Is there still a portal bug?
professorbutters:
To clarify, I have all EPs up through Pets and they are patched. I thought this was fixed with Nightlife.
Here are the problems with this lot/household:
1. Carpool gets stuck with Sim in it. At one point I used moveobjects on to delete the car with the Sim in it (probably a VBT). He returned from work and appeared to be ok. I played another lot, one of his friends graduated, and I moved her in with him. When I opened the lot again, he was a zombie --no explanation, no memory of him dying or being made a zombie (and I fixed it with InSim). Still, creepy.
2. Now the carpool still seems to be stuck, but after the sim gets into the car, it sits there until the hour is up and then it winks out of existence (instead of driving off.)
3. For a while, had the bubbles coming off of the Sim glitch.
4. Some problems with one of the Sims, a former Secret Society member. Back when he was a townie, he sometimes did not show up when invited, even though he wasn't mad at my Sim. If I wanted him at a party, he had to be summoned using InSim. Sometimes social interactions between him and other sims seem to be missing (e.g., when the child in the house aged from toddler to child, they could not interact at all.) Using Lot Debugger Fix Work State seemed to clear this up.
5. The child in the house glowed constantly as a toddler. I mean constantly. The smart milk glow never went away. She was reacting as though ordinary bottles of milk from the fridge were smart milk, and every attempt to change her appearance (baths, changing clothes, mirror) just caused a renewal of the smart milk sound and the glow. She recently aged to child and at least the glow is gone now.
I don't have these problems on any other lot, have never had them before, have never even seen them before. I had no new hacks before this started to happen. Most of my hacks are Awesome anyway, and the others are jfade's vampire nobiting hack, some hacks by Squinge (maternity wear hack, cheese counter, date counter) all of which I've had for months with no trouble. I recently downloaded some CC--a lot from a trusted source (have played that lot, no trouble there) a few items including CC hair, some niceish stuff by corvidophile on MTS2 (which includes some other stuff from other makers. However, I did not install the Sims2Pack, only a few items from the folders that I wanted. I marked them so I can remove them if necessary.
I'd like to find out what's going wrong and fix it if I can, but bear in mind I have a Mac, and so no SimPe or Clean Installer, so suggestions involving either of those tools won't help me much. I don't know if it's the lot, one of the Sims, or some of the CC (though I've noticed that a lot of the stuff from pronupsims works very oddly in my game, if at all.)
PB
ZephyrZodiac:
Have you tried installing Crammyboy's Portal Monitor? This should alert you if any lot you enter has a problem with a portal, and there is a fix at MTS2. You don't need SimPe for this.
Magicmoon:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 October 17, 20:46:20
Have you tried installing Crammyboy's Portal Monitor?
Although appropriate in this particular case, isn't it now obsolete? I still have it in Downloads, but I swear I read somewhere that it wasn't needed after NL. But then I couldn't find it again when I went looking for where I read that. I'm just wanting to know whether to retire it or not.
Back on topic, I believe that Dizzy made a mod to show all the portals on a lot. Perhaps that might help to diagnose the problem.
With the glowing toddler, I had that happen once. I fixed it by enabling testing cheats, then shift>clicking on the toddler, and forcing an error. When the dialog came up, I chose reset. The kid was fine after that. Reset helps whenever an effect (such as smart milk glow, bubbles, etc.) get stuck on a Sim.
Problem #1, and possibly #2 sound like there is something in the street blocking the car. Have you tried putting a lot of burninators all over the street? Be careful, I once deleted a portal doing this. If that happens, leave the lot without saving. The portal was still there when I went back into the lot, thankfully.
Problem #2 on your list was a constant problem for me in the past on one lot only, even though I had CB's fix in place. Moving them to another lot and bulldozing the affected one was the only thing that worked for me back then. This was a couple of EPs ago.
Do you have Zombie Apocalypse installed? It's the only thing I can think of that would cause a Sim to be a zombie without first dying. It happens when they lose a fight to an existing zombie, which could have happened on a comm lot while you were playing another family, or as a visitor to a lot where a zombie was present.
professorbutters:
Thanks--I tossed some suspect CC, and when I checked the portal, it worked fine with no fix necessary. Thanks for the tip on the smartmilk glitch, and if the portal problems pop up again, I will move them.
I don't have Zombie Apocalypse installed, though. Even if I did, I only played one residential lot in the interim and I just don't have that many zombies in my game--three in a big neighborhood, and one is one of his friends. I would love to know what happened, though.
PB
ZephyrZodiac:
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Although appropriate in this particular case, isn't it now obsolete? I still have it in Downloads, but I swear I read somewhere that it wasn't needed after NL. But then I couldn't find it again when I went looking for where I read that. I'm just wanting to know whether to retire it or not.
I'm sure I remember reading Crammyboy as stating that, although it was supposedly fixed in one of the patches, it couldn't do any harm to leave it in, but only the monitor, not the other stuff.
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Problem #1, and possibly #2 sound like there is something in the street blocking the car. Have you tried putting a lot of burninators all over the street? Be careful, I once deleted a portal doing this. If that happens, leave the lot without saving. The portal was still there when I went back into the lot, thankfully.
If it's the only option to clear the blockage, then if the lot is very important to you, I'd say go ahead and do it, if the portal is deleted, as I said, there is a fix for this.
The glowing toddler - I've had it happen in earlier versions of the game, but not for a long time now, and it didn't seem to cause any problems, and they lose it when they grow up.
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