Problems with New Patch 1.55

[Ricalynn]

Thanks aenito that is very much appreciated. 

[aenito]

I will play a stylist from 1 to 10 and take notes.

New game with a factory reset in Riverview. All EP except Seasons. I played as Shirley Lin just in front of the stylist building and moved out her sister Roxie Lin. I made needs statics and spawned jobs in the stylist house with the cheats (shift+click on the ground of the Stylist house). There are 40 diferent jobs but I can spawn only 14 diferent ones and the remaining 26 are greyed out.

I first spawned one of each kind, and all worked fine, the tooltip on the left was checked every time and two times the client didn't liked the result. Then i focused in the job labeled "multiple everyday clothes" that was one that failed in the other game. I spawned 10 of them and all worked fine.

So I was unable to reproduce the failures in a new fresh game with no mods and no CC... or maybe they worked because they were cheated spawned jobs.

[Ricalynn]

Thank you!

[JoJoJo]

Ricalynn the naming the folder something else actually helped now. What do I do now?

[Deklitch]

Regarding fast vs slow skilling.

My Guardians Immortal Dynasty seem to be skilling at a somewhat normal rate. I tried to get Christopher Steel to skill either gardening or fishing using the tabcast, level 5 - 6. I was told it would take two sim days. So I stopped that, and instead got him to actually garden at home, and fish both at home and at one of the lakes. He used the motive mobile to get there. His skilling seems to be normal.

Another sim, probably Emma Steel (nee Hatch) used the tabcast to raise photography to level 1. That took her 40 sim minutes.

I don't tend to use the motive mobile to take sims to the library, I use it to get them to work, fishing locations and elsewhere around town, but not the library.

My job guys are skilling slowly, but in the main that's not a big concern to me (my score would be pathetic with that even if they were still skilling crazily quick, due to the crashes I suffered both pre and post patch and the holidays I took earlier in June.

[beardeux]

Hi, my Twinbrook plaza (the bookstore/grocery combo) doesn't work.  I use this town for 3 different scenarios and all 3 have the same problem.  I can use the grocery store, but not the bookstore.  I've been into other towns and their bookstores seem fine.  It seems limited to Twinbrook.  I just recently added Seasons about a month ago, but didn't notice any problem.  Then 2 days ago was the patch 1.55 which I updated to and that I think may have been the trigger.   I copied the plaza to the bin and replaced it.  the problem persisted.  New and used characters cannot shop there.  I also started a fresh town and no go for that either.

I see that this has been addressed on these posts.  I don't know if I have any other places that can't be accessed.  I was only looking into bookstores.  Missed Monte Vista.  On behalf of everyone looking into these problems, thanks so much.

Another smaller issue since the patch is the round staircases.  I only know of one set so far.  In one my homes.  The stairs are directly on top of each other connecting 2nd floor to the basement.  My sim and his pet can go up to the top level, but not to the basement.

Also, I read about someone doing hard shut downs when the game crashes.  Having done this many times myself, I have since discovered that when the game crashes and you are unable to cntl/at/de/, (the game window just comes back and sits there) that if you hit the button on the keyboard that minimizes all programs, the button with the windows logo on it, you will then see your task to be closed down window and it will shut the game down without doing a hard shut down.

[Ricalynn]

The best way to fix the rabbit hole issue with the spaces is to edit the lots to move the actual rabbit holes back.  It's quick and easy.  For Lunar Lakes, you'll need moveObjects on due to the smallness of those lots.

[beardeux]

thanks Ricalynn, I fixed my 3 bookstores.  All are working.  Now my only issue is the stairs.  That I know of.  You people are awesome.  Where do you find time to play?

[Savuti6]

I also am having trouble with the patch. I have not been able to play sims since the update. When I open the game, it freezes on the EA logo and hangs there...indefinitely. I can't even "alt tab" or "ctrl/alt/del" to get out of it. I have to shut down with the power button. I have no mods or cc in this file. I have Windows 8 on my new PC.

Edit: All caches, etc. have been cleared. I even started a brand new file without store content.

I am having the exact same problem but believe the problem with the launcher is Origin related, After uninstalling Origin I can now use my launcher. The big problem is that Origin is "Region Specific" I am now living in Botswana Africa and after a recent Origin update they are now connecting me to the South African Site this is conflicting with my game. My sister had to use her American Credit Card to buy me the recent special of Dragon World and Celtic Lands...I just hadto own the dragons. Without Orgin installed I could not download into my game (It shows up in my billing history) but a red circle appears next to it on the downloads dashboard the error log created is definitely querying the fact that my basegame is "Region 1" I thought that all these issues had been resolved with the super patch and we were one big happy family again but since 1.55 has been installed this does not seem to be the case anymore   I have spent two days on the online help (mainly computer generated answers) and  eventually got through to a technical Adviser ..but he did not actually play the game..most frustrating. My launcher without Origin is working but cannot install my world without it! I am hanged if I do and hanged if I don't.. Will keep trolling on this wonderful forum to see if anyone has a solution ~ Savuti 6