ErrorTrap: My Hero

[NonaMena]

Between that and Overwatch (which requires Master Controller), my Sims playing has made a complete 180^o turn from maddeningly frustrating to pleasantly enjoyable.

Hmm, not sure what you mean, because Overwatch will work perfectly fine on a game without MasterController.

[twallan]

will error trap show up someway in the main menu or individual games?

The "NRaas \ Error Trap \ Version" menu should appear in the City Hall or Computer menu, if it did load up properly.

Or if you have [Overwatch] installed, it will appear in the Version listing in that mod.

[Katluvr]

I had a weird thing happen when I was playing last evening.  I had testing cheats enabled and I tried to slide a relationship bar up a little.  Error Trap threw 6-8 error messages and when it was done all of the thumbnails in my sims' relationship tab were missing.  It also appears that some of the townies spontaneously disappeared from my town.  After this incident no new thumbnails are appearing in my relationship tab.

It's not a big deal because I have a couple of saves from before this happened and it's not an important game to me anyhow, but out of curiosity has anyone else had something similar happen?  I'm currently running Error Trap, Overwatch, Saver, Story Progression, and Story Progression - Extra (all updated for patch 1.32). 

[twallan]

when it was done all of the thumbnails in my sims' relationship tab were missing.  It also appears that some of the townies spontaneously disappeared from my town.

During a hard-reset, [ErrorTrap] turns off the refresh on the relationship panel.  Normally it turns itself back on afterward, however if you have a number of resets in a row it occasionally gets stuck.

You can correct it by saving, and restarting the game.

[Katluvr]

Thank you for explaining, Twallan!  I was a little bummed out when it happened and then I remembered that I have Saver - so I have at least 2 clean saves before the error occurred.     I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to play TS3 again without your mods!

[Blanchflower]

Error Trap not only catches game breaking errors, it logs them and it tries to fix them.

 

OK, when I installed this mod, it says that a script error occurred.  Then, when I traveled, I did not get any error reports but the percentage of fireflies being collected showed a steep drop. So I guess this mod is far from perfect, together with this game. This game as so much potential to become great but the lack of response from EA in fixing these bugs is just disappointing. We even have to rely on 3rd party mods to solve some of these issues.

 

[NonaMena]

OK, when I installed this mod, it says that a script error occurred.  Then, when I traveled, I did not get any error reports but the percentage of fireflies being collected showed a steep drop. So I guess this mod is far from perfect, together with this game.

Well, ErrorTrap isn't magic In order for it to catch an error and correct it, Twallan has to know the error exists and then update the mod so that the error gets fixed. Fireflies just came out with Showtime, so the fact that ErrorTrap doesn't help with that problem isn't that surprising. I suggested the mod because it might have been due to an already-fixed EA error, but I guess it will require its own fix.

[Hosfac]

Then, when I traveled, I did not get any error reports but the percentage of fireflies being collected showed a steep drop.

Traveling and collecting has always been buggy, so it's likely that the reset in your collection counts aren't a result of Error Trap, and I don't think that this type of thing is even included in Error Trap's purview to begin with.  There are other mods specifically designed to combat this type of thing.

[AdnaanA]

I'd do this, but it is my dynasty file that needs to be mod free. But I can use this in my other profile, thanks for sharing this Carl