Hello & thank you for any ideas you may contribute. I play the Sims 4 as a royal lineage game, with its own world, morals, & values. I keep an entire book/journal with my guidelines, world lore, etc but the book also fills up as the Sims live their lives. There’s also a strict point-stain system so I can track reputations & who is next in line for inheritance (if you follow the Sims you may agree that they totally stole my idea somehow for the last update haha).
My game glitched out (as it do) & now I have a huge plot hole & am kinda lost as to how to explain it & attach negative reputation points.
The Setting: Katrina, her pregnant daughter Dina, her son-in-law Travis, & her grandchild Maribel live together. Dina goes to a birthing house for her 2nd delivery, she has a baby girl named Kristi (birthing houses are so sims don’t accidentally have twins, it sounds like gibberish to non-sim players I’m sorry). Katrina, Travis, & Maribel go to stay at the birthing house, uninvited, but Dina doesn’t want to stay in the busy house so she tries to move on back home. Something glitched & now Dina & her newborn are gone. Vanished. Non-recoverable. Katrina, Travis, & Maribel have also had their memories wiped of Dina. According to genealogy, Dina is an orphan. Also, Kristi is completely erased from genealogy. She doesn’t exist anywhere. I need some kind of story/event to add into my book to explain this! Something realistic for my medieval-ish world. Dina gave up the title of Duchess & her estate which is a huge thing in the Kingdom of Caltherra. So not only do I need ideas on how to explain all of that, I also need to punish accordingly. Family abandonment is highly frowned upon & always affects the estates reputation level. It’s archaic in the way that Katrina will most likely be punished as the estate still belongs to her therefore she is responsible for the actions of those within. Her daughter abandoned the estate, abandoned her husband & child, & fled with the newborn. How do I explain the genealogy tree saying that Dina is an orphan & non Katrinas daughter? Or should I ignore their in-game tree since it’s so badly damaged?
Opinions on Points: So points add up to determine a reputation & also have a title limit that you can’t hit without basically bankrupting (the world is designed this way for Drama). If you’d like to help me determine the punishment for Katrina’s estate the relevant rules I do have state the following
Divorce = 1, Failure to Fulfill = 1 (Dina was assigned to have two children for the estate, she did have two but took off with one so idk). Linebearer Failure = 2 (Dina was the Linebearer & abandoned the post). There’s more but none I could see as relevant unless I can explain the event away with something like “ran off with another man” in which case that’d be punishment for adultery. That just seems so basic, Dina & Travis were in love.
Thank you creatives for any light you can shed on this, for context Dina & Travis were deeply in love, she loved her mother, & according to Travis’s profile he’s still married to Dina, but when prompted he says he is single.
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