I'm in the middle of decorating a house (no family has moved in yet), save, quit the game, go back in and my lot becomes totally unclickable. Nothing can be done to it! It's the second time already (hence the two weird patches)! Arghhhhhhhhhhh fsdjkdfhskalfhsalk DDDDDDX
Oh my...that's very strange. I don't think I've had this problem before. >.<
Did you download these lots or did you build them yourself? If you downloaded them, there may have been something defective attached to it, like a hack or a dodgy piece of custom content. What I would suggest is moving your downloads folder to your desktop, running your game without any CC and see if the lots show up.
If they still don't show up then I'm afraid the whole neighbourhood might be bugged >.< Cos if you keep building houses inevitably the same thing will happen and they'll turn blue.
I'm sorry I don't know much but that's the only advice I can give you :<
Achhh, what a nightmare! I've had a google around as well, most people don't know but suggest its something to do with the graphics card, but, if the other houses are showing up fine why shouldn't those ones? :S
You can save your families though! Although it's not that easy to move them to a different hood cos they won't appear in that hood's families bin (It's dumb I know ¬.¬) You'd have to package them and export them out of the game, then put them back in again. There's a little option to do so when they are in the family bin. Though many people say that method is bad cos it fucks with their character files... (Sims is srs bsns I tell you....)
There's probably a tutorial that shows you how to do it in SimPE if you follow that you should be able to safely move your families.
You should probably move to a clean neighbourhood with no other existing lots/families. If by chance the problem still happens, reinstall the game. :X
drjtkhlraekhtalert ah Pez what a kerfuffle, I don't know what else to say except Sims can sometimes implode on itself and you're left scratching your head. I hope someone on MTS can help you, it would be a pain to lose all your hard work ;.; (I don't want graves of your Rikkai sims :( )
Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ah well, in the worst case I'll start again. It's not all that bad because since making D1 and Troika, I've downloaded better hair for Renji and some really nice eyes and lips, so I can make them again, but prettier, I suppose. XD;;;;;;;; *looks on the bright side?*
The kaput-ness is probably a sign that I should be working on switching_it_up instead of playing games. D:
Yeah I suppose it's not the end of the world. Although you can't ignore the fact that the whole game might have gone pear shaped somewhere... Best to reinstall though, if you are planning to start again.
Yeeaaahhh this is what you get for abusing Sims too much >D
Odd. You do get flashing 'royal' blue on objects within lots if the meshes are missing but I've never seen lots turn into giant swimming pools before. I don't know if it's something the official patch might fix but it probably can't hurt to try:
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Date: 2008-09-27 07:40 pm (UTC)The meshes are really good but some of the textures are a bit rough. They look good in-game though, I use them for some of my other families.
Niou's hair is a white recolour of this mesh but you'd have to do that yourself :|
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Date: 2008-09-27 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-27 11:58 pm (UTC)Arghhhh I seem to have hit a bug. Twice. Look:
http://pics.livejournal.com/yuki_scorpio/pic/004x73f3/
I'm in the middle of decorating a house (no family has moved in yet), save, quit the game, go back in and my lot becomes totally unclickable. Nothing can be done to it! It's the second time already (hence the two weird patches)! Arghhhhhhhhhhh fsdjkdfhskalfhsalk DDDDDDX
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Date: 2008-09-28 12:25 am (UTC)Did you download these lots or did you build them yourself? If you downloaded them, there may have been something defective attached to it, like a hack or a dodgy piece of custom content. What I would suggest is moving your downloads folder to your desktop, running your game without any CC and see if the lots show up.
If they still don't show up then I'm afraid the whole neighbourhood might be bugged >.< Cos if you keep building houses inevitably the same thing will happen and they'll turn blue.
I'm sorry I don't know much but that's the only advice I can give you :<
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Date: 2008-09-28 12:36 am (UTC)DDDDDDDDDDDDDD: But my D1 and Troika are there in the other houses! Maybe I should move them to a different neighbourhood. :(
This is so annoying :( I posted a thread on MTS2, hopefully someone there will know something.......... ;;
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Date: 2008-09-28 12:54 am (UTC)You can save your families though! Although it's not that easy to move them to a different hood cos they won't appear in that hood's families bin (It's dumb I know ¬.¬) You'd have to package them and export them out of the game, then put them back in again. There's a little option to do so when they are in the family bin. Though many people say that method is bad cos it fucks with their character files... (Sims is srs bsns I tell you....)
Here's an FAQ that's on modthesims but requires SimPE. It's a powerful user made program but looks very daunting. http://www.modthesims2.com/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Moving_Sims
There's probably a tutorial that shows you how to do it in SimPE if you follow that you should be able to safely move your families.
You should probably move to a clean neighbourhood with no other existing lots/families. If by chance the problem still happens, reinstall the game. :X
drjtkhlraekhtalert ah Pez what a kerfuffle, I don't know what else to say except Sims can sometimes implode on itself and you're left scratching your head. I hope someone on MTS can help you, it would be a pain to lose all your hard work ;.; (I don't want graves of your Rikkai sims :( )
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Date: 2008-09-28 01:11 am (UTC)The kaput-ness is probably a sign that I should be working on
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Date: 2008-09-28 01:15 am (UTC)Yeeaaahhh this is what you get for abusing Sims too much >D(OMG why am I not in bed.... orz)
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Date: 2008-09-28 01:17 am (UTC)(I AM. :D WITH MY LAPTOP. :D SLEEP IS OVERRATED.)
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Date: 2008-09-27 08:10 pm (UTC)http://louis016.com.ne.kr/sims/
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Date: 2008-09-27 11:59 pm (UTC)I seem to have hit a bug with the game. :( Would you know anything about it? http://yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com/1607995.html?thread=9922363#t9922363
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Date: 2008-09-28 09:11 am (UTC)http://thesims2.ea.com/update/