire (die) so I have a starting point. I just resurrected a person from being a ghost that previously died and this guy(that is about to die) is in the same family. This guy that is gonna die is in the library and his moodlet says he has stir crazy (but his not at home!).

I have played sooo many diff sceanerios to try save him and finally I found out a way which didn't end up glitching or him dying randomly after. What I did with the person that was about to expire was to split him from the household and moved him into my active household and he now works perfectly fine.


Here are some examples of ways i tried to save him which failed:

1.I tried giving him a death flower while he was about to die, he is saved however the game glitches.

2.I tried placing the guy on sacred mode and radar tracking and he is saved, However when i go to his family and play him it glitches

3.I put guy on sacred mode he is saved, and i talk to him and invite him to my active sims house however randomly dies afterwards. (it says he has 0 social)  Pic:

4.I put the guy on sacred mode and his saved and I type maxmotives and he dies while on sacred mode.

What happens when it glitches:
-I only see his face on the (bottom middle) profile shot every time I click another person(even when switched household)
-His actions appear when clicked on other people and not theirs.
-The need bar is stuffed up as well as the moodlet bar.


So...theres something glitchy going on in my sims game >_<

Edit: Another sim has just died again.. within one day of saving this sim

Thanks for your replies guys.
I just find it weird after this happening downloading the new sims update.
From the deaths I find my sims die from just standing there and not being trapped

I'll try using radar tagging and see what I can find.
Hopefull i'll find a fix, i'll keep you guys posted.

I'm sorry I'm not sure if this may or may not be related to the AM mod, but would I like some help to fix this please.

I have had a problem of having stupid sims who don't eat and starve themselves to death.
I have had one sim die during my whole playing time of a few months and after the new sim's patch (im now on 1.12.70.006002) and downloading the new AM mod I have had already about 8 deaths of sims who are not elderly.
I find that they mainly die on community lots, with or without an active playing family there.
When looking at other sims at the community lots some just stand around doing nothing too (don't know if that is normal).

I only have AM mod installed at the moment with no other mods and running sims 3 with no expansions.
I used to have the NRaas_WorkPusher.package mod on but after the new sims update, it no longer works.
I have also tried turning on "NoCommunityStalkerSwarm" and it does not help.
I have high autonomy on too.

Please help.