OK. I believe that you are saying that there is a problem with the HoodChecker because it is flagging valid sims as invalid.

In that case, I'll have to see your neighborhood. Please zip and attach the entire neighborhood, or upload it to a file sharing site and give me the link.

At minimum, I'll need your neighborhood package and your entire Characters subfolder. I don't believe that I need your Lots or Storytelling subfolders.

Thanks again for your patience and assistance, I will zip and attach as soon as I get home from work.

Hmmm. 2B or not 2B that is the question here. Are you sure this neighborhood is not based on Veronaville ?

I've never played Veronaville (or any of the other Maxi neighborhoods). I created this neighborhood myself.

I think that was a (Shakespeare) joke.

I can think of two things which could be going wrong: SimPE cannot read those Sim Description records (and the HoodChecker uses the SimPE DLLs to parse the neighborhood package), or the HoodChecker loop which handles the Sim Description records is quitting prematurely.

However, without the neighborhood itself, I cannot debug this issue.

As far as I can tell at this time, the HoodChecker is working perfectly when it says that these sims do not exist. Without a reproducible case, I can't proceed further.

I will get this to you soon, just been very hectic all of a sudden. Sorry for the delay.

You are awesome! Thank you so much for this tool

It turns out my memory fix deals with only half the problem. The memories are created correctly, but then the game broadcasts broken gossip to everyone in the room--the same old NID vs. OID problem. I've got a fix in testing that appears to work, but it involves a global change rather than tweaking each memory and I'm concerned there might be unanticipated side effects from other memories. I'm going to hold onto it for a few days to make sure it doesn't blow up my hood before releasing it on the unsuspecting masses.

I just ran the most recent version of the Hood Checker on Veronaville and got a result I don't understand:

Memories:
Second sim does not exist: Lot 0x00AF 46 Bard Boulevard: [Invisible] NPC 0x018C Heidi Ajjanagadde was Hired By 0x0015

I moved Antonio Monty and his children into 46 Bard Boulevard and I did have Antonio hire a nanny (Heidi Ajjanagadde is one of the Veronaville nannies) because he got a different job where he would still be at work when Beatrice and Benedick got home from school. Antonio exists, so I don't understand why the error would say that he doesn't.

Is Antonio's ID 0x0015?

From what I can tell, his ID is 0x036. Which brings up the question whose ID is 0x0015 and why would they be considered to have hired her?

If 0x0015 were a valid sim, then the HoodChecker would not have flagged the lot memory as invalid. Unfortunately, SimPE doesn't display lot memories, so there's no easy way to change the hiring sim to Antonio.

This may be one of those cases where the EA code has a bug.

The new version of Memory Fixes is now up at http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/395. This fixes the gossip memories broadcast from the events fixed by the previous version. As before, this will fix only new memories generated not bad ones that already exist.

Thanks! I really appreciate the work that you're doing on these memories, Cyjon.

How on earth would the Grim Reaper have an invalid relationship with self?

No one died, so the Grim Reaper didn't show up but after I quit and ran the HoodChecker the error of the Grim Reaper having a invalid relationship with self showed up.

We don't know why these things happen. The game seems to have a lot of problems. That's why I wrote the HoodChecker. The HoodChecker is just reporting what it finds; it can't tell you why these things are occurring.

Sorry it has taken me so long to respond. I started the neighborhood over recreated as much I could. I have had 3 children born in the game so far and all have wants that are age appropriate. So far everything in game is working as it should.

I also think I may have figured out something regarding the sims that don't exist and some of the character files without descriptions. I have Mansion and Gardens installed, and although I have Apartment Life I have not installed it. Some of the invalid relationships of sims that don't exist maybe related to characters that are associated with Apartment life and Mansions and Gardens. Not sure how this could be, other than it has something to do with Mansion and Gardens (don't they share something?) For example one of the sims that the Hood Checker flags as a sim that doesn't exist is the Good Witch Cat. The Good Witch Cat if I'm not mistaken is a NPC Character of Apartment Life. Is it possible that Mansion and Gardens has some of these characters within it's structure, but not available unless you have Apartment life? And that the Hood Checker is flagging these characters appropriately as sims that don't exist? I hope I'm not being too confusing, not sure how to state it better.

Do you mean 0xD55EF625? That ID is in the list of valid sims without user files that the HoodChecker recognizes. If your HoodChecker isn't recognizing that ID, then there's something really wrong. Try re-downloading the HoodChecker; perhaps it was corrupted during download?

Or, are you talking about a different Good Witch Cat? If so, I need the ID to investigate this problem.

I re-downloaded the HoodChecker, the Good Witch Cat ID is 0x007F. Thanks again for all your help and patience.

0x007F is the Sim Description instance number. What is the Sim ID (GUID)?

Is there any significance to a repeated invalid relationship?

Family Ties:

Sim Relations:
Second sim does not exist: 0x0037 Ripp Grunt has relationship with 0x0039

Ripp Grunt has been shown to have a relationship with that same non-existent Sim the last four times I've run the Hood Checker. I've used the remove function to remove it each time, but it shows up the next time I run the Checker on Strangetown.

I wonder whether there's another invalid reference to that sim, which is causing the invalid relationship to regenerate?

For example, the HoodChecker doesn't check the Sim Wants and Fears yet. If you had an invalid reference in the SWAFs, it might be spreading to the Sim Relations.

Is there an easy way to figure out there is a invalid reference in the Sim's Wants and Fears since that feature isn't available yet?

I was wondering if it had something to do with Lyla Grunt but that's not her Instance.

You could look at them in SimPE, but I'm not sure how much data it displays about the wants and fears history.

The Sim ID is 0xD55EF625