Nectar warning: Over-aging is glitching

[Leto85]

Although the title of this topic is indeed a bit over the top, I still hope it works to drag members to this text because I have to warn you for things.

My multi-generation sims family has reached a few days ago the total possible amount of money that a sim can have in a household: $99.999.999,-. This is without cheating. No katching, no motherlode, or familyfund stuff is involved. They reseived this huge amount of money because of the many bottles of nectar lying in the deepest dungeon underneath my sims mansion for many generations. One single bottle is worth around $6000,- up to 8000,- and there are 25.000 one of them.
If you multiply $8000,- x 25.000 and you will include the value of the mansion itself ($750.000,-), it's furniture ($2.500.000,-), collected stuff ingame and the $13.800.000,- on the bank from selling nectar you will get a total sum way over the maximum $99.999.999,-.
And that's where the game will start clitching; everywhere where I click in the house the game gives only options for: 'Serve nectar' or popping up mesages about information of the nectar bottle the game thinks to see, regardless on which floor I am at the moment. A week or so back I could simply solve this problem by moving my sims out of the house and than back in. But that was last week. The problem repeats itself a few days back and well... there is simply no way to move a family with 'just' $99.999.999,- into a house worth over $140.000.000,-.

So let this be a waring for you foges: don't age your bottles to much, or just don't have as many as I had. Greed will not be appreciated in this game.

[TGBlank]

You are far from the money limit of the game i'm afraid, by a whole order of magnitude. It is perfectly safe to hit 1~2 billions in combined household+liquid assets, going over that value does cause trouble tho.

Most likely your lot got glitched over time. Happens when you play for a long time, particularly in big houses with many interactive items. Deleting the script cache *might* fix it but do keep in mind your savegame may be lost.

[Leto85]

you are far from the money limit of the game i'm afraid, by a whole order of magnitude. It is perfectly safe to hit 1~2 billions in combined household+liquid assets, going over that value does cause trouble tho.

Most likely your lot got glitched over time. Happens when you play for a long time, particularly in big houses with many interactive items. Deleting the script cache *might* fix it but do keep in mind your savegame may be lost.

I will back things up before trying anything. So what do you advise me to delete than? Or is it maybe a particular file ingame that causes glitching and therefore needs to be deleted?

[TGBlank]

ScriptCache.package, mine is under My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\
This will force the game to recreate it, which *may* fix the bugged interactions you're getting. If it doesn't, try selling half your stocked nectar and try again.
If that doesn't work, either your lot is glitched, or your savegame is. Not much you can do about that, but the family itself may be salvaged if you export the family (without house) on edit town.

[LlamaMama]

It is perfectly safe to hit 1~2 billions in combined household+liquid assets, going over that value does cause trouble tho.

Liquid assets. *snickers*

[Leto85]

Liquid assets. *snickers*

Yeah what is that stuff anyway? Liquid assets... I know it isn't something you will find in buy nor build mode so it could be a sort of American expression I am not aware off?

[LlamaMama]

Liquid assets is a term describing anything that can be sold to raise cash. In your case, the liquid assets were literally liquid: nectar.