family lost through the cracks in the game
Dragon Slave:
Ugh I'm an idiot for messing myself up like this :P But I guess that's what happens when I screw around.
I was trying to get in to buy mode on a hotel lot and for some reason was thinking I could do that by changing the lot zoning to residential. Nothing happened. So I thought it would be different if I saved and went back... but then the family staying at the hotel was gone. So I changed it back to a hotel lot, saved, left, re-entered, and my family still isn't there. However, the little green bed is still swirling over the lot showing that it's occupied, and their house in the neighborhood says that they're on vacation as well.
I lost a familiy like this before, and I solved the problem by making a temporary family and then using them to summon the members from the missing family to their lot. I used insim to make them part of the temporary family, then moved them out again so they were in the neighborhood bin. They were in the process of moving between homes anyways so it didn't matter, but this time, I'm reluctant to try anything like that because there's other places where these sims are supposed to be, ie at the hotel. I'm afraid it might complicate things even more.
What I need to do is get them back where they belong, either at the hotel, or back home, I don't care. :-\ They're one of my favorite family's that I've been playing since '04, I'm not going to lose them.
Now, I made a backup of my neighborhood before installing BV, so if their is no other way to save them, I'll do what I have to there, but I seem to remembert something about getting families back when things like this happen ??? I can't remember where I read this at... I dunno.
Anyone know what I can do?
Zazazu:
I have no solution for your family, however:
Don't change lot zoning while lot is occupied, dumbbutt. :-* "boolProp dormSpecificToolsDisabled false" is your best friend when trying to go into Buy mode on community/hotel lots. To go into Build, enter cheat, use eyedropper on a door or somesuch.
Dragon Slave:
I tried dormspefictoolsdisabled but set it to true instead of false. Dern double negatives confuse me :-[ Well, at least now I know why nothing happened when I typed it in.
To be honest, it wasn't buy mode that I wanted, I just needed to get in to my sims inventory. I had decided I was going to take the toddler along for the vacation whether maxis created things for them to do or not, and packed the crib, changing table, toys, etc... as well as a teleporter shrub before leaving. I figured it would be easier just to take the things along rather then redecorate all of the hotels to be toddler enabled. but buy mode, inventory, whichever gets what I need to the lot without me having to leave, enter, save, leave change neighborhoods, god knows how many times just to get what I want where I need it.
But yeah... I'll remember next time which cheat does what. Too bad I found out after I lost my family though. :-[ I'm gonna have to get them back before I do anything else.
Sleepycat:
InSIM has the option to enable buy and build mode, I forget just where it is but it is there. I hope you get your family back soon.
nocomment:
You may be remembering this thread on unsticking a vacationer:
http://p218.ezboard.com/fstarlightsimsfrm51.showMessage?topicID=16355.topic
Just be sure to make another backup before you play around with this. If it doesn't work, restore and try teleporting them into another family, like you did before. I suspect that would work just fine.
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