Has anyone else had this issue? I've never used the salvage from trash interaction so don't know how often/rare the chances are but we've been at this for hours and my sim hasn't brought up anything at all. No objects, no simoleans... what I've seen online that doesn't seem to be correct. The only thing I have is Squinge's eat/salvage from trash enabled, and traits doing the same, but nothing comes up in HCDU as being a real issue (obviously the traits and squinge's mods conflict but to my understanding that shouldn't effect drop rates)
I only started trying to salvage cause the beg for money interaction wasn't working either (again, on a test run after having no luck she was trying for 12hrs straight with not a single person dropping 'tips' no idea what's going on there).
I wanted to try a hardcore rags to riches but hadn't intended a fully impossible run haha
Found out today that easels, including the base game easel, no longer gain hobby enthusiasm. I don't have a whole lot in the way of mods effecting art/easel stuff, only a single custom easel. Though I'll double check that here in a bit (only just found out about this in game)
If anyone has had this happen before, or has an idea why this happened could you let me know? I don't know if this is a long standing thing cause I don't think I've had any painters in my recent hoods, so who knows how long this has been a problem...
Ok, we have something of a fix. It's not a full fix, and I am still a little concerned about this problem coming up in the future, but at least I can keep an eye out for it.
Like I mentioned in a comment on the original post it seems to be linked to Better Ghosts, however I don't know if this is actually a problem with the mod or rather an issue in conjunction with my other mods. Way more testing will be needed to really know, but I'll be honest. I am just not up for all that right now. Just want to get back to playing. Seeing as there doesn't seem to be any massive/obvious issues I'll let it be for now.
What I ended up doing to fix my current issue and some additional thoughts below for those interested :)
The Fix: What I ended up doing was simple. Simply resurrected him with the manipulator and killed him off again with Better Ghosts removed. In another test/fix I backed up to before his memories were fucked, and did the same, but put Better Ghosts back in before I moved the grave (in an attempt to retain his "death by sick" state). That still kept him as default/uneditable, but his memories were still wiped and defaulted. This time however his wife wasn't the subject at all but rather 'Mystery Sim'. No idea what's going on with the memories since the other sims who died of old age have retained all theirs just fine.
I think it must do with how ghosts are handled with their death state in Better Ghosts. Death of old age is, as I understand, untouched?(mostly?) by the mod. So anything else requires them to be handled differently and in this case it was turning him into a townie, and when I moved his grave it for some reason reset his memories to something like a default townie's. Why he wasn't staying in the default household, and kept slipping back into the townie category I cannot figure out (it did end up happening a few times) so I'm going to hope that the way I fixed it will stick. I also have to say I have no idea if it was even a problem that he *was* a dead townie. In game there was no real effect other than the weird memory thing.
I still have some memory clean up to do with the living members of the family because of that weird hiccup, but everything else seems to be fine. Maybe one day I'll bother to fix Damian's memories too if it really bothers me, but I don't see him being resurrected (for real) at any point so there really isn't a reason to. Except for my own anal tendencies telling me it is.
