#1
19th May 2019 at 11:13 PM
This user has the following games installed:
Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life
Lots appearing in the wrong neighborhood, neighborhoods vanishing (Ultimate Collection)
Me again, because I only ever post here when I have a game problem, hah. It's with the Ultimate Collection on Windows 10 this time.
I should probably preface this by saying that when I originally got the UC, my Windows machine had an issue where it would repeatedly lose internet connection regardless of what network it was on. I lost connection quite a few times while installing the game, so I would not be surprised if that caused the problem to begin with.
When I initially started playing the game, I replaced every neighborhood with Tarlia's clean templates, and most of them seemed to function correctly. The only exceptions were Belladonna Cove and Strangetown, where there were obvious signs of corruption (toddlers with LTWs, Sims with all-blank Wants and Fears, missing memories - it seemed like everything was "scrambled" to the wrong Sim), and Desiderata Valley, which caused the entire game to crash after awhile for some reason. Again, I would not be surprised if the corruption was due to a problem with the initial install, because I doubt Tarlia's templates were corrupt.
I have to be honest in that I don't remember the specifics of what else I did, but after a few months of a routine consisting of "mostly using the Windows machine for
SimPE and playing the actual game now and again", I decided to try and change out BC's files with Tarlia's template again, and also decided to try taking a copy of a neighborhood that I play on my Mac and putting it into the Neighborhoods folder on the Windows machine, because why not.
The results:
- Pleasantview disappeared from both my neighborhood list and the list in SimPE/Hoodchecker (probably my fault - both my custom hood and Pleasantview were titled N001 and I forgot to fix that at first, but changing the name of my custom hood's folder didn't resolve it)
- Lots from other neighborhoods (I recognized at least one Strangetown lot, not sure about the other ones) landing in Belladonna Cove
- BC as a whole appearing corrupt - the terrain map itself looks correct but there are holes in the terrain, lots are over roads, none of the original BC lots/families in the neighborhood, etc.
- My custom neighborhood isn't in the game list (not unexpected) or in SimPE/Hoodchecker (unexpected)
Strangetown and other neighborhoods seem completely unaffected (besides Strangetown's initial corruption). All the lots and families are where they're supposed to be, so it doesn't seem like they got picked up from one neighborhood and put into another.
I backed up my TSData folders and tried swapping the NeighborhoodManager for BC with the one in an older folder, but that didn't seem to resolve anything (unless I'm supposed to have replaced the neighborhood files again when I did that). Either way, I'm not sure if I messed it up even more doing that and I suspect I'll need to restore the backup.
I'm not particularly attached to anything in my UC just yet, so I don't mind uninstalling and reinstalling the game as needed, but I'm also not sure if I need to or if I should be doing something else. Provided that I didn't confuse everybody with my explanation of what I did and what happened, is there something else I should be doing to fix what I screwed up or is uninstall/reinstall my only option?