Missing Lots and other Very Bad Things.

[strangetomato]

A picture is worth a thousand words (especially when you write on it):

That's the Sim City I've been playing since I started S,HWC, which is attached to my Strangetown. There are missing lots all over the place. I've already dealt with this in Pleasantview, with Dina and her kids going missing from their home lot, which, oddly enough, was still there (and I eventually found them in the townie menu of InSim's Summoner, which was rather odd). Today I noticed that the fraternity at La Fiesta Tech is missing, and now Sim City is missing a LOT of lots. Not to flail dramatically, but I do believe the end may be nigh for these aged neighborhoods.

I found a thread at MATY that mentions something similar to this, and Pescado said, "In order to retrieve such a missing lot, you need to extract the lot entry from a backup neighborhood where it still exists, and import that entry into your neighborhood. This is a nonstandard SimPE operation and should restore the missing lot from limbo. If you don't know how to perform this, well, then, you're SOL." Great. Does anyone out there know anything about this particular operation?

Even if I figured out how to restore them, I think it'll just continue to happen. Perhaps it's time for me to consider a mass exodus of sims and lots and start over in a merged hood.

Comments

[morkmork.livejournal.com]

I agree with Silentsteel. It might actually be easier and better for you in the long run. I hate this happened to you. I've had it happen before, but in a relatively new neighborhood. I never figured out what my problem was. I just reinstalled everything. Sorry I couldn't be more help. :(

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

How long ago was it that this happened to you? I've been suspecting certain mods, so a time frame might help me to narrow it down.

Then again, it's probably nothing more than the luck of the draw. It's the nature of this game to currupt from time to time.

I've been considering the merged hood for simplicity's sake for a while now, anyway, so it's not so bad. It'll save me from having to have multiple copies of sims in different hoods.

[morkmork.livejournal.com]

I started having the problems in February, my post about them is here ( http://morkmork.livejournal.com/6100.html ) in case you find anything in the comments helpful. However, I don't know if our problems are the same. I think mine had to do with improperly installing clean templates. It was a new neighborhood and I had taken care not to delete character files, so it should've taken a lot longer to be borky, but it was that way from the get go.

As far as the mods, I'm not sure exactly, but I stick to just a few mods, ACR 2, Community Lot Skilling, and anti redundancy. I'm sure I had more at the time. but those are the only ones I can think of for sure.

I hope you're able to figure out the problem and get your simmies back on track. :D