The game remembers even if the Sims don't

[Madame Mim]

When I start a hood I first kill everybody already there. At the moment I am working on getting Pleasantview set up in my hood from Sims that actually bear some resemblance to, well, themselves (why does EA keep calling the Sims the same names - even tell us they're the same Sims but make them bear no resemblance to what they've previously told us they look like?). So I have my Goths - Victor, Gretle, Gunther & Frida living in Goth Manor and I changed households the awesome way to check on the location of one of Victors school friends. When I went back to select the Goth household again Gunther's icon is that of the EA Gunther (I've also seen the same mis-picturing happen when creating Sims in CAS).

[J. M. Pescado]

When I start a hood I first kill everybody already there. At the moment I am working on getting Pleasantview set up in my hood from Sims that actually bear some resemblance to, well, themselves (why does EA keep calling the Sims the same names - even tell us they're the same Sims but make them bear no resemblance to what they've previously told us they look like?).

Well, that's easy to explain. The characters are played by different actors, because this is a prequel. The original actors are obviously too old to properly reprise their roles. Plus, it's EA. They probably sacked those guys ages ago.

[Madame Mim]

I bet the fees in the pixelated actors guild are a bitch to pay too - how do you animate 10% of your money and all of your soul?

edit: My webhost was unaccessable last night so I couldn't post an example of what I meant, but it's back now so here's a picture of Gretle Goth relationship with her son, and another showing the face my Gunther actually wears




edit again: For a little while after he aged up to a teen his thumbnail once again showed his own face, but it soon reverted back to the EA Gunther. I just hope this isn't a sign of dangling SWAF's (or the S3 equivalent thereof) caused by nuking the default Sims.

[Madame Mim]

Gunther's thumbnail still occilates between his real face and the original EA Gunther Goth, but now Cornelia has developed the same problem. My Cornelia Goth (nee Crumplebottom) now shows the EA Cornelia in her thumbnail. This has got to be more than the wierd dude showing up instead of your own Sim bug. This is a direct correlation, name to name.

[Aaroc]

I would be willing to bet that if you had a sim whose grandchild, or perhaps even great grandchild was named after them, the picture would occasionally oscillate between the thumbnails of the younger and the older. Or they might just be leftover remnants in RAM. Maybe if you restarted the game or your computer they would go away. as I recall, when Mortimer in my game turned into a teen, and subsequently into an adult, his picture would often revert back to when he was a child. This stopped the next time I loaded up the game.

[KarateKari]

I would be willing to bet that if you had a sim whose grandchild, or perhaps even great grandchild was named after them, the picture would occasionally oscillate between the thumbnails of the younger and the older. Or they might just be leftover remnants in RAM. Maybe if you restarted the game or your computer they would go away. as I recall, when Mortimer in my game turned into a teen, and subsequently into an adult, his picture would often revert back to when he was a child. This stopped the next time I loaded up the game.

My adult Mortimer's thumbnail is constantly reverting back to childhood, and Bella does it occassionally too.  Restarting the game/computer has no effect.