One of my favorite Sims is Fubared
windy_moon:
:-[
Glitches are one of the most frustrating things about the Sims. I have a number of performance issues, on a computer with specs that should theoretically play the game easily, but this is my first FUBAR. I hope I can explain the problem clearly enough that someone can help me.
University recently installed, no Nightlife
I put my first two Sims thru University, Beau (Broke) March & Penelope Pleasant. They spent their last two years of University in off campus housing. Graduation day, Beau threw a graduation party but at the end of it, nothing happened. (I thought there was some automatic, 'kay I'm outta here, but maybe I'm wrong.) So Beau used the phone to move back to Pleasantville, leaving Penelope. Penelope used the phone, the taxi came (I got the "you're moving your last playable Sim, do you want to reset the lot?" message and I said yes.) And then....
Nothing. I was left with the lot, but my controls were grayed out and I couldn't do anything...save, go back to the neighborhood, nothing. I couldn't select Pescado's lot debugger to renable the controls, either.
After 15 minutes of staring at the empty house, with nowhere to go, I shut the computer down to start over again.
Groundhog day, back at it again. First thing I did was to go to the lot debugger which had the "fix stuck move out" option showing. I did. It "fixed 2 objects". This time no party, just get to the damn phone and get us out of here. This time it worked.
Back to Pleasantville. I moved Beau into a new house. No problem. Then I tried to combine Penelope with him (they are very much in love and engaged). Game froze. Did this three times, same result.
Okay, this is where I did a dumb thing. I decided that Penelope should try to move back home with Kaylynn and help her get thru the recent loss of Daniel. First time, didn't work, game froze. Second time it did work. Yay?
Only, that fubared the lot. The lot froze on me within just a minute or two of her move in. Rinse and repeat that three times. Lot debugger didn't show me any unusual options (that I remember). I believe that at this point, the lot stopped being able to load entirely.
Being the sort of gamer who really only knows how to push buttons, I moved Kaylynn and Penelope out and nuked the lot. (This was pretty bad as it is a mature lot I care about and it has/had Daniel Pleasant's urn on it!) :'(
They cannot move anywhere now. Everytime I try to move them into a house, different houses, the game either freezes or endlessly tries to load the new lot but never gets it loaded.
Penelope is FUBARd! She can't be. I love her. Please help me?
:(
(I have game backups. I don't back up as much as I should, but I probably have a couple of back ups of post Uni install. I'll be very depressed to dial back that far, but more depressed to lose Penelope.)
edit PS - I've looked at Penelope in SimPE, and there's nothing I can see that's wrong with her, but I don't know much other than her check boxes of life stage and such seem to be correct.
Motoki:
I'm trying to think what could have gotten screwed up about her, especially since Beau went through the same thing and seems fine. In SimPE is she marked off an an adult or young adult? I honestly forget where to look for that, but it should be there somewhere. If she's a young adult, try making her an adult.
If all else fails, and this will be a pain in the butt and you'll lose memories, you can always use sim surgery to export her looks, and make a new sim with her looks and then go into SimPE and set her skills, relationships, university major etc and then use the lot debugger or Twojeffs hacked money tree to update her with the extra wants and lock.
windy_moon:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 06, 13:19:15
I'm trying to think what could have gotten screwed up about her, especially since Beau went through the same thing and seems fine. In SimPE is she marked off an an adult or young adult? I honestly forget where to look for that, but it should be there somewhere. If she's a young adult, try making her an adult.
If all else fails, and this will be a pain in the butt and you'll lose memories, you can always use sim surgery to export her looks, and make a new sim with her looks and then go into SimPE and set her skills, relationships, university major etc and then use the lot debugger or Twojeffs hacked money tree to update her with the extra wants and lock.
Thank you for trying to help me. A thread where folks know how to help ("that's happened to me before!") usually has a bunch of responses, so apparently I've encountered a more rare FUBAR :'(
The check boxes (adult/young adult) were the only thing I really knew how to check in SimPE, so I did make sure her check boxes are right.
Guess I have a few choices to make - learn how to use SimPE beyond checking and unchecking boxes (shiver with fear), reinstall backup and hope it doesn't happen again, move away from the Sims until the bitter disappointment of the this FUBAR fades...( amonth or two) and decide then.
I did just get a new DVR at home. I have 11ty hundred episodes of Law & Order/SVU/CI recorded already. It's an option. (The drama in my Sims is better....)
:-\
Thanks.
ari_:
Have you tried going into Beau's lot and moving Penelope in with the Simlogical Teleporter Plus?
Motoki:
The only thing you really have to do in SimPE if you want to try and recreate her is load the neighborhood, then the sim surgery plugin, select her at the patient, then check off the box to export the sim, save her looks to a file, then load the game and make a new sim with her looks in the CAS. You can do boolprop testingcheatsenabled true in the neighborhood mode, then load the lot and you should be able to drag the bars to make this new clone sim have the same skill and personality stats as the original. The lot debugger can upgrade her and give her the extra uni wants and lock. I don't think there's really any good way to re-create her relationships or memories outside of SimPE, so I suppose she'd just have to meet Beau all over again.
I know how very frustrating it can be to lose hours or even days of play time because it's happened to me more than once. :'( Sorry this happened to you. If I can think of anything else that might help I'll post again.
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