Deleted Sim on Business Lot
kamieke:
After spending the morning spewing various expletives and growling at small children requesting an ETA on lunch, I have finally decided that I must come out of an 8-month-long lurking, and ask for some assistance. I have read the FAQ, searched here and elsewhere (ya, right) for a solution, but of course still invite all to come and gawk at my idiocy.
My sim owns a community lot. She is the only sim in the family. She was at the lot and the business was closed as I was building the store. I came out of build mode at one point and received an error message. (I had boolprop testingcheatsenabled set to true at that point.) I figured it was caused by one of the C.C. items I had placed, and so I hit reset. The message returned immediately, and I hit reset again. Due to several innate character flaws, when the message immediately popped up a third time I hit the "delete" button (which I know is wrong, wrong, wrong) and figured it would simply delete the offending item. The offending item turned out to be my sim, and she vanished, along with the live mode option.
I did try quitting and returning to the lot, hoping she'd simply reappear. No such luck. I went back to her house, and was simply redirected to the lot, where again, I have build and buy modes available but no live play mode, and no sim. I know deleting sims is a VBT. I would like to salvage the lot, even more than the sim herself, but my main goal at this point is to avoid a BFBVFS.
Please let me know if any other details are required. Thank you, and if among any objects thrown you could include some food items, my neglected groveling rugrats would be appreciative.
Zazazu:
This has happened to me.
Basically, you'll need to use some sort of teleporter object from another lot to summon the lost sim. Move the sim in. Then move them out and back to their own home. Sell the community lot back. Rebuild elsewhere. As far as I can recall, I was unable to delete the original business lot.
FYI, the "never delete sim" rule you are thinking of refers to deleting their character file from My Documents.
kamieke:
Aha. I wasn't aware the teleporter shrub could also be used to "move in" summoned sims. It worked perfectly. Many thanks and cookies, gourd-sporting bunny.
J. M. Pescado:
Have you tried simply using the Magic Wand? There is no need to resort to destructive operations without first trying the Magic Wand, which is specifically made to fix such cases.
kamieke:
Okay, first I need to retract my "It worked perfectly" statement. The only problem I have found thus far is that while I can enter the lot to continue building, I no longer have the option to "package" the lot. Seeing as how I am constantly pushing the game to places it doesn't want to go, I know I will asplode it sooner or later -- packaging lots to reincarnate in future neighbourhoods is a must.
As for the magic wand, I'm really not sure how I missed that. I'm such a hack-whore, and it looks sounds so mysterious and shiny. I backed up my game AGAIN, (ya I tend to do that a lot AFTER my stupid mistakes) and then used the back up prior to Zazazu's suggestion. (Still with me? So now I'm playing the game where my missing sim is still missing, and borkage is still borkage.) I used the wand on the lot. No change. I believe the lights turned on (literally, unfortunately not figuratively) but other than that no discernible change; no sim; no live mode enabled. I even waved the thing around, seeing as how I'd hate for someone to ask, "but did you wave it around?". I tried waving, deleting, saving to neighbourhood screen and returning. I then tried setting it gently on the rooftop, saving to the neighbourhood screen, and returning.
So I tried "simply" using the magic wand. Is there a non-simple method?
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