The Case of the Tree Breaks and the Missing Portals
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I'll accept the apology, but having said that, I know that reinstalling usually works for me if nothing else does.
gali:
"Solution: bulldoze the lot and play the family elsewhere in the neighborhood.
It is disturbing, however, to think that either some code somewhere in the game is deleting random objects or that the game itself is failing to load them for some mysterious reason. If anyone has a clue to "who dunnit", I would certainly like to know." (dizzy-two)
Well, you've got the solution, as you wrote. (play elsewhere in the neighbourhood)
Who did it? You did it! - if the minivan stood on a portal, and you deleted it with moveobjects on - you deleted the portal too. This lot is already corrupted, and even buldozing it won't help.
I remember deleting by mistake the mail box in TS1, at Goth family - If you remember, they lived on a hill, and to make easier for them, I moved the mail box near the door. Then by mistake I deleted it. Nothing helped anymore until I moved the family to another lot - the Goth's lot remained all the time without a mail box.
In the future, I would use Inge's teleporter to delete cars (mainly). When some car is nagging you, just "clear all visitors" - you won't have a maid this day, because she will vanish with the car - but she will come the next day as usual. I do it many times when the nanny doesn't leave. It's much more safer that moveobjects on.
Ancient Sim:
I've had this tree error thing a few times. The only thing that gets rid of it when the box pops-up is "delete", it just keeps coming back if I hit reset or cancel. I went into a lot today oddly enough and got an error then about the maid's van which I think was one of these. It was a lot I hadn't played since I reinstalled some time ago and as it was 10.30 the maid had obviously just arrived. In the end I clicked delete (the car wasn't actually on the lot, but the maid was) and after wondering what was going on for a while, the maid walked off the lot without working.
As for this:Quote from: dizzy-two on 2005 August 05, 23:19:50
I suspect 90% of tech support calls are resolved when they ask them this vital question: "Is the machine plugged in?"
This reminds me of when I was first married and just moved into my first marital home. My (then) husband had gone to work and I had the day off. I spent ages trying to get the tv to work, but in the end had to walk for about 10 mins to the nearest phonebox to call him at work. He said he would ring the tv repair people, so I went home to wait. I then discovered the problem and legged it back to the phonebox. When he came home from work he told me that the repair place was used to calls from idiots who didn't bother to check whether their tv was actually plugged into the wall socket before reporting it broken and apparently they were "all women". HMPH.
dizzy:
Quote from: gali on 2005 August 06, 01:34:34
Who did it? You did it! - if the minivan stood on a portal, and you deleted it with moveobjects on - you deleted the portal too. This lot is already corrupted, and even buldozing it won't help.
The fact is, I only received this error because the portal was not there in the first place. The delete only resolved the issue of the car not appearing.
Actually, you may be partly correct. I may have accidentally deleted the portal at some point. As for bulldozing, that always works. Bulldozing has cured every single problem I've ever had with my lots.
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, obviously it would, since you then have to put in a new, uncorrupted lot.
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