Have I Just Screwed My Neighbourhood Up? (Crashes When Loading)
Okay, so this hood isn't one I'm particularly serious about. The purpose of this hood was to do the hood corrupting acts within and observe the effects. It still worked fine when I last played it in December, possibly early January. It was called 'Plague Town' in reference to its purpose and the fact that sims get ill there often...
I fiddled with some sims in SimPE, just to get their attributes exactly how I want them (don't ask why I'm doing this for a throwaway hood). When I went to commit the changes for another sim, I got an error, so I closed SimPE. When I went to reload the neighbourhood, I'd get bombarded with error messages, saying that there was an error loading it.
Thinking that it was
SimPE having a hiccup, I opened it again and selected one of my serious, healthy hoods. It loaded fine. Went to load Plague Town, it threw an error at me. I checked its folder and everything was there and intact.
Just to make sure, I booted the game up and went to load Plague Town... it crashed to desktop without warning. No 'The application has crashed' message, nothing. Just a crash to desktop. It did this twice. Other hoods load without issue, so it's not my game giving up on me, it's the hood.
I'm baffled at what could have possibly happened while altering skills, personality, and memories... It's nothing too complex, so I couldn't have messed something up this bad.
I do have a
backup from a few days ago, but I started an interesting experiment since then and haven't made a
backup of that version. You could argue that I should have backed up prior to loading SimPE, but the thing is... this is a throwaway hood. I just so happened to get something going (just to test out my skillset with SimPE, I suppose, but wound up messing up the hood.
If it's possible, could someone tell me what went wrong here...? And if it's possible to fix this... if not, I'll just have to bite the bullet, find the backup, and continue with the original purpose of the hood.
When a game is predictable, it's boring.
That goes for any medium that isn't life.
That's why The Sims 2 is my favourite sims game.
It has elements of unpredictability and everything feels more involved.
The Sims 4 is another story altogether...