Feel free to call me an idiot
laraamber:
Okay, I'm a complete newbie at this site, and I tried to do a search for an answer, but felt like I was in one of those conversations where one person is speaking English and the other person is responded in a foreign language. So please, no acronyms and type slow. I have no idea how to use any of the programs other then the game. So instructions would have to be like you're explaining to your grandmother how to send an email. Feel free to heap invectives on my head.
My setup: I have every expansion and stuff pack for Sims 2 (except holiday), the only custom content is Maxis made & the extra goodies for pre-ordering, my computer runs Window Vista and is a home built gaming rig. I've never packaged anything, moved anything across neighborhoods, or anything else beyond play the game. I do use cheat codes, usually when building.
My history: I play Riverblossom Hills extensively. Back when I started the neighborhood I deleted most of the families and houses, but kept a few around that sorta matched my ideas for the neighborhood: McGreggor, Larson, OMackey, and Roth. I also deleted all the bin families. The McGreggors and OMackeys get played and I'm on my 4/5th generation of them and my created families (so I really don't want to start over and lose everything). I left the Larson and Roth families alone but allowed them to be friends with my characters. When I started the McGreggor's Farmer's Market, Jodi got hired as an employee. Well later I decided to delete the Larson and Roth families. Apparently that was bad, and instead I should have passed out the special kool-aid to all my unwanted neighbors.
My problems:
1. My toddlers & children have lifetime wants. Apparently that's not a "feature" of Apartment Life.
2. I have children who have reached permanent platinum without doing anything special. Is that normal?
3. Jodi is still listed as an employee of the Farmer's Market. Too bad she doesn't show up to work.
My game is still workable and most of my other problems that frustrated me disappeared in the last patch for AL. These still remain, so I believe it may have been what I did vs. the code monkeys at EA.
Any suggestions?
Lara Amber
Darby:
LTWs in toddlers and children is a common sign of the type of neighborhood corruption that results from using the occupied lot bin, downloading occupied lots, and deleting sims. Nothing you can do to fix it, as far as I know. If neighborhood corruption is the problem, deleting the 'hood is will almost certainly be necessary.
J. M. Pescado:
Your game a splode!
toad:
You can learn to extract the sims that you're working with, if you're attached to them. However, they won't be the same.
Deleting sims is a bad idea unless you use the technique on this site (Deleted 2: Electric Boogaloo!). That might be a bad idea too, but because it's from Pescado, I choose to think it's less bad.
Marhis:
Quote from: laraamber on 2008 November 19, 00:46:09
(...) I deleted most of the families and houses, (...) I also deleted all the bin families. (...) Well later I decided to delete the Larson and Roth families.
cuts and bold by me
Well... I'm sorry to say that these actions were precisely what pretty much ruined your neighborhood.
Deleting sims and families does not really make them vanish from the game, because a part of them still remains hidden in your files, and messes up all the other sims that will follow. As an example, dangling wants&fears resources left behind by "deleted" sims sooner or later will become part of a newly generated sim... here you are the toddlers with weird wants and so on.
And this is only the top of the iceberg :/
I'm afraid to say your hood is beyond repair, now.
I don't blame you, though: you simply did what the game suggests as a regular move. The fact that this completely destroys your game, instead, speaks volumes about EAxis skills.
Don't want/care/whatev develop your game basis better? Fine, but for heaven's sake, don't label the Big Red Button "please push me"!
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