Hi guys,

I always try to check up on my ErrorTrap reading logs from time to time, and today I came across a reference to a case of unhandled dereferencing. I don't know if it's something to be worried about or not, so I came to you guys to get your opinion on it.

The sim that was being dereferenced was one that I had just moved from the active household to an inactive one, if that's any help. According to the log, it seems to think the sim has been deleted, which it hasn't.

The way I understand it, ET isn't complaining about actual deleted sims. It is encountering blobs of data that don't seem to belong in the game anymore. Note the ID number of that "sim" is ID=0x0000000000000000, which cannot possibly have been valid. Possibly the sim was duplicated then the dupe quickly resolved upon the move you mentioned.

Not sure I've noticed many such reports falling under unhandled derefs like that, but again my take on it is that ET is saying "I just don't know what this piece of data is." That's why we often see lots of those for EA premium store content that was released towards the end of the store's development cycle; ET hasn't yet been updated to account for such things properly but it's not doing any harm to our games by reporting on and then ignoring them either.

If your sim appears fine and healthy, I'd wager more than a couple of simoleons that the report is nothing at all to be concerned about.

Looking at the log, it seems to be a dereferencing of an Opportunity that was still attached to that Sim. Inactives can't have such since you switch it over to the dark side

Usually dereferencing are harmless towards games and should not have effect onto your gameplay. And basically ET is removing stuff that no longer can be hold by a Sim, but due to certain mods and custom objects (and store content that been released after December 2013), some codes are unknown to the game and that's why ET list them as dereferencing/unknown.

Oh, I didn't catch the rogue but invalid Opportunity like J4Ks did. I think I like his answer a little better than mine.

Yeah, I figured it wasn't that big of a deal, but I had never seen it before, so I wasn't sure. Thanks for the help!