90% of Sunset Valley lots gone after returning from vacation.
Slymenstra:
Well after HOURS of going through my CC I have narrowed it down to Lemoncandy's various clutter/plants etc. I still need to now go through these items to see what one. I have 76 Lemoncandy items to check.
What I did was took everything out of my Mods folder. Created a new town, moved in my people from the library into a newbie house and then edited town, added my premade house onto a lot, and then reentered my new people, had them "move" with the phone to this new house. Before I ALWAYS got blue lots. With no mods I can save with no blue lots. With all my mods, blue lots. So I started section by section removing them. FINALLY it appears to be a file from Lemoncandy. Without those items but everything else I can save with no blue lots.
Of course this means CC you may have but I don't, can be the cause too. So try to go through the CC and see.
It's late and time for bed, so I will have to go through Lemoncandy's files tomorrow. But some of them are extracted items, so maybe they are conflicting.
My files all start with lemonc_
I really do hope this is the cause, since it can be fixed!
shadow:
I have blue lots after a save. I do not have WA but I do have the latest patch 1.7. I have the additional problem of at least one sim in each house freezes soon after entering that house or one is frozen all ready when the house is entered. They don't unfreeze. I do have the latest of Tallwan's super computer, career mod and story progression but, of course, no AM. The one house that has a child and toddler, the new interactions do not work. I do have quite a few lemoncandy items. I'll remove those and see what happens. Why can't EA do things right? They have to patch a patch! ::) I thought patches were supposed to fix things not break them. >:(
Cerridwen:
OMG slymenstra, you may be on to something. I also am obsessed with LemonCandys plants and clutter. Try the plants i think first. I'm pretty sure the last blue lot save I had placed one of her floor plants that was extracted from Sims 2, the fig tree floor plant maybe? in one of my houses just before I got a blue lot save, after having many saves before that with no problem.
I had eleminated about 3/4's of my CC (obscure creators, hack/mods) but had kept her stuff in because she was such a "known" creator and has such quality work. Plus I love it to death.
I also had some clutter from BabaYaga that I believe they extracted from sims 2 as well. Or at least it looks like it came directly from Sims 2.
I also need to go to bed now but will start testing this after work tommorrow.
Shadow - if this is indeed a problem with CC files it is not (in this single case) EA's fault. There are plenty of things you can blame them for, but this may not be one of them.
YES! YES! YES! YES! It's lemoncandy's files. I put ONLY Lemoncandy's stuff in game. Launched it, everything was fine. Edited a house.. added plants, changed colors .. did everything BUT place one of lemoncandy's plants. Saved and exited. Reentered the game and it was fine. Then I placed a single lemoncandy plant. The fig tree that has the description "From Sims 2.". I did nothing else. I saved and Quit, reentered and BLUE LOTS. I've never been so happy to see a blue lot. I'm now going to start retesting all my other CC, but I think that's it. I too am wondering if any object regardless of creator, could cause the blue lot issue if they were extracted from the Sims 2.
Update- I place the following CC into a house, saved and exited and returned to an OK game
TS2toTS3Converswion_HolySimolyAmaranteLoungeSuite- includes chair, loveseat and sofa - from Club Crymson
MTS_HugeLunatic_1025062_HL_KarlstadSeating- includes chair,loveseat and sofa from MTS
MTS_Menaceman44_1027305_MM_PlainBlinds - single tile and two-tile blinds - from MTS
Xerendipity_FantasySwirl- coffee table from Sim National
Xerendipity_Bathtub+Japanese
Xerendipity_Romantic Tub - both baths from Sim National
All were able to be placed on a lot and saved with no blue lots.
I will start a post in the "good CC" thread as I continue to test.
Death-Jester:
I too had lots of Lemoncandy's plant mods. I have removed them all, and I'll see if it fixes it at all.
Edit:
*Sigh* no luck I'm afraid. I took out all of the Lemoncandy mods I had, started a new game, and moved my sim + house into the new town.
Everything seemed fine for quite a while, I was using my normal method of 2 saves, and switching between them. But then , when building a swimming pool, I noticed that the placement was acting up a bit (the pool ladder would not be placed correctly, and the pool floor decoration vanished when I tried to place it in the pool). I saved on a completely new save, and exited the game.
When I loaded up, all 3 saves (my normal 2 and the last individual save I made) had the blue box error.
Now I'm faced with 2 choices - keep going in this broken town, or move and once again lose all my relationships.
None of the saves have .backup or .bad files or folders.
shadow:
Quote from: Cerridwen on 2009 November 20, 06:40:25
Shadow - if this is indeed a problem with CC files it is not (in this single case) EA's fault. There are plenty of things you can blame them for, but this may not be one of them.
CC may be the problem now but the CC worked before the patch and now it doesn't. The patch screwed up the CC; the CC did not screw up the patch.
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