Most bizarre problem of the day?
skandelouslala:
Quote from: Andygal on 2005 November 14, 18:19:24
sounds like you have a broken portal. Somebody made something to fix the problem and Crammyboy made a hack to stop it from happening again. You can get both at MTS2. Crammyboy's fix isn't here because the problem was fixed by Maxis with NL but since you don't have NL you will have to go and find it.
Yup second that. Crammyboys fix for it works great!
Zeljka:
Yes, I had a similar problem (except they were invisible) I used Inge's shrub to delete them, 'boolprop testingcheatsenabled true' to find which portal was missing - and crammyboy's portal replacement to fix it.
I know it's wrong, but I just best guessed it, so the vehicles show up a bit on the lawn, but it fixed the problem without losing the lot so I really didn't care.
Dismissed them, waited for them to leave and saved.
Now all is well.
ZephyrZodiac:
You could always cheat a bit on your lot by putting a pavement (sidewalk) on the lawn and putting some more tarmac down where the cars go!
baratron:
Late though I am - you have a missing portal, and need Crammyboy's Portal Fix.
I know someone who was writing a Legacy over at the TSR Forum had this problem (she had 300 gardeners, iirc) and it helped her.
What happens is that there's a bug in the original game where replacing a book in the bookshelf, rather than just deleting the book object, actually deletes the portal where NPCs leave from. So they come into the lot and can't leave, so the game thinks they're not there, and makes another. Etc. Until your game is so over-run by gardeners or delivery people that it grinds to a halt.
Rascal:
I very recently had something similar to this happen to me. In my case it happened when the game crashed and at first I was so focussed on that being the problem that I didn't think of anything else. I ended up with countless repairmen, most of whom were invisiable. Thanks to Myth I managed to get the problem largely sorted - read this thread -http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=caa812d0efc0497690765dbfac607bb2;topic=1249.0 for all Myth's great advice. I installed crammyboys portalfix and also tried to replace the missing portal but for some reason I don't seem to have one. No error log is generated in the lot. I still have to get rid of excess repairmen occasionally and I am currently experimenting with another hack from MTS2 that may let me re-generate my ghosts on a new lot. If I can get that to work I think I will buldoze my original lot after all. For what its worth the best solution may be to trash the lot and start again. Oh - and put in crammyboys fix as hopefully it will stop it happening again.
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