Sims won't interact & no skill books
jwaas:
Sorry to interrupt, but I actually might have another bit of information to add.
Quote from: cheesetastic on 2010 April 21, 15:27:53
My second problem is that all of a sudden I can no longer buy skill books at the library when I have the faster skills mod from MTS. I haven't downloaded a new version of it or anything, I have the one that was made back when 1.7.9 was the latest patch. Can mods like this become outdated somehow? I know that this is the mod that caused the problem because it's the only thing I removed, then the books were back.
The answer to this question is an unqualified "yes." I once had an old book-affecting mod installed, patched the base game and WA, stupidly forgot to remove my mods, and started my game up. While the bookcases at home were fine, all bookcases in China were empty. I went through, found this mod, uttered several unrepeatable phrases under my breath, and removed it. The books did not return to Chinese bookcases.
I started up a fresh instance of Egypt from within that same game, with the mod removed. The bookcases there were fine. Quit without saving.
Then I put that mod back in, started up a fresh instance of Egypt from within that same game, and the Egyptian bookcases were then broken just like the Chinese ones. Quit without saving, then removed the mod again.
No matter what I did, including following all the advice I could find here and elsewhere, I could not get the books to return to the Chinese bookcases, even after removing the mod. So it seems to be possible for an outdated mod to change something permanently within a game save, like The_Goddess is talking about. I'm going to guess that this is what has happened in your case, though I've never heard of such a severe reaction as all Sim interactions being killed.
cheesetastic:
The really weird thing about my experience is that I didn't patch or anything. It shouldn't just stop working all of a sudden, I have the correct version of it. You wouldn't think a mod would magically change in my folder to a higher version, would it? That's the only thing I can think of (which is completely ridiculous). I downloaded the skill book mod when the highest patch was 1.7.9, which is my game version.
But since reinstalling, all the mods are back in, including the skill mod. Everything works fine. It must have been something else. I guess I'll never know.
friendlyquark:
The Goddess is correct. The game gets weird sometimes. I think there is a core instability somewhere in the code. If you get too far with a family, a few generations along, it will start to spawn errors all over the place, even if you are playing a relatively simple game (one family, no foreign travel, etc). Saving multiple backups of your game is critical, because you never know when it will turn into a BFBVFS. It just goes ka-blooey for no apparent reason..
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