90% of Sunset Valley lots gone after returning from vacation.
Inge:
One theory I have about the missing lots is that there is no direct connection between which lots are missing and which ones have a problem. It may be that the lots load one by one, and as soon as the problem is encountered, lot loading is hallted. Assuming the order lots are loaded in is not just random, then ones nearer the end of the loading sequence will be far more likely to be missing in any error situation.
I know people have tried getting rid of their cc and it has not made those lots come back, but has anyone tried making a note of the lot containing the bad cc and somehow deleting or bulldozing that, and see if the other lots come back? They may have been sitting there safely on disk and simply unable to load.
Tingeling:
When I first encountered the problem I had patched all the way up to WA thus making my game version 2.2. I had just reinstalled both The Sims 3 and WA and because of difficulties in making the launcher work, I had taken out my DCBackup folder from before reinstalling and reinserted it in the newly installed game by taking out the contents in the DCBackup folder and putting it into the mods/packages folder. I started the game up, loading a new game and got blue lots everywhere. By doing the binary search I found the culprit and deleted the bad cc, as I think I have told before. When I started the new game that originally had blue lots, the issue was gone. I am wondering if it can have something to do with the fact that I did not save my game upon finding out there was blue lots in it? Therefor, by not saving, you can avoid blowing up the new save game. I haven't tried loading any of my old saves yet, since I want to make sure the game is stable enough for them not to break.
nanacake:
Quote from: Inge on 2009 December 04, 07:50:37
I know people have tried getting rid of their cc and it has not made those lots come back, but has anyone tried making a note of the lot containing the bad cc and somehow deleting or bulldozing that, and see if the other lots come back? They may have been sitting there safely on disk and simply unable to load.
I thought of bulldozing the blue lot, but it did not allow that option any longer. It did not have ANY options actually :/ It is like you said too though, once the corrupted lot loads, the rest halt and become blue as well. None of my community lots were ever blue lots, only the residential.
Quote from: Tingeling on 2009 December 04, 08:32:05
Therefor, by not saving, you can avoid blowing up the new save game. I haven't tried loading any of my old saves yet, since I want to make sure the game is stable enpugh for them not to break.
If you had an old save pre-patch it will load up fine again with the removed downloaded content. The exception is if the hood was using AM at all, I found that any of my old saved games that used AM prior to the 1.7 patch was FUBAR. After a little while of playing with the new AM (never had loaded the save without some version of AM running) with only EA store content, the hood turned blue lots and some irreversible other borked things happened (sims floating by their house, error messages). So if you have an AM save that is still loading for you at this point, I recommend saving any sims to bin that you care for using editsim just incase things get bad soon. YMMV
Slymenstra:
Just a FYI lemoncandy over at MTS fixed her plants. So go redownload them!!
Barbara Walters:
Quote from: Tingeling on 2009 December 04, 08:32:05
By doing the binary search I found the culprit and deleted the bad cc, as I think I have told before.
What do you mean by a binary search?
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