EDIT: Futher FUBAR. Damn, EA. You really fail this time.
eevilcat:
I was going to tag this post onto the end of my borked phones thread as I've had the exact same thing happen again today with my newly restarted legacy and it looks to be the same problem.
As before I dealt with all the homeless families using 'runstoryaction Move In Household', but this time at the start and the game seemed to play fine for several hours. I then checked for and rehomed 3 more homeless families that had materialised (presumably one family for each career in the legacy household). Shortly thereafter the legacy spouse got promoted to the top of the athletic career and coincidentally the whole UI/contacts interface was FUBARed with the game unable to resolve his contacts (all/work) and left clicking on a sim in the UI to select them also stopped working. Selecting a sim by right clicking them in the game still worked and the UI could resolve the show family filter on the spouse contacts so household members were ok. Trying to have the spouse phone a sim to chat/invite over resulted in an error similar to yesterday but other sims could use their phones okay. I'm running the latest awesomemod and the only other mods I have are: HP's detailed male/female skins, no mosaic and the peen meshes for adult/elder males.
This has been the second showstopper/probable BFBVFS in 2 days so I'd like to get to the bottom of it. Deleting townies might solve the resulting problem but that's like taking a sledgehammer to crack a tiny nut; I'd rather it was fixed at source. (Pescado - I can upload the whole save game if that helps.)
Doc Doofus:
I've had this happen twice now, and both times after runstoryaction, which may be a total coincidence because the sims borked weren't the just-moved-in ones.
My take: It's best to just quit and NOT SAVE as soon as you see this happen. It seems to get bad really after you get the red square problem. Don't risk contaminating a save.
crunk:
I had the same thing happen, after using the runstoryaction Move In Household cheat, in my legacy hood. Solved it by binning the legacy family and house and moving them to a new hood. Of course, this probably borked it as well, but I haven't had any problems.
Zazazu:
I've used that cheat many, many, many times and have not had any instance of the issue in this neighborhood. I did have it in another well before I discovered the cheat. I think it's a much more wide-spread problem, or caused by something unrelated.
TrueLou:
I have never used the run story action cheat and have still witnessed the red square in my game. In my instance I knew that the red square was a baby of a townie who merged along with his fiancee into the Crumplebottom house, as his baby had disappeared from the left thumbnails. I could play the household by using the select cheat but could not load the house from the hood, as long as I didn't click on the red square I could play the house fine, but I could not merge or split the household, I came to the conclusion that I could either leave all househeld members there and let them grow old and die there then bulldoze the house or start all over again. I believe the red square issue arose from files corrupting when the household merged. I am almost sure I did not have awesomemod installed when this family merged so I don't believe it is at fault, I think there will always be a chance of it happening whenever a households members alter in number.
This is a game breaker and I really don't know where to begin in finding the cause, I'm hoping someone comes up with an explanation/resolution or it will always eventually make the game unplayable.
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