Disappearing Gravestones (Cause Finally Discovered)
Ancient Sim:
Well, this problem is worse than I originally realised and it's confined purely to Pleasantview, which makes me think maybe the end has come for that neighbourhood.
I went into the Goth house and every single grave had gone. If there is a new death, the grave stays, but all old graves are going. They're not even there if I go into the lot in build mode. This is something that's happened post-patch, it didn't happen after installing Nightlife. In the case of the Goths, every Sim has lost their character data except Alexander, his wife, and Bella. Their graves are gone, but their files are still intact.
The graves in Gothier Green Lawns are fine, so my current idea (short of resurrecting everyone and getting them eaten by the cowplant, which doesn't produce a death memory) is to move all the families with tombstones out of their lots and rezone them as community, send a family member in to retrieve the gravestones, then make the lot residential again so they can move back in and replace the stones. I just wonder if it's worth it, or if I should just accept that my Pleasantview has succumbed to that big fiery ball.
Ancient Sim:
Have finally cracked it. The lots where the gravestones are vanishing are ones where ghosts were out and about at the time I patched the game. The others are unaffected.
So, those of you with tombstones might find you have the same problem if your ghosts were out when you put the patch on. I am going to have to reinstall NL and get all relevant lots to daytime before re-patching it. What a palaver. And why is it happening anyway? They ought to safeguard against things like this.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 October 20, 22:09:05
Have finally cracked it. The lots where the gravestones are vanishing are ones where ghosts were out and about at the time I patched the game. The others are unaffected.
So, those of you with tombstones might find you have the same problem if your ghosts were out when you put the patch on. I am going to have to reinstall NL and get all relevant lots to daytime before re-patching it. What a palaver. And why is it happening anyway? They ought to safeguard against things like this.
I'm glad you figured out the cause of the problem. There are all sorts of problems like this that occur when patching a game or installing an EP that you'd think they could safeguard against. It seems like the only way to upgrade is to make sure everyone in every house is safely home, no ghosts out, no visitors over, no npcs on your lot, everything put away, etc. :(
witch:
Maybe that's why I rarely seem to have patch or EP install problems with sims. When I play I generally leave the house at 6am, all sims in bed. If not all in bed, there are only 1-2 sims up cooking or studying.
Glad you found that answer Ancient Sim! Even if it is work to get back to where you were. :-\
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