Stupid game. Stupid timing.
SaraMK:
I don't micromanage enough to know exactly when someone is likely to give birth, although I do have Shaklin's medicine cabinet in most houses. Many of my houses have 10 or more sims, so micromanaging is not possible anyway. I usually have a couple of sims I actively manage, and the rest are sort of freerange... I pay attention to them when there's something in it for the sims I care more about. :)
ThyGuy:
I've had this happen before, and if you're fast enough, and have a extra sim, immediately stop time, jump to the idle sim and hit the big red error on all button on Jm's debugger. It will usually postpone the birth for another hour, or the baby will be born with a really odd name that can be changed. Better than the lot barfing because of a fatal error.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2006 August 11, 22:34:22
I was able to move them out from the neighborhood screen and then back in again, but it was the Goth family (Alexander's son, Herman) and I really didn't want to have to replace everything on the lot. I was more willing to replay 3 days in the whole hood than lose everything I had added to the house.
If it's merely a lotstate bug, you can restore only the backup of that specific lot and see if that unjams.
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2006 August 11, 22:34:22
But because of that one time, I have started to back up my hoods after every rotation. (I play each house in a hood for one sim day in each rotation.) I didn't really think about backing up that often before that happened.
Did you get the Lot Sync Timer? That'll help a lot with time tracking. Often times I have something really important ongoing and don't want to just leave after that one day, since I know no other houses connected to that one are going to have a timed event anyway.
ElviraGoth:
I tried using a backup of the lot, but it didn't help. (I may have moved them out and back in before I tried that, I don't recall now.) Tried several things before resorting to an old backup, actually.
But my Pleasantviews aren't really heavily populated, so it doesn't take that long to play one rotation. I can usually get through one day and one UNI year in a few hours of play in that particular hood. It was a bit of a pain, but I learned a lesson from it, so it was probably a good thing - for me - in the long run. Probably the only thing that was annoying was having to get Cassandra out of the house again. Her and Lucy (nee Burb) are really annoying together as elders! (Never, ever, resurrect Cassandra!)
I've thought about using the lot sync timer, but I'm trying to keep myself restricted to one day in each residence in the hood anyway, so I don't have to do more than one year in each dorm/residence at UNI at a time. (I have the buyable career rewards on my UNI lots, so I have all my YAs who haven't gotten all their skills maxed work on their skills there, or else I'd probably use rampage to speed up things there. As it is, I put them on speed 2 so the time there goes faster.)
But if something like this should happen in my main hood, I'll definitely refer back to this thread for all the pointers everyone's listed! I have too many sims/houses there to want to go to an old backup of that one. I keep expected it to go nuclear at any time, but it keeps chugging along. Probably all the great hacks/mods I got from here that keep it going.
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