3) I keep hearing this "pathing issue in China thing," but aside from an occasionally non-functional adventure board, paparazzi tournament opponents, not being able to access Dong Zhou's tomb one time and the dreaded "travel bug," I have never at any point had any manner of issues with China. No lag, no nothing. Thus, I am still somewhat skeptical of this particular bit of info, because if there was something inherently wrong with China on EA's end, everyone would be experiencing it. I'm not saying that it's not true, but the question of "why doesn't everyone experience it" really needs to be addressed.
4) Nobody has ever mentioned what town they are having this stopping issue in. However, this kind of complaint is somewhat common with the towns Riverview and Barnacle Bay. My theory is that this issue is a result of their single common factor: the existence of World Cache files. If I'm right (and I may not be), it's likely that Hidden Springs would experience similar issues. Deleting these files does help to some extent, but it is by no means a perfect or permanent fix. It's something you should do anyways, to minimize the problems.
Just wanted to make some notes just caught up with this thread:
@3) As for the China pathing issues, almost every time I go to China, people who go to the Hot Springs pool place can never go home. Which causes me to get the lag where they can't move. I don't know why it is but I just go to that lot and watch them when my sims are doing something that doesn't require supervision. There is a routing issue where they can't get up the hill or the stairs or something and it happens in almost every game I've ever made that went to China. And from what I can see all over the place this is similar to what other people also experience all the time.
@4) The only problem I see with this advice is that that's only good for PC users. Anyone with a Mac should never get rid of the World Cache files, like myself.
