family lost through the cracks in the game
sewinglady:
Do we know what's causing the bug where the van never leaves and the sims attempt to go on vacation again upon their return from vacation only to have them lost in limbo because the vacation lot (a vacation home in this case) loads with no playable characters?
I've just experienced this one for the first time - have only managed to successfully send one family on vacation. Figured I'd try another one this evening. Now family is fubared - lost all their career rewards, etc. At least the tombstone trick worked - was able to retrieve them by using tombstone of L&D and moved them into a neighbor's lot.
This is the first time I think I can heartily say that I wish I had NOT purchased an EP...I see more dead Sims in my future.
jsalemi:
That's an acknowledged bug in the game that EAxis promises to fix in the first patch, which was supposed to be out on Wednesday, but still isn't AFAIK.
sewinglady:
nope...no official patch. I looked last night when this family went FUBAR...
I realize they are only 1's and 0's on my hard drive, but it's getting mighty tiresome to make 'em, play 'em, and then lose 'em on account of Maxis negligence.
Dragon Slave:
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Do we know what's causing the bug where the van never leaves and the sims attempt to go on vacation again upon their return from vacation only to have them lost in limbo because the vacation lot (a vacation home in this case) loads with no playable characters?
I was having some trouble last night, whenever a family visted a vacation lot. Not sure what it was about the particular lots that had the problem, they were able to visit other lots fine.... just the ancient ruin themed lots on twiki island glitched. A moment after arriving, all the sims dissapear, townies and everything. At this point, I noticed all three mode buttons were lit (buy, build, live) and I could click on things for interactions. Another moment passes and even that's gone. Live mode is greyed out, and I can still click on things, but no pie menu shows up. I tried both ruin lots, one of them twice. Same thing each time... then I just gave up. ::) It takes too long to load for me to keep trying when I keep getting the same result w. In the end, I'm only reminded why I detest anything that involves my sim going anywhere. Stupid load times. Stupid bloated download folder. >:(
Anyways, do you think this is related to the bug you were talking about? If not, ever heard anything about this before, or know what's causing it? :-\
baaaflatfit:
I don't know if this will help some of you whose families go MIA while on vacation or not, but this is what worked for me last night. I had become really bored playing a family at Three lakes, and shut down the game, only to discover when I reloaded that vacation destination last night, there were no lots showing as occupied (i.e, no spinning green bed! Arghghghgh!). ???
This is what worked for me:
--Returned to regular hood, house showed with a semi-green plumbob above it (the baby had been left behind), but could not enter.
--In that same regular hood, I had another family call the 'missing', using option "invite family". They arrived, and worked on building friendships.
--Then, upon returning to TL vacation area, there was a green spinning bed (!), I entered the vacation lot and played normally until family ended vacation and safely returned home.
It's almost as if the game needed those character files regenerated on a lot, if that makes any sense at all (no, probably not! ) But it worked!
As for the van that sends Sims back on vacation, that just happened to me for the first time, too. And I got really worried about it, because I tried (unsuccessfully) to cancel everybody in the family from re-entering it, resulting in 2 out of 3 heading back to vacation. :-\ Once those 2 were on a vacation lot, I had to use the option "cancel vacation and return home" TWICE before it worked, but they did get back home without any further issues. (and for once, the hugging interaction didn't bother me! ;D ) I was so relieved!
Max
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