Threee Lakes Hotel ate my sims?
Sagana:
I thought you said somewhere that deleting subhoods doesn't delete sims so is safe to do (maybe in reference to deleting extra Uni hoods)? Not that it would do any good as you'd still have all those extra uni characters, but still not bad? But I'm pretty sure that was pre-BV. Did BV change something or am I misremembering?
Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III:
If I recall, that's true of deleting UNI subhoods if and only if you have another UNI subhood around for the dormies to be shuffled into by the game, or something to that effect. It might be true of BV subhoods and others as well, but definitely only if you have another one. More than likely, though, it's not possible at all.
Charlee:
I had this same problem with one of my own custom-created vacation neighborhoods. It swallowed my very favorite Sim and I couldn't get her back. Being a noob and an Asinine Airhead, I didn't know any better than to follow the same advice from the BBS. I deleted my whole vacation 'hood, and lost HOURS of work I had spent setting it up. But my Sim did appear back at her home lot in the base neighborhood, so I thought it was fixed.
However, when I tried it again I could suddenly enter the lot just fine, but the BV locals started duplicating themselves every day, even though I had installed the BV patch AND the Anti-redundancy Hack. Then at the end of the vacation, the shuttle didn't show up to take the Sim home. I waited a full three Sim days past the end of the vacation, no shuttle. I finally discovered I could have the Sim call for the shuttle, so I tried that. And it still didn't come. I ended up deleting the vacation neighborhood again, just to get my Sim home.
And then, of course, my neighborhood was flooded with duplicate character files.
The ONLY way I finally solved the whole mess was to uninstall and re-install, then install the patch and Anti-redundancy Hack again. Now it seems to be fixed. But that's a pretty drastic step. I hope, for your sake, there's another way. :)
gali:
As almost everybody here is in panic, I decided to test the event myself, choosing quite large neighbourhood (Pleasantview).
My conclusion is, that the "devil is not so scary", and it's not a big grenade - may be a small adding on the "weight".
Phase 1:
The test was done with the Caliente sisters. Nina bought a vacation house in the Three Lakes, and booked a vacation. The cab came normally.
They went to a com lot, and met several people.
After taking a tour, they came back home, and dig for treasures.
At this moment, I saved the game, exited, and decided to delete the hood.
Before deleting the hood, I counted the number of the characters showing in SimPe - 201 characters.
Deleted the vacation hood, and tried to enter Caliente's house. Could enter without any problem. The vacation cab came normally, and they returned home.
Phase 2:
Openned a new vacation hood.
Nina didn't have anymore the ownship on the house. Orderred again to buy a vacation lot, after pasting the packaged previous decorated lot. Orderred to book vacation, the carpool arrived as usual.
Again send them to com lot. New characters appeared.
But known locals, whom the calientes greeted and taked to, from the previous hood, remained and appeared again.
End of Phase 2 - playing chess (I decided to delete again the vacation hood).
Checked SimPe: instead of 201 characters - appeared 221. 20 characters was added, but all their aquaintances appeared.
Phase 3 - deleting vacation hood again
The carpool brought the sims back, no problems.
SimPe - instead of 221 characters - 259 (another 38 characters added).
On two deletions of the vacation hood, were added 58 characters, most of them with user numbers over 180.
The game worked without any problems. After Phase 3, no more characters were added (I use antiredundancy), and stayed on the same number (259).
To save my sims, if I don't have any better solution, it's worth to "pay" 58 characters.
No bugs or errors were encountered in the game, I could enter the old house without using the magic wand (I downloaded it just in case), and the sims kept their new friends met in the vacation.
Now I am ready to be crucified again.
kiki:
Gali, you're forgetting one MAJOR aspect of the test - you didn't do it under the same conditions, with stuck sims like this person had. stuck sims implies there is a bigger underlying issue. so yeah, doing it that way MAY have worked for you, but it's the equivalent of me claiming that I can cure cancer by trimming my fingernails because I don't have any cancer my body right now.
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