90% of Sunset Valley lots gone after returning from vacation.
Sigmund:
Quote from: mizzroyalty on 2009 December 10, 07:20:47
Well that retarded advice came from the good folks at EA. My friend was having the problem and after doing it the blue lots have not returned to their pc.
As i said i do not experience this problem....... The only reason i took the time to post all of that here is to try and help, no one said it was correct and no one said to try it
Um, no, you came out and directly stated that following your steps will fix blue lots:
Quote from: mizzroyalty on 2009 December 10, 07:20:47
At this point your game would work perfectly.
EAxis is known for giving bad advice. If you're passing along advice from their "support" team, always mention that up front.
goyahaslegs:
The weird thing about my vacation destinations is that all the community lots and locals houses are the blue lots. I never edited them in anyway. The vacation homes sims can buy are always fine. I did buy vacation houses and changed them around a bit but was careful with using no cc. Regardless, thank you slymenstra for the advice which I'll follow and see what happens.
Tingeling:
Update on the blue lot issue:
After having done the hackdance today I tracked the culprit causing the blue lots in my hood down to this file: 0xd535a1c25e231c854401ac15e7ae1bb2.package
The funny thing is that it was one file from the Riverview bundle. That is, one of the files installed when installing the neighbourhood Riverview. Taking out that file removed the blue lot issue. I have yet to find out what it does to the game in terms of gamepley though. If anyone else does a search for the same file and it is corrupt, I suppose we can conclude that EA is a dipshit hoebag for not checking their own content before creating a patch.
BTW, for anyone who does not know where to find the file, check under My Documents/Electronic Arts/DCBackup, and only if you have installed Riverview.
Edit: Ok, so I sent a sim from a newly created game off to vacation. His home is located in Riverview and after removing the bad file, some glitches showed up. The sims names and houses looks like World/Riverview/Sims: Name/World Riverview Sims:Last Name for instance. I suppose that has something to do with the fact that a large part of the original file has been removed. Either way, Riverview is banned from my game for the time being. There were no blue lots to be found however, in China nor in Riverview. I only played for a few minutes, enough to check the blue lot issue, so I have no idéa what the long-term consequences are for deleting the file.
Inge:
Tingeling, please be aware that losing blue lots does not necessarily mean you are free of problem content. The error in s3oc went across *all* content that contains a TXCT. Even those that didn't cause bluelotting are/were broken and will almost certainly be a ticking timebomb. Please check and fix *all* your custom game content.
Tingeling:
Ha! Serves me right for not reading up thread. Ah well, best be off and fix those files then.
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