is there a way to figure out exact cause of lot crashing?
J. M. Pescado:
If you are stuck due to conventional phone calls, you may wish to try the cellphonerst package available here. Note that this package is both extremely circumstantial and NOT to be left in your game: Install it, enter the lot and see if you successfully load, and if so, save, quit, remove. Do not leave it in: It is designed to intentionally break your game in a more controlled manner.
C.S.:
Oh crap, now I'm having the same problem. I had a servo with max cooking skills wanting to learn how to make lobster thermidor among other things, she could make the other dishes just fine but starts a fire every time when it comes to the dang lobster meal. I finally got disgusted after the 4th successive fire, turned on the 'dormtools' and 'moveobjects' cheat, deleted the flaming cooking stove and exited without saving. In my haste and annoyance, I forgot to check if anyone on the lot was on the phones. Today when I tried to re-enter the lot, the game crashes with every attempt. I've tried the method of entering the problem lot from another lot as mentioned above by rainbow and also with the cellphonerst package in my Downloads folder but no luck.
There were stuffs on that lot I don't wanna lose, such as the silly business awards for one, but I'm screwed, aren't I? :(
J. M. Pescado:
If you were using the AutoYak to place your phone calls instead, remove it and load the lot to force a reset, then save/quit/put it back. Cellphonerst resets for standard "Call Sim". If you know what you were DOING with the phone, I might be able to extend the reset to that calltype also.
C.S.:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 April 30, 19:28:27
If you know what you were DOING with the phone, I might be able to extend the reset to that calltype also.
Unfortunately for me, I don't know :P. I had wanted 2 sims on that lot to manage groups that night 'cos I was planning on taking them out to the community lots on group outings. I remember after clearing their queues I paused and saved the game. Now, I can't recall exactly if I had queued up the manage groups commands as well before saving, but that shouldn't fubar the lot as long as the game wasn't saved while a cell phone was in use, should it? So then I un-paused, the sims managed their groups, servo started a fire, then another and another, I deleted the flaming stove on the 4th and quit the game without saving, from then on I couldn't enter the lot. I wasn't sure if those 2 sims who managed groups were in the act of answering their cell phones when I quit. The next day I started the game, I was expecting it to load at the point of save but it crashes instead.
I hadn't patched the game at that point, but did after trying the methods mentioned and the load won't load. I was hoping installing the patch might reset something but it didn't. I ended up moving the occupants out and when I tried entering the empty lot, it still crashes. I'm not sure what the hell happened. That lot has since been bulldozed. :P
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