I took the Garden Club Lady on vacation, and other disasters
V:
My sim had a crush on the Garden Club lady, named (in my game) Lisa Gross. So, even though they only had one bolt's worth of chemistry, I let him take her with him on his vacation with his young daughter.
There were many errors. I turned off the testing cheats because I was getting an error every few seconds and they hadn't even gotten out of the shuttle yet. I turned it back on later, when I noticed that Lisa's want slots were no longer blank.
I sent the family (and guest) off to a comm lot to enjoy some mountaineering excitement. When they were at the lot next door to the campgrounds I happened to accidentally click on the campgrounds. It said, "Lisa Gross lives here" (or words to that effect).
I hoped that was not going to be a problem and got the family & Lisa back to the campgrounds for the shuttle run home.
The shuttle picked everyone up, then dropped Lisa off at the campgrounds. Lisa went about the campgrounds as if she were home, but the controls were still disabled.
I exited to the neighborhood and then tried to go back to the campgrounds and the application crashed.
I went to SimPE to see if there was anything I recognized as removable so they would either still be on vacation or never went on vacation and saw the "Days left on vacation" so changed that from 0 to 1. I was hoping maybe the game would think they were still supposed to be there. Of course that did not work and the game still crashed when I tried to load that lot.
I tried to make Lisa a member of a different household, but found that I could not because first I would have to go to her home lot and play that before I can have her move to a new lot.
Is there anything that I can do now to save this hood? It is not a very old hood, but I have actually put quite a bit of time and effort into it and would like to actually have it for a while longer than this.
*V types, "I am an idiot and made a series of incredibly stupid decisions that may have destroyed my hood." 500 times while she waits for an answer
J. M. Pescado:
I have no idea how you did that. There isn't even a good reason why bringing a garden club townie as a vacation buddy would break your game. I am baffled.
V:
Well I am pleased to learn that my initial action of bringing the Garden Club lady along on a vacation was not inherently stupid. But I was hoping for some sort of brilliant troubleshooting plan or series of questions.
I have further tried to fix this by adding a new sim with a new house and artificially making him friends with the head of my lost family and then asking them to move in.
I received the message, "Jim's household is not currently saved on Jim's home lot. If you would like to ask Jim to move in, then you must play Jim's household and save once the household has returned home."
Well, I can't play Jim's household because they are on vacation and haven't gotten back yet. And I can't play the vacation lot where they were lost because that causes an app crash.
I have lots of error logs that I could send:
25 Object Errors, 6 from the last working session, 9 from the first session
8 Sims2Exception Errors, 4 from the last working session, 4 from the 3rd
8 Missing anim-* Errors, all after it stopped working
14 other errors, all after it stopped working
1 excel spreadsheet titled OETreeDelete from the last time I loaded the game to try something clever.
But I don't know which one of these error logs may be of any use or if any of them would be of any use.
Do you (or does anyone) know of any way that I can cheat this game back into existence? Is there any sort of SimPE thing I can do to force the family to go home and the Garden Club lady to not be stuck thinking she lives on the campgrounds?
ETA the 2nd direct question: Is there a debug cheat to move someone into your house whether the game thinks that you should or not?
witch:
Do you have a backup from just before you went on holiday?
Invisigoth:
Quote from: V on 2007 December 03, 04:08:33
ETA the 2nd direct question: Is there a debug cheat to move someone into your house whether the game thinks that you should or not?
Yes; you can select "add neighbor to family" from the tombstone of L&D and then select the name of the missing sim. Or you could use Inge's teleporter shrub.
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