Cleaning up Characters?
Kigan:
I just checked, and it told me it is still pending.
Deviancy:
In earlier expansions of the sims it was possible to move families to a new neighborhood, I always ran the game with the developer mode on (boolprop) and I never had an error. However, after I installed Bon Voyage, I started getting issues doing that, data missing types of issues, which resulted in one huge dead neighborhood. So it is an issue, which is lame but well, it's maxis and just because the game allows you to do it, doesn't mean you can do it heh.
As for the sims bin..
Ever since got the Sims 2.. I've deleted all three default neighborhoods and created my own neighborhood. I just prefer going that route, I don't like using any of the default sims or the houses for that matter. So yeah, I delete most of the familes from the sims bin as well, no issues there. But after reading this thread, I don't think I'll do that anymore.
I'm still moody about the corrupted neighborhood.. but it's always nice to do a little spring cleaning.. right?
Kyna:
Quote from: Deviancy on 2007 October 12, 02:56:16
In earlier expansions of the sims it was possible to move families to a new neighborhood, I always ran the game with the developer mode on (boolprop) and I never had an error.
Moving families from hood to hood was always a BFBVFS waiting to happen. Each member of the family brings along with it a character file for every sim they have ever met. So if Fred and Joanne in your moved family had both met Sue in the old neigbhourhood, then you would have two incomplete character files for Sue in the new neighbourhood. Multiply this by the number of sims your sims had met. Move the real Sue over to the new hood as well, and you have 3 character files for her, as well as duplicate character files for Fred and Joanne. You could easily run into the old character files limit of the base game (and early EPs) if you did this only a couple of times.
Just because it didn't error when you did it, it doesn't mean it wasn't going to cause your hood to have related problems further down the track. Moving sims from one neighbourhood to another has always been a VBT to do in Sims2.
Deviancy:
And that's exactly what happened the last time I moved familes to a new neighborhood. In the past every time I reformatted the pc, which I used to do seasonly just to clean things up, I didn't back up my saved games. Because I went that route I never ran into any issues because they didn't have time to pop up. But lately since I'm using a bigger drive and it takes forever to reformat, I've been playing the same neighborhood for a few months. So when I moved them this time, I had the issue.
So that all makes sense.
What doesn't make sense is this sims bin thing..
Now so far with this new neighborhood, the only sims I deleted were the ones that were in the bin by default. Those sims hadn't met my newly created sims yet so there should be no memories. However, in the old days to get rid of a sim I'd move them out and then delete them from the bin. So this is a no no? So the only way to get rid of a sim without dealing a possible bfbvfs is to kill them?
Kyna:
Yes, deleting from the sim bin is also a no-no, since it doesn't delete everything that needs to be deleted.
If you want to safely delete sims, you can follow the instructions in this thread.
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