Lot Sync Timer: All BlueSoups Suck Edition
gethane:
Does putting this in the downloads folder cause a lot reset?
J. M. Pescado:
No, this is not a global hack and will not reset your game.
Clarina:
Problem.
Yes I'm a noob, but I'm not new to downloading, even mods, it's just I've stayed away from hacks for obvious reasons. I even thought about installing this one for over a week and then I finally got the courage and ended up being so excited that I forgot to back up my game (BIG mistake).
So when I first installed this it erased all info in my families. :o All their personality points were gone, their careers and their relationships were empty and their aspirations are in lowest red. All this before entering one house. I naturally went into a house uninstalled the thing from neighborhood, got rid of the object and now my house catalog in neighborhood window is gone. All the houses, even Maxis, let alone the ones I made or had downloaded. :'( and of course the families are still without their previous lives. So now what? I just screwed up my game for good?
I have no other hacks from anywhere else but at the same time as installing this one I also put in game the telephone hack and the flush toilet hack, both from MATY. I gather those didn't cause such effects.
Any help appreciated, hopefully someone still comes this way.
Clarina
jsalemi:
Well, there's no way this (or the other two you got from here) could have caused the effect you described. It's not a global mod, and has no affect at all unless you add it to a lot and install it for the family.
It sounds like something else got fubared in your system. All empty unplaced lots are stored in the LotCatalog directory and your neighborhoods (lots and families) are in the appropriate sub-directories of the Neighborhoods directory. Both directories are found in your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 directory, which is also where your Downloads go. Look there and see what's in those directories to start finding out what happened.
Clarina:
Thanks! I've actually been at it for about six hours now. As I closed and reopened the game more times enough I got the lots to appear again in the lot catalog. They are all in correct folders in correct places, the files never left. Now the custom neighborhood I was talking about is other wise correct but the families are still friendless, without jobs and in aspiration failure, all of them, including their pets.
Weirdest things are if I remove a lot in that neighborhood to put in the bin it never appears in the bin. Also it was Pleasantview and Strangetown that appeared empty. I never really played Strangetown but in Pleasantview I lost 3 months of game play (I KNOW).
I removed my Sims2 folder and started afresh. Pleasantview appeared fine, when I put lots in, they showed up correctly. When I put characters in, nothing changed, just default characters in fresh install situations and when I swapped the neighborhood.package file to the older one all lots were gone again and the neighborhood seemed empty. :-\
It's just so sad, I went in game again with my own Pleasantview lots, since the characters don't show up it's like they just left, In one house there are still birthday balloons outside and half full pet dish in the kitchen... the kid's bedcovers are crumbled like he just got up... I can almost see their ghosts, it's all ver tragic... :-[
But I never installed the hack in Pleasantview (or Strangetown) only in my custom hood, so yes I guess it wasn't the hack, but I can't think of anything else since I hadn't put in anything else long before those and the families in my custom hood were messed up instantly after getting this hack. So I'm lost... still...
So I wish I knew what went wrong exactly seven hours ago (that's when my neighborhood.package files were last modified) I can't make use of most helpful programs like Clean installer and such because I'm on a Mac... But I'm willing to try most anything :-[
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