New problem, Can't travel from custom world.

[PolarBair]

Okay, Here's what happened. I had the presence of mind to back up my unpopulated world before populating it then after populating and exporting I installed and played for a while to test.

My sims were able to travel just fine except that when they returned they were deposited on the lighthouse island (where I put a little beach house and pier just so I could teleport there to have a place safe from the prying eyes of paparazzi) with no way to get home. I had to teleport them back to the mainland.

So I decided to go back to my unpopulated back up and put in a bridge from the lighthouse island to the mainland. (so much for privacy)

Again I backed up before populating and installing but this time suddenly my sims can't travel at all anymore. The option to "Travel" doesn't even show up on the phone menu. Or the computer for that matter.

So I uninstall and then export and install my unpopulated back up. (That has the bridge in it. Just no population) And I still can't travel. So the option for traveling disappearing apparently has everything to do with the addition of the bridge and nothing to do with the population.

To recap, Could travel before bridge. But not after.

So I took out the bridge and painted back the sim non-routable just like it was before but still not able to travel.

I'm thinking the fact that it deposited my sims on the island when they could travel is somehow significant because that's not the usual place for sims to respawn when returning from vacation.

I think if I can understand better how the game decides that stuff I'll have a better idea on how to fix my world.

Does anyone know how that works? Is there a way to define Departure and Arrival points?


EDIT: ooops, I just realized I posted this in the wrong board. Could some one move this to the CAW board please? Sorry. 

[Swirl-Girl]

I do not believe the Departure and Arrival points are definite, I often travel in Bridgeport, after free vacations and WA vacations sims have shown up at the science center or the bridge or even that really far away place on the island past all the houses. I wish I had more to tell you. 

[PolarBair]

Okay, I've solved my problem and some of you may find this interesting or even helpful in the future.

After removing the bridge and repainting back ever tighter NoSim routing and NoCamera routing trying to restore my travel ability to no avail I thought, "I wonder if that Nraas Travel mod could be interfering" and with out making any changes to my world at all I just quit the game and moved the travel mod out of the packages folder and relaunched the game and low and behold there was my travel option on the phone menu again.

Apparently if you set the travel to other worlds (like Bridgeport) option set to false it prevents you from traveling from a custom world. So if you use that mod leave that option set to true even if you don't plan on using it or just don't use that mod.

[OhMyZeus]

Try going into edit town and backs  out, works for me when I don't gets  travel popup

[PolarBair]

Interesting. I'll give that a try.

Love that sig by the way.

[DeLouche]

That's really interesting, about the travel mods... Maybe they only recognise official worlds, for some reason? Thanks for sharing the info PolarBair!

[PolarBair]

That's really interesting, about the travel mods... Maybe they only recognise official worlds, for some reason? Thanks for sharing the info PolarBair!

Well, I'm thinking it has to do with that part of it that lets you travel to other cities on vacation. Like traveling from Sunset Valley to Bridgeport instead of one of the foreign lands. I had no interest in that feature so I had that option dissabled and I'm guessing that's why I couldn't travel from my custom world not being one of the official ones. Either way as soon as I took that mod out and restarted my travel option came back.