yeah... I broke it. Apartments are FUBAR.
lurklurklurk:
Hello. This is my first post; I have read the FAQ. I've been lurking for a couple of weeks.
What happens is this:
I move in one of my cute little families into an apartment, rent one, play for a while, then save and quit. When I come back later, all of their furniture disappears and the door says "vacant". They are still doing what ever they were doing when they left, sitting on invisible chairs, playing with invisible xylophones, ect. So I exit without saving.
I dragged my downloads folder to the desktop and tried playing. I moved someone in, rented an apartment, saved and went to the neighborhood, and when I came back behold! They still had their stuff. Hallelujah.
So I decided that maybe I had some outdated hacks or something. So I went to ffs/al/hacks/ and picked out some of my favorites, put them in a new downloads folder. Now my only hacks are ffs.
I tried to play my favorite family and they were "evicted" again.
I figure that one of these things is going on:
1) One of the ffs hacks is messing it up (please don't hurt me)
2) something to do with exiting the game and reentering it mess things up, because when I got it to work, I only went to the neighoboorhood screen.
3) My game is fucked because I am stupid, I've done stupid things before I new better like deleting people from the sim bin and other things the EvilAxis lets you believe is ok but really isn't...
What should I do? Thank you for your help.
dragoness:
Just to clarify...
You took out everything and tried a different family to see if it worked? Did you try the broken family with no downloads in?
kutto:
If you're concerned that the neighborhood is causing the problem, try setting up an apartment in a fresh custom hood.
J. M. Pescado:
Alll of these issues involving "sims that vanish" and stuff like this sound like "incomplete save" issues, where for some reason the game is not able to properly write part of your save data, resulting in dangling character files and failure to save lot state. Make sure you are not doing anything dumb, like trying to play the game with SimPE holding your neighborhood open. For some reason SimPE is stupid and locks all the files.
SJActress:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 October 15, 11:20:03
Alll of these issues involving "sims that vanish" and stuff like this sound like "incomplete save" issues, where for some reason the game is not able to properly write part of your save data, resulting in dangling character files and failure to save lot state.
I haven't had this happen...yet...but is there a way to know if the save is complete or not? I usually Save and then Exit, as opposed to Exit and Save on prompt. Is there anything one should be looking for during this process, or do we just have to hope and pray that it saved properly?
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