Married Sims living apart won't move in together.

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Post by theapoo » March 9th, 2016, 4:32 pm

Oh it was your cat! lol. So have you *ever* had the husband or wife join their spouse's existing household?

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Post by theapoo » March 9th, 2016, 4:35 pm

For example: I recently had a couple in my town get married. The husband has two teenage sons living with him. The four of them moved into a small one-bedroom cottage at the beach, when there was enough room (and beds) for all of them at his old house! Why didn't she just move in with her husband and step-sons? Ugh!

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Post by littlelambsy » March 9th, 2016, 4:59 pm

I didn't think the Broken Home setting to False would make a difference because I don't allow broken homes.. such as divorce or move because of not liking a family/house member. I could change that setting and see what happens. I also got fed up with townies moving all over the place so I set the move limit to 118 hours between moves. I figure if one got married and moved in with the spouse, that would be the first move and then they would have to wait before moving again.
And as for the cheap housing I didn't think it would matter if the houses were more expensive because A) I don't want them buying another house, just move into one or the others household and B) I have stranded couple amount set to $150,000 and free real estate enabled so they should have enough money to move anywhere.

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Post by littlelambsy » March 9th, 2016, 5:00 pm

As I mentioned before, I also have Move as a Family set to False and Move solo set to True... or is it the other way around???

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Post by theapoo » March 9th, 2016, 8:29 pm

You're right, I just tried setting "Broken Home Move" to true and it didn't fix the problem. I have both Move as Family and Move Solo set to true, so that also isn't the issue.

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Post by littlelambsy » March 9th, 2016, 8:43 pm

Good to know so I don't have to change those settings.

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Post by MoMoll » March 10th, 2016, 2:23 am

@theapoo: yes, I have had them move into one or the other's existing home. I would get a notice mentioning "so and so moved in with .....".

I have not touched any of the default move settings (except for my witch caste, since I plan on playing them rotationally).

Hope you work it out.

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Post by theapoo » March 12th, 2016, 12:09 am

By default move settings: do you mean household and lot settings under SP General Options?

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Post by MoMoll » March 12th, 2016, 2:25 am

I was referring to the settings LL mentioned. I haven't changed them and don't seem to have any issue with sims moving in together.

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Post by theapoo » July 21st, 2016, 5:35 pm

Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I think I figured this out!!!

I would like to expand upon Tangie's point that she usually has this problem in households where multiple Sims reside. All of a sudden I remembered that one time, I did have a husband move into his wife's household. Both of them lived alone. He was much richer than she was, being a rock star and all, so I moved them back into his mansion. Other than that, in all situations since then when I am trying to get one sim to move in with the other, they have both lived with multiple other people.

I think that explains why some of us have this issue and some of us don't. Some of us probably just have more sims living alone. I personally don't like to have many sims living alone, which could explain why I have this issue so much.

@MoMoll, do you have a lot of sims living together or alone? When your married sims combined households, did one or both of them previously live alone?

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