Cleaning up Characters?
Kigan:
I didn't know bringing Bella back (I don't say resurrecting, because she isn't dead) was a bad thing. What problems does she cause? I certainly don't try to breed her, I just like having her around so she can make friends with some of my sims. I never noticed a problem with her at all, and thanks to my friend she was around for a LONG time. I think he brought her back for me around the time Uni came out.
I took out every single download in my game, hacks first and then the rest, and the subhood still won't load. It just crashes every single time. I can play anywhere else, just not there. As a test, I loaded up Riverblossom, connected all the places (Uni, Downtown, etc), and played for a bit. Not a problem. Tried to go back in there, crash. This only started very recently, since I first posted.
jolrei:
Quote from: Kigan on 2007 October 03, 08:37:27
The other three were easy once my friend typed up very detailed instructions on how he took care of it the first time. With the process he used, it didn't create any extra characters like are created if you package a house with outside ties. Something to do with putting all the connected sims (by relation or friendship) on the same lot, and as for those with graves at their houses: putting those in their inventories to be put back on the lot later. Using that method, his own game is garbage file free. No extra characters. Mine probably had more to do with what I didn't know early on. I made mistakes, and learned from them. However, I didn't learn fast enough it seems.
Not sure what this paragraph is about. Are you talking about moving sims from one hood to another hood? This is also considered a VBT due to, as you noted, garbage files, dangling SWAFs, borked memories, and ultimate BFBVBS. Generally, it is suggested that you clone your sims (admittedly the latest SimPE is not BV friendly) and recreate them from CAS for the new hood. Naturally, it is your choice to use (or not) your friend's method, but you may want to read up on this on other threads here before attempting.
Of course, if that's not what your paragraph is about, please feel free to ignore.
Kigan:
The way he did it put everyone together on one lot, so that relationships weren't lost and other such problems didn't occur. He doesn't have BV and used this method quite some time back. For my own curiosity, we looked into his game with SimPE and there wasn't a single garbage file in it.
There is one thing I don't really understand: What about the number of character files causes the problems? Does it have anything to do with things like RAM?
jsalemi:
All we can say is that you've both just been very lucky (or maybe not, since your hoods are starting to become a BFBVFS).
In any case, we're telling you what folks who know the internals of game as well as (and sometimes better than) EAxis have found to be true:
Don't resurrect dead PV characters.
Don't move sims from one hood to another.
Don't delete sims from the sim bin.
Don't move occupied lots from one hood to the other.
If you chose to to argue with us that these things aren't bad because your friend said so, then fine -- don't come here for help anymore. Go back to the BBS where the sheep all believe those things are ok to do, and stop bothering us.
Kigan:
No need to be rude. I'm presenting the facts of what has been done and asking for help. I've explained what has happened, and how it is likely my mistakes causing problems now. Mistakes such as moving a household from a main hood to a subhood.
Now, while looking for something else mentioned here, I noticed information on safely reviving those PV characters, and that it required a little work. But that isn't what this is about so I'm not going into it.
I don't know what your problem is, I'm just trying to fix what I've probably broken and understand things. My friend, who works with computer programming (including a LOT of game programming) for a living, has delved into the Sims2 programming a lot, fascinated by the mistakes that were made. That probably has something to do with his processes, which I can't even begin to understand. Regardless, what he did doesn't matter here. I'm not saying he is right or wrong, or that you are right or wrong. If you can find where I stated that, please let me know because I get real pissed off when people put words in my mouth or twist what I say.
Now, perhaps we can talk of more useful things, like what can be done to save my neighborhood from mistakes I made such as moving households or deleting sims before I was aware of the issues that causes.
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