Author Topic: Sim disappearing when traveling  (Read 13678 times)

Frey

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Sim disappearing when traveling
« on: July 29, 2011, 03:11:27 AM »
I had this strange bug today. I know there are other people having it as well, but I had never experienced this in my game. Today I created a new game in Barnacle Bay and sent one of the sims to China. When I got there, there was no sim in the game. That bar that shows the selectable sims available was completely gone, no picture of my sim showed up, no wishes, and the family funds were $0 (he had like $3.000 before leaving Barnacle Bay). So what I did was save the game, exit, remove the .nhd file from that save file as some people said it had worked for them, and entered the game again, but when I tried to go into that same save file again it said something like "A serious error ocurred blah blah" and it sent me back to the main menu. So I deleted that save file, created a new one in Barnacle Bay and this time sent the sim to France hoping it would work... but it didn't. Same thing as before, no sim, no picture, no money or wishes or friends or anything. Luckily this time I saved the game before leaving Barnacle Bay, at least.

So... anyone else had this and managed to work it out? ResetSim doesn't work, obviously, because there's no sim to reset, and it won't let me click on anything so I can't just click on the mobile phone and go back home. I haven't installed anything new in my game, including the last patch, and I don't use any mods or CC, except some store content. I have the 1.22 version of the game. I really don't know what to do here... please please help!! And please tell me I won't have to uninstall and install it all over again  :'( .

Frey

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Re: Sim disappearing when traveling
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2011, 04:18:09 PM »
I think I fixed it myself... so here's a quick update:

Some people are saying in the main forum that changing neighborhoods can help, so I created a new Barnacle Bay file and moved my sim there. No luck. Then I realised that, just before the bug appeared, I had been able to travel to all destinations succesfully with another save file in Riverview, so I decided to move my sim to Twinbrook and check if this was happening to all my neighborhoods... and turns out that only Barnacle Bay has been affected by the bug. It was my first time playing in Barnacle Bay so I can't say if this is a new problem or not... I had installed the world like 2 weeks ago but hadn't used it, so maybe it was already bugged when I installed it?

Anyway, here's a link that may help other people with the bug, in case anyone else is having the same problem: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/149027.page There's a possible solution in page 3 that has helped some people at least recover their families when they disappear. I tried it and got the floating plumbbob bug, but it's worked for other people so you might want to check it out anyways.

Let's hope this is a permanent fix and not a lucky try...  ::)



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Offline Cugi-terl

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Re: Sim disappearing when traveling
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2011, 10:46:59 AM »
I tried to fix it by uninstalling WA and instaling it back. That didn't help. I then uninstalled the whole game and reistaled, took me two days to do the whole thing and the bug is still there, this is not even funny.

Offline xFezIsAFreakx

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Re: Sim disappearing when traveling
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2011, 10:58:12 AM »
I'm having this problem also, which is annoying as I only just got WA and really wanted to try it out. My town is Sunset Valley. I had it in both the generations patch and this new one. I'm not moving to a new town because it's inconvenient for my legacy at the moment but I plan, in a few generations time, to move to Twinbrook or Riverview so hopefully it'll be mixed by then.

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Re: Sim disappearing when traveling
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2011, 01:58:09 PM »
I had so many problems with travelling, I decided to uninstall my game and not install the 1.22 and 1.24 patches. I had these bugs (invisible sims after travel etc) in all towns (well Riverview, Sunset Valley & Twinbrook) and several game files, both new and older files, every single time I travelled. In my experience there is no escaping the 1.22 patch bugs.
I got WA only recently and don't have Gen so I figured this "partial patching" was the best solution if I ever wanted to play WA at all.

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Re: Sim disappearing when traveling
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2012, 12:07:35 PM »
Has a fix for this been found yet? I just started having the same problem and it's been almost a year since the OP started this thread.

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Re: Sim disappearing when traveling
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2012, 12:16:58 PM »
I believe this got fixed with a patch.



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Re: Sim disappearing when traveling
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2012, 01:52:42 PM »
Alas, my version is less-than-legal, so I was hoping I wouldn't have to rely on an "official" fix. But thanks!