So what's been fixed in NL
MaxoidTom:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 September 13, 20:46:57
Tom: The missing icon bug is caused by the objects.package from the University CD (not the one from the TS2 CD) getting corrupted somehow. Copying that file from the CD compressed.zip file on the CD to Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 University\TSData\Res\Objects does fix the problem. I don't know if that file is supposed to be modified ever or not, but I noticed when it gets corrupted it does have a later modified date and different file size than the one on the CD.
Some people have connected this bug to the remote controlled car and I think the objects.package file references it so I suppose it's possible. Basically the symptoms are that your icons dissappear and end up blank without pictures and when the sims come home their promotions don't get registered and they don't seem to get their pay either. There's been a lot of discussion about it on MTS2, some here, and I would imagine on the BBS. Some people, like myself, have had this bug numerous times, others never have so it seems to be related to how people play the game, like perhaps some people use the remote controlled car and others don't.
Yes, we have fixed this in the Uni and Nightlife patches. It is related to the rc car being in use on save/reload.
HRH Posie:
Quote from: HatedMaxoid on 2005 September 13, 20:45:46
I'm having someone look at the College want (it may have been fixed, but investigating).
Thanks very much.
I do understand about the memories however I have been concerned as they count towards the overall character count. It is good to know that you have increased the max iterations in Nightlife however I think I'll stick to keeping my families in one place ;)
nectere:
I have flat out lost my icons on numerous occasions, without playing with the remote control car.
I have two missing icon issues, the first baffling one is all the catalogue icons went missing, they were just gone, I couldn't buy anything at all. I ended up having to bulldoze the lot after the third or fourth issue (unrelated) arose. The second is the want icons go missing from time to time and I will have maybe one or two wants and the rest are blank. This occurs quite often.
Unrelated and other issues...
Lots sometimes just get corrupted, ghosts get stuck in chairs or whatnot, items are suddenly in use when they are not, areas of the house or lot become unusable or warped (evidenced by using the level tool).
Sometimes for whatever reason NPCs in play or townies cannot change their appearance and their offspring cause birth crashes. (I have only had this happen a couple of times thankfully) Meaning that when the mother goes into labor the game crashes, there is no way to salvage it short of aborted the pregnancy through simpe, but it wont stop additional pregnancies from crashing when related to the affected NPC or townie, its as if dna strings are missing or something. I have no idea.
MaxoidTom:
Quote from: nectere on 2005 September 13, 20:55:10
I have flat out lost my icons on numerous occasions, without playing with the remote control car.
I have two missing icon issues, the first baffling one is all the catalogue icons went missing, they were just gone, I couldn't buy anything at all. I ended up having to bulldoze the lot after the third or fourth issue (unrelated) arose. The second is the want icons go missing from time to time and I will have maybe one or two wants and the rest are blank. This occurs quite often.
Do they come back if you restart the game? I think we fixed some of the missing icons issues unrelated to the rc car in Nightlife (at least refactored some of the code to get around some of the issues).
Quote from: nectere on 2005 September 13, 20:55:10
Unrelated and other issues...
Lots sometimes just get corrupted, ghosts get stuck in chairs or whatnot, items are suddenly in use when they are not, areas of the house or lot become unusable or warped (evidenced by using the level tool).
Sometimes for whatever reason NPCs in play or townies cannot change their appearance and their offspring cause birth crashes. (I have only had this happen a couple of times thankfully) Meaning that when the mother goes into labor the game crashes, there is no way to salvage it short of aborted the pregnancy through simpe, but it wont stop additional pregnancies from crashing when related to the affected NPC or townie, its as if dna strings are missing or something. I have no idea.
The birth crash reported on MTS2 regarding missing DNA genes has been fixed in the Uni and Nightlife patches.
As for the corrupted lots, Nightlife has some fallback code to try to fix these up. The car portal being deleted bug is still being looked into, but I believe one of our scriptors is going to try and replace it if it gets lots.
nectere:
No restarting the game didnt fix the missing want icons, many times when I start the game the icons are missing. For me its not a game stopping issue, its just another one of those "bugs" that bug me. The catalogue icon issue just recently happened, I have since deleted the entire neighborhood since I was having other issues with it (of various types), I just figured for some reason the game didnt code the neighborhood correctly when it created it since there were various other problems in addition. (corrupted lots mainly)
Actually its kind of hard to tell when you have a good install, things will seem to work but then after a few gameplays you realise you must have a bad install because some major issues will start cropping up. At least that what I keep telling myself, because sometimes I have reinstalled and everything is fine for a while then all messed up, then I reinstall and things are really messed up, then sort of messed up and then fine again.
I think this last install took fairly well though, although I havent really been playing that much anymore.
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