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Post by somuchsong on Feb 9, 2010 15:18:34 GMT -5
Thanks, Laura - this sort of thing is really interesting to me because it's so different to what I do. The song titles are usually just convenient titles for me, though occasionally, a song will actually make me think of a certain Sim and I'll save that one for them (I'm saving one right now, in fact).
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Post by laura on Feb 9, 2010 23:40:27 GMT -5
Carla, me too! I've got all kinds of songs lined up and saved I know, I know, I promised y'all a Jodie story for today. But then I got Leila stuck in my head in a BIG way and I've been picking at her stories all day. I just can't keep her quiet - I guess she wants to be heard, even if her next story isn't for about ten down the line, lol! So demanding! How do we manage them? Hopefully Leila will give me a rest tomorrow, and I can give Jodie her due attention, lol!
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Post by laura on Feb 12, 2010 20:29:00 GMT -5
Don't you just hate it when you just finished a super-awesome school update, and totally finished pimping out the school, new gym, upgraded classrooms, decorated, and you finished taking all the pictures, and then you totally crash out your business owner on the lot as she's leaving, and she gets stuck there in her car? Don't you hate that? And then don't you hate it when you delete the whole car, thinking it'll just send you back to her house, but it doesn't, because it just sticks her in limbo, and then you can't load her house or play the school lot, don't you just hate that??? So what do I do? lol! Move the household? Move just her, to another household? I don't know, I'm sure I'll figure it out. The school looks awesome though! I might even upload it sometime ... you know, if I haven't borked it all to pieces, that is...
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Post by somuchsong on Feb 12, 2010 21:53:22 GMT -5
LOL, yeah, I would hate that!
But this is what I'd try. I'd first move her in with another family, either by normal means (having someone ask her) or with a hack. From there, I'd have her sell the school and then try to see if her home lot will load. Seeing she's not living there any more, it should. From there, you should be able to move her back in with her family and she can rebuy the school. Hopefully?
Another thought, which won't help you now, but might if you make the same mistake again: if you had another person selectable on the lot after you deleted the owner and if you use the DEST or SIM version of InSimenator, you can click on an empty spot of the ground and choose Restore Family and that might also have fixed the problem.
What would be really great is if TS2 had the ResetSim cheat that TS3 has. That would have fixed the owner up before you even left the lot - it's really handy.
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Post by laura on Feb 12, 2010 22:04:25 GMT -5
I know, deleting the car with her in it was the most moronic thing I could have done, lol! Duh! I tried moving her in with another household (this is Meadow, btw), I had her sell and rebuy the lot, and the game was still "in progress" there. So I figured maybe I needed to move Brady and the dog in too, so I did that, and still, game in progress at the school. Now their old home is unoccupied, and still game in progress at the school, so I can't travel there from where they're living now. And if I try to load the school lot from the neighborhood screen, it will load, but there will be nobody there selectable. Next I think I'll try selling the lot to another Sim, and see if that resets it. Because selling the lot back to Meadow didn't change anything. I've had this happen before, but I can't remember how I solved it. I wish I knew what caused it, so I could quit doing it, lol! So sad, Lakeside Heights Public Schools might be about to go up in flames At least I got all the pictures I needed from there for this school semester, so I have another six months if I need to rebuild.
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Post by blackcat on Feb 12, 2010 22:08:27 GMT -5
Had a similar thing happen once... try using sim blender or something like that to teleport her into a household - any household - and add her to the family. Then while she's temporarily living there, go to her 'real' home and check it loads ok. Then invite her over and get someone to invite her to move in. Sell the school back to the community and exit the lot (to be sure the school lot is reset with no one on it), then re-enter and get her to buy it back. You might have lost all your decorating, though - depends on how often you saved it during the process - I've learned the hard way to save often!
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Post by blackcat on Feb 12, 2010 22:13:43 GMT -5
Ok, just read your second message!
I had this happen to my cemetery, and I fixed it - sort of - by changing the lot zoning to residential and moving a random sim in as owner. I later moved him out and changed it back to community, but the it still showed game in progress. So its back to being residential, with some poor unplayable guy living there in a little shed behind the graves, but at least it works. I have to load it and teleport in the relevant sims if I want to take pictures there or something rather than send them there from their own home, so its not ideal but it'll do. Maybe you could have a live-in teacher NPC.
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Post by laura on Feb 12, 2010 22:15:49 GMT -5
I did check her old household once she'd left it, and it wouldn't load. It said there was a game in progress at the school still, even though she wasn't living there anymore. Next I'm going to try just selling the lot back to the community, and seeing if I can travel there as a regular community lot. She can sell the lot just fine, but when she buys it back, there is still that game in progress. I did save just before the whole mess started, so at least there's that
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Post by laura on Feb 12, 2010 22:21:22 GMT -5
Blackcat, lol, just saw your other message I'll try that too if this other thing doesn't work...
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Post by blackcat on Feb 12, 2010 22:25:17 GMT -5
Lol... I think we're all saying/thinking the same thing at the same time Good luck... will be interested to see if anyone comes up with a better solution for this because the cemetery is easier to play as a community lot and I'd like to be able to change it back.
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Post by laura on Feb 12, 2010 22:36:37 GMT -5
Oh, bah! So now I've sold it back to the community, it's just a plain old community lot, and still she can't travel to it. I'll try the residential thing tomorrow - I'm about to watch a movie with the hubby
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Post by somuchsong on Feb 12, 2010 22:41:19 GMT -5
Enjoy the movie!
One more idea though, if the residential thing doesn't work. Maybe move the school to the lots bin and then place it back? Theoretically, it should be a clean copy.
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Post by blackcat on Feb 12, 2010 22:55:42 GMT -5
Somuchsong, great idea! Do you think that work with my cemetery? Or would the graves disappear? I guess I could back up my hood and try...
Same from me, Laura - enjoy the movie!
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Post by somuchsong on Feb 12, 2010 23:11:11 GMT -5
I would be reluctant to try it with a cemetery. I think the graves would stay there but what would happen is once you placed it again in the hood, you could end up with two copies of each dead character - one from the original lot and one from the cloned lot. Which is not a good thing.
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Post by blackcat on Feb 13, 2010 0:19:01 GMT -5
That's true... I didn't think of that. Thanks... and darn, looks like its staying residential!
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Post by laura on Feb 13, 2010 14:30:40 GMT -5
Oh, wow, big fail, lol! I tried to move someone into it as residential, and it still loaded up unoccupied. I couldn't move it to the bin, though after moving my placeholder guy out, I was finally able to package it (though duh, forgot to put down a things stay shrub, so it'll be completely undecorated, lol! How many times can I fail at this?) I can bulldoze the lot though. I think I'm calling electrical fire, after hours, and my LH kids will have to be bussed to the other schools, which could make for some interesting storylines It was a remodel, rather than something I built myself from scratch, so I could stand to rebuild it anyway, to make it more playable, maybe a little smaller than it was (my computer can't handle much). Ugh though, building is no big deal, but all that redecorating makes my head hurt! But if I'm going to have to redecorate anyway, I might as well rebuild at the same time. I'll still share the pictures though, because it was very pretty. I'll probably recreate it very similar to how it was. Thanks for the help, guys
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Post by blackcat on Feb 14, 2010 4:12:38 GMT -5
Too bad, especially as it happened just after you'd redecorated it. Must have been some bigger bug in it than my cemetery, I'm not going to be disappointed that its a residential lot any more because at least it still works! Looks like you can make something good out of this with the story, and with making it more playable... but shame that you have to
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Post by billybop428 on Feb 15, 2010 11:42:17 GMT -5
I had this problem too once, and something that helped was when I had to change a community lot to a residential you need to place a mailbox in order for it to become playable and not have live mode frozen.
That worked for me, but I don't want to sound like I know what I'm talking about.
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Post by blackcat on Feb 15, 2010 15:39:10 GMT -5
Oh crap, the mailbox! I forgot I had to place a buyable mailbox when I changed it.
Thanks Billy - Laura, I would check that your decorating is definitely gone because if the thing isn't changing to a residential lot properly, then maybe its still there, and maybe all it needs to work as residential is a mailbox.
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Post by laura on Feb 15, 2010 15:58:08 GMT -5
Oh, wow, where do you even find the buyable mailbox?
The decorating is gone though. That's my bad, lol! I should have placed a "things stay shrub" before I moved the placeholder guy out, but I didn't. My brain is fried this week, I swear it!
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