Friendly Sims missing from phone/dating list?

[Rooby]

I've poked around a bit and can't find reference to a similar situation.  I don't know if this is a bug or an intended event.

I have a Sim (Lunn) that I created who started out at the University.  When he was there, he met Lara Ruzinska or something like that.  I had her move into a house with another player-controlled Sim so that she would become a player-controlled Sim.

So Lara and Lunn graduated college and moved back to town.  They live in separate trailers, but have been dating and boinking all along.  I was playing Lara last night, and suddenly I noticed that Lunn no longer shows up on the list of people she can call!  She used to have 1+ pages of people she could call, and now only has one page.  He still shows up on the list of friends, with a stat of 97/87, and the red heart and best friends icons are still there.

If I switch over to HIM, she shows up on HIS list just fine.  He can call her and invite her over, but she cannot call him and invite him over.

The only things that have changed are that I installed the new version of SimPE last night.

Does it have anything to do with Lunn being a romance sim and having boinked 18 women so far?  (He's modeled after my own darling brother, and quite resembles him.)

I do not have any phone hacks installed right now (really irritating with that f^$#% constantly ringing phone.)

So, has anyone else had this happen?  It has not happened to me before and I refuse to tell you how many hours a day I play lest you think that I have issues dealing with reality and prefer a simulation of life to the one I'm living.



Rooby

[baratron]

Stoopid question - does Lunn have a phone in his new house? If he doesn't, then she won't be able to call him!

I saw you mentioned that he can call her, but if he only has a cellphone not a house phone, that can cause oddities...

Sorry if this isn't helpful .

[vecki]

Here's my limited understanding on the issue as it's happened to me before.

When your sim calls a friend, an invisible copy of the friend is deposited on the lot.  Sometimes the friend doesn't get removed at the end of the call and it makes it impossible to call them because they're already there!

Using Inge's teleport shrub or Pescado's lot debugger should fix the problem - an option like 'remove visitors' or 'remove stuck visitors' should appear.

This may be what's happening to you.

[Rooby]

HURRAY!  Pescado's Lot Debugger fixed the 'loitering off-worllder' and I can call Lunn again! 

I KNEW someone here would have the answer - THANK YOU!

Rooby

[cheriem]

I just had a similar problem last night.  Two friends and all of a sudden one can't call the other because she's not on the phone list.  She was still in the relationships panel but not on the phone list.  I checked the one who couldn't be called and she was just fine.  I thought it was my phone hack mod, so I pulled it out.  Much to my dismay the phone is now driving me nuts!  They both have cell phones and land lines.  So if the problem is that the one is invisable, and my teleporting her over fixed the problem, does that mean I can put my phone hack back in?  (Oh, it's TwoJeff's phone lines hack)

Thanks for your help in advance.

[Venusy]

I just had a similar problem last night.  Two friends and all of a sudden one can't call the other because she's not on the phone list.  She was still in the relationships panel but not on the phone list.  I checked the one who couldn't be called and she was just fine.  I thought it was my phone hack mod, so I pulled it out.  Much to my dismay the phone is now driving me nuts!  They both have cell phones and land lines.  So if the problem is that the one is invisable, and my teleporting her over fixed the problem, does that mean I can put my phone hack back in?  (Oh, it's TwoJeff's phone lines hack)

Thanks for your help in advance.

I wasn't aware TwoJeffs made a phone lines hack... Anyway, try the FFS Lot Debugger, and use the "Clear Offworld Loiterers" option.