90% of Sunset Valley lots gone after returning from vacation.
Death-Jester:
I have this exact same problem.
At first, I thought it was a conflict with AwesomeMod, because I was playing an old Sim which was using AM before the expansion came out.
But now it's happening to my newly created Sim too :(
Everything as fine yesterday, I played the sim a lot, got most of his skills to max, and then decided to build him a new house. I moved him into an empty lot, and built him a big house, fully furnished. I had not sent him on vacation yet.
Only then did I notice that the house next door to my new pad was a blue square in the world. Going into map view shows the same problem on most of my houses, a quite a few of the rabbitholes/parks. This is Sunset Valley by the way.
I tried moving my Mods folder, and deleting all cache files. I also moved my Downloads and DCCache folders, and tried reinstalling the mods in the downloads folder through the launcher. Nothing worked.
Until there is a solution, I think I'm stuck on this game - there is no point making yet another sim if it'll only end up happening again.
Cerridwen:
OK, I'm starting to get pissed off.
I played for several hours with my new Sunset Valley, loaded different families, sent some on vacation, and no blue lots. Thought my issue was resolved. Saved my Kent family after returning from France, checking to make sure no lots were blue. Then loaded the Single Moms family, redecorated their house, gave them makeovers, played them for a while, did not send them on vacation as they are broke. Checked to make sure there were no blue lots, saved and quit.
Loaded up the game today, entered the SingleMom's saved game and entered to find 90% of the lots blue. Backed out, restored the save where I was in the Kent household and the game was fine.
Decided to delete yet again, all my cache files, reinstalled everything via the launcher, tried to load the SingleMom saved game. All blue lots. I just can not seem to figure this out.
What is scary is that the game looked fine when I saved it, but upon re-entering it was totally borked.
I'm trying figure out what I might have done between the Kent save and the Single Mom save that would have caused this. The only thing I can come up with is that I did do a save on a color combination in CAS on a custom lipstick. I'm thinking that may have possibly done it.
I will now test this and report back.
REPORT - I have saved a color combination on a custom lipstick, restarted the game and am not getting the blue lots.
Death-Jester:
It seems there are people on the official forums with the same problem, and it sounds like it's a problem with the new patch. I suspect we'll have to wait for EA to admit their mistake, get their thumbs out of their arses, and sort it out.
Slymenstra:
Blue lots are showing up for me now all the time. The game looks good as I am playing then I save and then quit, and when I reload it the town is blue pools.
I am still deleting things and reinstalling things to see if anything helps. At least it gives me something to do until Awesome Mod is upgraded...ugh I hate The Sims bugginess.
EDITED TO ADD:
Something I just noticed. The saves that are fucked up ALL created backup saves. The ones that work did not make backup saves. I don't know if that means anything, but just something I noticed. Anyone else see that happening?
Another EDIT:
I think we have to chose SAVE AS and rename the file totally different from now on until they fix saving. Doing SAVE or even SAVE AS and writing over the previous save corrupts the save and creates a backup file.
So I am going to try SAVE AS - new name each time and see what happens. So far so good.
Death-Jester:
Let us know how you get on. I've been using Save As on this Sim since I made him, using the format "SimName Save 1", then "SimName Save 2", to create some redundancy in case of a problem. Unfortunately both saves have the blue box problems. The only save on this sim I have now that isn't messed up is from so long ago I can't be bothered loading it up unless I know for certain it's going to work.
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