FT or K&B owned business glitch

[jsalemi]

Don't know which one caused this, as this is the first time I've played the Ramerez family since installing both, but one of Chico's businesses decided to pretend to be a community lot when he went to it, in spite of it showing as owned by him in the lot list, and his having the deed in his inventory.  It was very strange -- no OFB business meter, and two NPC cashiers behind the cash registers.  Since it was another furniture store (Contempo Moderne), he couldn't actually buy anything.

Only way I could fix it was to have him go home, sell the lot, and buy it right back. Then it worked like a business again. His other two businesses are fine -- no problems with them.

Anyone else seen something like this?

[J. M. Pescado]

Yes. It's one of those subtle problems which indicates your neighborhood file has gotten corrupted and indicates an impending BFBVFS. Restore from backup. The damage you can see is just the beginning.

[jsalemi]

Ah, crap; this is my Pleasantview that I've been playing since the beginning, now in its 5th generation.  Oh well, I have my game files automatically backed up every couple of days, so I shouldn't lose too much playing time.

Thanks.

[Inge]

Yeah but you don't know how far back the roots of this problem go...

[jsalemi]

At least as far back as when I installed FT, I found out.  My backups go back about 2-3 weeks, and I tested a couple of them all the way back to the oldest and the glitch still exists.  So I restored the latest version, and I'll just cross my fingers and hope it's a while before the hood goes up in a BFBVFS.  If it does, well, it had a good 2+ year run.