Unageing people and maid species?
PlickaPlicka:
OK, it's not complete neighbourhood corruption. I moved another family into a completely different lot and he did age. I then moved him into the lot where the problems first arose and he still aged! This means it family related right? I also tested all the other families in the family bin, it seems that every veronaville family is affected apart from one. What should I do with these? Delete them or would somebody like to study them somehow and find a fix?
Happy at last!
jsalemi:
Veronaville is pretty borked right out of the box -- maybe it's time to trash the hood and let the game rebuild a new one if you insist on wanting to play it. Otherwise, you'll have to go into every lot, nuke everything possible (especially attraction markers, which are known to get corrupted and cause problems), and hope that fixes it.
PlickaPlicka:
I do really want to play Veronaville, so I'm going to have to ask; How do I trash it? I know you're supposed to delete n003 or something, but last time I did that it just completely got rid of the neighbourhood and it didn't regen like I was told it was. I had to reimport it back from the recycleing bin.
jolrei:
Quote from: PlickaPlicka on 2007 October 03, 15:12:01
OK, it's not complete neighbourhood corruption...I also tested all the other families in the family bin, it seems that every veronaville family is affected apart from one. What should I do with these? Delete them or would somebody like to study them somehow and find a fix?
Just a suggestion (this is probably in the "that's so crazy it just might work" category, which I use a lot really) - several steps:
1) You will require teleporter shrub, Insim, or something else that allows you to teleport in and out as townies.
2) Remove all affected sims from lots as townies using Insim or teleporter. This will "preserve" your sims without killing them.
3) Summon ONE of the adult new townies to your playable lot and make him selectable.
4) Jump start aging on this sim as per threads above (I use Insim for this - I think it's the temporal adjuster or aging adjuster or something like that - whatever works to add or subtract days until birthday). Just subtract 1 or 2 days from the adult and aging should start up normally again. You can always add the days back later if you want to.
5) Move the sim out of your playable lot (you probably don't want him/her joining that family anyway) in the normal game manner (i.e. find own place, using the computer or newspaper).
6) Move the now-playable-again sim into a lot/house from the family bin. Just to be safe, I would move them into a new house, not one of the ones that had broken sims in it before.
7) Use a summoner (once again, I use Insim) to summon the sim's family members (who are still townies at this point). Once they are on the lot, you can use the game's "propose, move-in" interaction to get them to move back in. You should now have the family back together, and hopefully reset. You can monitor to see if this solves the aging problem. If it does, rinse and repeat for other affected sims (provided you want to keep them all).
Possible problem: likely will not work if some of your "broken" sims are toddlers or younger - I don't know if townie toddlers are a good idea.
If you don't want to keep them, use Deleted 2: Electric Boogaloo process to delete them (a bit 'involved' and requires SimPE), or simply kill them off (this will probably cause a bit of an aspiration hit in some of your playables who knew them and liked them).
Disclaimer: This suggestion is based on an untested hypothesis. No guarantee of success is implied. Doing this may result in bad things (although, I think the chance of that is minimal) happening to your sims or your neighbourhood.
jsalemi:
Quote from: PlickaPlicka on 2007 October 03, 15:55:46
I do really want to play Veronaville, so I'm going to have to ask; How do I trash it? I know you're supposed to delete n003 or something, but last time I did that it just completely got rid of the neighbourhood and it didn't regen like I was told it was. I had to reimport it back from the recycleing bin.
1) Remove your entire The Sims 2 folder to someplace other than My Documents. (You have to move it, not just back it up, for this to work).
2) Start the game -- it will recreate The Sims 2 folder, and put in new clean versions of the default hoods.
3) Exit the game
4) Go into your new The Sims 2 folder, and copy or move the new N003 folder to someplace else.
5) Delete the new Sims 2 folder, and move your original back
6) Replace your borked N003 by deleting it, and replacing it with the new clean copy.
Just to be safe, it probably wouldn't hurt to make a copy of all three clean base hoods somewhere, just in case you have to wipe one out and start over again in the future.
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