Specter tombstones vanishing again
fwiffo:
There's something messed up with this lot and/or the ghosts that inhaibt it. Once before, when I moved Ophelia to college, all but a couple of the tombstones on the lot vanished for no reason. Later on I reset all of strangetown. Today, the same thing happened again, though nobody moved out of the lot this time. All but three tombstones are gone (Olive, Jessica and Alan remain). I tried copying a backup of the lot, and that didn't fix it. I looked at some of the missing characters in SimPE, and they don't appear to be unlinked or anything weird, as far as I can tell, and the character files are there. I tried recreating the tombstones with the assignable gravestones, but the characters in question are not among the choices, so I have to assume there's something wrong with them.
Anyone have any idea what the deal is with this lot?
J. M. Pescado:
That's a normal "papershredder" behavior that destroys tombstone data. What you need is "nounlinkondelete", which should hopefully reduce or halt the destruction of tombstones.
Also, why do you have a picture of a Yehat as an avatar when using "Fwiffo", a Spathi name?
fwiffo:
I actually have nounlinkondelete installed. I think there's some particularly screwy behavior either with that lot, or with the affected characters that's causing the tombstones to disappear when the lot is loaded. I have backups of my neighborhoods, so I think with some work I could probably restore the lot back to the way it was with some work, but I'd like to prevent it from happening again in the future.
And I think we've had a discussion about the avatar before.
J. M. Pescado:
Does this specifically happen only with Maxis premade dead? Maxis premade dead are screwy.
Quote from: fwiffo on 2007 April 23, 11:56:08
And I think we've had a discussion about the avatar before.
Maybe, but I'm old! I'm old and I have a long beard! So I wouldn't recall. What did you say about it?
fwiffo:
Yes, as far as I can tell, in fact, I only have this problem with the Specter lot. I've played the Goth lot for quite a while, for instance, and all its tombstones remain intact. Likewise, I have a couple other houses that have accumulated a number of tombstones and none of those have ever disappeared. I've seen other people post about this particular lot suddenly losing all but two or three tombstones, but I've never seen a solution anywhere.
As far as the avatar - I'm using a Yehat because a Spathi doesn't fit very well in a square format. Why, if you're a Fat Obstreperous Jerk, is your avatar a Burninator and not a Thraddash?
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