I've actually been playing this game for a while now and have five families going at the same time. In most of these families I am on my 30th generation and they are all multi billionaires!! The majority have been able to have six children and I also have several adoptions among them. Two of the goals I haven't met are the one having to do with the 'stinky fish' and the Latte (or Capuccino) one.

This may be 'cause I need another version or an update - haven't been willing to do this 'cause I've grown attached to my little charges '~} I was willing to live with not accomplishing those two tasks, but now I'm facing a more difficult challenge. Two of my new generations - two separate games and families, one a male one a female - have gotten no marriage proposals!! I was being really patient thinking this was just one possible random event and that maybe if I just waited it would happen. However, years are going by and they are now in their 30's (started off in early 20's) so don't think it is happening. Especially since, on looking more closely, I noticed that the details indicate that they have six children each! They don't have any children.

I need to figure out how to update, etc. these two games since they won't be elgible for adoption if the program thinks that they already have six. I don't want to affect my other three ongoing games, however, since I have put a lot of time and effort into them.

Any suggestions? I noticed that a few other people had problems with the no marriage proposal thing. Wonder if those people also had 'six children' listed under details.

Any advice and help would be aappreciated. I don't have any idea how to update, etc.

Thanks '~}


This is an addendum to my previous comment/request. I just returned to my five ongoing games and it was time to start a new generation again. After choosing an adoptee, I looked at details and noticed that again the details section said that she had children - the same number as her parents had - four in this case. Then I went through the generations in all of my games/family lineages and found that the 3 games giving me problems - with mistakenly saying the single person has children plus no marriage proposals - each are in the 31st generation. Is there a limit to how many generations you can have - perhaps I have hit it?

I'm not sure as I haven't ever done any updates and am not sure which version I have - purchased a few months back from Real Arcade. There have been a few other flukes during my time playing - such as not having any access to completing the 'smelly fish' or Latte trophies. Also . . . at times weird things happen, two examples: at times the family members will not go into the hammock claiming that someone is in it (like a have ghost, lol), and one family completely lost the remote control in the first few generations (believe me I have looked high and low for this). That remoteless family has done fine with dancing, listening to radio, reading to the children, swimming, etc. for entertainment. There have also been times when the family members 'float' across the screen - only seems to happen to ones who are over 50.

Speaking of age, I think that it is really weird that the family members slow down to a crawls pace at age 55 and that, despite organic food, plenty of excercise and rest, the oldest member has only reached age 61. I know that you have to have the parents move on so that you can start the new generation, but how about something less morbid and more creative - like have them go on a European tour or go back to school or move to Florida (or Hawaii). Maybe this could be an idea for the next version of the game. After all, some of us players are in that 'death age bracket' (I am almost 58 myself). It is a bit off setting to have the parents all die so young - and not very realistic in this day and age.

Anyway . . . still waiting on advice to try to save my games before they end - as my single family members get older by the minutes.

The current version is 1.00.05. If you have this version, then you will not need to upgrade your game. To check your version number, open the game, go to the main menu, and look in the lower left hand corner. It should say something similar to this: 1.00.05 RA. If it is lower than that, since you purchased from Real Arcade, you will need to contact them in order to upgrade your game.

On the topic of no marriage proposals, LadyCFII has some good responses here, and here, she gives a link on how to backup and save your families so your game can be saved. That link might be very useful in order to save your families.

We are currently looking into the issue of children appearing on the detail screen of single parents who have none. Any information you can provide would be helpful, such as current version number, if you updated your game at all since purchase, etc.

Family members will often 'reserve' one person areas before they actually get there, so when another family member attempts to use that area, they say that someone is already there, when they aren't, yet. This is normal. Several people have lost their remotes, and found them again later. You can see a rather large discussion about that here.

I hope this information helps you out!

There is still no update from Real Arcade, I tried just a few days ago.

I am now having a similar problem with one of my families as well as some other problems.

They are on generation 31 and the new guy has not appeared at all on the details screen as having taken over the house and he has not had one marriage proposal yet.

However, the "next generation" button is still on the family screen and I pressed it to see what would happen. A range of options came up for me to adopt a new peep.... none of whom are the previous generations children! and they have no names! their name place is blank with a flashing cursor.

I adopted a random nameless person... and they are now not on the details screen and have no marriage proposals either....

ETA: I am running .05 and have been since it was available.

Dear Xay . . . I didn't have the energy to go through all of the steps suggested - to save game, etc. Although, I'm sure they probably would have worked. Time wasn't really on my side either since I wanted to cancel my Real Arcade membership and had to do so by today. They have assured me that - in the future - I can also update any time I need to. What I did was pause my games and then uninstalled and reinstalled. I lost my former games and families, but I am well established now in the first generation of five new families.

The version I had before was 1.00.01 and the new version I now have is 1.00.05. The problems - with no marriage proposals and the details saying the single family member had children when they didn't - started in each case on the 31st generation. No problems with these issues before that. The only issues I had before that was that I never had the opportunity to praise someone about the 'stinky' fish or the latte making since those things never occurred with the 1.00.01 version.

I will miss my five families, but I am already getting used to my five new families - I like to play five at once. The hardest thing is getting used to not having money, since my former families were multi-billionaires for a long time. One new poor wife/mother had to work overtime even though she was tired 'cause her husband had a headache and they didn't have the $5 for the medicine (or anything to sell). I knew better than to let him languish in illness since at times it has taken forever for a family member to improve once they get 'weak' status.

Anyway . . . I guess my game now is more realistic, given the current economy, lol. I am looking forward to them becoming a little more affluent though. Thanks for your help. If I have any further problems I will try some of the tips in the links you gave.

P.S. This is the first time that I updated my game since purchase. Thanks again . . .

Im not sure if having version .05 is going to help as that is the version I have and I am having problems on generation 31.
Another family just started that one tonight as well and they have the same problem.

Choosing the next peep to take over starts as normal, with the kids from the family being up for selection, then once one is chosen no marriage proposals come through.

And if u go to the family screen they are not on it. And the next generation button is still there.

If pressed, random peeps come up. some of the previous kids, some with no names and some are duplicates of each other with same names and ages.

You can keep re starting generation over and over as many times as u like. and no marriage proposals come through for any of them. and none of them appear on the family screen.

This is the message I get instead of a proposal. Has never happened before, but has happened on both games where I have not received a proposal.

That is one of the 'email events' that can randomly occur in Virtual Families, and it's probably not related to this bug. I've seen that particular event many times during the course of my games, but it only occurs when you have a single adult with no children in the game, usually soon after adopting them (which fits your situation of having no proposals). Once the person marries or adopts an orphan, that event won't occur.

We are looking into this issue, and we realize that it's causing serious problems for long-running games. The best thing to do is to make backups of all of your savegame files (the procedure is here), if possible prior to the 30th generation (I know that you and some others have already passed that point). That way, you have preserved your families in the event that we can provide a workable solution to this problem.

In the first game that I had this happen, it was the first e-mail after adoption. The game I showed above is the second game, and if you notice, in this second game, Sandria is 49 years old, and I have received multiple e-mails about multiple things before this one. Could still be the way you described, but just at a different time.

I hit this exact snag on Gen 31 tonight, as well as the email posted from huskergolfer popping up after 5 hrs into adoption. I backed up my files and am letting my families play out, but am wondering if this will be the ending of my first family. How would reinstating backups take care of this issue once the first family dies out? (I'll be back to where I was with a lone adoptee) Has a fix been found as of yet? Or is Gen 31 the ending of all families for the time being? Many thanks for any input.