Disappearing Wants

[Becky]

Hello,

I've done searches but haven't found info about exactly the same issue.

My child sims' wants & fears will disappear (not just the images, because there is no scroll-over text).  Once it starts happening to a child, it will persist until they become a teen. When the wants & fears reroll, they will all be there for a second or so before they disappear. Wants & fears that are locked do not disappear.

This happens to all or almost all of the children, and I have yet to detect a pattern.

Does anyone know if there are particular types of hacks that can create disappearing wants & fears? I saw speculation on one thread that phone hacks may mess with wants & fears, but the issue wasn't exactly the same. This has been happening for a long time, so I know it isn't anything I've downloaded recently. Other than that, I have no idea which hacks to suspect.

I have all EPs up to Seasons, plus the H&M stuff pack.

Thanks for any and all assistance.

[Gwill]

Probably hack conflict.
Do binary search.

[rufio]

This used to happen to me a lot, and I fixed it by removing wfsanity.  No hack conflicts had been detected, other than known conflicts with twojeffs hacks that were supposed to cause no problems.

[jolrei]

I still would blame "tight pants", in that case.  wfsanity is working fine in my game without dropping any wants.

[J. M. Pescado]

If there's an error in the want tree controller, you should get a log. Attach it here and it will be fixed. Otherwise, sometimes wants just go blank because your SWAFs have been truncated, so your sims don't have anything to want.

[rufio]

Well, I don't remember if I was playing with debug mode on at the time, so I suppose there could have been errors that I didn't see.  I don't particularly miss wfsanity now, though, and a hack that I made is very occasionally throwing wants controller errors for no apparent reason, so if that ever gets resolved I'll put it back in to see if it still happens.

[J. M. Pescado]

If you're dabbling in hacks, especially making your own, you pretty much should just autoload in debug and stay that way.

[rufio]

If you're dabbling in hacks, especially making your own, you pretty much should just autoload in debug and stay that way.

Well, I do do that now.  This was a long time ago.